I had the brilliant idea to make a photo collage of Baby Bird to send with my Xmas cards this year. Only problem is that I'm a bit clueless with Photoshop
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I don't use photoshop but paintshop pro, so my advice is of limited use. Personally, I would start out with a biiiiig white canvas and copy/paste images onto it, arranging them into a collage. With both programs you can paste cutouts into a new layer each which means you can move every image around individually without destroying the one underneath in case they overlap.
I can tell you in general that the best resolution you can get is the one the single image is in. So large canvas, copy/paste and if necessary resize to a _smaller_ size will give you the best resolution. Enlarging images will make them worse or simply as bad as they were before. But I'm pretty sure you knew that and it's not really helping...
If your high-res images are not resized to smaller size or res they should not come out worse than the originals. But in that case I have no help to offer since I don't know photoshop enough for that.
Good luck! The idea of a baby collage is beautiful - especially with a subject as pretty as yours.
if you're cutting and pasting into a document, the pasted image will take on the resolution of the current document (i believe that's always true). so if you want to res to be, say 300 (for printing), make sure the document you are pasting into has that resolution before you start pasting.
and use layers as suggested (though if you paste, it will automagically do that for you). remember to flatten it in the end to have a jpg. also, if you're going to have it printed, using cmyk instead of rgb is a good idea.
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Personally, I would start out with a biiiiig white canvas and copy/paste images onto it, arranging them into a collage. With both programs you can paste cutouts into a new layer each which means you can move every image around individually without destroying the one underneath in case they overlap.
I can tell you in general that the best resolution you can get is the one the single image is in. So large canvas, copy/paste and if necessary resize to a _smaller_ size will give you the best resolution. Enlarging images will make them worse or simply as bad as they were before. But I'm pretty sure you knew that and it's not really helping...
If your high-res images are not resized to smaller size or res they should not come out worse than the originals. But in that case I have no help to offer since I don't know photoshop enough for that.
Good luck! The idea of a baby collage is beautiful - especially with a subject as pretty as yours.
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and use layers as suggested (though if you paste, it will automagically do that for you). remember to flatten it in the end to have a jpg. also, if you're going to have it printed, using cmyk instead of rgb is a good idea.
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