Make Family Tree Photo Collage to Show Family History

How to make family tree photo collage step by step

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, and includes more than 2 million members. However, this tutorial doesn't teach you to make such family tree. Instead, we just make a simple family tree to memory our ancestors not so far in a few steps.

Wondershare Photo Collage Studio is the top-rated photo collage maker. It provides plenty of 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 print it for a long time saving. Watch the final family tree photo collage first.

 

 

What you need to make a family tree photo collage:
1. Digital photos of your relatives
2. Wondershare Photo Collage Studio - One of the best photo collage maker

Step 1. Create blank photo collage

Download Wondershare Photo Collage Studio and run after installation. In the welcome screen, select "Create Blank Collage" to go straight to blank Work Space.

Step 2. Draw tree doodles

First, doodle a family tree. Go to Decorate Collage tab and head to Doodle tab. Click Make Pieces to bring up the canvas. This is the funniest part of this collage making tool. With simple drawing tools, you can spread you creativity and combine with photos into family tree collage to show family history.
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Alternatively, you can directly import a tree photo instead of doodling by yourself. If so, skip this step.

Step 3. Add Photo

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.
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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.
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Step 6. Save or Print

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.

Now download Wondershare Photo Collage Studio and have a try to make your own family tree photo collage.

 

Family Photo Collage Making Tips:

1. Refer to Help Manual for more detailed information by pressing F1 on keyboard.
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? See the how to doodle tutorial.

 

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