Now, you are going to take your individual images and combine them
into a single image consisting of a grid of portraits. You are going to
create the completed grid with adequate resolution and quality to make a
print of no less than 16" in the shortest dimension @ 300ppi. Since 16 x
300 pixels = 4800 pixels wide, this would be appropriate resolution for
your width.
Before you begin, be sure to have your images fully edited.
I suggest you edit them all at once using Adobe Camera Raw. Browse to
them all using Bridge. Control click (right click) and select open in
Adobe Camera Raw. Edit them all. Save them all into a new folder.
Then
open PS. Go to File > Scripts > Image Processor. Re-size all you
images to an appropriate size. Be sure save them into a new folder
(though I believe by default it will save them into a folder named JPEG
assuming you are saving them as JPEGs). In class, I decided I wanted
them all to be 2" wide, so each image was 600 pixels wide (300ppi x 2").
I decided to use 1/4" borders between everything. So, each border is 75
pixels.
If you have an assortment of horizontal and
vertical images, you have to make a few decisions. One option is to crop
them all to the same orientation. If you only have a few, then I
suggest you go that route. If it is roughly a 50/50 mix, then I suggest
you re-size all your images so that the longest dimension is 600px.
Then, layout your grid as though there are 600x600 pixels squares for
each image. Then just center your image within that area of the square.
That will results in borders that are not uniform in width, but all the
images will be equidistant from each other based on their centers (which
is to say, it will still look good).
Using Bridge,
browse to the folder containing the newly re-sized images. Select them
all, then from the main menu go to Tools > Photoshop > Open as
Layer Stack. This will open them all up as individual layers in a single
image.
Save that image. You can use this as the basis of your animated video (extra credit, plus it is cool).
Re-size
your canvas. For this one I set the width to 4800 pixels wide as
discussed above. The dimension that you pick for the height isn't that
important now as you can add or crop off canvas from the bottom as
needed. I suggest you just go with 4800 pixels high to get started. Keep
the stacked layers in the top left when you do the re-sizing.
Then go to Image > Canvas Size and set the width to 16".
Turn
on the grid. Make sure snap is on. By default, it is marked every 1/4
inch. If that doesn't work for you, then you will have to go into
Preferences and change the grid preferences.
Select one
of the layers. Move the layers into place and let them snap to the
grid. Not the that your layers are stacked. Are they in the right
chronological order? I suggest that you order them chronologically. If
they were all taken with the same camera, then they should be
automatically stacked in the right order. If you use multiple cameras,
you will have to sort the layers out before placing each image within
the grid.
Keep doing this until you run out of space.
Add canvas to the bottom as needed. When you are done, be sure to save a
version with layers intact as well as a version with the layers
flattened. Crop off any extra space from the bottom when you are done.
To add a background color, just make a new layer at the very bottom of the layer stack and fill it with any color that you want.
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