- Select two to three flower or plant images that fills ¾ of the page or the full page. You may crop the image if necessary.
- Open up Photoshop cs2
- Create new image:
- Size: 10 width, 8 height in inches
- Resolution: 300 pixels/inch
- Open the selected flower or plant
- CTRL + to zoom in, CTRL – to zoom out
- Copy the flower or plant by using the “Rectangular marquee tool”.
- Highlight the entire area
- Select the “move tool”
- Move the select flower or plant to the new work space.
- The image should be large. In order to make it smaller:
- CTRL T and CTRL – to be able to see the outline of the plant or flower
- Hold the shift key when you are making the plant or flower smaller and keeps the image proportionate.
- Create three more copies on the same canvas making sure you keep them all the same size.
- Locate the layers pallet to the right. On the bottom there is an icon of a trash can.
- Just to the left of the icon is a square Icon that says crate a new layer.
- Drag Layer 1 to that icon three times and then spread out all the images into a square
- In the upper right hand corner check to box that says “Auto Select Layer”. This allows you to move to each layer without moving through the Layers pallet.
- Flip and rotate your image
- Top left leave alone
- Top right flip horizontally by going to Edit, transform, flip horizontally, vertically and rotate.
- Bottom left flip verticallY
- Bottom right rotate 180 degrees
- Each one needs to be nudged. Do this by holding the shift key when pressing the directional arrow.
- Crop the white areas
- Flatten the entire image: In the menu bar, click on Layer and click on flatten
- Copy the entire image by dragging the background copy to “create a new layer”
- “CTRL – T
- Rotate 90 degrees
- Change opacity to 50% to 60% as you like it
- Crop the final image
- Save in flower and plant folder as a kaleidoscope jpg.