summer in snapshots {week one} and a simple way to make a photo collage {tutorial}

Last week I mentioned that I’d be playing along with Amber of Starfish Jewelry and taking a photo each day to document our summer. Did you do it too? Here is our week in snapshots:

I’m linking up at Starfish Jewelry Designs … click the button below to link up too.

I’ve been asked a few times how I create my photo collages {you can see more examples here and here}. And now I will give out my secret.

That’s right. There’s no fancy photoshop steps involved … just Google’s pretty amazing free photo-editing software called Picasa.

There are lots of different ways to edit your photos and as I get more into photography, I’m learning more about how important editing is. But Picasa has been a great resource for me {especially since it is simple and free} and is what I often use for my photos on the blog.  You can download it HERE.

Once you have it installed on your computer, import your photos either from your camera or from a file on your computer. You can learn more about the editing features on the picasa site, but feel free just to play around – they make it pretty easy.  Okay, on to the tutorial …

When you open picasa and have photos uploaded, it will look something like this:

Now you can select the photos you would like to put in your collage