How do we stack up many images together

[sanguina]

Here I go

I am a freelancer programmer by profession and PHotoshop is not my forte.

My immediate concern is that I have developed a shopping cart template which has several color variants.

In my promo in want to:
a) stack up say 5 different variant of the theme
b) placed slantingly so that part of each variant is partly visible in the front.


How do i do this ?
Hope I could explain what i want.
thanks a lot.

 

[ibclare]

I think what you are referring to, first of all, is layers. You make a new layer (click icon at bottom of layer panel) for each variant. To make them slant, use keyboard shortcut ctl/cmd + T, then grab the little corner handles and rotate the image, or use the settings at the top to enter specific degrees. You can move the layer positions. Select the layer, hold down the mouse, and just move it. I hope this answers your question and I hope I wasn't talking down to you; didn't intend it. :mrgreen:

 

[sanguina]

Thanks for replying very helpful.

I tried the transform tool - but could not achieve what i wanted to do.

What i aim to achieve is something like this:



The transform tool is good if i want to place each of the images parallel to the screen but the pillows here are not placed parallel but slantingly so as to add a depth.

So my question is how do i take an plain image and place it like a pillow out here.

Thanks again for replying

 

[Dataflow]

shadow on the layer underneath

 

[ibclare]

Again you can use the transform tool in most cases. It would help to see an example of what you have. The transform tool has multiple functions that can slightly change the angles. There is perspective, distort, and warp. You have to practice; I can tell you that. There is also a feature called puppet warp, also under the under the edit menu. It takes a bit more practice to get right, but has more flexibility. But I doubt you'll need that much. Still, we can't advise without having a better idea of what you're are working with.

Dataflow is right also that a shadow will help, but you need to get the correct angles and such, Just remember -- this sounds self-evident -- you can only work with what you've got. If you want to turn an item such as a pillow, you can squash an edge to make it appear turned, but you can't exactly turn it around, lol.

Here's an example:



The shadows on the pillows are all painted on a layer above with a soft brush at different opacities (select the pillow so that the marching ants are present and you can paint sloppily around the edges but the color will only appear inside the selection (if the marching ants bug you - ha - do ctl/cmd + H).

The shadows below the perspective are brushed on. You can see how the layer effects work on the distort. I don't use them for this kind of thing.

 

[db1machine]

ibclare is totally bang-on with her advice. Excellent example with her pillow image as well.

Utilising the transform tool is great, providing all of your image sizes go down with slight changes.

For example...