Your Digital Life

There are plenty of Christmas Tree ornaments with tiny cut-outs for photo prints, but this ornament is constructed from the photos themselves. It’s courtesy of Shelly Haganman (via PetaPixel) who has put together a nice step-by-step how-to get you to the finish line.

This time of year, we are often surrounded by our families, coming together to celebrate. We pass on traditions in the kitchen, share memories at the dinner table, and enjoy quality time catching up on everything that has gone on in our lives throughout the past year. Why not take this opportunity to start a [...]

Here’s a neat idea courtesy of Melody Chau – a  photo book ornament. Here’s the deal: first, you’ll need to order an 8 x 6-inch softcover landscape photo book, some ribbon and a fastener. Then you can hang the book from your tree. This is one ornament that, when you’re done, you won’t have to [...]

There are no more excuses left for not turning your digital images into some very cool photo merchandise as there are now literally thousands of website s and retail locations just dying to help you turn your digital memories into photobooks, canvas prints, photo collages and myriad other unique and creative photo merchandise products. Many [...]

Anyone who’s been to a mall knows that you can put your photos onto shirts and sweaters. You also know that those photo sweaters look, well, let’s say that even me – the least stylish person in the universe – isn’t keen on slapping one of those on. Now, a fellow named Andrew Salamone has [...]

This DIY project is not for the faint of heart. Using a CNC router, a Finnish artist bored out tiny holes in a piece of black plywood to resemble an image. The artist worked with a halftone photo and a free piece of software for powering the router. The further back you get from the [...]

For parents, back-to-school provokes mixed emotions. There’s the joy -unstated but widely shared – that the kids will be someone else’s problem for a few hours a day, but sadness too, at a suddenly quiet house. Kids, on the other hand, feel but one emotion: dread (okay, two: I forgot misery). One thing that can [...]

Before there were cellphones, keys were the item that everyone carried with them.  So there few better ways to take treasured photos with you than on a key chain. Here are a few of your options. Make a Photo Key Chain Online Nearly every online photo service that can make a photo print can also [...]

We all know that scrapbooks are great ways to preserve our life stories for the next generation, but when we typically hear scrapbook we probably think “print.” But in this digital age, we’re collecting more and more photos on discs – most of which we probably dump into a jewel case or CD holder and [...]

Graduation season is behind us, which means most of us have a great collection of graduation photos to deal with. I found this neat little photo craft ($5) that you can do with your little (or big) graduate – a graduation cap  photo holder.  All you’ll need is some foam glue and your fav photo.