One of the Hewlett-Packard sites: HP Creative Studio for Home; Photo frames and borders offers free photo templates. Simply choose a template, upload a picture(s) and print out your creation! Other projects and decorating ideas are also available, and there is an email feature provided to easily send the project link to a friend. Most of the frames come in 2 sizes, i.e. 4x6 and 5x7. The collage style frame I am using as an example only comes in the 8x10 size. You are able to customize the frames according to the colors that compliment/contrast your photos, previewing as many colors as you like before printing. I printed out my finished projects on Kodak Premium Photo Paper, Glossy, Instant Dry. Visit the HP site HERE.
I first tried a collage of family photos from a recent birthday dinner. Some of the pictures are a bit dark, but they have great sentimental value! I chose black, as I often use it and really like the results. With these photos though, I ended up liking the brown much more.
Here are 2 versions using a brown frame.
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Next, I played with color using some of my favorite photos, and my current favorite, ~turquoise.
You can see where the horizontal version doesn't look quite right, and some of the photos do not fit well. I am much happier with the vertical version! The photos used in this turquoise frame are a mix of my own, and a couple of shared photos from the web. The fabulous turquoise sugar/creamer/white rose photo is from Leslie’s, A Creative Mint blog:
http://acreativemint.typepad.com/a_creative_mint/2009/06/playing-with-avocado-turquoise.html
HP displays this heart frame in red ~the photo I used did not look good in red, so I used their color re-set option. I was in a mono-chromatic mood and I thought I would like the green, but the photo looked washed out. I ended up with the orange/peach shade.
And, finally I played around with a colorful Easter Lily frame.
Have you used this site before?
What do you think?
Let me know what you come up with!
