Collage Questions

[Chance1234]

Hi all,

Im trying to come up with a collage 2560 pixels by 1024 to use as a background for my computer at work, ( i use two monitors) , now i have lots of pictures i want to use

http://public.fotki.com/chance1234/mortus_illumina-3/

and want to get as many as possible into this collage.

but, i want to do something interesting with the design and was thinking of somehow overlay the above image so at a distance thats all you can see but when you come close you see its lots of photos. but NOT like the truman show thing thats too small !!!! i want to be able to make out the images.

i use PS5 and in the club of randomly click buttons to i get the effect i want, any advice on how to go about this greatly appreciated.

oh btw the guy with the bashed in head in the pictures is me


Chance

http://WWW.5YLAC.S5.COM

 

[TFfan]

You could play with the overlaying image's opacity for a quick and dirty method.

If you want to get complicated you could arrange all your pics in order from darkest to lightest and manually place the images. Therefore if you want to show a man's face from a distance that is made up of dozens of pictures of women, place the darker pictures (pictures with lower brightness)of women in the shadowed areas of the man's face. Similarly, the brighter images would make up the lighter portions of the face.

This is a lot of work. I did an arangement like this and it took weeks to find the right pictures and arrange them correctly.

This is probably too much work for you. Alternatively, you could just place the images (would help if they were all relatively bright to begin with) in a row filling up your entire canvas. From there, find a picture that you want to be displayed from a distance and on a different layer trace the areas of contrast and shadow. Paste this layer on top of your arrangement of smaller pictures and apply the areas of shadow and contrast to the smaller pics.

You'll have to do a lot of touching up, but it's definately doable. Hope this helps.