[Jewls]

Hi all,

I was thumbing through the most recent issue of Digital Scrapbooking, and on page 104, there is a collage of all the same photos. I am using Photoshop CS2 and thought I'd be able to do this tutorial, but I'm at a loss.

I have gotten as far as step 4 where it calls to "Select original photograph layer and apply Layer>Group with Previous command. I have searched everywhere on my Photoshop CS2 and I cannot find this option. Can anyone help, or does anyone have a better, more clear tutorial to explain the Photo Stacking Technique?

Thanks!

[PBarnes]

Julie, I don't have CS but you should find LAYER up along the very top of the screen in the line that has FILE, EDIT, SELECT, ect. Click on that and you will get a drop down menu. Group with Previous is down the list a ways. You can do the same thing with the short cut CNTRL+G. HTH

[Jewls]

PBarnes, on Aug 1 2007, 11:03 AM, said:

Julie, I don't have CS but you should find LAYER up along the very top of the screen in the line that has FILE, EDIT, SELECT, ect. Click on that and you will get a drop down menu. Group with Previous is down the list a ways. You can do the same thing with the short cut CNTRL+G. HTH

I found layer, but there isn't Group with Previous anywhere that I'm seeing. Its driving me CRAZY!! LOL

[ruralscrapper]

Julie, I think if you just use the Control G command it should group it together anyways. You can try that command and if that doesn't work properly then just Crtl + Shift+ G and it will ungroup them. HTH

[LissaD]

Actually what they are doing here is making a template first, by using the black filled selections. Then to get your picture to fill the shape, you use CTRL G in Photoshop Elements, which is what a lot of these tutorials are written in. In PSCS2 you are actually using a clipping mask, the keyboard shortcut is CTRL ALT G, or you can right click to the right of your thumbnail in the layers palette and choose create clipping mask. THis essetianlly clips your photo to your shape that you made and rotated to get that stacked look.

I hope that helps. It is a fun look to do. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[mickelle]

Jewls,

Melissa's right on the money, as far as I can tell. It sounds to me like they're working with an old version of PS, or are so used to the older version of PS that they're forgetting about the changes made to CS2.

The "Layer>Group with Previous" command is from PS7. It really is just a "clipping mask." If you want to find out more about clipping masks, I'd just google it or play around with it in PS... and come back with any questions you have! Someone here (like Melissa) is bound to be able to help out!