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| A sample of a DIY photo collage for a birthday present |
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CONCRETE INDICATION that Filipinos would admire and love personalized gift
items is the several selfie shots posted on their Facebook walls for the
umpteenth times. This is something that has gone viral over the internet in
parallel with the increasing popularization of social networking sites. While this
is such contemporary phenomena that I have yet to rationalize why similar poses
bearing variations of facial expressions are uploaded more than twenty times on
the same album in one site, we can draw inspiration from this obsession to help
us think of creative and practical personalized gift items.
Suffice
it to say, anyone who finds simple joy in their subtle narcissistic behavior by
admiring their faces over and over again would surely fancy ripping open a gift
box that contains a picture of their face multiplied to a hundredth times. What
I mean to say is a framed photo collage
for the selfie aficionado!
A
framed photo collage for a holiday or birthday present may take a bit of your patience,
effort and time combined to create, yet not impossible to make. With the
numerous free photo-editing software and applications you can find over the
net, you can compile two to a hundred photos in a single poster-size page in
just a few minutes. Moreover, it is fun and interesting to explore your
creativity as you compile assorted photos of various shots – through Adobe
Photoshop, Instagram, Picasa and Line Photos, to name a few – in one collage poster,
according to the colors and designs you fancy. A simple greeting in text
messages that goes with these photos would make it even more meaningful for the
recipient.
And
with several Chinese one-stop shops in towns all over the country, you can grab
a 50 to a hundred-peso worth of an acceptable quality glass poster-sized frame
to house and protect the photo collage you have personally printed. Voila! A
selfie-loving person would surely giggle with excitement to see what you have
prepared for her.
While you may just be magnifying their self-obsessions, even encouraging
their narcissism, it is also satisfying and self-fulfilling to know that
something you have spent your time, energy, creativity and efforts on would
surely be treasured and cherished.
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