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How to relive happy moments in a single print?
Xmas is an important holiday for everyone and also full of many precious memories. There are many ways to preserve these wonderful events, 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 make a photo collage in two ways with Photo Collage Studio. For the software, you can get trial version from http://download.photo-collage-software.com/pcls_trial15.exe.
First Way: Make a photo collage from template
Photo Collage Studio offers a bundle of cool theme templates for Xmas, wedding, love, baby and other special occasions to satisfy your any demands. These templates are not only specially designed by a group of professional graphic designers but also completely free. That’s why I love them so much. Want to have a glance of these free templates, please check from http://www.photo-collage-software.com/free-collage-templates.html. Applying template, you can make a fabulous photo collage only in three steps, that convenient for the busy persons.
Step 1: Select a suitable collage template for your theme
If you want to create a Xmas collage for a baby, pick a Xmas template. Then double click your selected template or click OK to start a collage from template.
Step 2: Import photos into the template
Simply drag & drop photo to the template frame or double click the frame to add the photo. The program support .jpg, .bmp, .png, .emf, .wmf, and .tiff photo formats.
Tips:
1. If your photo is too large to full present in the frame, click the second button in the photo edit tool to zoom out the photo in the frame.
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Applying the green cross on the photo, you can adjust the position of the photo in the frame.
Step 3: Save collage or directly print
Share your masterpiece with your loving persons is really a wonderful thing. You can save it in almost all common graphic formats and then send it via email or make personalized wallpaper. Directly printing the beautiful collage at any size you want is also a good way to show your creativity. What’s more, you can share it though mobile devices, webpage, blogs and any other item you enjoy!
Second Way: Make a photo collage from blank
Want to spread your creativity? Just create a collage from blank. It gives you a complete show space to express your capacity. Here is a Xmas photo collage created in the second way.
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 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.
With Photo Collage Studio, you can also DIY greeting cards, invitation cards, posters and calendar. Please visit http://www.photo-collage-software.com to get details.
This year is fast passing. Why not collect the happiness of this year and make a photo book for yourself or your loved persons to treasure up these previous moments. Consume few minutes, get eternal enjoyment.
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