Then do the same with the mask by selecting the mask thumbnail and moving it around. Select the image thumbnail and move it around. The mask and the image are linked together.Ĭlick on the Link Icon to remove it.
When we move the image on the layer around, the mask will always follow. Step 6īetween the image thumbnail and mask thumbnail there is an icon in the form of a link. Click on the image thumbnail in the layer to switch to working on the image itself. The blue border around the mask thumbnail means that we are currently working on the mask.
Black on a layer mask means that area will be hidden, white means that area will be visible. And when we look at the Layers Palette we see that a black rectangle has appeared in the mask thumbnail. The part that we had selected gets hidden from the document. Open the Edit Menu and choose Fill.Set the color to black a as shown in the image below. This will make the image slightly transparent so we can see the images on the layers below. To help us determine which part of the image we want to hide we can lower the Opacity Slider in the Layers Palette. We select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Tools Palette and make a selection around the part of the image we want to remove. This will add an extra white thumbnail to the layer. Then choose Add Mask from the drop down menu. Make sure the layer with the image of the sheep is selected and Control-Click on it. You should use masks whenever possible, however, as it is non-destructive. Tip: You can also hide parts of an image by making a selection and deleting it, or by using masks. When we release the mouse button the image with the road is on top of all other layers and a part of the left side of the image with the sheep has been hidden from view.
In order to tuck the image under the image of the road we will have to go to the Layers Palette and drag and drop the layer with the image of the road on top of the layer with the image of the sheep. We want to nudge this image in between the two images on the right hand side, and we want to tuck it under the image of the road. Adjust the size of the image by moving the handles and move the image in place.Īdd the fourth image to the document by dragging and dropping it directly from the desktop or a finder window, onto the document window or the layers palette. White handles will appear around the newly added image. Select the Move Tool from the Tools Palette. Step 1Īdd a third image to the document by dragging and dropping it directly from the desktop or a finder window, onto the document window or the layers palette. This is how Pixelmator shows us which part of our document is transparent.īesides adjusting the canvas to make sure that the images will fit into the collage, we can also adjust the image itself. Notice the gray and white checkered pattern on the lower right side of our document. We can now use the Move Tool to move our second image in place. Your settings for the Canvas Size menu should look like those in the image below. By doing this, we indicate where our existing image on the new canvas will be. To make sure the canvas only expands to the right side we'll have to click on the left square in the bottom figure of the Canvas Size menu. We'll leave the Height at 0 since we don't want to change the height of our canvas. Enter the Width of our second image ( 796 pixels). This makes it easier to enter the amount of pixels we want to add to the canvas, instead of calculating ourselves how much the total canvas size has to be. Go to the Image menu and choose Canvas Size.Choose Relative in the Canvas Size menu that appears. When we select the top image with the move tool we get to see the size of the image in the Info Bar. An extra bar appears at the top of our document window. Open the View menu and choose Show Info Bar. We can do this by measuring the width of our second image and adding that to the canvas size. The size of our document, also called the canvas size, is not big enough to put these two images next to one-another.Īssuming we want to place our top image on the right side next to our original image, we need to know how much extra space we have to add to the right side of our current canvas.
You'll notice that the image disappears outside of the borders of our background image. Use the Move Tool to move the top image to the sides. When we look at the Layers Palette we see that the newly added image gets placed on a new layer on top of the original background layer. Adding new images to the current document can be done by dragging and dropping them directly from the desktop, or a finder window onto the document window or the layers palette. Open the first image that you want to use in your collage ( File > Open.). The following photos were used in this tutorial but you can follow along using any photos that you like.
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