How to Print Multiple Photos With Different Dimensions on Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a versatile and complex program that allows you to edit and manipulate photos in innumerable ways. Printing multiple photos with different dimensions is one of its most basic functions, and it is very easy to do. Doing this allows you to customize the size of each of your photos. With careful positioning of the different photos on the page, you can also avoid wasting any expensive photo paper.
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Instructions
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Open Adobe Photoshop and open each of the photos you want to print in individual windows. To do this, click on "File" in the upper tool bar, then "Open." Select the first photo you want to print, then click "Open." Repeat this for each photo that you want to print.
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Open a new blank document. To do this, click "File" then "New." In the box that opens, select "Letter" in the menu next to "Preset." If your photo paper is any other size, select the appropriate page size. This blank document represents the page you are going to print.
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Change the dimensions of each of the photos you opened to the size you wish to print. To do this, click "Image" in the upper toolbar, then "Image Size." A box will appear. Enter the dimensions you want for the final photo. Repeat this for each photo.
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Click on the blank letter-size page to bring it to the front of the window. You should still be able to see the photo pages in the background. Click on the "Move Tool" which is represented by a solid black arrow with compass points next to it.
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Click in the middle of one of the photos with the Move Tool, hold the mouse button down and drag it across the screen into the blank letter-size page. Release the mouse button and the photo should copy into the page. Repeat this with the other photos, dragging them onto remaining blank spots in the page. You are going to rearrange them next, so don't worry if they are scattered over the page haphazardly.
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Find the "Layers" tab in a palette on the left-hand side of the window. To move the photos, select the layer represented by an icon of the photo you wish to move, then use the "Move Tool" to click and drag the photo into position. To switch to another photo, click on the appropriate layer first. If all your photos do not fit on one page, you will have to create additional letter-size pages.
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When your photos are in position on the page, print it using the printer settings recommended on the packaging for your photo paper.
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Tips & Warnings
Some printers can not print all the way up to the edges of a sheet of paper. If your computer displays the message "one or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page" or something similar when you try to print it, rearrange the photos and re-size them if necessary so that there are narrow margins on the edges of the page.
References
- Photo Credit map collage image by Allyson Ricketts from Fotolia.com
