Thursday, April 2, 2009
Photoshop Workbench 171: Tossed on the Table Collage
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I credit Jack Davis and Linnea Dayton, authors of the Photoshop Wow! book series, for inspiring today’s Workbench. In a recent issue of Photoshop User magazine, I read an article by them that illustrated how to create a “Tossed-on-the-Table Collage.” If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering what in the world is a “Tossed-on-the-Table Collage?” Imagine being able to photograph a beautiful panorama without using a tripod. Then, in Photoshop, you bring the panels together into what looks like a series of photographic prints tossed side-by-side on a table. Let me show you how.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 4:22 am
Hi Mark, not only is this a cool technique (THANK YOU), but also captured a number of new short cuts, which I found useful beyond this particular technique. Great tutorial.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 9:46 am
Fantastic. I’m going out this afternoon and take pictures to try this out. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 11:37 am
One thing that would make the “tossed on the table” look more authentic: Create all the drop shadow layer styles by themselves, then use “Create layer” to place each drop shadow on its own layer. If this is done, the shadow can be distorted (warped) so that only the areas curled away from the “table” have noticeable shadow. This will make it look as if the photos are touching the table at the lowest point of the curl.
Then continue with the stroked edges layer style.
You could also rearrange the layer order so that the images look like they were tossed in a random order.
Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Great tutorial. I’ve used this collage look for several years, but I’ve never mastered the warp effect. Now I know and I’ll definitely be using it. I remember seeing a way to curl just the edge of the “snapshot,” but I don’t remember how it’s done. Can you help me?
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 11:28 am
Fantastic. I’ve got some panorama efforts that have been waiting for a technique like this. Peter
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 6:01 pm
thankyou so much mark ..
its great when i can click on something like this and learn just two things that will speed up my workflow ..
particularly loved the copy and paste the layer style ..
photoshop is like life .. constantly learning new things and never ever can you know the lot .. !!!
you have a great teaching style and it was fun to work along with you ..
from roz ..