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How to Make a Family Tree Photo Collage
Make a Family Tree Photo Collage for Family History Memories
A family tree is a structure to represent your family's history. With family tree, your family's genealogy is so clear that you could find out the root. In the world today, the longest family tree is that of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551-479 BC). The family tree spans more than 80 generations, including more than 2 million members. However, this tutorial doesn't teach you to make such a family tree. Instead, we just make a simple family tree photo collage to memorize our ancestors not so far in a few steps.
Wondershare Photo Collage Studio is the top-rated photo collage creator. It provides plenty of collage templates to help you make family tree photo collage easily and fast. With the digital photos ready, at most 5 steps are needed to create a family tree photo collage and you can print it for a long time saving.
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How to Make Family Tree Photo Collage Step by Step
Step 1. Create Blank Photo collage
Download Wondershare Photo Collage Studio and lauch it after installation. In the welcome screen, select "Create Blank Collage "to go straight to blank Work Space.
In this sample, I import an image to set as the background. Both built-in and your image files are supported. Here is how:
1. Bring up Collage Settings dialog box by clicking Set button above Work Space or right-clicking empty area on background;
2. Check Image ratio button followed by clicking Load button;
3. Select a thumbnail or click Import button to select an image from local disk. Click OK to finish browsing photo;
4. Select Stretch in Background panel;
5. Click OK.
Step 2. Draw Tree Doodles
To access doodle function, go to Decorate Collage tab and head to Doodle tab. Click Make Pieces to bring up the canvas. As shown below, the tools locate in the far right corner, and parameters of these tools could be defined under tool panel. By default, the Pencil tool will be activate when you open canvas. For this tutorial, directly hold down left button of your mouse and move the mouse to start doodling. With only a few clicks, you will get the ugly tree as followed. However, intelligent as you, much better doodles could be made using the easy-to-use tools, including Brush, Eraser, Magic Stick, Rectangle and Oval tool.
Alternatively, you can directly import a tree photo instead of doodling by yourself. If so, skip this step.
Step 3. Add Photos
As soon as the tree is ready, you could change back to Add Photo tab to import photos. To do so, first locate photos on the left hand side and directly drag favorite photos to desired photo frame. Afterwards, you can rotate, swap, crop, swap, pan and resize added photos through buttons, tool bar or right-click menu.
Step 4. Apply Mask
As you could see, the added photo with or without a frame has distinct edge. To merge the photo to the background perfectly, apply the Mask effect. Only a few clicks are needed to do so:
1. Go to Edit Photo tab -> Mask tab on the left hand side;
2. Select the photo you want to apply mask to;
3. Double-click the mask thumbnail to apply it to selected photo. You could get more masks through the drop-down list on top. To cancel used mask, either right-click desired photo and select Clear Mask, or simple click correspond button in smart tool bar of photo.
Besides, you can also edit photo by adding frame and filter effect in Frame tab or Filters tab, respectively.
Besides, you can also edit photo by adding frame and filter effect in Frame tab or Filters tab, respectively.
Step 5. Decorate Collage
Switch to Decorate Collage tab and go to Text tab first. There you can directly input desired text, which will be displayed simultaneously to Work Space. Further settings are also available, such as Font, Size, Color, Shadow, Halation and Texture.
Next, change to Stamp tab to add stamps (here it's mainly leaves of the family tree), the glass under the tree and the flower in the bottom left corner. To add a stamp, simply drag to Work Space or double-clicking the stamp thumbnail. The added stamp will be black by default, however, you can change it to Texture, Brush or single color by double-clicking the added stamp in Work Space. Clicking the first button of stamp's tool bar would also bring up the setting dialog box.
Step 6. Save Collage or Print out
Now that the family tree was drawn, relatives's photos were hung on subsequently, later texts and stamps decorations were also added, you are close to the final result. If you just intend to use your photo collage on computer, save it in various image formats or directly set as desktop wallpaper. Otherwise, print it out with your installed printer.
Family Collage Tips:
1. Refer to Help Manual for more detailed information.
2. The important functions like editing photo by adding frame and filter have not been used in this sample, including make the doodle yourself with simple Pencil, Brush, Eraser, Magic Stick, Rectangle and Oval tools. You could also be a painter with Photo Collage Studio, incredible? Prove it!
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