Collage of 12 images around a hexagon in Photoshop
Today, I am going to take you through the process of creating a photo collage of 12 images around a hexagon in Photoshop.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:11 Create new Document
00:21 Show the Grid
00:42 Draw a Hexagon-shaped
01:05 Create Background
01:17 Create Polygonal-shaped
05:43 Insert images
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Steps to make photo collage of 12 images around a hexagon in Photoshop:
1. Create a new Document.
Choose File-New (Ctrl+N). Type a name in the Name field and enter the following information:
Width 3000 pixels, Height 3000 pixels, Resolution 300 Pixels/Inch, Color Mode RGB color,
and Background contents Transparent.
2. Show the Grid.
Choose View-Show-Grid.
Open up the grid preferences, choose Edit-Preferences-Guides, Grid & Slices.
Set the “Gridline every” option to be 10 percent and “Subdivisions” option to be 1.
Choose View-Snap and then choose View-Snap to-Grid,
to enabling snaping that will help you to align any object, shape or selection you want.
3. Draw a Hexagon-Shaped.
Select the Custom Shape Tool.
In the Options Bar, make sure Shape is chosen from the menu then choose shape color.
Enter a value for the stroke size and select a hexagon shape from the Custom Shape pop-up panel.
To draw a Hexagon Shape, click-drag away from the starting point.
4. Create a New Layer For Background.
Choose Layer-New-Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N).
5. Create Polygonal-shaped.
Grab the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
Click to create corners.
Click the starting point to join the open ends of the selection.
Create a new layer by going to Layer-New-Layer (Shift+Ctrl+N).
Choose Edit-Fill (Shift+F5).
In this dialog box, under Contents, select 50% Gray.
6. Insert an image.
Select the layer to which you want to insert an image.
Go to File-Place to open the image you'd like to insert.
Click Place.
7. Create a Clipping Mask.
Click the image layer to be clipped,
then choose Layer-Create Clipping Mask (Alt+Ctrl+G).
8. Insert other images.
Repeat step 7 through 9 to open and manipulate each image you'd like to insert.