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Family Photo Projects

Labels are a necessity for jams, jellies, preserves, or other yummy food made in your or a friend's  kitchen. But the delicious product needs an equally delectable label. You can easily make a quantity of personalized labels with your computer and a basic photo-editing program.

• Photograph of the cook                                       
    
• Basic photo-editing program
    
• Word-processing program (unless your photo-editing program lets you add text)
    
• Self-adhesive 3 1/2 x 4-inch computer labels (such as Avery number 5164)

1. Scan the photograph and import it into your computer's photo editing program. If you don't have a scanner, have your film lab put the picture on a CD; then use your photo-editing program to import it into your computer.

2. Make any desired enhancements of the photo.

3. In your word-processing program, format the page for labels of the appropriate size. (In Microsoft Word, go to Tools>Envelopes and Labels; in WordPerfect, go to Format>Labels.

4. Type the desired words, using an appropriate size, font, and color. (We used a type font called Tiranti in sizes 28 and 20.)  You might write something like "From the kitchen of Jan Photographer" or "Aunt Jan's Peach Preserves."

5. Insert the photograph into the label, resizing and positioning it by following the instructions in the program's instruction manual. In Word Perfect, for example, go to Insert>Graphics>From File> file name.

6. If you like, add a border and color tint according to the program's instructions.

7. Make a sheet of labels according to your program's instructions.

8. Print.

9. Affix to jar.

You may want to make several dozen labels and give them as a gift to a jelly-making friend. If you do not have the capabilities for constructing the labels in your computer, you can assemble a label by hand and have it photocopied at a copy center.                       

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great Posted by: Emma Yates Jul 30, 2008 @ 8:56 AM EST

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