Making Collages

Isn't it frustrating when you have heaps of great photographs that you can use in a layout, but not the room! I love the look of collages and when I had a PC I used Picasa - a fantastic storage and editing program which is a free download from Google - but now I have my wonderful iMac, I can't use it as it's only for Windows! While surfing the net a couple of days ago I found a program called Posterino, which was very cheap and only available for Macs, but does lots of good things with more than one photo. So now I am now able to create my collages again!

Here is a Christmas 2007 layout I did with the Picasa collage before I got my Mac-


I included some Christmas embellishments and actually raised them using different thicknesses of chipboard.

I saw an idea in a scrap mag where a year of photos were collaged and used in a layout that depicted that year. Posterino has a few options to doing a year's worth of photos - they are called Life Posters. I had a bit of a play with it and here are photos from 2007 -

It even put them into date order! How clever is that! Now, I just need to plan it a bit more and make sure the photos I have are the ones that I want to use for 2007.



Check out either Picasa collages if you have a PC or give Posterino a try - you can scrap events - such as weddings, birthday parties, christmas celebrations; scrap months or years; anything where you have lots of photos that you'd like to display.

Happy scrappin'