| For the last few years photo puzzles have | | | | great way to create a collective memory of a |
| become increasingly popular and today they are | | | | special event such as a birthday, family reunion of |
| one of the most fashionable items people bye to | | | | anniversary. |
| turn their home photographs into souvenirs and | | | | There are a number of ways to create your own |
| gifts for family and friends. Some of the better | | | | photo collage for making into a puzzle. |
| photo puzzle web sites are offering customers | | | | The low tech way is to choose half a dozen or so |
| not only a wider range of jigsaws, but also an | | | | of your favourite photographs, printing them off |
| increase in the level of quality. As people look to | | | | and scattering them across a larger cardboard |
| create more and more unusual designs and ideas, | | | | sheet, page from a photo album or even the |
| the photo Jigsaw Puzzle industry has grown to | | | | carpet in your living room. Lay them out in order |
| meet these demands. | | | | or just randomly scattered at different angles, |
| The trouble with taking hundreds of digital | | | | slightly overlapping. Once you are happy with the |
| photographs is that they tend to stay on your | | | | layout, take a photo of the design from directly |
| computer and rarely see the light of day. it's | | | | above. It may sound basic, but it works and you |
| difficult to enjoy them in the same way. Enter | | | | get a nice digital photo collage the low tech way. |
| the personalized photo puzzle. Choose one of | | | | For something a bit more advanced, you can use |
| your great shots or perhaps an old family photo | | | | your computer to achieve the same effect with |
| and have it made into a personalized photo puzzle. | | | | your digital images. Free programs are available on |
| This makes a unique gift or keepsake and an | | | | the internet to allow you to create and save your |
| excellent way to record an event, occasion, | | | | own photo collage. Once such program is Google's |
| family get together or holiday. A photo puzzle is a | | | | Picasso software which is free to download and |
| much more fun and personal way to enjoy your | | | | allow you to create some great results. Let your |
| photographs. | | | | creative juices go wild and create some amazing |
| While a single photo works well, families today are | | | | family photo collage memories. Once you have a |
| becoming increasingly more imaginative when it | | | | finished photo collage layout, just save the |
| comes to creating personalized images. More and | | | | composite version as a single image file and |
| more people are creating composite images to | | | | upload it to the Photo Puzzle website. |
| create a photo collage rather than using a single | | | | It's easy to create a photo puzzle keepsake or |
| photograph. A photo collage as the name | | | | gift that is truly memorable and unique. |
| suggests involves more than one image and a | | | | |