Great Photo Gift Ideas

The Internet can make your window shades and wall coverings less boring. A new service called OrangePiel lets you create custom-designed window treatments and wallpaper using any digital photograph you choose. To get started, just upload a JPEG of the image you want-a photo from your trip to the beach or a scan of a drawing your kid drew in art class. Once you've selected an image, decide whether you want it on roller shades, seamless wallpaper or a fine art print. Fill in your measurements (they can create images up to 16 feet x 16 feet in size), then use their scaling tool to customize the image to your liking. Designs start at $79, and shipping is free.

I love editing photos, but when you have the photos say from a wedding, a reunion or a graduation you might want a professional touch. Tucia can add a person into a family portrait or remove an unwanted stranger from your photo. They can digitally open up closed eyes or fix hair. They can also offer glamorize and digital cosmetic enhancement options - get a tan, clear acne or remove braces. Simple touch-ups such as digital camera mark or red eye removal and cropping are also available.

Piczzle offers a vast range of jigsaw picture puzzle designs from which you can make your personalized picture puzzle. Custom puzzles are all about creativity and originality. Piczzle gives the power to design and create an original picture puzzle gift to the customer: by offering a unique variety of picture puzzle shapes (rectangular puzzles, round puzzles, heart shaped puzzles) and sizes (Small puzzles - XXGiant puzzles), number of jigsaw puzzle pieces (5-1800).

Now this is not your everyday gift - unless you have more wall space than you know what to do with, but Online Poster Printing is a great resource for these out of the ordinary gifts.

Though I have wanted to, I have never tried Online Poster Printing myself, but just recently I got to see a vinyl banner that a neighbor ordered for their Church. The quality of the banner and the photo was awesome!

Not your everyday gift, but when size matters give this a try!

At DAZZ.com they eliminate the background of your digital photo and DAZZ (restyle) it into a collection of digital art calledl 'Photostyles' to give your photo gifts more of a designer look. The Photostyle creation service is free of charge with no obligation to buy.

What you do is create an account on the DAZZ.com website and upload a photo that you would like printed on things like mugs, mousepads, t-shirts, teddybears, snowglobes, jigsaw puzzles etc. The 'DAZZigners' strip out the background and create a collection of so-called photostyles (e.g. Flowers, Heart, Sepia, Pop Art, etc.) centered around the main person in the photo.

DAZZ.com then lets you preview a bunch of items and also put together a video that shows a number of items in a sequence which should help make up your mind. For each type of item, you also get to see a separate animated video clip showing you the personalized gift in question in a relevant setting. (screenshots embedded below)

The biggest downside of DAZZ is that it takes several hours to get your photo style previews ready, so it's not the most ideal way to trigger impulsive purchases. However, the extreme benefit is a photograph with a professionally touched up background all ready for placement on great gift items!

We hate getting rid of jars. We're so sure they'll come in handy someday, but in reality a person can only use so many jelly-jar glasses.

We're happy to say we've finally found a use for our motley collection of pickle jars, soda bottles and assorted glass receptacles: frames!

It's so simple we can't believe we didn't think of it before: just slide a photo into a jar, turn it upside down and display your upcyclin' genius for all to see.

Visit this site for how to make a glass photo jar in just minutes!

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Photofiddle.com allows users to create art from photos with free online photo effects software. Photofiddle will transform any picture into art with over 50 photo art styles to choose. Select from oil painting, Warhol pop art, watercolor painting, modern art, abstract art, Leroy neiman art style, Lichtenstein art style, outline sketches, color pencil sketches, photo collages, impasto art, film strip photo collages and more. Have them add a photographic tint like a sepia tint, blue tint, red tint, or green tint to any photograph. Wall size canvases can get expensive, but I was surprised and pleased that smaller sizes are well within reach - particularly as a nice gift.