Photo Stickers
As with photo magnets, you can create photo stickers by printing your images onto peel-off, sticky-back paper. You can buy paper that’s pre-scored in a variety of sizes and shapes. If you’re feeling more creative, print your photos onto un-scored, sticky-back paper and cut them into a custom shape like a heart or diamond. You can also cut out the subject of the photo itself, such as your pet’s face or a famous landmark from your vacation.

Photo Refrigerator Magnets
You can also print your photos directly to a magnetic media. Lay out a page of fridge-sized photos in your favorite application (Photoshop, PrintArtist, etc). This makes it easy to make multiple magnets of a single image or a collage of different photographs. Put a sheet of magnetic paper or self-stick magnets in your printer and run them off. You’ll need to let the ink dry a few minutes before cutting out your magnets.

Digital Photo Scrapbooks
We’ve all put photos in an album at one time or another. You might have even done “scrapbooking,” making special albums that not only include photos, but also captions, essays, travel brochures and fancy borders and backgrounds. This is a great way to make a book about a special event, like a vacation or holiday. But if you don’t like working with scissors and glue sticks, you can achieve similar results on your computer.

Instead of pasting photos on a sheet of paper, set up each page of your digital scrapbook as a computer file. You can work with a word-processing program such as Microsoft Word (www.microsoft.com), a graphics program such as PrintArtist (www.printartist.com) or even a special scrapbooking program such as Ulead’s My Scrapbook (www.ulead.com).

The process is simple. Import your images into the page layout, then type in text blocks for the captions and titles. Grab clip art from your graphics program’s files or download them for free from a variety of Websites (www.freegraphics.com, www.clip-art.com). If you want to include materials, such as brochures or tickets, scan and import those files onto your layout. When you’re finished, print each page on a high-quality matte paper and bind them into a traditional-style scrapbook.

If you have a Website, expand your site with pages from your scrapbook (be sure to add a forward and back link to each page). You can also burn a CD-ROM of your scrapbook files and mail it to friends and relatives. Although you could e-mail each page of your scrapbook, some friends and family members may not have a fast Internet connection, which allows for speedy download of large megabyte files.

Frames And Mattes
The whole mood of a picture can change when you add an appropriate frame and matte to it. Although pre-cut mattes are readily available, it’s much more interesting to have a matte that’s custom-designed to go with your picture. From the Web and clip-art software, you can obtain artwork for frames with graphics already in place for vacations, graduations and weddings. Add your own text captions onto the matte frames and print them. Using a heavy, matte paper provides a nice contrast with a glossy, finished photo. Carefully cut out the center of the matte and position it over your photo. You’ll have a one-of-a-kind frame for your favorite picture.

Photo Family Trees
If you’ve collected bits of family history, organize this material into a photo family tree. Scan old prints and retouch them for fading and tears. Don’t forget to include a nice shot of the current generation as well. Once all the photos are in your computer, it’s easy to convert them into a uniform size and format.

Next, add captions to the photos or print captions as separate text. Print all your photos and trim them, if necessary. If you have a smaller family, you might want to arrange all the photos in an antique picture frame. For larger families, mount your pictures on a large poster board, grouping them by generation.

In addition to printing the photo tree on a single page or multiple pages, you can create a Web version of your family tree. Instead of drawing lines to link generations, connect different family members by Web page links. A Website gives you the room to write longer stories about your ancestors than would fit on the poster version.

You can also scan other historical items such as passports, immigration papers, wedding announcements and birth certificates. Putting your family history on the Web makes it easy for other relatives to view it and may encourage them to make their additions to the family archives.

Photo T-Shirts
You don’t have to be a rock star to have your face plastered on a T-shirt. With your printer and iron-on transfer paper, it’s easy to put a photo onto fabric.

Select the photo you want, add a title or graphic and print the file to the dry-transfer material. Be sure to reverse the image left to right before printing it, as it will reverse when you transfer it onto the T-shirt.
Use a new, clean, all-cotton white shirt. Lay the shirt on a hard, flat surface (a formica countertop is ideal), making sure there are no wrinkles in it. Position the transfer material with your photo face-down on the shirt. Cover it with a towel and apply a hot, dry iron. The heat from the iron will transfer the ink from the printout to the fabric. Read the directions that come with the transfer material for specific details on the process and suggestions for washing.

Memory Quilts
It goes without saying that you have to be interested in sewing quilts to get into this project. Start by collecting the photos and scanning them into your computer. You could use a small number of images and print each one a number of times to make a repeating quilt pattern or gather several different images and use each one only once in a crazy quilt layout.

As with making photo T-shirts, print photos from your computer onto iron-on transfer paper (again, be sure to reverse the images left to right before printing). Apply the transfers to a good-quality white cotton cloth for the quilt. Trim any excess edges off each photo before making the transfer, then cut the cloth so the photos will fit into your quilt pattern. If someone else is making the quilt, give him or her the uncut cloth to cut for the quilt pattern. A variety of favorite photos could make a great gift for your quilter friends.