MAKING PHOTO COLLAGES

Learn to make beautiful collages from your photos in Photoshop! We'll teach you how to make different kinds of awesome collages and poster prints from your photos. Share your photos with family, friends and business contacts in a finished print that you will be proud of. Be amazed at how your photos come to life and tell a story in a collage.

Making collages and posters is lots of fun. All too often photos wind up sitting on your computer's hard drive being unseen and unappreciated. Putting them into a finished display and hanging them on the wall will motivate and inspire you.

If you are a pro, you can make some excellent value added products to offer your clients. You can also use some of these ideas for vanity display pieces for your studio or office.

In this lesson we are going to cover the blended collage or photomontage where several photos are composited into one final image.

LESSON OUTLINE

• Photo selection and design tips
• Blended collages
• Setting up your Photoshop document
• Working in layers
• Using layer masks
• Adding text and quotations to your collage
• Font selection
• Printing your collage for final presentation

REQUIREMENTS

• This course will be taught using Photoshop CS4. If you don't have a current version of Photoshop, there is a free trial download of Photoshop available on www.adobe.com
• You will need a basic working knowledge of Photoshop.
• You may use previously shot work for this course

HOW IT WORKS

• You will receive a reminder email when the lesson is posted on your course start date.
• This short course includes one comprehensive lesson in PDF format and how-to videos with detailed instructions and an assignment. You will have two weeks to work on your assignment.
• After completing the assignment you will upload your collages to the website.
• Your instructor reviews your collages and offers constructive comments.
• You can ask questions and discuss ideas with your classmates.