It is unclear what you want to do when you say "series" of images. Do you mean trying to automate the process? Or just that you have a bunch to do, so what’s reasonably efficient?
I’ll assume the latter because the former is harder <grin>.
Make sure you master photo is large enough to accommodate all the pictures you want to put in it. Make sure it’s resolution (ppi) matches your source images.
Open Grandma, draw an elliptical marquee around her head. Copy to clipboard, go to the master, past it, then move it to your desired location with the move tool. Each time you do that each picture you add to the master will be it’s own layer than can be moved and arranged independantly of(or in concert with, if you wish) the other layers.
Little trick for the elliptical marquee tool, if you don’t already know. As you draw the marquee, keep the mouse button held down, and then press the spacebar – keep the mouse button down. You can then move the marquee around, without resizing it, to position it. Then let go of the spacebar, and tweak your size.
Peace,
Tony
Tony,
I’m curious—why would it be better to copy Grandma to the clipboard and then paste in the master document versus just selecting grandma with the elip marquee and draggin her butt into the master document?
Inquiring mind wants to know…
TIA,
Patty 🙂
One is just as good as the other, as far as I know. I dunno – my mood?
Sometimes, for me, it depends on what I’m doing in the image and where my hands are. Often times it’s just as easy to ctrl-c/ctrl-v, if my hand is hovering over the keyboard. <shrug>.
Good point though, you can drag a selection to a new image.
Tony,
"it depends on what I’m doing in the image and where my hands are."
I’d say if grandma’s lookin—you best be keepin your hands where she can see um!
Thanks,
Patty
Colin,
You might want to try adding a feather to your selection, if you want soft, faded edges on the pasted (or dragged) pics. This is called a vignette effect. Also, you can set the marquee tool to a fixed size if you want a uniform look to the pasted pics.
If these are scanned images, they will probably need some resizing, levels (or curves) adjustment, and some sharpening before you drag them together.
