Putting Your Photos in a Traditional Photo AlbumDisplaying your photographs in a traditional photo album has changed from the days when your photographs turned yellow inside plastic encl
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If the sight of your photos pleases you, you have nearly limitless opportunities to view
them spontaneously during your daily activities Look at one of your photos while having a cup of coffee, flipping a business card to a client, sending a holiday greeting card, and/or wearing a T-shirt To create these pleasurable photo moments, just read this chapter, and you’ll be able to set yourself up to have your photos presented on the spot at any given moment Other people will see your photos, too, which can create more than a Kodak moment When someone sees that you’re wearing your photo on a T-shirt, for example, it could initiate a conversation that leads to a lifetime friendship You just never know
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Displaying your photographs in a traditional photo album has changed from the days when your photographs turned yellow inside plastic enclosures Almost all materials nowadays are acid free so that your photographs can last generations and stay relatively intact Albums today offer clear sheets (enclosures) that are archival, which means that they don’t contain acid, a substance that deteriorates photos over time
There are many websites where you can buy photo albums AlbumSource.com is one site that deals exclusively with photo albums (and portfolios for photographers) The site offers albums with slip-in pockets, scrapbook-style albums, wedding albums, three-ring binders, portfolios, and refills/accessories
One popular album, Item A1 (click on Albums with Slip-in Pockets on the homepage, and it’s the first album listed on the page), the Raika 102 leather double-page picture pocket album, holds 120 4×6 photos and is offered in 53 cover finishes This album contains 30 archival sheets The sheets are clear on one side and have a black background This album is refillable,
so you can get a maximum of 240 photos into it provided you buy extra sheets
Other albums for smaller photographs range from mahogany and wood albums, to bonded leather albums, to the large leather oval-window album that holds 300 photos They also have wedding albums Some of these include the gold oval-frame album, the silver-plated wedding album, the Maude Asbury white silken fabric album, and European rose memory books Last are the portfolio offerings Made by Prat, the outside cover is finished in black molded polypropylene finish The archival pages are clear with black mounting inserts Each binder comes with 10 sheets but will hold up to 30 sheets The portfolios are offered in 8.5×11, 11×14, 14×17, 17×22, and 18×24 You can comparison shop for portfolios by going to portfolios-and-art-cases.com, which I mentioned in the “What about Storing Prints?” sidebar
in Chapter 1
Putting Your Photos on Coffee Mugs
You can design and then buy (as well as sell) your own mugs with your photos on them at Zazzle.com (www.zazzle.com/custom/mugs) All you have to do is use the same procedure as described for ordering printed postcards online in the “Selling Your Photos as Postcards” section
in Chapter 8 Figure 9.1 shows a photo on a cup in the Zazzle editing window Coffee mugs with your photo on them cost $12.95 If you want to sell a mug (or any other product on the site) with your photo on it, you earn a minimum of 10 percent royalty of the standard price ($1.29 on the mug, for example) You can set the royalty rate higher, and Zazzle will add the increase to its price You earn all of the increase
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Shutterfly.com, click on Photo Gifts (at the top of the window, below the My Shutterfly, My Pictures, Share, Community, and Store tabs), and then click on Mugs, you’ll get to the window where you browse for the picture you want to be on your mug When you click Browse, a navigation window will appear on your computer Pick the image you want (in JPEG format) from your computer After you click Next, your picture will appear on a page where you can edit
it You click Next again, and you’re taken to a page where you can order the mug (from $11.19
to $12.79 depending on size and color) There is no feature where you can see your photo on the cup, like there is on Zazzle.com
Oh, let’s not forget Kodak You can make mugs there in much the same way as you do on Zazzle Go to kodakgallery.com > Shop > Photo Gifts Cups go for $12.99 and up
Ironing Your Photos on T-Shirts
Putting one of your photos on a T-shirt is easy The first thing you have to get (other than a photo) is specialty iron-on printer paper You’ll also need an iron, an ironing board (or other flat surface), and a computer
Figure 9.1 At Zazzle.com, you view your photos on coffee mugs before you order them.
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Finally, if you don’t feel like making your own T-shirts, you can order one with your photo on
it for $12.95 and up at Zazzle (www.zazzle.com/custom/tshirts) Zazzle handles PNG files (See the note after the “Getting Rid of Your Background” sidebar.)
You can also create a T-shirt for $19.99 with your photo on it at Snapfish (www.snapfish.com/ gifts/product=tshirt)
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Iron-on specialty paper is called transfer paper.There is a transfer paper designed for both light
and dark T-shirts Make sure you get the right transfer paper that’s compatible with the color
of the T-shirt upon which you are ironing an image
G E T T I N G R I D O F Y O U R B A C K G R O U N D
If you want to get rid of the background of your image, and you are printing on a T-shirt from
an iron-on transfer, all you have to do is cut out the part of the image you want on the T-shirt
If you’re ordering a T-shirt from an online seller, you have to upload a photo
If you want to put an image on a T-shirt using an online interactive editing program, you’ll have
to cut out the background in Photoshop (or Elements) first
To do this:
1 Open your image and save it with a new name Figure 9.2 shows my original image
2 In the Layers palette (Window > Layers), double-click the padlock, unlocking the Background layer
3 Select the Polygonal Lasso tool and type 2 px in the Feather field (in the Options bar)
4 Click the Polygonal Lasso tool around the part of the image you want cut out