Printing layout for images in Photoshop and probably most image software

I’m going to concentrate on Photoshop here, but this will also include a method that will work in any image editing software. The aim is to specifically print your image in a designated area of a page. Scroll to the bottom of this to see the really easy way in the latest Photoshop versions.

So in this example we have an A4 printer and say we want to make a greeting card. To keep it simple our card will just be an A4 sheet folded once in half, we have our picture that we want on the front of the card, so how do we make it print on half the A4.

Printing layout for images in Photoshop and probably most image software

Setting sizes for images in Photoshop (and any other image editing software)

There are two important things in ALL image editing software concerning the sizing of your image – Resolution and dimensions. This is not specific to any specific program, it is applicable to all of them.

Firstly these factors depend on how you wish your image to be used. Will it be for the web and only ever exist on screen or will it be printed out?

Setting sizes for images in Photoshop (and any other image editing software)

Mixing black and white layers with colour in Photoshop

A simple tutorial to work on duplicating layers, the eraser tool, hue and saturation, desaturating images (converting to black and white) and a quick look at a blur filter.

Intended as a starting point for novices, to produce very quick results, this will introduce you to some very basic ways to colour correct parts of an image and in the example I show you how to convert an image to black and white but leave a person/object still in colour.

Read the full article on my new blog

How to Photoshop montage quickly and dirty…

Or rather how to lose friends and alienate people…

So you don’t know how to really use Photoshop, but you want to take the piss out of your work mates by placing their head in/on another photo? This is by no means the best way, but it’s certainly one of the quickest and it will introduce you to a world of possibilities I’m sure…

Read the full tutorial on my new blog (and more updated), luckylarry.co.uk