Can someone help me with a cs5 process? I searched on the web but could not find a tutorial.
I need to place the three images, side by side in one frame. I need to have the images evenly spaced and sized. This will be for three portraits of my fiancé (who allows me to go on photo outings without her) placed in a row.
Is there some sort of auto tool that makes the sizing and placement easy? Can someone point me to a tutorial?
Not an auto-tool that I know of, but take a look at the extend canvas tool: tutorial.
Start with one image, suppose you want 1 inch separation, extend the canvas 1 inch in the right direction, with the desired background color. Then extend the canvas again with exactly the width of your next image (in pixels this time) with some other background color. Paste that next image into the colored rectangle (it should cover the entire colored rectangle). Repeat as needed.
Posted by Richard Ditch on April 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Here's something I did with PS Elements back in 2002 with some marginal film scans. I'm not sure exactly how I did this (and it might not be perfectly aligned), but now I'd work this way:
1. determine the dimensions of each separate image and the overall dimensions including borders.
2. prepare each individual image to the final size needed.
3. expand the canvas in all directions with the desired border color. If you want the bottom border wider than the others first do all four edges the same and then do the wider border as a separate step.
4. create a new document in photoshop at the final dimensions and using the border color.
5. open the ruler and drag guide lines to block out the layout.
6. open each of the individual images and drag each one onto the background - you will get a separate layer for each image.
7. use the move tool to adjust position of each image as needed.
8. flatten the layers when finished.
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7 repliesCan someone help me with a cs5 process? I searched on the web but could not find a tutorial.
I need to place the three images, side by side in one frame. I need to have the images evenly spaced and sized. This will be for three portraits of my fiancé (who allows me to go on photo outings without her) placed in a row.
Is there some sort of auto tool that makes the sizing and placement easy? Can someone point me to a tutorial?
Thanks in advance,
Richard
Start with one image, suppose you want 1 inch separation, extend the canvas 1 inch in the right direction, with the desired background color. Then extend the canvas again with exactly the width of your next image (in pixels this time) with some other background color. Paste that next image into the colored rectangle (it should cover the entire colored rectangle). Repeat as needed.
I’ll give this a try.
Cheers.
1. determine the dimensions of each separate image and the overall dimensions including borders.
2. prepare each individual image to the final size needed.
3. expand the canvas in all directions with the desired border color. If you want the bottom border wider than the others first do all four edges the same and then do the wider border as a separate step.
4. create a new document in photoshop at the final dimensions and using the border color.
5. open the ruler and drag guide lines to block out the layout.
6. open each of the individual images and drag each one onto the background - you will get a separate layer for each image.
7. use the move tool to adjust position of each image as needed.
8. flatten the layers when finished.
What a nice example you have. These three are wonderful.
Thanks so much for the instructions. Even with my limited Photoshop skills I was able to put something together.
No borders or anything fancy yet…..
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I’ll continue to work on this process.
--P