Help creating a template with multiple circles to insert different images

[Pablo Varela]

Hi, everybody,

I'm trying to create a template that has 24 (6x4) circles on it so I can put different images in each one and they will be cropped to that circular form. I'm running into the problem that the images on top bleed on top of other images in the neighbor circles if they are too big. I've tried several ways to make this not to happen but without any success.

Any ideas? Is there a way to force a group layer to have a specific size even if some of the layers inside are bigger?

[NotMyFault]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

This post might give you some inspiration:

1. Download the afassets file from that post,
2. and import it into assets.
3. Then use the "circle hor",
4. power-duplicate it 6 times into one row.
5. select all 6 circles
6. use power duplicate to make 4 rows
7. Then you can start to drag & drop your images into that circles.
8. Adjust the strokes to taste 
9. Make a nice background layer

Below an example - I hope you make will be able to make this more pleasing.

6x4 images.afphoto

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, Pablo Varela said:

I'm running into the problem that the images on top bleed on top of other images in the neighbor circles if they are too big. I've tried several ways to make this not to happen but without any success.

You can clip or mask the individual images to your circles, see how to clip an image to a circle here (at ~2:14 min it's shown) ...

• Masking vs Clipping (video)
• How to Clipping Mask/Powerclip (video)

... afterwards (in case of clipping) select the image, which is clipped underneath a circle and resize it to the size you need. - It might help to organize circles and image layers here, meaning to name the layers of circles & images accordingly. Aka "circle1" clipped "image1", "circle2" clipped "image2", ... and so on.

This general way you can size and position the images individually for every circle, without being disturbed by overlapping shown up images.

[Pablo Varela]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!