Comments on: Photoshop Workbench 171: Tossed on the Table Collage

By: roz batten

roz batten — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:01:34 +0000

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 ..

By: Peter Working

Peter Working — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:28:33 +0000

Fantastic. I’ve got some panorama efforts that have been waiting for a technique like this. Peter

By: LynneM

LynneM — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:54:44 +0000

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?

By: Joe Filer

Joe Filer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:37:41 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:46:04 +0000

Fantastic. I’m going out this afternoon and take pictures to try this out. Thanks for the inspiration.