Selection
Make a collage of images that illustrates what the Pike Place Market is to you. The images can be located in the "Collage" folder in the photographs.
Examples: Collage 1 | Collage 2 | Collage 3 | Collage 4
Tutorials
Project 1 - From Template
Creating a collage from the Photoshop Elements 9 Template (9:06)
Version 8 by Linda Dickeson posted on the Adobe Education Exchange: http://edexchange.adobe.com/posts/c21efc4cd6
Pse 8 – collage pdf http://edexchange.adobe.com/posts/5561e97250
Project 2 - From Scratch
- Blank New Image (2:21)
- US Paper, Legal, 8.5 in by 11 in
- Getting Started (4:19)
- Place photos
- Quick selection
- Refine Edge
- Copy and Paste
- Polygon Selection and Masking (4:19)
- Drag and Drop photos onto your collage
- Polygon lasso tool
- Masking
- Layer Styles Introduction
- Working with Text Layers (7:27)
- Text Layers, resize, color, font
- Duplicate, hide/show, opacity, delete, resize, rename
- Layer Styles (2:30)
- Drop shadow, glow – adjust, copy, delete
If you get done early you can practice the same techniques with some of your own images or the images in the "flower" folder. Or you can move onto the "Other Techniques" section.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Take the time to learn a couple keyboard shortcuts and you will save tons of time.
- Ctrl + D = Deselect
- Ctrl + spacebar = temporary switch to zoom tool
- Ctrl + 0 = Fit in window
- Ctrl + J = Copy vai layer
- Hold Alt = Switchs selection tool to subtract