Storyboards and collages are a great way to assemble multiple photos for display, either in print or on your website/blog. Using a template makes it even easier and there are many free or inexpensive templates available online. Once you know how to do it, assembling them isn’t very difficult.
When you open a template in Photoshop, it will look something like this. Each black box will hold a photo. If you look at the layers palette on the right side, you’ll see that each photo block has it’s own layer.
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Open the first photo you’d like to insert and drag it onto your template. In the layers palette, drag the photo layer until it’s just above the layer with the block you’d like it to go. For now, the photo will cover your entire template and look something like this:
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To fix this, you’ll want to create a clipping mask. Right click on the photo layer and select Create Clipping Mask. This will make it so that your photo only shows through that one shape.
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Now your photo will be contained within the box but will still be too big so you’ll want to resize it. Use Ctrl + T (PC) or Command + T(Mac) to Transform your image – this will create a resizing box around it. Make sure to hold down the Shift key while dragging the corners of your photo so that it will retain the proper shape.
Drag the corners of the image until it’s small enough to fit into your first template window.
Keep repeating these steps until you’ve filled all the areas in your template.
Once you’ve finished inserting all the images, make sure to turn off any guide layers – layers with letters that help you find which layer correlates to which box, but info that you don’t want in your final image. You can turn off a layer by clicking on the eye next to it in the layers palette.
And tada, you have your collage!
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