This document provides an introduction to layering and collage in Photoshop. It defines layers as transparent sheets that can be positioned, with opacity adjusted, to composite multiple images. Collage is described as collecting pictures into a single image by cutting/trimming and blending. Examples shown include Taylor Swift music videos using double exposure and TV shows using maps. Readers are then instructed to take landscape, portrait, and texture photos on their mobile devices to create a layered collage in Photoshop next week.

1. Introduction to
layering and
collage in photo-
shop

2. What is layering?
Photoshop layers are like sheets of stacked
acetate. You can see through transparent
areas of a layer to the layers below. You
move a layer to position the content on the
layer, like sliding a sheet of acetate in a
stack. You can also change the opacity of a
layer to make content partially transparent.
Photoshop layers representation
Transparent areas on a layer let you see
layers below.
You use layers to perform tasks such as
compositing multiple images, adding text to
an image, or adding vector graphic shapes.
You can apply a layer style to add a special
effect such as a drop shadow or a glow.

3. Yes, but what about
Collage?
Can anyone tell me what they think collage means?

4. Traditional Collage Examples
A photo collage is a collection of pictures that are put together to make a single picture. The traditional
art involved cutting pictures into pleasing shapes or trimming out specific images for placement, but
digital photo manipulation opens many new possibilities, including blending images to make a
seamlessly realistic picture.

5. Double Exposure
Collage Using
Photoshop
layering

6. Maps
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Can you think of anywhere you may have seen these images in photography or film?

7. Yes, you guessed it, or maybe you did’nt.
If not, think about a TV show or music video you may have seen.

8. Example
Two
Taylor Swift
Music video
Example
One
Christoph
Rielander
Website
Example
Three
True
Blood
TV show

9. A picture is
worth a thousand
words
A complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image, namely making it possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly. Collages work in this way to convey a theme or idea/concept that you wish to
consider. This could also come in the form of a graphic narrative.
Image can also find a placement with text in the form of poetry or a quote to visualise a feeling or concept.

10. YOUR TASK

11. The process is
easy
1.
Take a minimum of 3
photographs
2.
Edit photographs into
a layered collage.
3.
Finish final image and
evaluate the process.

12. Step one taking photographs.
In todays lesson you will be taking photographs on your
mobile devices. By the end of todays lesson YOU MUST
HAVE
1. 1 Landscape
2. 1 Portrait
3. 1 Texture photograph

13. You will
finish with
an image
similar to
this. -->
Place your screenshot here

14. Place your screenshot
here
This project is
an iPhone or
Android
project
If you do not have a camera phone you
must let your lecturer know.

15. Place your screenshot here
Once you
have your
final
images
You will upload them to your edu-blogs page a write about
todays lesson and what you are going to use the images
for next week.

16. Place your screenshot here
Next Week
Next week we will take the images into photo-shop and
begin compositing our images to create a collage using
photo-shop layers similar to those we have seen today. If
you would like to take images over the week or bring in
any images you have already taken please feel free to do
so. Check your images are good enough to use. Image
quality is important for this project.

17. Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find us at cbaker@camre.ac.uk or lsands@camre.ac.uk