The holiday season is flying away. You must have got a bundle of wonderful photos about this holiday, but how to make these precious memories enrich your future life? There are many ways, but scrapbooking is one of easiest means to help you relive happy moments in a single print.
Traditional handmade scrapbook is really expensive and time consuming. But with scrapbooking software, you’ll have everything you need to make attractive, inspiring scrapbook pages quickly. Scrapbooking software also saves resources by allowing you to experiment with design and color freely—giving you flexibility to change your mind on the fly, without wasting scrapbook supplies. Search from Google, you will find many software specially designed for creating photo collage or digital scrapbook such as Picasa, Photo Collage Studio. Here is a tutorial on how to create a photo collage from a complete blank page with Photo Collage Studio.
Step 1: Create a blank page and do collage setting
When you add a new page, choose the menu “from blank” and then click “Set” button on the top of work space to start the collage setting. See the figure below, you can customize your collage size, orientation and background. For matching the photos captured in snow, you can load a picture showing snow scenery.
Step 2: Add and Edit photos
Drag and drop photos to where you want to dispose in the photo collage. When you click a photo, the photo edit tool will pop up to let you crop, resize, rotate and shadow photos freely. Besides these basal edit, you can find various photo frames supplied to retouch photos. Just double click your favorite frame, it will be added to the selected photo.
Tip: Advanced retouching tool like mask and filters can make photos look like they've faded on the edges, old-fashioned, oil-painted, embossment and other special effects you can image.
Step 3: Decorate collage with colorful embellishments
Switch to “Decorate Collage” main menu, most colorful and high-definition embellishments you can find in the software. With a few more clicks of mouse, you can turn your collage into a fabulous artwork by adding more beautiful cliparts, stamps, word art and disposing them creatively! Every embellishment can be edited separately, such as text, you can set font, size, color, bold, show, halation and texture. But you should take notice of the collage style when you select the word art and color.
Tips:
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Make use of up or down direction key to pick a suited font and real-time preview at right work space.
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Get more fun from doodle tab to draw anything you want and then add to the collage as personalized embellishments.
Step 4: Save collages or print as a photo book
If you have created multiple pages in a project, of course you can save or print them at the same time. Just check them and select path, graphic format, fabulous collages will be delivered to you in minutes. Or print out and combine them into a photo book to tell your full Xmas stories. Imagine sweet heart when you turn over it and relive happy moments after many years.
The final photo collage is:
