Pic In Center and One Each Corner

[Kaye]

Does any one know what type of program to use or what the name of the style portrait is called when you have one person (say the mother) in the center and then each child (4) in the corners.

Thanks
Kaye

[lputman]

You are probably referring to a storyboard or collage.

[Kaye]

Not sure but I can't find a collage that looks like what I mean. The background is all white with the 5 photos being in color and they have a soft fading outline around them..

[Cam Monroe]

Something like this?

Only done artistically in more than 3 minutes....lol

[Kaye]

Yes, but all five photos would be oval shaped and the edges of each fading into the white.

Thanks.

[edbayani]

you can use photoshop like what cam monroe posted. but instead of the rectangular shape that he used, you can select it by using the oval tool and make it into a quickmask and use gaussian blur according to your liking to soften the edges.. exit quickmask and select inverse to select the outside area and delete.you now have an oval shaped photo. do this to the other four photos and you can arrange their positions and sizes before flattening.

[Cam Monroe]

I find it easiest to get each photo just right first.
The size , shape, frame...any decoration or text....then save the file.(incase of crash...always happens when 5 unsaved files are finished)
Then make the big file, just blank, the size you want the final product.
copy, and paste the finished pictures into the large file.

I just used MS paint, most image software will let you do this.

[Kaye]

Thanks for the advise. Will both of your instructions give me a photo like below but with a different photo in each corner also?

[jiminyClickit]

Hi, Kaye,

Practice will get you there. One suggestion, for a better look: keep (or crop) the photos all either portrait or landscape, and then do your collage in that same orientation (five portrait-oriented shots in a portrait-oriented layout, landscape in landscape). They'll fit and look much better.

If your center one is larger and overlaps (see Post #4 above), it should sit on top of the other four corner photos. Just some tried-and-true graphics suggestions.

And have a look here - Collage College - for perhaps 35 examples of others' collage work.

[Kaye]

Finally got something that I liked. Thanks for all your advise and help. It was greatly appreciated.