Craft Coach

%} I do a lot of mosaic work and PS has helped me a great deal in laying out the mosaic. However, I end up printing each mosaic section on a separate sheet of paper. How do I create sections of a mosaic and then get multiple sections to print on one sheet of paper?

Thank you for your help!

Rantin Al

Hiya Craft Coach, welcome to the board.

Do you mean multiple prints of the same image tile?
If so you could try the File > Automate > Picture Package.

This allows you to maximize paper use when printing small images by tiling a single image over the available print area.

Just pick the appropriate print size / number in the Package window.

Al.

Craft Coach

Well, I am not sure. Picture an image that has been divided up into 12 equal segments. Each segment is a portion of the overall picture yet, each segment is different from any other segment. So, in reality, they are each a different image. I would like to be able to take two or three of those segments and print them on the same sheet of paper, then repeat the process for the next two or three segments and so on.

Rick

This is a very good question, I don't know the answer but I sure would like to. There are many times I would like to print 4 different pictures on the same page ( I'm not cheap but why waste paper) and have not been able yet to do that.

I will watch this thread with interest.

I think that Mark might have a solution, however at the present time he is recovering from a HDD crash, but he will be along soon I'm sure

What I have done for now is to import the pictures into a Word document and print from there. Only problem of course is the loss of picture quality [confused] [confused]

Bacardi

Sorry if I didn't understand exactly what you mean, but:

When you take the rectangular selection tool and select your first "element",

then, whilst holding shift select your second, third etc untill you have selected all you want to print

Ctrl/Cmd + C to copy the selection to the clipboard
Ctrl/Cmd + V to paste it unto a new layer

uncheck all the eye icons except the one of the layer with the selection so that only that one is visible

and then choose Print with preview
you only print what you selected.


Is it this you are looking for?

Bacardi

As for printing four pictures on one sheet of paper, there is Al's method, or:

* Open a new document of the size of your sheet of paper
* Open your picture in PS
* With the pic active, press (on mac Ctrl means CMD)
-Ctrl+A to select all
-Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard
* Activate the sheet size doc, and paste (Ctrl+V) four times your picture from the clipboard. All four will be on different layers. Activate each one, and drag them as you wish to make your lay out (you can use snap here!)
* When all is well and you feel happy about the lay out, then activate the bottom (sheet) layer, hold down controlwhilst clicking on its icon in the layers palette to select all, then go to Image>Crop. This way you get rid of the surplus that is outside your canvas and adds to your filesize.

You can flatten if you wish to do so, and print with preview.

Not the most elegant method, but it works.
Al's is more up to date.

Hercules

Eric that is how I would do it too.

Tutorial you can find here:

http://www.geocities.com/roberthaus/print/

Craft Coach

Thank you all for the wonderful ideas!