Creating Outlined Text

If I want to make a collage in which images appear within a very large number, how can I do it?
The project is to present a hockey player (a child) with an 8x10 image on which is their player number containing images of the kid in hockey gear.
I have 6-8 different images and I want them to appear within the player number.
Can this be done?
Mary Lou

Mary Lou, here's one way (out of many!)
1. Create a new file and fill with white or any color you want for the background.
2. Activate the text tool and enter the number, creating a new layer. It doesn't matter what size font or color you use for this this. Use the Move tool to resize and position the number. With the Move tool you can also drag out the top and bottom handles to "fatten" the number. In this example I used Ariel Bold.
3. Add the pictures. These will go on separate layers.
4. Group the picture layers with the number layer. This crops the pictures into the number.
5. Use the Move tool to rearrange the pictures and resize them if necessary. You will probably want to use the Eraser tool to remove unwanted overlap as I did in Layer 1 (I erased the bottom right corner).
6. To optionally outline the number, duplicate the number layer and apply an Outside Stroke to the original (bottom) number layer.
Let me know if you need more info on any of the steps.

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