#adminl:asks

First off, you open an empty canvas. I usually go with these settings.

I’m going to go with basic collages and only teach the manip that goes in the middle if anyone asks really nicely.

Basically, you open your picture in Photoshop.

Then you use Polygonal Lasso tool to cut the photo around the edges like you’d do with real pictures and scissors. 

It’s alright to cut with a wide border, but I prefer thinner borders because I get to fit more stuff onto the collage. Click Add Layer Mask to remove the unwanted parts.

Once you have the first one done, you just repeat the previous step for all the photos you want. You might have to recolor some images to make them look nice together. Playing with Brightness/Contrast & Vibrance usually does it. Resize the images as you want them and paste in pngs from here.

You don’t have to completely fill the canvas though, so you can add a texture on the background. I use this glitter texture and just play with the colors—paste the image above the Background layer on PS and just adjust the color by selecting the pasted image layer, select Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation & play with the hues.

When everything’s done and pasted in, I put a PSD to make the pictures pop out a little more. Blurred because this edit’s in the queue lol