Gimp: photo collages create
Gimp is a very well-known and immediately free image editing program that is very complex images can create, including photo-collages.
- Create a new image: in the beginning you have to create a new blank image. To do this, click in the menu bar on "file" -> "New". Choose a suitable size. If you want to print the photo Collage on a Poster, you can specify the dimensions in centimeters. To do this, change the Format from "pixels" to "centimeters".
- Background: If you want to specify a certain color as the Background, click in the left tool bar, click the background color, and select the appropriate color. Then click in the menu bar "edit" -> "With the background color fill".
- Insert images: you can insert all images at the same time, you need to open this as a layer. Thus, it is later possible to edit each image separately. Click in the menu bar on "file" -> "As a level, open...". Then select all images that you wish to have on your photo Collage and click "Open". Gimp automatically creates for each image a new level - the layers are all on top of each other.
- Size change: next, you need to scale the levels. To do this, click with the right mouse button in the right-hand layers window, click the appropriate image and then click "scale layer...". Select a suitable size. Repeat this step for each image or for each level.
- Positioning images: finally, you will need to bring the images to the right place. You can do this with the "Move"tool.
Gimp: photo-Collage.
