Photography Collage

In photoshop and I believe elements as well you can easily create a collage. Just create a new document at the size you want the final image to be, then add images to that document on their own layers [ many ways to do that.. google it ;O) ] You can then resize and move them in to any position [ including overlapping ] you want as well as nondestructively cropping them. You can eve do a multiple crop on an image and use each crop as a different image in the collage. And of course with masking you can even remove individual objects [ aka people ;O) ] and move them around the collage.

Software easier than Elements.. sure, but probably not with the total freedom to be as creative as you want.

bob

I, too, have been exploring the collage angle for a couple of subject whit which I've been working. I tried Elements but used Picasa for my first effort, one of which I just uploaded to FAA. I have a website with a large section about steamed crabs that is quite popular. I am about to add this offering there. The section gets 300+ visits per day so I want to see if I get any "bites." If so I will expand the project.

It still needs a lot of tweaking but here it is...



~ Bill

It's easily done in Photoshop, as noted by Bob, above. Here's an example I made to visualize a gallery installation. By having each image on a separate layer, it's easy to change the arrangement.

@bill & murray & Joseph

I am not sure if those examples would be classified as a collage.

Webster define it as....

a : an artistic composition made of various materials (as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface

b : a creative work that resembles such a composition in incorporating various materials or elements

Joseph... are those examples of what you are visualizing? If so, then yes there would be easier software to use.. as Bill mentioned... Picassa.

bob

Joe.. Good old classic windows "paint" is capable of doing what your suggesting..

edit: Great idea btw... I was also considering offering different series of work in this format. (It's really just a good way for me to squeeze lots more out of my free account :-)

Photo Collage, Bob. Webster was a bit "limiting" - per today's technology. LOL :)

~ Bill

Here's one I like, but in my mind, more black space around the shots --



And this one --

Bill;

I like your Crabcakes Collage. That's more what I had in mind. I'm still getting the hang of it and this is what I have come up with so far --



Not entirely sure FAA would print the "Columbia, South Carolina." Not sure, but am going to do one without the lettering here eventually.

My Doors of...collages do very well.

The font you are using on that one is kinda bleh. Find one that says "South Carolina". I'm thinking a script like Scriptina-along those lines.

Hi Joseph. Photo collages are a great idea! We get to: show more of our work at once, pack a powerful punch as far as visual impact and offer potential buyers more bang for their buck...a win-win design. Plus, it's fun to create 'em in Photoshop. Good luck...you're on the right track. I would 'help' the lettering stand out by double layering it with a lighter color on the underside...and moving 'Columbia' into the black space with 'South Carolina'. Also, like Louise says, maybe another font, more script-y, could help add a bit of flair. Here's a simple collage of mine that folks really like:

Yeah, there was something b;ah to me about the font on the Columbia image. I'll take another look. I agree about the black space, too. I appreciate all the input.

You can do it easy enough in Corel as well. It is not really that hard to do.



Just the basic program will handle what you want.

Been doing mine in Elements. I just open a new, blank file, then all the photos I want to include. I drag them where I want them out of the project bin, put a really thin border on each of them so I can later fill the background, and just crop off the extra I don't want on the blank canvas. It's not too hard once you figure it out. Just turn on the grid to align them.

From Wikipedia: Collage (From the French: coller, to glue, French pronunciation: ​ is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of novelty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage

Technically - I doubt that separate images - that could be framed separately - put in one frame are a collage. BWDIK

A collage is usually one object made of many. Some of the work here is page layout as if done in In Design.

Yes, let's debate the use of the term. I guess I could have said hodge podge. Or a frame that includes many different photographs, but that just seemed wordy when I could say collage and most people understood what I meant. LOL

I made this collage just for myself (using one of the free online editing program), because I loved the different effect on the same photo. Then I've decided to upload it here, and actually this image was my 2nd sale on FAA, and the buyer contacted me personally, how much they love it.

say you are using a b&w editor , you have a file with 50 layers all alpha masked and merged into one layer- this is a collage. All images are manipulated perhaps it would make more sense to call this image a collage rather than a photo-manipulation.

Just a note to say, debating the term 'collage' was probably not the gist of this post. Lol. But, since someone brought it up, I've seen the word used for more than the definition stated. I use it for a group of photos I've placed together via Photoshop, sometimes overlapping or manipulated, in a design usually with some sort of text & border...as well as for some of my mixed media pieces when using texture, pattern, added items, drawings, glue & text. Either way, I'm sure most of us know exactly what Joseph meant & is talking about here! Again, I say, good luck...and have fun creating! You may come up with something new & unique with a definition to fit.
Warmly, Brooks

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=photo+collage&FORM=HDRSC2

To me, This is what "Photo Collage" is all about:

The thought provoking, Eye, Hand and Mind of a fellow FAA Artist.

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Julian Banks

Perhaps those arguing the definition here could contact Adobe and Google and convince them to change the terminology on their respective photo-manipulation software packages. LOL

~ Bill