I gave up featuring just one photo on our family’s Christmas card shortly after giving birth. There’s no way I can choose a single picture that sums up an entire year of milestones. Fortunately, with advances in technology, I don’t have to.
For the past five years I have created photo collages and added them to our Christmas cards. Creating unique collages from ordinary pictures is easier than ever thanks in large part to photo editing software programs. In addition to being readily available and relatively affordable, you don’t have to be a computer whiz or a professional photographer to transform your precious moments into photo masterpieces.
The trick to making a stunning Christmas photo collage is to find a computer program that is easy to navigate. PictureCollagesSoftware.com is a great all-in-one photo collage program that caters to beginners. It provides detailed instructions on how to edit photos and create collages. If you are into scrapbooking this site is a real gem, as it features hundreds of pre-designed scrapbook layout and photo collage templates. If you don’t like any of the templates you can design your own collages from scratch. You can also apply image frames, masks, drop shadows and other effects to your photos to spice them up for a traditional hard copy collage.
I use Google’s Picasa to create my Christmas photo collages. It’s easy to use and prints out in high-resolution, but the best part is that it is free. To create a photo collage, you just download and install the program to your computer. Picasa then automatically detects all the images you have saved on your computer and creates a library. Once the library is created you can view your pictures, edit them, and then select the ones you want to feature in your collage. The program gives you total artistic control over your collage content and layout. However, if you are short on time and creativity you can opt to create a collage from six different templates featured in the collage creation screen.
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