Collages - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/09/2005 07:57:27 PM · #1

Here's something that I loke a lot and you don't see it every day... But it works great.

Do you have some tipe of collages? Show us how it looks like

Here's an example that I've found:

elru21

Canon EOS-5D

03/09/2005 08:31:14 PM · #2

Here are two recent collages that I made. My daughter is currently my most available model. I am getting started taking some pictures of other people's (my friends at the moment) kids, and collages are something that they always flip over.

I am not sure what kind of tips you are looking for, but if I can help you in any way I am happy to try. I made these in PSE.

Liza

Apple iPhone

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Nikon

03/09/2005 08:40:25 PM · #3

ok, but how do you make these? i'd appreciate your help :) they're all adorable children

elru21

Canon EOS-5D

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/09/2005 09:10:31 PM · #4

Here is a brief summary of how to get started, but if you have more detailed questions please post them.

Basically start out with a new document in Photoshop, or a picture that you want to be the background. Open each of the other pictures individually. Make the windows small (i.e., not full screen) so that you can see both the background and the photos to add. Use the move tool to drag the pictures onto the background. Each smaller picture will become its own layer in the collage. Also use the move tool to position/resize/transform all the smaller pictures.

For the blue collage, I made the opacity of the background shot something like 70% to make it fade out a bit. You can add drop shadows and borders and text and things.

If this isn't clear, or if I missed some question that you have let me know. My biggest recommendation is just to open a bunch of shots in Photoshop and play around with it.

Liza

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/10/2005 06:25:05 AM · #5

I loved your collages. So beautifull. Nice models too. Nie to have kids so pretty to be lovely models (I'm thinking in "making" one myself).

But a few questions about the Charlotte collage: did you used a reflective surface to put the baby on it or did you put a drop shadow in Photoshop?

If anyone else have some examples to put here and be kind enough to explain them, it would be nice.

elru21

Canon EOS-5D

03/10/2005 08:36:41 AM · #6

In the blue collage, she is sitting on a big piece of plexiglass, which makes that reflection. (The backdrop is a blanket, so it also helps to keep it from wrinkling where she in sitting on it.)

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

03/10/2005 07:43:08 PM · #7

Anyone else?

wewillexplore

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

03/10/2005 08:05:19 PM · #8

//www.pictureinfinity.com/mcginn/mcginnbook.html
//www.pictureinfinity.com/anderson/andersonbook.html
//www.pictureinfinity.com/morey/moreybook.html

BK26

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM

03/10/2005 11:03:53 PM · #9

When I get bored I often do collages of myself similar to that.

Here's the three I've made:

Collage One
Collage Two
Collage Three

I actually linked these backwards, with the third one being the oldest and the first being the newest.