How to Make a Freestyle Page of Photos Using Photoshop Elements 6
- 1). Open Photoshop Elements 6, click the "File" menu and click "New." Type "Freestyle" into the "Name" box. Type your preferred page dimensions. For a full page of copy paper, type 11 inches by 8 inches and click the "OK" button. When the Elements screen opens your workspace, click the "View" menu and click "Fit on Screen." This won't enlarge your dimensions; it just gives you more room to assemble your collage.
- 2). Click the "File" menu again and select "Open." Browse to the area on your computer or flash drive where you have digital pictures to use for the page. If they're all in the same location, press and hold down the "Ctrl" key on the keyboard, click once on each photo to highlight it and click the "Open" button on the screen. The photos tile onto the Elements screen. Otherwise, navigate to each picture individually and double-click it until they're all open on the Elements screen.
- 3). Press and hold down the "Ctrl" key, click on a photo and drag it onto the "Freestyle" box. Close the photo to remove it from the screen. To resize the photo on the "Freestyle" box, pull down the "Edit" menu, click "Transform," click "Scale" and shrink it to your preferred size.
- 4). Repeat the dragging process until all pictures are on the "Freestyle" box and the other photos are closed and off the Elements screen.
- 5). Click the "Window" menu and click "Layers" to open the "Layers" palette. Notice that you've got a blank Background layer and other layers, one for each of your photos. Click any of the photo layers.
- 6). Click the "Move" tool, which looks like a black arrow head at the top of the "Tools" palette. Drag your cursor on the screen to position the photo on the page. Overlap and tile photos as desired. Take care that none of the pictures overlap the actual "Freestyle" box's dimensions into the gray Photoshop workspace.
- 7). Click the small lines icon at the top of the "Layers" palette. Click "Flatten Image." Click the "File" menu, click "Save As" and save the freestyle page to your computer.
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