To equip your home with beautiful interior details is not at all difficult and inexpensive, especially when you can do it yourself. One of these decorations can be a collage of photographs that will not only fill an empty space on the wall, but also will remind you of the happiest moments in your life.
What is the collage of
? Getting acquainted with the technique of photo collage should be started from the very title: collage is a word that came to us from France, where it means "sticking".That is, the basic principle of photo collage is a few photographs, pasted onto a substrate( which can be paper, cloth, film, wood, plastic, etc.) of any shape and size. In general, a collage made by one's own hands is created not only from photographs. The main details can be any products of the same theme.
Creating a collage of photos
Make a photo collage with your own hands easily, you only need to include imagination and acquire all the necessary materials to implement the idea. The process itself consists of several stages, which in no case can not be interchanged:
- Choose the theme of the collage: leave, love story or wedding, the birth of a child, friendship, family collage and so on.
- Materials. Next, choose the materials: see that lying around at home, perhaps this thing will come in handy. Or go to the store and look for what you need.
- Decoration. This stage requires perseverance and patience, because nothing is done very quickly. When creating a photo collage with your own hands, it's important to do everything neatly. This work will decorate the walls of your or even someone else's house, if you are going to give a collage to your loved ones, relatives or close friends.
Basis of
The basis for creating a photo collage with your own hands is a huge choice: from the simplest paper( whatman) to the cut wood. A simple option is to paste selected photos onto paper, which can then be painted or signed. The basis can be foam, it will be convenient to attach photos using the buttons, and then change some pictures to new ones. A beautiful base for the collage will be a wooden panel, a cut of a tree. A wooden collage created by yourself will look stylish in almost any interior.
It is important to choose the right size of the base so that the photos you like are placed comfortably on its entire area. Pre-arrange the photos as they will be on the finished version of the collage. Once you make sure that everything fits perfectly, start carving the shape of the base( heart, circle, square, etc.), paint it or varnish, depending on which material you have chosen.
Materials for collage
As additional decorative materials for creating a photo collage with your own hands, you can use any little things that you can always find at home: old buttons, beads, coins, woolen threads, pieces of leather and so on. All this is useful when creating a collage and will give him a special style, which depends on the preferences. Among the mandatory materials that will have to be used for work, we note the following:
- glue;
- brushes;
- cloth;
- polyethylene for covering the working surface.
Frames
Like any picture, a collage created by yourself will look great in the frame. The composition immediately becomes complete and can be hung in the most prominent place. The photo frame can be bought already ready, ordered in a framing workshop for your size, made of boards or in any other way. For example, for a photo collage with the theme "Holiday" you can make a frame of seashells, which you yourself brought from the sea coast.
How to make a photo collage on a computer
Because we live in a high-tech world and store all memorable pictures on a computer, the developers have already come up with a lot of free programs that allow you to create collages with your own hands directly from digital pictures online and not only. At what methods of processing there are so many that it is impossible to simply decide on the style of the future collage. Professionals work in Photoshop, where there is a graphic editor with many functions. However, not everyone will be able to. How to make a collage from a photo on the computer through the program with the same name "PhotoCollage":
- Download and install the program on your computer.
- Open the program and select "Create a new project".
- Select the project type, and then the collage template. There are a choice of several topics that you can later edit endlessly.
- Once you're done with background editing and captions, you can start uploading photos to a new photo collage.
- After adding images, a new menu will appear, with which you can rotate or swap pictures.
- After you finish your work, do not forget to click "Save".
- You can go to the photo department to print a beautiful photo collage! Do not forget to buy a frame, because in it it will look much better.
Ideas of collage with their own hands
It happens that fantasy is simply not there. You can sit all day and think out what the photo collage will be like with your own hands, but it's no use coming. To help come already ready-made work from well-known and not very authors, looking at which you want to repeat the idea and bring it your own details. On the Internet, you can always find thousands of examples of works, among which you will find something that will please you. The main thing is to choose from all the options one that you really can do with your own hands.
Picture from photos
Picture from photos by yourself can be done with the help of ordinary boards and ropes. No special skills in the performance of this task will not be needed, except to really want to see a beautiful panel on the wall from your own photos made by yourself. What you need to achieve the goal:
- wooden plank 4 m long;
- rope - 5 m;
- clothespins - 15 pcs.;
- glue
- construction stapler.
The board is divided into 4 equal parts and saw off the edges at a 45 degree angle so as to build a frame later. We cover the edges with glue and assemble the frame. Building a stapler, attach a rope in 4 or 5 rows. On these ropes you can hang up any photos using pegs. Here is a simple and not expensive panel made by yourself, decorate the house or become a great gift for friends. The frame can be painted in any color, the rope can be chosen absolutely any, the same applies to clothespins or other elements of the collage. Collage of photos with your own hands is ready!
Photo collage for children
Collect children's photos in the album - it's incredibly interesting. However, it will be even better if you assemble a cheerful photo collage from your own hands. The easiest way is to use the program on the computer, where you can draw photos as you like, and then print the finished collage in any size. If you have already printed photos, then you can place them on a beautiful children's cloth, decorate with funny buttons and beads, and then pull on the frame. Each fragment of your collage should remind you of happy moments from the life of the child.