Great photo art Christmas gifts
If you have even the slightest bit of computer graphic knowledge, you could make friends and family some adorable Christmas photo art as gifts for something new and different.
When money is tight and you’re not really sure how you’re going to get through the Christmas crunch then take a good look at your computer and printer. You have the perfect Christmas gift making tools right before you and even if you’re not the best at computer graphics, you can still create some great Christmas photo art to give as gifts to family and friends. All you need is a color printer, photo printer paper – which costs anywhere from $15 to $25 depending on the type you get – and a little bit of computer know-how.
Photo
The first thing you need, obviously, is a photo. You can download it from your digital camera, scan it into your computer if you have a scanner, or load it from a computer disk. Once you have the photo loaded, you can start working with the many different computer graphics programs available to manipulate it. Even if you don’t have the money or access to a computer graphics package such as Adobe Photoshop, there are many great free graphics programs you can download from the Internet that are comparable to the more expensive ones.
Graphic software
Additionally, you can download computer graphics programs that do simple things like place frames around the pictures, overlay graphics on the photo themselves, and more. With the amount of programs available on the Internet, anyone can find one that will work not only with their skill level, but with the mental idea of what you want to do to create your photo art Christmas gift. The only limit here is you imagination and computer graphic skills, but even a novice can learn how to use the programs with a little bit of practice.
Printing
Once you have the photo art prepared, print it out on your photo paper. From here you can cute pictures out to use in scrapbooks, multi-photo frames, or to simply put in a nice frame on its own. If you have a local ‘dollar’ store, you can purchase really nice frames for a few dollars and not break you budget. Photo art can be personalized, holiday oriented, and unique. What’s great about this is that you can use the same picture for multiple members of the family in a variety of different ways, all unique and individual. Plus, once you’ve learned how to use the graphics program, you’ve opened yourself up to a whole new world of computer graphic and photo art throughout the year.