Tutorial to Make Collage Photo Effects

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Step 3
After you make the selection, press Ctrl+J to make new layer base on the selection area.

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make new layer from the selection

Step 4
Select Layer > Layer Style to add some awesome effect to this new layer.
The layer effects I chose in this Photoshop tutorial is Stroke. Give this layer, around 10 pixel size of white color. Adjust the Position of the stroke: inside the layer. You can see the following picture as reference.

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add layer style of stroke and drop shadow

You can also add Drop Shadow effect too to strengthen the collage photo effects. So it will look more multidimensional.

Step 5
Reveal marquee selection of this layer. The easy and fastest way is by press and hold Ctrl key while click the layer thumbnail in layer panel. See it the following Photoshop tutorial’s image about the location of the layer thumbnail.

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reveal the selection

Step 6
Rotate the new selection as we have done it in Step 2-3 above. Move it in new location of the photo, this is to make the new collage photo. After you are finish with the selection, don’t proceed to make new layer base on the selection as Step 3 yet. It is important: Click on the Background layer first before you press Ctrl+J.

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do as the tutorial in step 2-3

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11 Responses to “Tutorial to Make Collage Photo Effects”

  • Al says:

    Can you just stop with these tutorials? All you’re doing is encouraging amateurs to add tacky and tasteless effects to their images, and that’s how ugly digital art is made in batches and batches nowadays. In some cases you have the right idea, but the technique you use leaves an unattractive result that Photoshop newbies will eat right up. Leave the Photoshop tutorials to people who have some artistic taste.

    • Bob says:

      I don’t think a pro slaves over his computer trolling tutorials.

      • @Al and Bob: Thanks for your comments.
        Truly, I am a newbie in Photoshop, and I realize that I need to study more about Photoshop. I learn about Photoshop by making tutorials, because when I wrote about Photoshop tutorial, I am also forced by myself to learn some more new techniques.

  • Will says:

    She looked uglier when up close

  • Diana says:

    If you are going to make a tutorial, don’t leave parts out! After following this, I was left with a white space under the sections that I marqueed.

    • @Diana: If you get a white space, I suppose you are in transforming the marquee process. Please try to use Select > Transform Selection. I am afraid you are using Edit > Free Transform, so you are rotating the image itself, not the selection; so it give you the white background of the photo.

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  • josue says:

    thank you for these tutorial was very helpful for me
    thank you for your time!
    Whatever you do, good or bad,bad people will have something negative to say

  • Kathie says:

    Al: If it wasn’t for the amateurs adding tacky and tasteless effects to their images, no one would know how good the rest of you are. So you guys just go on producing your wonderful art and leave the rest of us to being able to make you feel superior. OK? Everybody’s gotta be somewhere. BTW, where is your tutorial located? I’d love to learn how to do stuff like you do.
    Bob: ::I don’t think a pro slaves over his computer trolling tutorials.:: Evidently Al does. How does that work? He certainly isn’t busy making tutorials for us tacky amateurs.


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