KALEIDOSCOPE

  1. 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.
  2. Open up Photoshop cs2
  3. Create new image:
    1. Size: 10 width, 8 height in inches
    2. Resolution: 300 pixels/inch
  1. Open the selected flower or plant
  2. CTRL + to zoom in, CTRL – to zoom out
  3. Copy the flower or plant by using the “Rectangular marquee tool”.
    1. Highlight the entire area
    2. Select the “move tool”
    3. Move the select flower or plant to the new work space.
  1. The image should be large. In order to make it smaller:
    1. CTRL T and CTRL – to be able to see the outline of the plant or flower
    2. Hold the shift key when you are making the plant or flower smaller and keeps the image proportionate.
  1. Create three more copies on the same canvas making sure you keep them all the same size.
    1. Locate the layers pallet to the right. On the bottom there is an icon of a trash can.
    2. Just to the left of the icon is a square Icon that says crate a new layer.
    3. Drag Layer 1 to that icon three times and then spread out all the images into a square
    4. 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.
    5. Flip and rotate your image
      1. Top left leave alone
      2. Top right flip horizontally by going to Edit, transform, flip horizontally, vertically and rotate.
      3. Bottom left flip verticallY
      4. Bottom right rotate 180 degrees
      5. Each one needs to be nudged. Do this by holding the shift key when pressing the directional arrow.
    6. Crop the white areas
    7. Flatten the entire image: In the menu bar, click on Layer and click on flatten
    8. Copy the entire image by dragging the background copy to “create a new layer”
    9. “CTRL – T
    10. Rotate 90 degrees
    11. Change opacity to 50% to 60% as you like it
    12. Crop the final image
    13. Save in flower and plant folder as a kaleidoscope jpg.