My Process for Creating Handmade Photo Collage Designs

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what's going on everybody so i hope you
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enjoyed that quick little montage
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of our photo collages and graphic design
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pieces
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um so recently i've been super inspired
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by
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a lot of magazine type editorial work
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and
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just a lot of graphic designers and
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photographers that are using like
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collages and things like that in their
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work
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on instagram or just in newspapers
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whatever really so
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i've been just kind of intrigued by that
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and wanting to figure out how i can
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bridge the gap and do that with my work
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as well
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so i've just been playing around with
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printing out photos
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looking through magazines ripping stuff
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out that i think is cool
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stuff like that just to try and create
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new um
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just new new uh new new life for my work
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that i've already created
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and yeah it's really been helping me out
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just see differently think differently
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and communicate differently as well i
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think that's one of the biggest things
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with art
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and you know designer or whatever really
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that any any type of creativity like the
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whole thing is about communication and
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so yeah the graphic design has really
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helped me communicate what i'm trying to
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communicate through my work
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and today i'm just going to be going
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through a quick little process on how i
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actually create these photo collages
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and these um handmade designs so let's
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just go ahead and get into it
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all right so usually when i
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start doing these i print them out i
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edit the photos first
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and then after that what i'll do is i'll
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print them out
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just usually two on a page if i don't
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need
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um them to be as big usually i'll do
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four or eight or even more but
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after i get them printed out into two
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per page
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i will usually cut them straight in half
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get them
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separated just so i can have an
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individual and then i can play around
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with them
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for this batch i printed pretty much
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every photo with
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one black and white version and one
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color version just so i had
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some ability to mix and match
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kind of like with this one right here
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just so that i can have the exact same
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photo in a little different variation
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and i also printed photos that were
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pretty similar to each other as you can
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tell like
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these two right here i'm pretty sure
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they're different they look very very
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similar
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but it's just a little bit of a
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different pose just in case i want to
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collage those two together as well so to
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get started let's just go ahead and cut
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these out
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and what i usually like to do after this
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is just
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take a look at the two now that you
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don't have the border in it
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really just start to just look at it and
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think i think that's a big stuff people
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forget to do
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and just jump into it but so after i
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have
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the the prints that i want to use
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sometimes i'll make collages like this
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that are freehand or
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you know without a base but i
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also like doing it just on a on a paper
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base just so that i have
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a one kind of stable background for it
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because a lot of times
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these ones will end up getting just
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ripped up or misplaced or whatever just
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or separated even just because they're
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not
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pieced together properly
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and it all just depends on how kind of
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what you want to do um
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obviously for something like this i just
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ripped the one the top page
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and then taped it on usually for all my
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tape i use
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just some simple white gaffing tape or
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um even just blue scotch tape masking
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tape
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and then for things like
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this for things like this piece right
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here i'll usually just use
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some some postage tape because it's
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clear
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it's easy i kind of i actually like the
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texture of
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the the shininess when i scan it in
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it adds a cool effect to it makes you
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can tell the difference between
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the flatness of the paper and then the
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shininess of the tape
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so i do like that as an effect and it
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just does well for
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holding everything together up as you
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can see this is all
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individual cut out pieces
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but it still stays together with the
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tape which i really like so
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maybe we'll use that for this
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so let's just go ahead and rip this coat
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i'll rip both of them at the same time
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just to see what we can get out of it
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see i like the way even for this like i
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was talking about before
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the difference in the poses here her
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eyes aren't looking at you here they are
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so maybe i'll add this as a background
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element of it
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this could actually look pretty cool
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that way you get kind of that oh she's
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looking at you she's not
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yeah i like to look at this actually
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let's do
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let's use i like just adding tons of
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different stuff so let's just start
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drawing on this one
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see we can get out of it oops
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all right so that looks good i like that
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as is but i think it could have some
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more
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so let's add this to it
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what was it i think it was this actually
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[Music]
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although you can't see your hand in this
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one so let's use this
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um that looks perfect
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now i'm kind of debating on if i want to
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use the clear tape
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or let's use a little bit of both
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actually some of the ifing tape
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[Music]
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and i kind of want to do maybe one
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stroke of this
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usps like postage tape just for the
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texture of it
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even got the edge of the tape rolling
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i think this is pretty cool though
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honestly i like the
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the mix of the tape the crayon the
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prints
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all of it kind of pieced together to
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really make one
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good um just
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i i for me i think it's good for
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communication i think this says a lot
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more
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than say just this one plain image right
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even this image as a printed physical
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copy me holding it
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showing it to you i think it might seem
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a little better than it is
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really this is just a standard photo my
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big reason for doing this i want to just
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bring all the pieces together bring all
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the ideas together and
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get it on paper no pun intended but
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i really enjoyed showing you how i
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create these
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cool scanned or cool handmade
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photo collages if you have any questions
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feel free to leave them in the comments
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below
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also be sure to check out the model that
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i used in this
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this photo collage her name's ren taylor
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i'll link her below in the description
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she has awesome work make sure you go
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check her out
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and yeah other than that thanks so much
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for watching i hope you enjoyed
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and peace out

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