Photo courtesy of Joe Shlabotnik

Photos capture life’s special moments. Now your best photos can easily be turned into unique and thoughtful gifts for just about anyone. Here are some ways to create gifts with photos.

Magazine Cover

Turn a photo into a magazine cover. YourCover.com has 20 designs to fit a variety of themes from Mother’s Day to the birth of a baby. In as little as 10 minutes you can turn a photo into a custom magazine cover.

Board Game

Always loved Monopoly? Now is your chance to become the game with Photo-opoly. For $30 you’ll get everything you need to play– game board, property deeds, player pieces, houses and hotels. Plus the board comes with slots and labels so you can change Park Place into Uncle Jason’s house. Simply pull out your photos and a pair of scissors to personalize this family favorite.

Stamps

Put your face on a postage stamp– or your really cute niece. At Stamps.com you can easily turn something boring into a great gift. A sheet of 20 stamps costs between $5-$10 plus the cost of postage.

Children’s Book

Let a child in your life become part of their favorite book with Shutterfly’s CenterStage Books. Simply crop out the child’s head from a photo and upload it. The photo will be featured on the book’s cover and throughout the story. Choose from several titles including SpongeBob and Me: Super Detectives or My Happy Day on Sesame Street.

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One of the most popular personalized gifts is the PHOTO GIFT! Today I’d like to introduce one of my favorite websites that will help you transform your photo into a piece of Artwork! PHOTOFIDDLE.com makes it easy to upload your digital image and instantly turn it into various styles of art. Here is an example of a picture of my cat (Tippy) on a canvas on stretchers 18” x 12”:

A Little Bit of History

The Photofiddle.com website went online in June 2004 and not to long after the launch it received a bit of press from the Washington Post, USA Today, PC Magazine & more. The Washington Post called them “buzz worthy”, USA Today reviewed and picked them as the best, and PC Mag rated them 4 out of 5 stars. What really put Photofiddle.com on the map was when Oprah put them on the O list in 2006. Since then they have become one of the top sites on the Internet. Read more »

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Loved ones, especially grandparents, always want loads and loads of pictures. If you’re anything like me, you bore of getting pictures developed, trying to find creative ways to make them not just a lot of pictures in an envelope and then mail them off in multiple envelopes or in one large manila envelope. This time when you are planning a gift composed simply of a card with pictures in it, why not do it the right way with a Photo Book Read more »

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