Photo Plus - UK (2020-01)

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PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

THE MISSION

Tell a story with

multiple images

Time needed

15 minutes

Skill level

Beginner

Kit needed

Photoshop Elements

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Create a triptych

Dan Mold shows you how to tell a story with a series of three pictures

01 OPEN UP YOUR IMAGES
Load up Elements and go to File>Open,
then open up the Resources folder on your
disc or download and pick the triptych
template you want to work on. Next, open
up the first image you want to add.

04 BLEND IT IN
You’ll only really want your photograph
to appear in the black aperture of the
template, so go to the Layers panel
(Window>Layers) and change the
Blending mode from Normal to Screen.

02 COPY AND PASTE IT IN

Hit Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all of your first

image, Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy it and Ctrl/

Cmd+W to close it. Now back in the

triptych template hit Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste

it in. As you can see it needs to be resized.

05 TIDY IT UP

If your image is coming through another

part of the template tidy this area up. Grab

a hard-edged Eraser Tool from the toolbox,

set the Opacity to 100% and brush over

the offending area.

03 RESIZE IT

Press Ctrl/Cmd+T to put your image into

Free Transform Mode to resize it. Hold

Shift and drag the corners of the bounding

box to resize it so that it’s large enough to

fill the first window and hit Return.

06 REPEAT

With the first window filled you now need

to open up your other two images in the

series and repeat the same previous steps

to make them appear in the tritych to

finish off your work.

HOW TO USE YOUR FREE TRIPTYCH TEMPLATES

Use Photoshop Elements and your free start images to give your portraits a narrative

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number, and that is

certainly the case

with our Photoshop

Elements tutorial this

month, where you’ll

discover how to create

an eye-catching triptych

photograph using three

separate images.

You’ll need three pictures tied

together with a similar theme,

such as our portrait. In our case,

all three shots are close-up details

of her portrait: her face, hands

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the images in the Resources folder

if you want to experiment with

the technique before heading out

to take your own trio of pictures.

Also in the Resources folder

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templates that work in Elements

and Photoshop CC, so just pick

one you like the look of and add

your images in to make your very

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Let’s get started...

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