Photo montages have many different uses. They are seen in ads, brochures and websites and can be used to show variety (as in the numbers of people using a product) or energy and movement. If you want to create your own photo montage, a good program to use is Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop has a wide variety of tools and functions to turn your photos into something special.
Instructions
1. Gather the images you want to use in your montage. If you have them on your digital camera, connect it to your computer and transfer the files. If the photos are printed, scan them into your computer using the highest possible resolution setting on your scanner.
2. Open Photoshop. Select "File" and click "New." In the dialogue box that opens, select the width and height in pixels for your overall montage. Make the resolution what you need for your project. For example, if you are planning on having the rescaling montage printed professionally on flyers or ads, the printer will probably want a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. But if it is going on a website, there is no reason to make the resolution more than 72. Click "OK."
3. Select "File" and click "Open." Browse to the images you want to use in your montage and open them. For each of them select "Edit" and click "Copy." Then go to the montage image, select "Edit" and click "Paste." When you are done you will see that each your images came in on its own layer.
4. Select each of the layers and then select "Edit", than "Transform" and click "Scale." Resize the image to the size you want it to be in the montage. Do this for each of the image layers. Then select the "Move" tool to place them where you want them. You can also use the "Rotate" tool under "Transform" to change the angle of each image.
5. Change the "Opacity" of certain layers to make them seem faded compared with others. You might want to use this effect on the images near the edge of the montage. Save your work as a high-resolution JPEG.
