My nephew Kellan, who will be 2 years old in March, loves seeing pictures of his family, so I decided to make him a family photo book of his own for Christmas!
I visualized a brightly colored book - just like other kids books. So I researched the idea of "green screen". I use Corel Paint Shop Pro and I found a tutorial about using the "color changing tool" - instructions.
Then I planned ahead and bought some green poster board at Dollar Tree. When all my family was at my house for Thanksgiving Eve, I took a picture of each of them in front of the green poster board. Then I wrote out my plan for the color layout of the book.
In the editing software I cropped to square (since I knew I wanted an 8x8 book) and changed the color of each picture.
Kellan
Hadley
Henry
Lance
Me (Lyndi)
Josh
Gia
For the inside layout, I put each picture on a page by itself and on the opposite page, I put the name of each person.
The finished product was so fun and colorful and the perfect size for a toddler. Kellan loved it!
