Sweet 16 Collage

[Falon]

Hey Damien I'm wanting to create something similar to the attached picture also looking at getting it printed and framed for my daughter. can you help to refresh my mind on how to do this

[Damien Symonds]

I guess you'd put the numbers layer first, then clip all the photo layers to it.

[Falon]

Can you link me to the pen tool practice test again. I am creating it from scratch and having so much trouble with the 6

[Damien Symonds]

https://bezier.method.ac/

[Falon]

How is this?

[Damien Symonds]

Nice.  Are you going to add the stroke and the drop shadow too?

[Falon]

I will give it a go and see what it looks like

[Damien Symonds]

Just select the 16 layer, then go to Fx at the bottom of the Layers panel.

[Falon]

The 6 isn't the best where it rounds on the inside and its really noticeable when i put the stroke on it. Is there any way of fixing it now?

[Falon]

I just realised its not coming up on here only when I open the jpeg file on my computer to look at it so I can view with the white background and not the transparent in ps. it also looks fine in the 100% crop should I just ignore it.

[Damien Symonds]

7 minutes ago, Falon said:

The 6 isn't the best where it rounds on the inside and its really noticeable when i put the stroke on it. Is there any way of fixing it now?

Of course, just select the path then modify it.

[Falon]

This is what I mean the area In the square. Its not there at 100% crop just in the preview jpg file I saved to share to here 

[Damien Symonds]

If it's not visible in Photoshop, it's nothing to worry about.

[Falon]

I will need to resize for printing as when I started it was a blank 8x10. I forget how to do this. Is it just in image size?

[Damien Symonds]

Yeah.

[Falon]

I have resized to A3 (12x16.5 inches) and made sure the resample box was ticked. Is there anything else I need to do before taking it to print. 

[Damien Symonds]

No, that should be it.

[Damien Symonds]

How did it turn out?

[Falon]

So good. She loved it