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[ 25 ]› › DOWN & DIRTY TRICKSStep One: As usual, we’ll begin
with a photo. Now, the good thing
about this technique is that it works
with just about any theme. In fact,
at the end, you’ll see an example of
the same effect on a sports image.
Anyway, you can either use multiple
poses of a subject or a single image.
Here I have several poses in the same
image I found on Adobe Stock.
(Note: It doesn’t matter if the poses
are in the same image or not. The
same techniques will apply.)
If you’d like to download the
low-res watermarked version of
this image to follow along, click
this link, log in with your Adobe
ID, and click the Save to Library but-
ton to download it. Double-click
the image in the Libraries panel
(Window>Libraries) to open it in
Photoshop. To make it easier to work
with the image, increase the resolu-
tion of the practice file. (We normally
don’t recommend enlarging images,
but this is only for practice purposes.)
Go to Image>Image Size, turn on
the Re sample checkbox, set Width
to 2000 pixels, and click OK.
Step Two: In this case, I want the center pose to be
the main subject of the final design, so we need to
select and place it in the final composition. Choose
the Rectangle Marquee tool (M) and draw a selection
around the center subject, getting as much of the
background as you can, without selecting the other
subjects. Press Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C) to copy it to
the clipboard.
Step Three: Create a new document to build
the final image. Go to File and choose New or
press Command-N (PC: Ctrl-N). Set the Width
to 1500 pixels and the Height to 2000 pixels. Set
the Background Contents to White, and click OK
or Create.
Ste p Two©Adobe Stock/konradbak