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I’d like to hear some suggestions to help me create the series of collages that I’ll describe below. The collages will be family images starting back in the 1940’s, and going to the present. The images from the the 40’s to the mid nineties are slides, negs, and prints that were scanned. All the film images were scanned at 2720 ppi. The prints were scanned at a lesser resolution, depending upon their original size.
I have many hundreds of such images that have all been carefully edited and "restored" in Photoshop, and I’ve organized them into folders, with about 50 or so images per folder. Each folder will become a 20×30 collage, composed of 4 10"x15" sections. And each section will be printed on an 11×17 paper size, using my Canon i9900. In eaxg secton there will be a small text box containing the span of years in that section. After printing, the 10×15 area containing the images will be cut out. Then 4 such pieces will be assembled into the final 20×30 size, and put into a frame.
The bulk of the existing scanned images can range in size up to 2400×3600 pixels. The final edited images range from square to rectangular, in portrait and landscape aspect ratio.
I’m reasonably experienced in Photoshop (presently using CS). I would like some good suggestions on how to assemble a typical 10×15 area. I want to preserve the ability to resize and reposition each image, until each final section has been completed. And, as with any collage. I want to have the ability to position images, front to back, as there will be overlaps to make it a collage.
My present thoughts now are to create a blank canvas of 10×15 inches at 200 ppi. Then open each image in turn, and paste it onto a new layer of the starting canvas, resize it via the Transform command to the approx final size, and then roughly position it. After doing this for all the images in a "section". I would then go back, and do final sizing and positioning (in the 3 dimensions of X and Y, and Z (front to back). Front to back would seem to be simply shifting the position of the layer involved.
Once I have everything the way I want, I can flatten all the layers, and proceed to printing the section. When all 4 sections of the final collage are printed, then I can cut them to size, and assemble them in the final frame.
One further thing – I’d like to put a border (with some "character") of about 1/3", which would be about 65 pixels (based on the 200 ppi of the starting canvas), around each of the sections. I’m planning on using the STROKE WORK PATH command to do this, as it will allow the use of any custom brush to do the stroking, as opposed to the plain EDIT>STROKE command.
I would appreciate any suggestions to make my task easier and the results better. I’m sure that there are many of the forum users who have been down this road before, and anything they can educate me on would be appreciated. Possibly my approach is the wrong approach – I’ll welcome all suggestions.
Thanks
Ron Hirsch
I have many hundreds of such images that have all been carefully edited and "restored" in Photoshop, and I’ve organized them into folders, with about 50 or so images per folder. Each folder will become a 20×30 collage, composed of 4 10"x15" sections. And each section will be printed on an 11×17 paper size, using my Canon i9900. In eaxg secton there will be a small text box containing the span of years in that section. After printing, the 10×15 area containing the images will be cut out. Then 4 such pieces will be assembled into the final 20×30 size, and put into a frame.
The bulk of the existing scanned images can range in size up to 2400×3600 pixels. The final edited images range from square to rectangular, in portrait and landscape aspect ratio.
I’m reasonably experienced in Photoshop (presently using CS). I would like some good suggestions on how to assemble a typical 10×15 area. I want to preserve the ability to resize and reposition each image, until each final section has been completed. And, as with any collage. I want to have the ability to position images, front to back, as there will be overlaps to make it a collage.
My present thoughts now are to create a blank canvas of 10×15 inches at 200 ppi. Then open each image in turn, and paste it onto a new layer of the starting canvas, resize it via the Transform command to the approx final size, and then roughly position it. After doing this for all the images in a "section". I would then go back, and do final sizing and positioning (in the 3 dimensions of X and Y, and Z (front to back). Front to back would seem to be simply shifting the position of the layer involved.
Once I have everything the way I want, I can flatten all the layers, and proceed to printing the section. When all 4 sections of the final collage are printed, then I can cut them to size, and assemble them in the final frame.
One further thing – I’d like to put a border (with some "character") of about 1/3", which would be about 65 pixels (based on the 200 ppi of the starting canvas), around each of the sections. I’m planning on using the STROKE WORK PATH command to do this, as it will allow the use of any custom brush to do the stroking, as opposed to the plain EDIT>STROKE command.
I would appreciate any suggestions to make my task easier and the results better. I’m sure that there are many of the forum users who have been down this road before, and anything they can educate me on would be appreciated. Possibly my approach is the wrong approach – I’ll welcome all suggestions.
Thanks
Ron Hirsch
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