How to Set Up Your Digital Collage in Photopea

Today’s essential question: How can I set up my digital collage in Photopea?

How to Set Up Your Digital Collage in Photopea

1. Go to Photopea.com
2. Click “New Project”
   
3. Name the Project so it has your name on it, Select “Instagram,” and hit “Create”:
4. Go to File -> Open and Place and place the picture of your hero:
   
5. Continue using File -> Open and Place to insert your other images
6. Use the move tool to move images into their correct location

How to Make Objects Smaller or rotate them

1. Go to Edit-> Free Transform to scale and rotate objects as necessary
   Note: Do not make objects larger. This will cause them to pixelate and become blurry.

How to Duplicate Objects

1. To duplicate an image, Go to Layer-> Duplicate Layer:
   

How to save your images:

1. Click File -> Save as PSD (This will automatically save your image with layers to your downloads folder)
2. Upload the PSD to the Google Classroom Assignment

How to touch up images in Photopea

Today’s essential question: How can I use Photopea to touch up awkward images that I want to use in my collage?

Several of you have submitted images that are awkwardly cropped, like the example below. Notice how the example next to it will give you more design options when you start creating your collage:

It will even allow you to duplicate and transform your images to create unity and have a high degree of control over the design:

How to adjust awkward images in Photopea

1. Go to Photopea.com
2. Open the image (File -> Open)
3. Click on the eraser tool and erase everything except for one individual flower or leaf.

 

How to Use the Crop Tool to Remove Excess Space

1. Click on the crop tool and drag it to select the part of your image that you would like to keep:
   
2. Press enter to crop your image:
   

How to save your images:

1. Click File -> Save as PSD (This will automatically save your image with layers to your downloads folder)
2. Upload the PSD to the Google Classroom Assignment