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00:00:00 – 00:12:56
In the video, Gary from mmos.com demonstrates creating a photo collage using the Freeform app. The app offers a flexible, infinite blank canvas where users can drag and drop images from the Photos app or Finder. Gary illustrates how to move, resize, rotate, crop, and modify photo properties such as shadows and rounded corners. He also demonstrates how to zoom, mask, and frame images within custom shapes and explains layering images for better visual arrangement.
Throughout the video, Gary highlights the importance of grouping elements for easier manipulation and efficient layout management. He shows how to add text, adjust its properties, and integrate it seamlessly into the collage. For output, Gary details how to copy the collage into other applications like Messages or Mail, and how to save the collage as a PDF or JPEG, emphasizing resolution settings to maintain image quality.
Additionally, Gary covers personalizing collages with alternative elements like shapes, arrows, and emoji stickers. The tutorial concludes with a summary of the creative possibilities offered by Freeform and encourages viewers to engage with the content by subscribing for more tutorials.
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In this part of the video, Gary from mmos.com demonstrates how to create a photo collage using the Freeform app. He explains that Freeform provides an infinite blank canvas without predefined page sizes or edges, allowing flexibility in design. To add photos, users can simply drag and drop images from the Photos app or files from Finder into Freeform. Once imported, photos can be moved, resized using corner dots, and rotated by holding the command key. Gary also highlights how to modify photo properties like shadows and rounded corners via the Format menu. Users can apply these changes to multiple photos simultaneously and save these settings as the default style. Additionally, he shows how to crop photos and replace them within the collage frame without repositioning.
00:03:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains how to manipulate images within an app, similar to Pages. They demonstrate zooming, dragging, and cropping an image, including changing the aspect ratio. The speaker also shows how to mask an image using various shapes, like an oval, and explains how to position and resize the image within these shapes. Additionally, they illustrate how to use custom shapes as frames and mask images within them. Finally, the speaker mentions that there is no option to add a border around the images, regardless of the shape used.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the presenter demonstrates creating and manipulating shapes and text for a collage. They first create a second shape and place it on top of the initial shape, adjusting the fill to “no fill” and setting a black border with specific dimensions. The shapes are then grouped for easier manipulation. The presenter adds text by creating a text box, modifies its properties (e.g., color, size, boldness), and positions it on top of an image. They highlight grouping elements for easier rotation and movement while noting that scaling text doesn’t work well. Then, they explain how to create a collage by selecting photos from an album, dragging them into the workspace, and aligning them using snap features. They manage layout layers by bringing elements forward or backward. For aesthetics, they add borders to photos using shapes with customized edges and properties, enhancing the visual separation.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the creator demonstrates how to add text to a photo, adjust its appearance, group elements, and rotate them slightly for a better composition. They show how to copy the entire collage and paste it into other applications like Messages or Mail, emphasizing the importance of selecting the appropriate image size for emails to maintain resolution. The segment further covers saving the collage as a PDF by exporting it directly or as an image by using the print function and selecting ‘open in preview’ to then export as JPEG. The creator also explains adjusting the image resolution and cropping margins in Preview to produce a refined final image.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains how the new design is cropped much tighter and highlights the basics of adding alternative elements like shapes and arrows to point to things with text. They also demonstrate how to add emoji characters using specific key commands and resize them to function as stickers for collages. The segment concludes with a thanks to viewers and a reminder to like the video and subscribe for more tutorials.