[BruceBanner]

I've been tasked to make a collage for the year 6's leaving school (only 8 of them, small school lol).

I have the images, I just need to arrange them somehow for a A3 print.

I'm pretty new to the whole LR printing thing, I'm just wondering how I go about arranging these images for the individual collages. Templates or can I just grab images, resize and overlap them etc.

I'll now start googling this topic and watching some tutorials hehe, thought I'd ask these fine people here if they've done something similar in the past and how you tackled it.

I have anywhere between 6-10 images to squeeze on an A3 sheet, I think I like the idea of overlapping the shots with no 'white space' left from the A3 sheet, but maybe it looks cool with a kinda 'design'?


TIA!

Bruce

[nosliwmit]

I've been tasked to make a collage for the year 6's leaving school (only 8 of them, small school lol).

I have the images, I just need to arrange them somehow for a A3 print.

I'm pretty new to the whole LR printing thing, I'm just wondering how I go about arranging these images for the individual collages. Templates or can I just grab images, resize and overlap them etc.

I'll now start googling this topic and watching some tutorials hehe, thought I'd ask these fine people here if they've done something similar in the past and how you tackled it.

I have anywhere between 6-10 images to squeeze on an A3 sheet, I think I like the idea of overlapping the shots with no 'white space' left from the A3 sheet, but maybe it looks cool with a kinda 'design'?


TIA!

Bruce

I've done a number of these in Photoshop Elements for photo books. There's probably a more-streamlined way, but I just create a blank file (File/New/Blank File) with whatever size constraints I want (in Elements you can select an A3-sized preset using the International Paper preset collection). Select a background color for your new image and then open all of the photos you want to include in the collage (or you can open them one-by-one). Go to one of the open photos that you want to include (double-click on the film-strip or use the Window drop-down menu), select all (Ctrl-A) and copy (Ctrl-C). Then switch back to your new file and paste (Ctrl-V). You can then re-size, move, rotate, bring to front, send to back etc. Do this until you like the arrangement and then you can flatten or merge the layers and save as .jpg (or whatever you want, but of course a .psd file will be huge). It goes pretty quickly once you get going. I'll open a candidate picture and hit, in succession, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-w, ctrl-v (select all, copy, close, paste) and then open the next photo and repeat. Here's an example (I scan concert tickets, programs etc. and then dump them on a page in an annual family photo book I put together).

[BruceBanner]

I've done a number of these in Photoshop Elements for photo books. There's probably a more-streamlined way, but I just create a blank file (File/New/Blank File) with whatever size constraints I want (in Elements you can select an A3-sized preset using the International Paper preset collection). Select a background color for your new image and then open all of the photos you want to include in the collage (or you can open them one-by-one). Go to one of the open photos that you want to include (double-click on the film-strip or use the Window drop-down menu), select all (Ctrl-A) and copy (Ctrl-C). Then switch back to your new file and paste (Ctrl-V). You can then re-size, move, rotate, bring to front, send to back etc. Do this until you like the arrangement and then you can flatten or merge the layers and save as .jpg (or whatever you want, but of course a .psd file will be huge). It goes pretty quickly once you get going. I'll open a candidate picture and hit, in succession, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-w, ctrl-v (select all, copy, close, paste) and then open the next photo and repeat. Here's an example (I scan concert tickets, programs etc. and then dump them on a page in an annual family photo book I put together).

Never occurred to me to use PS. I've created a new A3 blank template, drag and drop images in, rotate, decide which image sits on top of which, blend the shots in with a stroke and shadow... fairly easy.