Thanks to the generosity of others, we are fortunate to have a great number and variety of pictures of our relatives and ancestors. Over the past few years, I have used Photoshop to crop and adjust the lighting of pictures. Paint offers an option to rotate/change direction of some images so they all face the same direction. Using a Word document as a playground, picture size can be adjusted to make them uniform. The snipping tool takes them from the Word document to being a photo again. It’s a lot of back and forth, and time consuming, but I enjoy the end result.
On one side of the family, I noticed that there are pictures of both grandparents around the same ages. I played with the pictures of Grandpa, putting them in sequence and ended up with this age progression…
Then on to Grandma’s pictures, which resulted in this…
I put Grandma and Grandpa together to generally match them in age.
It’s fun that there are also pictures of them together through the years…
Putting the three rows together forms a sort of history collage of their lives.
And then back to Photoshop to frame it.
And that is how an entire morning ends up behind me.
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Wow! I like what you did. I am going to work on my skills and see what I come up with. What you are doing with your photographs are a gift for your family that could last for generations.
Thanks! I have a bunch of fun with the photos we have.
Very clever! I love your grouping them by ages–what a fantastic idea. NEVER seen anyone do that before. You are on to something!
Thank you for sharing your imaginative ideas!
Thanks for the compliments. There is a lot that can be done with a good picture collection, although I’d love to have more. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to your blog – I need to catch up!
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