Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

CROP CREATIVELY for a diptych, triptych, or quadriptych
Artwork comprised of two or more photographs,
drawings, or paintings normally involves changing
width and height, resolution, cropping, and
mathematical calculations. With Photoshop, you can
easily create such art pieces without any math. The
images can be of different sizes and even have
different aspect ratios.
You select images whose colors and tone or subject
matter will complement each other. Using the Crop
tool and a custom size and resolution preset, you crop
each image. You then create one document with the
different images on layers and move each layer to
position it on the final art piece. You can place the
images two up, three up, or four up both horizontally
or vertically. You can add space between the images,
and you can add more canvas all around the artwork
as a whole.
The following task uses four images to create a
quadriptych. You can also create diptychs and triptychs
by moving one image layer to one side or the other.
Start by opening the four images, and tile them across
the screen by clicking Window ➪ Arrange ➪ Tile.
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1 Click the Crop tool.
2 Click Delete Cropped Pixels
( changes to ).
3 Click the drop-down menu and select
Size and Resolution.
4 Type the settings for width, height,
and resolution in the dialog box that
appears.
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5 Click Save as Crop Preset ( changes
to ) and click OK.
6 Type a name for the crop preset in the
dialog box and click OK.
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7 Click the first image.
8 Click and drag in the image to adjust
the crop area.
9 Press Return (Enter) to apply the crop.
0 Repeat steps 7 to 9 for each additional
image to adjust the dimensions.
! Click the Move tool.
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@ Shift+click and drag one image onto
another image.
# Close the file for the image you just
dragged.
$ Repeat steps 12 and 13 for the other
images until all the images are layered
onto one file.
% Click Window ➪ Application Frame so
that the workspace fills the open space
if necessary.
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