Pete, many years ago (12 to be exact) I followed these instructions to make a large poster. It worked a treat and My friends still have the poster on their wall. If I was doing it now I would substitute Photos for iPhoto.
cheers, robin THE INSTRUCTIONS Step 1. Make a new iPhoto Album. Fill it with the 98 photos you want in your poster. Try to pick photos with lots of different colors. If you pick all indoor florescent light photos your poster is going to look like crap. Step 2. Crop all the photos landscape with the crop tool constrained to "4 x 3 (DVD)". While you are in edit mode make sure to use the new "Adjust" dashboard built into iPhoto 5 to give your photos great color and contrast. Step 3. Go the the "File" menu and select "Page Setup...". Click the "Settings" popup and select "Custom Paper Size". Click the "New" button and then name this paper size "Life Poster". Set the paper height as 30", the width as 20" and change the top and bottom margins to 0 leaving the left and right at 0.25 then click "OK". Step 4. Go to the "File" menu and select "Print.." Click the "Style" popup and select "Contact Sheet". Set the "Across" slider at 7 and make sure to check the "Save paper" box. Now, instated of clicking print, click "Save As PDF...". Saving will take a few minutes since it is saving out 98 full sized photos. Step 5. Open the PDF file you just saved in Photoshop. When it is opening it will ask you what size you would like to open the PDF at. Set the DPI to 200 and then click "OK". Go to the File menu and click "Save As...", click on the "Format" menu and select TIFF then click "Save". Step 6. Find the TIFF file you just saved and import it into iPhoto by dragging it onto the window. Step 7. Select the poster file you just imported and the click "Order Prints" from the action bar at the bottom of the window. Add one 20x30 print to you order and then click "Buy Now”. > On 26 Mar 2017, at 6:39 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > There is no provision for collages in Photos. But you can create collages in > the Pages application. Just drag the photos you want into the Pages layout, > resize and put where you want it. > > I have cf/x collage PRO installed and created many photo collages a few years > ago. I haven't tested it in Sierra though, but since you have jogged my > memory, I will test it when I can find some spare time. > > cf/x collage PRO is a highly specialized application for a specific purpose: > it allows you to quickly create, edit, and export high-quality photo collages. > > http://cfxsoftware.com/products/collage-pro/ > <http://cfxsoftware.com/products/collage-pro/> > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 25 Mar 2017, at 5:29 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au > <mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au>> wrote: > >> Folks, I am trying to create a collage in Photos and had a bit of a Google >> and browse around the app and Help in Photos to which no apparent quick way >> to do it. >> >> Has anyone figured the easiest way to do collages on the Mac? Within Picasa >> on my Windows machine it's all built in and very easy but not immediately >> apparent on the Mac. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Pete > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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