How To Create Polaroid Collage Effect in Photoshop

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in this tutorial i used  CS6 Photoshop.

1.  Open your image that you want to make a Polaroid Effects

• go to>File>Open> and browse the image.

2. Duplicate your image.

• Layer>Duplicate Layer or simply "CTRL + J"
• refer to the image below.

3. Create layer( place it between the two image) and  fill it to color Blue or any color that you want.

• to add layer go to> layer>new>layer or simply "CTRL + SHIFT + N"
• to add fill go to edit>fill or simply "SHIFT + F5"
• under use select color and pick a color and click ok. refer to the image below.

4. Add another Layer above the Layer 2.

• Layer>new>layer

5. Create a Marquee Tool 

• to create marquee tool click m or simply refer to the image.
  
• drag or create a rectangle shape, this would be the image in your Polaroid refer to the image.

6.   Fill with background color.

• under layer 3 click ALT + BACK SPACE this will fill with background color, it should be looks like this  in the image 3.

7. Create Clipping Mask, this time select the layer 1 and create it to a clipping mask.

• to create a Clipping Mask go to>Layer>Create Clipping Mask or Simply "Ctrl + Alt + G"
• after creating Clipping Mask, the image should like this.

8.  Add another layer to the top of  layer 2, this would be the frame of your Polaroid.

• Layer>New>Layer.
• Create another Marquee Tool and Fill it to color white, go to step 3 on how to add fill color.
• After Filling into a color while this would be the image

• Click CTRL + D to Deselect

9. Creating Drop Shadow to the Layer 4, this would add a frame shadow to your Polaroid.

• Adding Drop Shadow right click layer 4> Click Blending Option>check the drop shadow or Simply Click the FX icon and click the Drop Shadow you can also adjust the Shadow.
  

10. Group the 3 Layers (Layer1,Layer3,Layer4)

• grouping the 3 layers>hold the SHIFT while clicking the Layer1,Layer3 and Layer4 refer to the image and Click "Ctrl + G" to Group

11. Duplicate The Group1 and Add another Collage.

• To Duplicate the Group 1 Simply Click "Ctrl + J"
• Click the Group 1 to Unhide the layer

• Hold the Layer 3 and layer 4 in the "Group1 copy" and move the layer and place it into what ever you want refer to the image below..

12. Repeat the Step 11,it depends to you on how many duplicate that you made, you can also Rotate it by placing the mouse into the side of the image until the cursor mouse change into rotate cursor.

13 After Repeating the Step 11,This is The Final Result.

14. to save the file as PNG

• File>Save as>under format click .png and click save..