Making your own collage is very easy. You just need some
textures or go to your gallery, you can also fill with solid color or
gradient and you can always make your own large sized texture by following Tiled
Textures. Other than a texture or picture, you need a template. I have
made a few templates that you can download. Or you can make your own. Once you
have a texture/picture and a template picked out, open the texture, and know
where to find the picture on your computer. My templates are very large, so that
you can make them smaller by resizing. Click on your template, and now you want
to fill it with the texture/picture. You need to know where your "fill" tool
is(see below). Choose color or picture or gradient. Then find your
texture/picture you want to fill your collage with. You can adjust the texture,
making it larger or more centered before you click done. Now you can add your
photos and you have a collage. To add photos just open them, then drag them onto
your collage, size them down, and place them where you want them, you will have
to drag them behind your collage, to do this just grab your photo at the right,
by clicking your mouse button, hold, and drag downward to the bottom of your
stack. You can also add some frames around the whole collage, and around the
little photo openings to add a little something. You can also add "doodads" here
and there on the collage to add even more!
The blank collage Filled collage Framed collage Collage with frame and doodads added You can save your collages in PI/DIP format and put them in a folder or your
gallery, and then they will be there for later use.
FILL TOOLS:
PI2000: PI2001 Publishing: PI2002 Photo Premium: DIP7 & DI9: Once unzipped, these collages are in PNG format. IF you find that in your
version, this makes the photo openings solid white instead of transparent, you
may have to cut out the hole, you can do this with the "by color option", just
click on the white area, it should cut them out and you will be ready to go! You
will have to cut them out BEFORE you fill your collage with color!!
Here are the zipped collage templates.
CUTOUTS & PICTURES/FILL CUTOUT OR PICTURE/PICTURE/OPEN A
PICTURE.
SNOW MY PICTURES AND PROJECTS TAB/MY
DOCUMENTS(open your collage)/PAINT & COLOR EFFECST/FILL/PICTURE
OPEN & EDIT TAB/MY COMPUTER/PHOTO &
COLOR EFFECTS/COLOR OR TEXTURE/FILL WITH COLOR OR TEXTURE/PICTURE.
EFFECTS/FILL WITH TEXTURE OR
COLOR/PICTURE
My collages are saved in ZIP files, so they are
smaller to download.
Download WINZIP
How to use winzip HERE
FRAMING
YOUR COLLAGESPlease try one of my other frame lessons on my main page!
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