Shapes Tool Collage Photoshop and Photography

This project must be done with a photograph that is personal to you. 

It can be a photograph you took yourself or one of family/friends/pets!

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Step 1:

• File
  • New
    • Width: 20
      • Height: 20
        • Resolution: 150
          • Background: White

Step 2:

• File
  • Place Embedded
    • Choose the photograph you want to use for this project.  Remember that it MUST be a photograph from your world or photograph you took

Step 3:

• Make the photograph go to the edge of the white background
  • You will have white around the edges depending if you have a verticle or horizontal image

Step 4a:

• Right click on the Shape tool to pick a shape (I will be using a square in the project)

Step 5:

• At the top of Photoshop below Select/Filter
  • Fill: Can be any color
    • Stroke: White
      • 6 – 9pt (depending on how thick you want the boarder of the shapes to be)

Step 6:

• Draw the shape somewhere on your photograph
  • Do NOT make it to big or to small

Step 7:

• Make sure you are on the Shape layer
  • Click the fx at the bottom of Layers
    • Pick Blending Options

Step 8:

• Click to Select:  Stroke
  • Opacity 100%
• Do NOT click ok

Step 9:

• Click :  Drop Shadow
  • Blend Mode:  Multiply
    • Opacity: 50%
      • Distance: 30px
        • Spread: 50%
          • Size: 20px

Step 10:

• You will now be duplicating this shape
  • Click on Rectangle 1 Layer
    • Click  Control  J
      • This will duplicate the shape

Step 11:

• Select the move tool
  • Move the duplicated shape to another spot on the photograph

Step 12:

• Click on Rectangle 1 Layer Copy
  • Click
    • Control  J
      • This will duplicate the shape again
        • Move the duplicated shape to another spot

Step 13:

• Click on Rectangle 1 Layer Copy 2
  • Click
    • Control J
• This will duplicate the shape again
  • Move the duplicated shape to another spot
• Continue to Copy and move the shape until you have at Least 11 shapes
  • You may do more shapes if you’d like
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Step 14:

• You will now be duplicating the photograph
  • Click on Layer with your main photograph
    • Click
      • Control  J
        • This will duplicate the Photograph

Step 15:

• Click on the Copied photograph

Step 16:

• Move the Copied Photograph Layer
  • UPOVE the first shape
    • This will cause the shape to disappear

Step 16:

• Click on the Copied photograph
  • click Control J
    • This will copy the photograph again

Step 17:

• Move the copied photograph
  • UPOVE the second shape
    • This will cause the second shape to disappear

Step 18:

• Continue to copy the main photograph
  • move it ubove each of the shapes until they are all gone

Step 19:

• Click on the top layer on the layers pallet
  • This should be a copy of the main photograph
• Right click
  • Create Clipping Mask
    • Only the outline and shadow of the box will be left

Step 20:

• Click on the next main photograph layer
  • Right click on it
    • Create Clipping Mask
      • The outline will be left

Step 21:

• Continue on each photograph layer until you have all 11 shapes with the outlines showing

Step 22:

• Unclick the eyeball for the second layer (the main photograph)
  • Everything but the shapes will disappear

Step 23:

• Pick a background color that will match your photograph
  • If you want to use white you can do that also
• Go to
  • Google- Images
    • Texture Backgrounds + Color
      • Save the image you’d like to use

Step 24:

• Go to
  • File
    • Place Embedded

Step 25:

• Click on the Background Layer (bottom layer)
• Go to
  • File
    • Place Embedded

Step 26:

• The colored Background should be behind the shapes
  • If it is not, move the color background so it is below all the shapes on the layer pallets
• Crop out any extra areas

• Make the Background fit behind your shapes
• Crop out any extra areas