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I decided to tackle this project using two different methods. First I chose a photo and laid it on a pattern that I like.
My patterns came from my furniture (sofa, chair), my floors (tiles, hardwood), wallpaper and other spots in my house.
Below are examples of putting a photo on a pattern that I like, then taking the lid off my Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner, turning it upside down to scan and pressing the green button.
Photo on Chair |
Photo on floor tile |
You will also find that you need to crop your scan to create a border that is symmetrical as it's difficult to accomplish in the original layout of photo and background
Scan before cropping |
Photo needs trimming |
Scan after cropping |
The second way I will create mats and borders is to scan various patterns around my home and in nature. Then I'll import those into my photo editing software and layer the original photo (which I've scanned using my FlipPal) on top.
Here are some of the patterns I've scanned in preparation for layering photos with backgrounds. I used a tile floor, a lace tablecloth, my kitchen counter and fabric on furniture.
I'm excited about using my Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner to finish creating a unique digital scrapbook of my family photos with my own borders.
13 comments:
Great idea! I will certainly have to try that. The Flip-Pal is such a fun tool.
Bret, it really works great. I know you can do a much better job than I did here but my excuse is that this blog post was simply to illustrate the idea hubs and I had for creating these borders!
This is really great! We added this to Flip-Pal's Pinterest page :-)
http://pinterest.com/flippal/favorite-genealogy-blogs/
Are you on Pinterest?
-Shantel
I'm on Pinterest at
http://pinterest.com/lorinems/
I just followed your boards :-)
Thanks Lorine. I am doing demos of Flip-Pal for the Australian distributor, I'll be sharing this info.
One Flip-Pal added to my "must have" list! Thanks!
I would never have thought of this!!! This is a wonderful idea - thanks for sharing it with us...
This is a wonderful idea! I would never have thought of this. Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.
Fantastic idea Lorine!
What a fantastic idea! Thank you so much for sharing it! I love my Flip-Pal!
Never thought of doing this "bordering" trick before, even though I had done it accidentally in the past! (Such a dummy!) Now I will be scouring my house for awesome background patterns.
When I scan with the Flip Pal and bring it over to my computer, it has a black background that I am trying to get rid of. Especially if it is a small size photo. This might be the solution. I am using a free program called IrfanView to crop. Any ideas?
GenJoan - you can crop your photo once you import to your computer.
You can do that in Irfanview but I prefer doing it in Picasa (a free download) It is SO easy and fast in Picasa.
You can also straighten it if it was scanned a bit crooked!
Lorine
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