I’ve had a few questions about the Month-in-Photos project and thought I’d address them quickly. January already seems to be flying by and at this rate it’ll be time to create the very first photo collage of 2012 at the end of this month!! Yikes! 🙂
If you haven’t read about the Month-in-Photos project yet, visit this post for details. If you have any other questions besides the ones answered here, feel free to leave a comment on this post and I’ll answer them as soon as I can. 🙂
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The first thing I’ve had a few people wondering is, if you have to use the collage template I created to participate in the monthly link up for the Month-in-Photos project.
The answer is “Heck no!” I know a lot of you may not have access to Photoshop or Photoshop Elements which you do need to use my templates. Please feel free to use any collage format you’d like! I know some people enjoy using Piknik and I’ve used the Bighugelabs mosaic maker and really love it too! There are definitely other options available to you and I’d encourage you to use whatever format works best for you to document your photos! 🙂
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I’ve had a few people wondering how I’d be incorporating journaling when its time to put my yearly album together. I won’t be including the journaling within the collage itself. When I create my printed albums {whether they’re photo books or handmade albums} I’m planning to make each month a two page spread and include brief journaling highlighting the months events on the page opposite the photo collage from that month. Here’s just a quick image to give you an idea of what I mean:
Each month as I blog my photo collage I include the journaling to go along with the photos within the blog post. When it’s time to put my album together at the end of the year it will be pretty easy since all the photos already be organized and I can easily access all the journaling that I’ve recorded on my blog.
I actually just ordered prints of my 2011 photo collages {from Costco} and am excited to put together my little album from the year. I’m hoping to post images and how-to’s on that in the coming week so you can see how I do it. The collage template from 2011 isn’t a standard size so I’ll share with you my solution for printing the photos, along with the finished album.
If you have yet to put your 2011 photos together in their monthly collages and dont want to use the 11″ X 6″ non-standard size, I did create a 12″ X 12″ version of the template which can easily be incorporated into a photo book or printed on its own through a photo lab like Persnickety Prints that offers 12″ X 12″ prints. You can download the 12X12 version of the 2011 template here.
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For those of you wondering when the Month-in-Photos fun will start, I’ll be posting the linky the first of each month unless the first happens to fall on a holiday or on a Sunday. The linky for January will go live Wednesday, February 1st and I’ll leave it up for a week to give ya’ll a chance to put your photo collages together and get them posted online. To participate in the linky all you have to do is post your collage somewhere online {can be your blog, flickr, etc.} then pop over to Simple as That and leave your link in the Month-in-Photos post so everyone else can see your fun photos!
Copy and paste the html code for the Month-in-Photos button below and include it in your post online so people can pop by Simple as That where the’ll find everyone else’s links and maybe even decide to join in the fun themselves!
So, are we ready to do this! You’re totally gonna love it! Especially at the end of the year when you’re looking at your cute collection of photos and admiring all the memories you created in 2012! I just love seeing our year at a glance like this and I’m pretty sure you will too!
If you have any other questions for me feel free to ask away!
Rebecca Cooper is a 42-year-old wife and mother of four from Alberta, Canada. As a photographer, crafter, author, and blogger, she finds joy and fulfillment in celebrating everyday moments. She loves to read and eat chocolate, and is a firm believer in afternoon naps. Rebecca shares her family’s adventures, photo tips, simple craft projects + more right here at Simple as That.
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I love this idea, every time I visit your lovely blog I am inspired. xo
That’s such a great idea! Might have to do some in hindsight though or should I just start now? Decisions decisions.
I missed this somehow on the first time around – but I am so excited about it!
@LianneWe haven’t started 2012 yet so feel free to join the fun this year if you’d like. 🙂
@Nessa BixlerI’m excited that you’re excited Nessa! It’ll be so fun! 🙂
Oh how fun, I’d love to link up for this. I take way to many photos so this would be awesome 🙂
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FOr some reason I have having trouble downloading the psd files. And I even have a media fire account! When I click download it just refreshes the page instead. I have tried it on both computers and using both Firefox and Explorer. Is anyone else having this kind of trouble?
I just downloaded the 2011 12×12 template but it seems I don’t have your fonts on my computer so I’m having trouble changing the year etc. Can you tell me what fonts you used? Thanks so much. Excited to try this monthly photo collage. I think it will help me stay on top of family photos.
@HanniHi there Hanni! I’m so excited you’ll be joining us…can’t wait to see your fun collage for January! As for the fonts used in the 2011 template they are fashion compressed and odestemplik. You can find the download links in this post: http://rebeccacooper.blogspot.com/2010/12/month-in-photos.html
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Hope that helps.
Thanks for answering the question about the font. I appreciate it so much. I just finished adding all my photos for January but I’m having trouble changing the background color. I’m sure it’s something really easy. If so, could you tell us how?
@HanniHanni, all you need to do is click on the layer with the background colour, using your marguee tool select the coloured area, right click and select fill then choose your colour. 🙂