Computer Scrapbooking Simple Digital Pages…Go Digiscrap!
Posted in collage picture frames on January 29th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
Telling a story with your photographs a collage of your memories can provide a lasting remembrance of a particular moment in time….
When it comes to doing a scrapbook page I tend to let the main focus be the photograph…
So I enjoy a clean simple look with perhaps a small amount of wording…
I have been following along with Ali Edwards Computer Scrapbooking tutorials and she suggested adding a journaling block to the mix…
Here’s what I added to the page…
Jan 2nd, 2010… Remember This?…
Do you remember that trip to the beach?
Do you remember how cold it was, so cold we couldn’t feel our fingers, but we had to have that shot?
Remember how I wrote Herb in the sand, the joke name given to Brian & Penny’s baby to be?
Do you remember the pub lunch queueing for ages to get into The Squire?
Do you remember the food, how we all agreed it was well worth waiting for?
Do you remember sinking in the sand in your high heeled boots?
I’ll remember this always. xx
Although I feel that photographs alone can tell their own tale, adding a written account of the moment I see now can greatly enhance the story…
Once you have completed your scrapbook page you may feel its worthy of it’s own picture frame, so here’s a link to a few for you to peruse and consider:
Sue
At My Age It’s Time To Experience…
Posted in cell phone applications, collage picture frames on January 25th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
…Carambola (Star Fruit)…
As part of my healthy eating campaign this year I have been trying to eat more fruit and vegetables.
Towards this end I decided that at my ripe old age it was about time I tried a star fruit.
To be quite honest the main thing that put me off trying this fruit was the fact that I hadn’t got a clue how to deal with it.
It turns out it’s quite simple to prepare, you just use a knife and cut off the brown edges (all five that make up the star) then discard the bottom and top of the fruit. I was surprised by the taste of it, I’m thinking it’s a lot like a granny smiths apple.
Carambola (Star Fruit) Breakfast
Carambola Star Fruit Breakfast Plus Cell Phone Application Borders
What fruit should I try next, any suggestions?
I took these photographs with one of my favorite iPhone photography apps – Photoshop Mobile.
It’s an excellent free app which coupled with the recent updates ( they added sharpening, more borders, the ability to make your photo straight and lots of other cool features) makes it a great option for improving your iPhone photography efforts.
Did I also mention it’s an absolutely FREE app…gotta love that price…absolutely Fabulous.
Cheers Sue 
Sent from Sue’s iPhone
iPhone Photography: Ice Ice Baby
Posted in cell phone applications, collage picture frames on January 24th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
I think perhaps I may have mentioned before that I pretty much love my iPhone, this morning I have been playing around with a new cellphone application…
imikimi allows you to share your creativity by adding your iPhone photographs to the many thousands of Kimis (think collage/scrapbook page layouts) which have been pre-designed for you.
Loads of categories to choose from 2/14 Valentine’s Day, Birthdays, Calendars and many more, I choose the Winter! category for the example above.
It’s a simple app to use just click and download the template you want then choose a photo from your facebook, photo library or from your camera play around with the positioning until you get it just the way you want it.
Once finished all that’s left to do is to share your creation (only if you want to) on Facebook, Twitter, Email or MMS.
It’s a pretty cool fun application…
Gave my daughter a laugh by sending her one which was of her with her vampire love…she is always saying I ♡ Edward Cullen!
It’s available from iTunes and costs $0.99
Sent from Sue’s iPhone
Photoshop: Camera Girl A Drawing on Canvas
Posted in black picture frame on January 23rd, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
Who’s that girl?
What girl?
The one one with the camera…
That’s Camera Girl…
Photoshop Tutorial: For turning a photograph into a drawing on canvas can be found on iTunes unfortunately this is the last episode of PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy 
When I’d finished this photo I had to think of some journaling to add to it, I decided against a long entry and went instead for a simple one line… camera girl. Now that title reminds me of a song that takes me back a few years, it’s funny how the mind works (well my monkey mind anyway), do you remember it Party Girl by U2, I love that song…off for a listen.
Cheers Sue
Photoshop: Warmth A Photo Composite Template
Posted in collage picture frames on January 21st, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
A simple template using a blurred out photograph as the background for a collage of three photos.
I used different parts of the same photograph but this technique could just as easily be used for adding three different photographs to the frames.
Check out Layers magazine photoshop tutorial on how to create a template using clipping masks and layer styles for your own photo composites.
http://www.layersmagazine.com/photo-composite-template.html
You can also subscribe to the free podcast Layers TV in iTunes for all the latest tips, tricks, and tutorials from the photoshop guys (great information that also never fails to give me a laugh), this way you can have regular tutorials automatically delivered to you, they will be there just waiting for you to try them all out.
Layers TV Free Podcast Available In iTunes:
Cheers Sue
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Collage Picture Frames
Posted in collage picture frames on January 21st, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to commentCollage picture frames are a great way for you to decorate your home in a very personal manner. Collage frames allow you to group together your photographs in a variety of creative ways all within one frame.
