Overview
Every photo captures a precious memory—and Creative Photo Collage is a complete guide to collecting, archiving, and presenting those treasured, personal images. Consummate craft designer Marie Browning offers dozens of unique projects for turning photos into home decor and gifts, as well as easy-to-learn collage techniques for scrapbooking, laminating, decoupage, jewelry making, and transferring images to a variety of materials. There are even tips for getting a great picture in the first place, and for storing them, coloring them, and manipulating them on the computer. An entire chapter focuses on creative displays, with advice on effectively grouping and framing photographs thematically.Synopsis
Every photo captures a precious memory—and Creative Photo Collage is a complete guide to collecting, archiving, and presenting those treasured, personal images. Consummate craft designer Marie Browning offers dozens of unique projects for turning photos into home decor and gifts, as well as easy-to-learn collage techniques for scrapbooking, laminating, decoupage, jewelry making, and transferring images to a variety of materials. There are even tips for getting a great picture in the first place, and for storing them, coloring them, and manipulating them on the computer. An entire chapter focuses on creative displays, with advice on effectively grouping and framing photographs thematically.
Constance Ashmore Fairchild - Library Journal
Digital cameras provide plenty of photos as raw materials to cut and mount in nontraditional ways, such as on coasters or tablemats, and Browning (Creative Collage: Making Memories in Mixed Media) offers helpful tips for shooting and preserving photos as well as step-by-step projects for using them. For public libraries.
Editorials
Library Journal
Digital cameras provide plenty of photos as raw materials to cut and mount in nontraditional ways, such as on coasters or tablemats, and Browning (Creative Collage: Making Memories in Mixed Media) offers helpful tips for shooting and preserving photos as well as step-by-step projects for using them. For public libraries.
—Constance Ashmore Fairchild