How To Make a Collage in Photoshop

This was just a little collage that I made in Photoshop.  It's the desert near the Arizona/California border (in Winterhaven) (Background), a Giraffe, and Buckingham Fountain in Chicago (Foreground).

This is a relatively easy collage to make in photoshop. I'm very detail oriented, so it took me about 2 hours, but only because there was a bit of fine detail to take care of around the top of the skyline as i had cut it out of a larger picture.  Then, I went and adjusted the color on each of the 3 layers used to make this.  Layers in Photoshop work just like they would for a collage made out of magazine clipping for example.  The desert would be the picture on the bottom, the Giraffe would be pasted on top of that, and picture of the fountain would be pasted on top of the giraffe.

Cropping Photos in Aperture 2.0

Shown above are two photos that I shot of the San Diego skyline.  The first one is the original, and the second one is a crop of the second one.  There are two ways to crop a photo in Aperture.  If you select "Constrain to Master Aspect Ratio" your cropping cursor will adjust to the same ratio as your original photo.  So if your photo was originally say the "pixel size" was  3000 by 4000 pixels your cropping options will be along the lines of 1500 by 2000, 750 by 1000, and so on.  This would be a 3:4 ratio.

If you choose to deselect this, as I have here, you can crop to more of a panoramic format. The top photo was 5616 by 3744.  This is similar to 4:3 ratio.  After cropping and resizing, by exporting to a smaller, more manageable size 2808 by 903.

San Diego Skyline

San Diego, CA, United States

Canon 5D Mark II

Focal Length 55

Aperture 20

Shutter 30 sec

ISO 1000