Skyler Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I have been trying to figure out how you all have made such wonderful picture collages in your signatures. I have several photo editors and cannot figure out how to blend several photos together to make one like many of you have. Tips would be great! Ryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc4ever Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I have been trying to figure out how you all have made such wonderful picture collages in your signatures. I have several photo editors and cannot figure out how to blend several photos together to make one like many of you have. Tips would be great! Ryan Hmmm..I was eager to read the responses to this one too. Maybe later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaderBug Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Well, I don't have a lot of experience with design programs, but I've learned that Microsoft PowerPoint is my best friend!! All I did was arrange the pictures I wanted in a way that I wanted, selected them all, grouped them together, then locked the aspect ratio, then right-click 'save as.' Be sure to save it as a jpeg though instead of the one that it automatically goes to... then I uploaded it onto Flickr and ta-da! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I use Photoshop Elements. I'm still learning all the cool things it can do. It has frames and collages built in that are easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsnrs Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Are these programs you buy or would they be on the computer? We have a digital camera (Kodak) with it's own software but don't know if it works for this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcdawg Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 i use photoshop, and you can buy it or do what we do and download it. its a lot of work at first, then its fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 If you don't have Photoshop and want something free then try Gimp. Its something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo Peep Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 I have a $2.99 photo shop- I am lost Any help would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.L. Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 I use PhotoShop CS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat's Dogs Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 I use Photoshop CS2. I open all the files I want to use and just copy and paste them into a single document, then have a different layer for each photo and each background element to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovaBelle Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 i use photoshop, and you can buy it or do what we do and download it.its a lot of work at first, then its fun. Are there free downloads of photoshop. That would be a dream come true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaderBug Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Are there free downloads of photoshop. That would be a dream come true. Probably not legal ones!! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 If you got to the Adobe website you can download a 30 day free trial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LovaBelle Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 ohhhhhhhhhh, "legal" there's the catch..... I already used up my 30 day trial. Guess I'm SOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLloydJones Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 If you don't have Photoshop and want something free then try Gimp. Its something similar. I'm also a Gimp user. It's a bit quirky (but then, so is Photoshop) but does all I need and way more besides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha's Mom Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 I suck at photoshop. I cut and pasted my pics into Word, wrapped the text over, and snipped the photos (using the "snipping tool") into a single JPEG. (But I don't have cool blending or anything.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berocca Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 I made mine with a free program I found called Photoscape. I have a new pc and haven't been able to find all my software cds to put my other programs on, but for now this one seems to be doing what I want. Pretty much whatever program you use the key is to layer the photos, from there you can usually make certain layers transparent and more depending on how technical you want to get or how much time you have to play around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 One way to "renew" (if you will) your 30 day free trial is to subscribe w/ a different email addy. Something in particular that I was working on I didn't finish so I registered using a different email, but you have to make sure that you delete the program completely from your computer before reinstalling or it will just come up asking for a key again. If you have no intentions on using Photoshop on a regular basis then this would be an option, otherwise it can be a real pain on deleting and reinstalling and reregistering just for free trials all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pammyd Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 I got photoshop Not the best and not the worst - but problem is once you have figured out how to use one then you dont want to take all the time to learn another programme Basically what i did - for every new foto use a different layer I had a nice foto I wanted for the background and I messed around with the colours (using hue and gradient - no reall idea what they do I moved the sliders till I got a nice colour) then I opened all the fotos of Ben I wanted to use clicked extract and drew a line round what I wanted to keep cut and pasted onto a new layer and then moved that image till I was happy with that then the same with all the other fotos I havent figured out how to put words onto my photoshop so I then opend it in microsoft publisher (power point would do it too) and put the words I wanted then saved it as a jpeg Not the best siggy but it did the job - hope that makes sense??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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