Step 7: Move And Resize The Photo Mount With Free Transform

Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Free Transform, or press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to quickly select it with the keyboard shortcut:

This places the Free Transform bounding box and handles around the photo mount. Move the photo mount into the bottom right corner of the image by clicking anywhere inside the bounding box, keeping your mouse button held down, and dragging it with your mouse into position. To resize the photo mount, hold down your Shift key and drag any of the corner handles. Holding the Shift key down will constrain the aspect ratio of the photo mount so you don't accidentally distort the shape of it as you're resizing it. You can also nudge the photo mount into place using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you're done to accept the transformation and exit out of Free Transform:

Step 8: Duplicate The Photo Mount

Press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) to duplicate the photo mount. Not much will happen in the document window, but a copy of the photo mount will appear above the original in the Layers panel:

Step 9: Flip The Copy Vertically

With the top layer in the Layers panel selected, go back up to the Edit menu, choose Transform, then choose Flip Vertical. You'll see the copy of the photo mount flip vertically above the original in the document window:

Step 10: Move The Copy Into The Top Right Corner

Press the letter V on your keyboard to quickly select Photoshop's Move Tool. Hold down your Shift key, then click on the flipped photo mount and, while keeping your mouse button held down, drag it upward into the top right corner of the image. Holding down the Shift key will limit the direction you can drag in, making it easier to drag the photo mount straight up. Again, you can nudge the photo mount into place if needed with the arrow keys:

Step 11: Select Both Photo Mount Layers At Once

With the top layer still selected in the Layers panel, hold down your Ctrl (Win) / Command (Mac) key and click on the layer directly below it. This will select both photo mount layers at once (you'll see them both highlighted in blue):

Step 12: Copy And Drag The Photo Mounts Over To The Left

With both photo mount layers selected and the Move Tool still selected, hold down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) and, again keeping your mouse button held down, drag the photo mounts over to the left edge of the image. Holding the Shift key will again limit the direction you can drag so it's easier to drag straight across, while holding the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key tells Photoshop to create copies of the photo mounts rather than moving the originals. You should now see four photo mounts in the document. The two on the left will be facing the wrong way, but we'll fix that next:

Step 13: Flip The Left Photo Mounts Horizontally

Go back up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen, choose Transform, and this time, choose Flip Horizontal:

The two photo mounts on the left side of the image will flip horizontally. Use the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge them into position if needed:

Step 14: Trim Away The Extra White Space

As an optional final step, if you want to trim away the extra white space around the image and photo mounts, go up to the Image menu at the top of the screen and choose Trim:

When the Trim dialog box appears, select Top Left Pixel Color, and make sure Top, Bottom, Left, and Right are all selected in the bottom half of the dialog box. This tells Photoshop to trim away everything that's the same color as the pixel in the top left of the document (which is white), and to trim it from all four sides of the document:

Click OK to exit out of the dialog box, and Photoshop trims away all of the extra white space, leaving us with our final result:

And there we have it!

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