14 Collage to Landscape

BillGebhardt wrote: I am familiar with cropping an image. What I want to do is; open edit, then expert, then pull down create and click on Collage, and change that Green 8x10 green sheet (with all those silly frames) from portrait to landscape, I would also like to get rid of all those &%@#*@ "frames" without having to delete them each time I do a collage and even change the green color. Bill

Bill,

This is a case where you should really try to do the collage manually. So much quicker than the guided way!

You create your canvas freely in the 'expert' view.

You open the various files necessary for your background and collage items all at once in the photobin.

You select them all in the photo bin, right click and choose 'minimize'

You select the canvas and move each component individually from the photobin to the canvas. The components will be added as layers over the canvas. They will be shown as 'smart' layers, meaning you are working with all the pixels of each original component; no quality loss when resizing, rotating...

Now you'll have to deal with each layer individually; resizing, rotating, changing the order in the layer stack, adding borders and layer styles... (tip: you may prefer to uncheck the 'autom select layers').

Another tip: as soon as you have resized each layer approximately, 'simplify' to have access to all edits... and to avoid saving a huge psd file storing every component in original size...