I am SUPER excited to announce the long anticipated Compositor here on the two photogs blog. Moirai Compositor allows you to combine multiple images into a single perfectly composed layout – ideal for assembling storyboards, creating book or magazine page layouts, or creating photographic collages. Compositor is a replacement for the original “Heart Is Found Storyboard Maker” which I have been using for a long time now. It was awesome and I was always happy to recommend it to friends.
A couple months ago I was talking to Deanna Hall, a photographer in Red Deer, Alberta, and she mentioned how much time it was taking her to make the pages in her wedding albums. I told her about the storyboard maker, she got it and has this to say about it:
“the storyboard maker has saved me so many hours in design! I use it for creating blog posts, storyboards and my very favorite is to create amazingly simply and stunning album designs! This is one script that I would die without having!”
Well, Deanna if you thought the original was good you HAVE to try the new version – Compositor! It is undeniably one of the coolest photoshop scripts I have ever used! The first thing I noticed that is different is that I am able to choose my images from anywhere on my computer rather than having to open them all first. Next, after choosing the size I wanted my final product to be I had the option to preview different suggested layouts instead of just re running the script until one came up that I liked. I am not even joking when I say I nearly clapped my hands and jumped up and down like a little kid…lol
I asked Patti Miller, who was lucky enough to get to test it out first what she thought of the new version:
I primarily use the compositor (as it is now known) for album design. Prior to the storyboard maker v 1.0 it was quite a daunting and time consuming task. Now with the compositor, what I thought was a great tool, is quite near perfect.
Before you would open say for example four photos you wanted included, and it would make the storyboard based on the order they were opened in. If you wanted to change this, you had to close and reopen the photos. The new version allows you to re-arrange them, simply by bumping an arrow up or down as needed. This getting all of the photos arranged exactly as you want them to be, even if they were opened in a different order.
It also allows you to change the colour of the background and if you want a keyline around the photo, that is included as well as what colour of keyline, and pixel thickness. It also asks your preferences for spacing between the photos and distance from the edge of the page.
The last super cool thing, which is my favourite. The compositor allows you a preview of all the different layout arrangements that are possible. You can scroll through them all and then you get to choose which one you’d like it to create. It’s great for me as I try to have different arrangements on each spread. This is such a time saving feature, being able to preview the layouts, which allows me to create gorgeous albums in no time, and lets me get back to other fun stuff faster!
Here is a video showing how it works:
***requires Adobe® Photoshop® version CS3 or higher
Now, drumroll please……………… Malin of Moiria – Tool For the Creative has so very generously offered us 2, yes, TWO Compositors to give away to two of our awesome two photogs readers. How do you win? Very simple leave a comment here and then become a fan of the Moirai Facebook page….(and while your at it become a fan of the two photogs facebook page too :-D )
You have until Feb 10th to enter :-)
This is my very first Compositor creation. It literally took me less than 2 minutes to make, and only that long because I was torn over which images to include. This is a selection of images from my Etain’s first year. I am definitely getting this printed big for her room.
by Danna
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