A Collage of Dapper Dans on Main Street USA

Photographic Innoventions by Scott Thomas

The Dapper Dans on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.
The Dapper Dans riding up and singing on Main Street USA.
Collage produced from Apple’s Aperture 3 Software.

In the past I have used Picnik.com to create collages. It is a process were I must first export photos from Aperture 3 to a JPEG file and then upload them into Picnik.com. Picnik.com has preset collage templates which you have some control over. For what I wanted to do with the set of photos of the Dapper Dans I took back in January for an AllEars.net meet, Picnik was not the answer.

In looking for a better way to create this collage, I found a youTube video by Photographer Pete Thorne explaining how to use Aperture 3 and its book function to create multiple photo images. It took me less than five minutes after viewing the video to create the collage you see above. I had a lot of control over the size and placement of each photo. I could add text in hundreds of stylized fonts and place it over, above or next to photos or use an export plug-in to create bordering effects.

This is not an ad for Aperture 3 but you might want to look at the features of the photo editing software you do own. You might be surprised at what it can do. I know I was.

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Scott's "Photographic Innoventions" blog focuses on intermediate to advanced photography concepts and techniques relevant for Point and Shoot and Digital SLR cameras.

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One Reply to “A Collage of Dapper Dans on Main Street USA”

  1. This has nothing to do with what you are helping us with, but….

    At first glance at the Dapper Dan in purple, I thought it was William Shatner (a little younger Will, but still).

    Scott replies: And a much shorter Bill Shatner, too.