Need creative ideas...

I took a sequence of images of a local tennis player with one arm who absolutely dominates the tennis court. I want a way to combine these into one image to convey his courage and perseverance. Any ideas?

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I had something similar to what you want to do when I took a sequence of my buddy hitting a baseball. I tried to do a cool overlap effect but didn't work out the way I wanted it to. Instead I put them all in a row to get the idea across. It wasn't perfectly executed but I was happy with the turn out.

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Tony_Stark wrote in post #13955453
I had something similar to what you want to do when I took a sequence of my buddy hitting a baseball. I tried to do a cool overlap effect but didn't work out the way I wanted it to. Instead I put them all in a row to get the idea across. It wasn't perfectly executed but I was happy with the turn out.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/gbucur/59288758​99/
Day 48/365 - Baseball Swing by George.Bucur, on Flickr

Thats what I would do.

Yeah, this looks a lot like what i was thinking. Do you mind posting the process?

Well I took a burst sequence, then I opened them up in Lightroom. Applies settings to all the photos to make them look uniform. Then I cropped each one by the same amount (exact height/width etc.) to keep things easy when merging.

I then took them into Photoshop. I use Lightroom, so I selected all the photos and chose open in Photoshop as layers (so they all open in 1 window, rather than separate). I then adjusted canvas size based on how many photos there were, so take the width adjustment, and multiply by how many photos there are, and add a border to that if you want. For the height I kept the same value, but adjusted to make room for border.

Then I rearranged all the layers in order and made the bottom layer blank, and painted black for the border, and final image. I cant really explain properly as its more simple in my head when I did it. I hope this helps anyway!

Tony - nice series, good way to present them.