AboutGlen Demers Expertise I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop 7 and can answer any questions dealing with images for print; resolution, color correction, color space, sharpening and retouching. I am a prepress technician for Best Printing Online and if you want to know how to prepare your image for offset reproduction, I can help.
Experience I've been working in the prepress aspect of printing for 25 years and am currently a prepress technician for Best Printing Online I've worked with Photoshop since 1994 and have used all versions from 3 to CS3. I'm an ACE (Adobe certified expert) in Photoshop 7.0
Education/Credentials I graduated High School and took 1 year of College level offset printing course. I've attended 2 Photoshop World conferences and taken numerous seminars pertaining to Photoshop and the print industry.
Thanks again for your help on the sharpening tool.
I really miss my old PhotoDeluxe program, apparently it is not compatible with my Vista 64 bit OS. Anyway, composites were very easy in PhotoDeluxe, but I have been unable to duplicate the ease of this with PhotoShop 7.
Can you tell me how to do it and be able to control size , and position of each?
Thank you, Regards, Ken.
Answer Hi Ken,
The easiest way I've found to create collages is to start with one large document. You can increase canvas size under Images>Canvas size...
For each new image create a new layer and drag or copy/paste the new image on the new layer. It really helps to rename the layer to avoid confusion.
Then use the move and transform tools on each image. In the layers palette, you can drag the layers to change the stacking order.
Control click the image layer to select the image, invert the selection under the selection menu and then feather the selection and hit delete, this will give your image a soft edge - the affect depending on your image resolution and the amount of feathering.
You can also change the opacity and blending mode of each layer for some really cool affects.
Save the layered file as a tif or psd (Photoshop) document and then make a copy and go to Layers>Flatten Image to make a composite. You can always go back to the layered file for editing.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
