Making a collage need to roate a picture

[monique_evette]

I am creating a collage and I have one main picture and then I am putting smaller snap shots within that one. What I want to do is randomly rotate the smaller pictures. Right now all I can get them to do is just line straight up and down, does that make sense?

(Like when you toss pictures on to the floor and they just randomly fall in different directions.)

So does anyone know how I can select the small pic and rotate it in CS2?

[monique_evette]

Figured it out! Select pic > right click > free transform!

[engstrom]

Are each of the smaller pics on its own layer? If so you can Ctrl-Click on the layer thumbnail for the smaller pic to create a selection around the smaller pic, select the layer of the smaller pic, then go to Edit->Transform->Rotate and drag the corner of the selection clockwise or counterclockwise.

[monique_evette]

that sounds a lot easier! Thanks!

[mramos]

www.lumapix.com has a nice easy, and fast program for making collages. I now there are a lot of others, but this one always pops in my head when I hear collage making.

[engstrom]

Monique, you might also want to double click on the smaller pictures' layer thumbnails and select "Blending options..." where you can add a drop shadow, inner shadow, outer glow, inner glow, bevel and emboss, etc. Just click on the effect name, like drop shadow, to change the settings for that effect.

[Patti Edens]

If you are using Photoshop CS2 (or maybe an older version...I don't know), here's the easiest way:

After you drag all of the small photos onto the larger one, while you still have the Move tool selected, click the boxes up on the top left that say, "Auto Select Layer" and "Show Transform Controls"

Then, when you just click on one of the smaller photos, it will be selected and it will automatically have the transform handles around it. After you move it where you want it, enlarge it, rotate it or whatever you are doing to it, just hit Enter and click on the next one.

Very fast.

Patti

[monique_evette]

Wow! Thanks for all the help!