Picture collages allow you to display your photographs in an artistic way around a particular theme instead of having hundreds of different photos in individual frames dotted around your home.
Imagine a hundred pictures of your baby in that precious first year, but not the space to display them or the fact that they are hidden away in that beautiful baby album. Yes the album may be beautiful but how many times do you get to look at it? That’s right not too many, the first year with a new baby is quite busy! Why not pick say twelve photographs (one picture for each month of your babies first year) and display them on the wall in your babies room. With a collage picture frame of your baby you will have created a beautiful memento of their first year and remember the beauty of a collage frame is that you can swap out the photographs at any time you want changing for the 2nd year, 3rd year and so on.
It doesn’t just have to be a babies room you could create a collage around any special occasion, a wedding, an anniversary, a special birthday or vacation maybe you just want to change the photographs in your collage as the seasons change or as you change the decorations within your room. Whose to say you can just put photographs into your frames, a school collage of the photographs from each year in elementary school could have pieces of your child’s artwork in a couple of the frames or why not print out a favorite quote in a swirly font and add that to the mix.
Collage picture frames come in many different sizes and materials allowing you to co-ordinate them with the feel and type of display you would like to achieve for each room in your home. Some frames have spaces for one large picture and a group of smaller pictures and others are for pictures of the same size and shape, many are made of wood or metal and some are magnetic or acrylic, it is up to you to choose the size and type you would prefer for the project you are creating.
You can never have enough photographs and a perfect way to start displaying them all is with a one of a kind photo collage, created by you…
Here is an article which you may find useful:
- Understanding Picture Frame Sizes – Collage picture frames have multiple openings or windows in them and can hold as few as 3 different sized photos up to a dozen or more pictures. They normally are hung as wall frames because of their size and allow for a wide selection …
Double Picture Frames
Posted in black picture frame on January 18th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
Gingerbread House, originally uploaded by Groobers.
Each year we create a gingerbread house and each year I photograph the finished masterpiece.
Last year no house was created because sadly I had left it too late and though I searched high and low, unfortunately everyone had sold out.:(
This year I was determined that this would not be the case so I bought early and the creation was made, I think it’s the best yet.
Now I think a frame is in order to celebrate the return of the gingerbread house.
I got to thinking that perhaps I should buy one of the many different double picture frames available, now my only problem is which one.
One side of the frame I could fill with the picture above and the other side with the story of the gingerbread house.
How do you create personalized memories for your home?
Cheers Sue
Creating a Photo Frames Wall
Posted in wall picture frames on January 14th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
Creating a Photo Frames Wall, originally uploaded by Groobers.
Do you ever dream of a wall of your favorite photographs?
I have this wall, it’s a hallway and it’s a shade of gold, pretty enough but plain and boring.
Now my kitchen wall now that’s a different story.
I have this wall, well it’s actually the back of a cupboard, it’s brown but you can’t tell it’s brown as it’s covered in photographs.
Now isn’t it time the hallway caught up?
I have this plan, a plan to cover that hallway, not in photographs alone this time, but in framed photographs, the very best of the collages I have created over the years, it’s just a plan at the moment, one of those build over time ideas.
But it’s a plan, an actionable plan…
Now to start putting that photo frames wall plan into action…
Cheers Sue
iPhone Camera Loving The Apps
Posted in cell phone applications, collage picture frames on January 7th, 2010 by Sue Hodgson – Be the first to comment
Me & My New Love, originally uploaded by Groobers.
In the last couple of years I seem to have started taking more and more photographs, I am unsure why this is, maybe as I get older it’s just my way of capturing all the many great moments we seem to share as a family.
Perhaps the need to catch all the crazy goofy faces my girls seem to pull on a daily basis or just the urge to snap that serious look when they don’t realize that I’m taking yet another photo, is just too strong to ignore.
Santa was very kind this year and provided me with an iPhone for Christmas and I have to say that I am ever so slightly head over heels with it.
One of the main things I am trying out are all the apps available for the camera and I have to say that thus far I have not been disappointed.
Apps that add more mono, lomo and all the various filters and effects that you can achieve, are nothing short of cosmic.
Many of these apps are free and some are just a few bucks which I think is a fantastic price for taking your photographs from ordinary to fab with just a few clicks.
You are then provided with the option of sharing the love by posting your photo creations by email, on Twitter, on facebook, flickr or to your own blog, how very very cool.
I wonder how many people actually print off their everyday photographs anymore?
I seem to print and frame only the very best ones these days the rest it’s so much easier and cheaper to share with a link (gotta love technology.)
So here’s to hundreds if not thousands more photos and please if you know of any good photography apps for the iPhone or want to link to any examples of photographs you have taken with your phone please feel free to leave a link in the comments.
Happy Snapping,
Cheers for now…
Sue
P.S Chase Jarvis has an iPhone App called The Best Camera which I have fallen in love with and is available on iTunes for $2.99
