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Red Eye Removal

By digiMom • Oct 15th, 2007 • Category: Tips

Remove red eye before importing your pictures into your collage document. It is usually much easier to remove it in the photo editing software that came with your digital camera, or prep your photos before you start working on your collage.
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Shift to Resize

By digiMom • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Tips

If you’ve been using Photoshop or Elements for some time, you’ll be aware of this trick, but if not be sure to apply it. Holding down the shift key while you resize a photo by dragging the corner, will keep your photos in it’s proper proportion.
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Using Badly Cropped Photos

By digiMom • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Tips

Have some great pictures you want to use in your photo collage, but the photographer cut to close to the person’s face, or the top of  their head is missing? No problem, just look closely at your collage design and try placing that photo along an edge to minimize any further cropping close to the […]



The Eraser Tool

By digiMom • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Tips

The eraser tool is your best friend in creating a photo collage. Traditionally, collage artists would extract the parts of the photo they wanted, or use complicated masking techniques. The eraser tool is much easier to use for a beginner to intermediate and works very well in creating a blended collage effect with all soft […]