Easy DIY Photo Tricks

What did my husband and I do during the Holy Week? We stayed home... slept 'til 2PM (I'm not exaggerating… watched DVDs… cleaned our storage room… went through a million photos for the church commemorative book (okay, now I’m exaggerating)… and had fun with our digital photos! Let me share with you some of the really cool sites that allowed us to tweak and tinker with our pictures.

Our 1st Wedding Anniversary is just a week from now and in lieu of our original plan which is to take a trip abroad (due to budget and time constraints), we decided instead to host a special dinner exclusively for our marital godfathers and their wives and my husband’s best men (best friends too) and their SOs. It’s just going to be a small party for 20 people. We’re going DIY so we made our invitation using a template from this site called Silly Scenes and this is how our invitation came out.

I chose this template for its old world charm which complements our dinner party venue -- @ the Silid ng Bituin of the Adarna Food & Culture.

And then, for our tokens we thought of giving our guests a mock magazine cover as a souvenir photo. Hehe. Just for fun! There are a lot of sites that offer mock magazine cover tricks but we love Big Huge Labs because you can save your image without having to buy it from them and you can make it more personalized. Other sites have templates that cannot be altered. Although it’s low res, it’s pretty good enough to print out on 4R or 3R photo sizes. However, they do offer a High Res pass which is exclusive (I think) to Flicker subscribers. This pass allows you to order and/or save it as a High Res image. By the way check out the other tricks offered on this site. They’re so cool and user-friendly… and best of all idiot-friendly!

Aside from the magazine cover photo, we are also giving our guests a DVD which contains the following videos: Our full wedding coverage… Our pre-nup video that we weren’t able to show during our wedding ‘coz of technical glitches (sigh)… Our Sweet Life Interview with Lucy Torres… and a Photo Slideshow Video that features the events that happened in our first year of marriage. I edited this on my own using the Muvee Autoproducer 6 software that came with my HP Pavilion Notebook. It’s more fun than Windows Moviemaker because it’s got more cute templates and video effects.