: What are some styles for laying out lots of images in a confined space? I'm working on a project that's 11"x17" tall, has the bottom 1/5th reserved for the logo/calendar elements and the top
I'm working on a project that's 11"x17" tall, has the bottom 1/5th reserved for the logo/calendar elements and the top 4/5ths for some sort of collage-esque image.
Basically, I have six photos I need to somehow stylistically position in the top 4/5ths. Most of the photos are vertically-oriented and all are essentially photos of models with mixed-colour backgrounds (I.e., a pain in the butt to mask out).
The initial idea was to erase part of each images background so that it's kind of a collage -- but the further I get into this, the worse it's looking.
Does anybody have any suggestions for either:
a. Fitting a lot of vertical images into a a space coherently
b. Making photo collages look at all professional
Thank you!
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There's always the grid: 3 across, 2 high, with 1/16-1/8" gap between each. Make all photos a uniform size. If you can take it to the edges of the sheet, bleed them at top and L/R (don't know what a bleed is? see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_%28printing%29 ).
Look for large forms or shapes in the poses of the models and try and arrange the photos so the angles seem to flow together across images. Make the models look inwards towards the center of the sheet rather than outwards to the edges if possible.
If you have already silhouetted the images, you can play with the background colors.
If you want to stick with collage, consider going all the way and adding interesting images torn from magazines etc to really layer on detail. You could scan/photograph torn sheets to get a deckled edge which you can use as with a mask to fake the effect.
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