Scrapbooking with Negative Space
Here’s a fun way to add elements and flair to prints to tell the story…. Take a photo with the end in mind. Try snapping a few photos intentionally using negative space. Leave “blank” space somewhere in the photo by keeping the subject to one side. Ryder (my baby!) turned 11 years old last month. […]
Anna Aspnes for Persnickety Prints
Anna Aspnes has been sharing her unique style of digital storytelling since 2008. Anna takes an out of the box approach creating DigitalART tools for artists, photographers, crafters and modern memory keepers. Anna offers online classes to her ArtPlay™ methods where you’ll learn how to: Blend images and digital elements to create completed art projects. […]
5 Steps to Organizing and Ordering Photos for Memory Keeping
Hello friends and fellow memory keeping enthusiasts. About 4 months ago I made the switch from printing photos at home, to ordering my prints from the lovely folks here at Persnickety. In that time, I’ve developed a system for editing and ordering my photos that works wonders for me. This system allows me to have […]
Facebook is Not Photo Storage (Part 3)
If you’ve landed here, you may have read Facebook is Not Photo Storage 1 and Facebook is Not Photo Storage 2. Bottom Line: Facebook is a social platform. It was never intended to be used as cloud storage for our priceless memories. Social feeds compress images for various reasons, not only are there millions of […]
Facebook is NOT Photo Storage (Part 2)
Facebook users upload more than 3 million photos a day. That’s a lot of data to store and your facebook feed needs to load quickly or users won’t stay engaged, so to lighten the load, Facebook compresses your images. What does this mean? Your photos are tiny. Pixels are gone. Facebook was created for posting […]
Facebook is NOT Photo Storage -Part 1
Facebook and Instagram are not photo storage! These social platforms are in no way obligated to store our photos. DO something with your legacy, print your pictures.
Cuba
The life, the colors, the music, the people … aside from the communism, Cuba is a beautiful place. I’m thankful I could visit and capture Cuba with my lens before it loses its purity. Taking beautiful photos onlt to password protect them in a cloud seems silly. It’s so important to print our photos, tell […]
3 Tips to the Perfect Photo Wall
Photo Gallery Walls are great conversation starters and a perfect accent to any room in your home. We’ve got 3 tips to make them shine! 1. Tell A Story Make a personal statement in your home by creating a wall “story”. Photo Gallery Walls can also be used as a unique way to […]
Scrapbooking with Persnickety Memory Pages
Hello Everyone, my name is Aubrey and I am a member of the Persnickety Team. I recently had my first baby (a boy we named Nash:) and I’m creating his very first scrapbook of firsts! Scrapbooking can be very overwhelming and time consuming. I have never been good at keeping a journal or scrapbooking but […]
Tell Your Story with Adobe Spark
Recently, Adobe launched a new member to the Adobe Cloud Family: Adobe Spark. Adobe Spark is a simple, yet elegant tool helping users create engaging visual content and stories. We love storytelling and we’re loving Spark. I love their witty tagline: “An image is worth a thousand words, Adobe Spark is worth a thousand likes.” […]
Mobile Travel Journal Part 3
Go Pro Photos and Maps, it’s all in the details. If you know me, you know my strength is not journaling. I’m much better at speaking 🙂 Many words can be said with one photo, and mobile screen shots can print as a 3×4! Rather than writing on a journal card “we flew from Seoul […]
Scrapbooking with Studio Calico and Matte Photographic Prints
Hello and Happy New Year my memory keeping friends! I’m so excited to be back on the Persnickety blog, but I’m especially excited to be designing with the Studio Calico Roman Holiday Documenter Kit and using the flawless Matte photographic prints from Persnickety. For a previous project, I had created a two page documenter spread of […]
