How to Make a Photo Montage in Photoshop

Learn How to Make a Cool Photo Montage in Photoshop

Today I will be teaching you how to make a cool photo montage in Photoshop. A photo montage is a combination of photos that are all combined into one image. You can use different pictures of family members and loved ones to make your photo montage. This technique can be used in Photoshop 6.0 and above. The first step is to open a new file to work with. You can make the new file any size you wish, but make sure it's big enough to fit all the pictures you want to use in your photo montage. The next step would be to import the photos you want to use in your montage. For instance if you want pictures of your family in the montage then you should open those. Once you have your photos open resize them to the sizes you want. You can do this by hitting control T on your keyboard and then grabbing he corner of the arrow. To keep the same proportions make sure to hold down shift while you do this. Also you should change any other things like lighting and brightness of the photos before we put them in our montage.

Once you are happy with how your photos look we can start putting them in the blank file we made eariler. To do this double click on on the background layer of each photo to unlock them. Then once you have done this click and drag the photos into the blank file with the move tool. Now once you have all the photos in the blank file you can start arranging them in the order in which you want them. After you have put your photos in the places you want you can add some effects to them. One effect I suggest using is an outer glow. Something you can do that is really cool is play with the blending modes to make them blend in with the background more. For example if you use clouds as your background you can mess with the blending modes to create the illusion that the people in your photos are in the clouds. So be creative and have fun with the project. The sky is really the limit when it comes to what you can do with your photo montage. Have fun and arrange and resize the photos any way you like Once you have something you are happy with just save the file. And if you want to make it a jpeg to put it online just go to save for web. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and have a great day.