For the last few years photo puzzles have become increasingly popular and today they are one of the most fashionable items people bye to turn their home photographs into souvenirs and gifts for family and friends.
Some of the better photo puzzle web sites are offering customers not only a wider range of jigsaws, but also an increase in the level of quality.
As people look to create more and more unusual designs and ideas, the photo Jigsaw Puzzle industry has grown to meet these demands.
The trouble with taking hundreds of digital photographs is that they tend to stay on your computer and rarely see the light of day.
it's difficult to enjoy them in the same way.
Enter the personalized photo puzzle.
Choose one of your great shots or perhaps an old family photo and have it made into a personalized photo puzzle.
This makes a unique gift or keepsake and an excellent way to record an event, occasion, family get together or holiday.
A photo puzzle is a much more fun and personal way to enjoy your photographs.
While a single photo works well, families today are becoming increasingly more imaginative when it comes to creating personalized images.
More and more people are creating composite images to create a photo collage rather than using a single photograph.
A photo collage as the name suggests involves more than one image and a great way to create a collective memory of a special event such as a birthday, family reunion of anniversary.
There are a number of ways to create your own photo collage for making into a puzzle.
The low tech way is to choose half a dozen or so of your favourite photographs, printing them off and scattering them across a larger cardboard sheet, page from a photo album or even the carpet in your living room.
Lay them out in order or just randomly scattered at different angles, slightly overlapping.
Once you are happy with the layout, take a photo of the design from directly above.
It may sound basic, but it works and you get a nice digital photo collage the low tech way.
For something a bit more advanced, you can use your computer to achieve the same effect with your digital images.
Free programs are available on the internet to allow you to create and save your own photo collage.
Once such program is Google's Picasso software which is free to download and allow you to create some great results.
Let your creative juices go wild and create some amazing family photo collage memories.
Once you have a finished photo collage layout, just save the composite version as a single image file and upload it to the Photo Puzzle website.
It's easy to create a photo puzzle keepsake or gift that is truly memorable and unique.