Jacquelin Vanderwood

October 2005

Begin by opening Adobe Bridge. Use the Control key to select the different photos highlighted with a lighter gray. All photos must be the same dimensions.

Open Tools and select Photoshop. Choose Photo merge.

When the Photo Merge screen appears, you may see all of the pictures in the top area or you may see one or two there and the rest in the main area. If you don't see all of the pieces, trying moving the pictures in the main area and you'll discover they were actually hidden. Now begin to move the different pieces into place.

Let's choose to save this by pressing on the Save Composition As button. 

In Photoshop, select Distort and choose Lens Correction.

Pull upward to expand the image and press OK.

Re-enter Lens Correction. To get rid of white fringe around the sides, move the Fix Red/Cyan Fringe and the Fix Blue/Yellow Fringe to the left. Under Vignette, set Amount to +34 and set Midpoint to +9.

Finally, open another photo and drag that photo onto the merged photo. Change the mode to Overlay. As you can see, we have an interesting montage filled with color and design accentuating the photo we just added.

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