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<p>[QUOTE="benhur767, post: 2953114, member: 36818"]Thank you. To make the images the correct relative sizes, I kept the camera in the same position — the same distance — when shooting each coin so that all the raw images are sized correctly relative to one another right from the camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make the 'tray' image, I used the composite images I had already made to show the obverse and reverse of each coin. For these I had to crop them, orient them, sharpen and color correct them, remove the backgrounds, and position them. Then I had to reduce the size of these images to fit in the canvas area for the 'tray' image.</p><p><br /></p><p>The key to making it easy was to reduce all the images by the same amount before dragging them onto the new Photoshop document. I determined that reducing all by 25% would work well for the size of the image I was producing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="benhur767, post: 2953114, member: 36818"]Thank you. To make the images the correct relative sizes, I kept the camera in the same position — the same distance — when shooting each coin so that all the raw images are sized correctly relative to one another right from the camera. To make the 'tray' image, I used the composite images I had already made to show the obverse and reverse of each coin. For these I had to crop them, orient them, sharpen and color correct them, remove the backgrounds, and position them. Then I had to reduce the size of these images to fit in the canvas area for the 'tray' image. The key to making it easy was to reduce all the images by the same amount before dragging them onto the new Photoshop document. I determined that reducing all by 25% would work well for the size of the image I was producing.[/QUOTE]
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