Question: How do you make those separate boxes in collages where you can put other pics into?

I create a new piece usually 100 x 70 or something like that. you then have to resize your pics down to that size and get it placed right. some folks like to sharpen the images back up. then make all your changes with filters and brushes. add you a border (solid or dashed) last, click image -> flatten and then just drag it on to your collage. By Shannon.



Step 1: take your marquee tool and draw a box the size you want it. (Hold the shift key down for a PERFECT square.)
Step 2: If the color you want the outline to be is not already in the color box (on the tool bar), then click on the FORGROUND color box, and choose the color you would like to make the outline.
Step 3: Make sure that your marquee tool is still selected (if it's not, then click on the marquee tool on your tool bar). The marqueed box that you made should still be on the screen.
Step 4: Making sure your marquee tool is selected on your tool bar, right click inside the box (for a mac, hold down the CTRL key and click inside the box).
Step 5: Select STROKE from the menu that pops up. 
Step 6: Once you selct STROKE, a window will pop up asking you how thick you would like the box to be (in pixels). It will also ask you if you want the line to go on the INSIDE, OUTSIDE, or CENTER. It really doesn't matter. You may choose any one. I normally go fo CENTER. (In PS 6.0, you have the option of choosing a color if you haven't done so already.)
Step 7: Delselect (PC -- CTRL+D, MAC -- appleKEY + D), and there you have it... a perfectly outline BOX!

Once you want to put images inside, all you have to do, is find that image and place it underneath the layer with the outlined box. To crop that image to the size of the box, click on the layer with the outlined box in it, take your MAGIC WAND tool, and click outside the box. This will select the everything BUT the box. GO back to the layer with the image in it, (the selection on your screen should still be there), then hit DELETE. This wil delete everything that is outside the box, therefor cropping your image to the size of the box! By Tere.




Ok. this is how I do it.. and there might be an easier way... I take whatever pic I was to use and make it the size I want the "photo" to be. Once I have done that, I put it onto the collage, perfectly straight to start. Then on a seperate layer, I used the pencil tool and make the outline with it, to make it look like the border of a photo. Then I move the photo by using Ctrl/T and putting it at whatever angle I want, then I move the
layer of the box/lines the same way so that it matches the photo. By Val.

I create a separated piece of image (the size I want the box to be), then I choose the image (or images) to go there and place them at the correct place. Then I use whatever tool I want (brushes, filters, whatever) and save it (or not - or just flat it). Then I just drag it to the other collage. If it's a picture inside another one (like a negative), then I just drag the image to the negative, then I select with the Marquee tool the part of the image I want to be inside the negative and CTRL+X (cut) it. Then I delete the layer and CTRL+V (paste) the image (now at the right size).

By Késsia

Question: How to make those negative stuff at the image???

Vered helped find this brush set at .ABR (http://www.impervious.org/ABR/brushes.html) it is the first set down. 

Now just find the pic you want, stamped it on, cut it out and roughed it up. The brushes can be very big or too small so do it by individual pic. By Shannon.