How to merge 3 pic's to one 8x10?

[MIKE CCC]

What I would like to do is ..I have three portraits and I would like to put them together next to each other maybe in a curved fashion on one 8x10 print.

If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
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[jfriend00]

Assuming you have an image editor like some version of Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, check out the following links for some tutorials on the subject of combining multiple images into one print:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=10506691
http://www.vrya.net/ts/photoshop1.php

--John

What I would like to do is ..I have three portraits and I would
like to put them together next to each other maybe in a curved
fashion on one 8x10 print.
If someone could point me in the right direction it would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
--
'You only live once'
http://www.pbase.com/mike_c/galleries

 

[GCam]

If they are all the same size, and if they fill the frame, then you will need a separate file in which to combine the photos. click file new, and create a file large enough to handle the files. this assumes you do not have much experience with photoshop. Click on the first photo, click select, click all, then left click and drag the photo to the new file. Repeat for the other photos. You will now have four layers. In order to move each of the layers, you will have to click on each one in the layers palette, then click and drag each photo into its respective position. When you have them where you want them, flatten the file and save. You did not say whether you wanted them in frames in the collage, or if you wanted to cut out the photos. It might help if you posted the photos so someone could work on them to show you the possibilities. gc

 

[MIKE CCC]

Thanks gc yes I would like to frame them and see some examples and explinations.
thanks

If they are all the same size, and if they fill the frame, then you
will need a separate file in which to combine the photos. click
file new, and create a file large enough to handle the files. this
assumes you do not have much experience with photoshop. Click on
the first photo, click select, click all, then left click and drag
the photo to the new file. Repeat for the other photos. You will
now have four layers. In order to move each of the layers, you
will have to click on each one in the layers palette, then click
and drag each photo into its respective position. When you have
them where you want them, flatten the file and save. You did not
say whether you wanted them in frames in the collage, or if you
wanted to cut out the photos. It might help if you posted the
photos so someone could work on them to show you the possibilities.
gc

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[anthony918]

 

[jfriend00]

This is awesome. Makes you wish the outer two photos weren't quite as similar.

Can you explain how you did this? I'm building soccer collages, have read the various tutorials around, but am always interested in how others do this, particular one that's done as well as this one.

--John

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[Brian Randall]

What I would like to do is ..I have three portraits and I would
like to put them together next to each other maybe in a curved
fashion on one 8x10 print.
If someone could point me in the right direction it would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
--
'You only live once'
http://www.pbase.com/mike_c/galleries

--
Mike,

Here is my attempt for you.

Simply merged all three images into one new file and then erased and blended the images to match. I also flipped one of the images horizontally to make two images that appear to be looking into the middle photo. Then added a new duplicate image as the background.



Brian Randall
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[spinnnz]

I thought I'd give this one a try.... although I think I went a different route than you were looking for.



-Lisa

What I would like to do is ..I have three portraits and I would
like to put them together next to each other maybe in a curved
fashion on one 8x10 print.
If someone could point me in the right direction it would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
--
'You only live once'
http://www.pbase.com/mike_c/galleries

 

[spinnnz]

I changed it around a little and figured I would post this one as well...



-Lisa

 

[anthony918]

Thanks

I took a section of the blue background and strectched it to cover the own canvas. I cut out the middle picture and shrunk it a little. Applied a little blur to the edges of that photo. I cut out the outer to pics and erased their backgrounds to allow the streched version to show through.

I know I am missing something but that is the idea. This is my first try at helping on the retouch forum. What fun to help others.

Anthony

This is awesome. Makes you wish the outer two photos weren't quite
as similar.

Can you explain how you did this? I'm building soccer collages,
have read the various tutorials around, but am always interested in
how others do this, particular one that's done as well as this one.

--John

 

[MIKE CCC]

WOW THANK this is what I was looking for. I hope I can do this now I'll have to give it a go and hope for the best.
Thanks again for all your help everyone.
Mike C

I changed it around a little and figured I would post this one as
well...



-Lisa

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[MIKE CCC]

Lisa do you have a step by step work flow for this?
I would shurly appreciate it.
I'm new to photoshop CS.
Thanks
Mike

I changed it around a little and figured I would post this one as
well...



-Lisa

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[spinnnz]

Mike,

Here's what I did, I sent you the psd file in your email incase you didn't understand what I meant.

First I created a new background using two shades of green and used render clouds and difference clouds until I came up with a background that I liked.

Next I copied a smaller chunk of the background to a new layer and applied a drop shadow to that layer

Then for each one of the single pictures,
I used a layer mask to hide the background
Used blending options to add a 2 pixel white stroke layer

Then I right clicking on the Stroke effect, I chose Create Layer to have the white outline placed on its own layer, then I used Gaussian Blur of 2 pixels on the stroke layer to soften the stroke.

Then I linked the single picture and the stroke layer together.

Once all three were done, I moved the pictures around to the placement that I wanted.

I CTRL clicked on the smaller background layer, created a new layer at the top and used Edit Stroke (3px Center) to create the white outline.

After that I create a new layer and clicked CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E to create a merged copy of everything into that layer.

Unsharp Mask 20/40/0
Unsharp Mask 130/1/4

Lisa do you have a step by step work flow for this?
I would shurly appreciate it.
I'm new to photoshop CS.
Thanks
Mike

 

[MIKE CCC]

Thank you Lisa can you send the psd file to [email protected] this is my new e-mail and I'm not sure how to chang it hear yet
THANKS AGAIN FOR HELPING ME LEARN
Mike

Here's what I did, I sent you the psd file in your email incase you
didn't understand what I meant.

First I created a new background using two shades of green and used
render clouds and difference clouds until I came up with a
background that I liked.

Next I copied a smaller chunk of the background to a new layer and
applied a drop shadow to that layer

Then for each one of the single pictures,
I used a layer mask to hide the background
Used blending options to add a 2 pixel white stroke layer
Then I right clicking on the Stroke effect, I chose Create Layer to
have the white outline placed on its own layer, then I used
Gaussian Blur of 2 pixels on the stroke layer to soften the stroke.

Then I linked the single picture and the stroke layer together.
Once all three were done, I moved the pictures around to the
placement that I wanted.

I CTRL clicked on the smaller background layer, created a new layer
at the top and used Edit Stroke (3px Center) to create the white
outline.

After that I create a new layer and clicked CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + E
to create a merged copy of everything into that layer.

Unsharp Mask 20/40/0
Unsharp Mask 130/1/4

Lisa do you have a step by step work flow for this?
I would shurly appreciate it.
I'm new to photoshop CS.
Thanks
Mike

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[Bigbopper916]

 

[MIKE CCC]

Thanks everyone for helping me learn

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[GCam]

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