If you are reading this blog post now, it means you are a procrastinator or are reading this after Mother’s Day. Since I’m writing this just a few days before Mother’s Day, I’m the procrastinator. But no worries, what I’m going to write about here is an easy way to make a memorable gift for Mom using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and Photoshop Premiere Elements 7. Product details can be found here.
Let’s face it, while your mom or wife may really appreciate getting a gift certificate to the spa or a shopping spree or something like that, hand-made presents are really the way to go and leave the best impression. This is part of the reason why many schools work on some sort of craft a week or so prior to Mother’s Day.
Hand-crafting a gift is also less expensive in the long run, something that is pretty important this day and age. So what follows in this article is a project that you can do by yourself, with your siblings or your kids using the Adobe Elements suite.
Most mom’s are photo junkies and now with the proliferation of digital cameras and camera phones, your wife or mom has probably amassed a large amount of pictures on their hard drive somewhere. But that is probably the worst place for those photos. For one, not many people have access to them and two, there is no real permanency attributed to them.
So, why don’t you create a media rich DVD for Mother’s Day? It can have movies and slideshows, as well as an archive of the images or movies you used. And, with the Elements suite, it’s actually pretty easy to do. [click to continue…]
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