VIDEO: Create Photo Collages in GIMP

Make photo collages

In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to create creative and vivid photo collages with the GIMP photo editor. Use particularly creative minds Gimpto conjure up a complete picture of art from the combination of images.

1. Choose your personal snapshots that you want to create a collage. Many can pictures be of different sizes and even of different shapes.
2. Start the digital image processing program "GIMP" on your computer.
3. Create a new picture in the program that will serve as a work surface. Choose your preferred size for the surface, for example 500 x 500 pixels.
4. Open your first picture that you want to appear in your photo collage.


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5. Click on your preferred layer of the new image in the layer dialog and drag and drop it into your previously created work surface.
6. Repeat this step until you have all of them photosthat you want to use in your collage.
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7. Each image should remain on its own level so that they can be edited individually. You should therefore use the XCF format for intermediate storage.
8. Since all of your images are now on separate layers, they can be edited individually. You can change the size of the pictures, change the position of the pictures on the work surface, slide them into each other or change the displayed order as you like.
9. Your photo collage is now ready and you can save it as a complete picture. Now you are prepared for more photo collages and can get creative.