[momentousangel]

I recently went on an overnight business trip with my DH where I took tons of photos of so many things. I'd love to use alot of them for my scrapbooking. I got some of real holly, which I have never saw before (at least not as it is growing, lol), some really great shots of flowers, the big truck he went to drive back, and all kinds of neat things. I'd love to use them all and make a some scrapbook things like papers and embellishments and such out of alot of them, so does anyone have any advice they can offer that may help me with this. I'm so excited over some of the photos of the trucks that are for his boss' new company, and plan to also make a special scrapbook and give it to his new boss on their opening day of the company, so juat wanted to see if maybe somone had some advice for me on the different things I could do with the photos. Thanks so much all and any advice is welcome.

[lesliefavela]

Sorry to say I'm actually at a loss for ideas for you today. But I sure am interested to see what these creative girls come up with for you.

[Betsy]

I like to use big photos as backgrounds. Sometimes I just put a title and some journaling right over the photo, either around the edges or in a "dead" or "wasted" space on the photo. On something like this, which will be among a series of LOs, you don't even need much test or dates - it'll get too repetitive.

Sometimes I'll use a landscape style, far-away type, shot - what we call a "scene setter" in the news biz, and then tughtly cropped, close-up, macro style shots of flowers or wildlife or whatever.

[momentousangel]

Thanks so much. After going on an overnight business trip with my DH, I got so many great shots of so many neat things, that I just can't resist using as many of the photos as I can as the background page for LO's as well as included some in a more close up view. I thank you so much. I had no clue as how really to do this, until now, your help will also come in quite handy for the circle journal. Thanks once again.

[gauchogirl]

I use big, full-frame pics for backgrounds too, sometimes. It adds that extra dimension without clutter.

[jaxscraps]

I have wanted to try this also, what size photo makes the best background if I wanted full frame for a 12x12. (as far as pixel settings, i mean) I would hate to take shots for this purpose only to find out I didn't save in a good enough quality.

[momentousangel]

I think I set my camera at 2048 x 1536 pixels, and the backgrounds I've made at 12 x 12 have came out good so far. Now if only I could figure out as far as using ones with people as a background then it would be even better, I never seem to get the person just right in the frame and still be able to use it as a background page. I'm learning though, just takes some time I suppose to figure it all out. More or less I think it also depends on the resolutions the camera can handle and also maybe just alot of trial and error. Which I am getting good at, more like mastering the error part, I think I have that part down to a "T," so the trial parts are what I'm still working on.

[jlf_loves_mjf]

If we use the standard around here, 300 dpi, 12x12 is 3600 pixels by 3600 pixels, which takes a pretty substantial camera (~12 MegaPixels). I've been trying to find ways to get my negatives scanned at a higher resolution than they scan at the photo labs but haven't had the ability yet (or FINALLY talk my DH into a negative scanner...he's almost there, but we don't know which one to get)

[lesliefavela]

Sooo much to learn. Should I tell hubby I need to go to the electronics stores for new toys? hahaha I need to learn, you know.

[momentousangel]

I did mean to type in 3600 x 3600, was thinking of the other when I was trying to order a poster of my son at the same time, lol. See what I get for trying to do more than one thing at a time, , Usually when people are resizing photos, they often try and resize the image size as well as the image resolution at the same time. One thing I've been told by a few different photographers as well as from my own experience as far as photographs are concerned, is that it's always better to resize the photos size first and save that, then go through and try resizing the resolution after the save. This is just one of the common things some people try to do at the same time, which often makes the photo or image they are working with look more pixelated. This is how I do it when I work with smaller images that don't really have the resolution I need. I also print out a digital photo at the highest resolution I can get it, then I scan that same photo at a higher resolution, after scanning it in with the highest resolution my scanner will allow me, it seems to also make resizing images much easier without any looks of distortion.

[scrappydo]

I take a lot of photos of "flora & fauna" that I use as backgrounds. I usually make my albums 8 x 8 so I can print them on my printer. I just drag the photo onto my page and cut out the portion I want to use and size it to fit. My camera is only 3 megapixels and this seems to work fine. When I first started doing this I just tried it and hoped for the best! I figured if the backgrounds were a bit "fuzzy" it would be OK, since it was the background. To my surprise they printed crisp and clear. It did teach me the significance of using the proper paper--there's a big difference.