Hello, this is Sarah from Naptime Momtog. I am one of the newest writers for Paper Heart Camera. I am so glad to be writing here. I just bought Lightroom 3 while it was on sale and I love it so far. I still have a lot learning to do, but thought I would share how to do collages in Lightroom.
First you want to go to the folder where the photos are located. Once you are there and you have your photos edited and ready you will then go up to Print.
Lightroom has several built in already. I have also find some from this site. If you sign up for her email updates she sends monthly freebies. Anyways you decide what template you want to use. Then you just drag and drop the photo into the boxes.
One thing you do have to watch is make sure it is cropped where you want it. Unlike photoshop I haven't figured out how to drag the photo around to get the area of the photo you want shown.
Then when you are done adding the photos you go to Print to File and save it.
After that I open it in photoshop to resize and watermark it. I just wrote a tutorial on how I do that process here. Here is the final product.
Great tutorial - I still need to play with this. I'm so comfortable doing it in PS that I hate to switch over.
ReplyDeleteI've been using Lightroom for a couple months and have never looked at the print module too much but wish I had! I've been editing in Lightroom and then using Picasa to make collages, which isn't too complicated but it'll be nice to keep everything in one place. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeletethanks Sarah, I've been looking for collage templates for weeks and have just started using LR3, thank you, thank you :)
ReplyDeletegreat tutorial - just one more reason I'm dying to get LR
ReplyDeleteI just love collages. Great tutorial!
ReplyDeleteTo move the photo around in their box, you hold the Ctrl key and then use your pointer / mouse to move.
ReplyDeleteAwesome link to the LR template resource. There are some more at http://lightroomkillertips.com/
Thank you Shirley. So helpful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, thank you for this! I have been wanting to figure this out but haven't had time. This is great ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for posting this!! I use lightroom and I don't think I have ever gone in to the Print area. Thank you Thank you!! I can't wait to start collages.
ReplyDeleteSarah love seeing you here at Chelsey's! I have found a couple of collage templates for LR3 but haven't been fully sold on their usefulness as they are often not in the shape that I want - so I will check out your collage resource - thank you!
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