Creating a collage

[Alex]

Hello all you knowledgable people.

My dad's 60th is coming up in a few months time, so my sister and I thought to prepare a collage of many photos (including those B&Ws from his young days) and some of my D70 photos.

The way to do it is taken from S. Kelby's book.

Choose a base photo (high res D70 one as this will be enlarged singnificantly).

Use scans of old B&Ws (in RGB format to avoid grayscale) and put on top as layers and blend in using gradients and soft brush.

Any ideas/ comments/ suggestions? I hope to print it 20 x 30 or so.

Thanks
Alex

[stubbsy]

Alex

There are also programs specificaly designed to do this. Two I'm aware of:

Mosaic Creator

Andrea Mosaic

and a sample:

[sirhc55]

Alex you are going in the right direction with layers and brush blending and it can all be done in PS with no problems

[Alex]

Peter and Chris,

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Alex