Photo Collage Frames

Our walls are bare! I hate decorating. It gets in the way of daily life. Normally, I despise when I have a collage frame to put up on the wall, but I came up with an easy solution the other week.

Take your Matte from your frame, and scan it (provided you still have one of these ancient devices - ;-)

Open it in Photoshop and make this a new layer and ghost it.

Add all your image you want in your collage and resize and position them in the "holes" of your matte. Then when you are finished adding images, discard your "matte" layer, flatten your image and print it.

Luckily, I have a wide format printer, so I was able to do one single print that was easy to glue down and put in the frame.

PVC Backdrop Pole for Muslins

Looking for an easy way to hang your background muslin? I was just "clamping" mine to my backdrop stand till I saw this idea at a photo seminar a few weeks ago.

They took a 10' - 1.5" thick PVC pipe and drilled holes through one half of the end of the PVC pipe. These holes are used to slip over the top of your background stands (but you go halfway to the "top" of the pipe prevents the PVC from sliding down to the floor.)

Then, I took my Muslin and duct taped it to the PVC rod on both ends and lengthwise. To hang the muslin, just sit the Pipe over your stands… and to store it, just pop it off the top and roll it up and store it with your background paper. Pretty simple easy solution. I like those!