Before and After Photographs

Photos I took of a relative and the modifications I made to them. The pictures were taken between October of 2009 and March of 2010 with a Nikon D40, and I used Fireworks CS4 to make the changes. More details on each image.

      

Family Cards

Forty laminated credit card-sized pictures with initials and color-coordinated backgrounds (more on the color scheme below).

These were made to help keep track of who's who on both sides of the family, but they have been used in many other ways, too.  The letters are good for learning the alphabet, the family groupings allow games of Go Fish, and there are many different ways to rearrange by type (to see which side of the family has more members, to see if there are more boys than girls overall, to see how many people wear glasses, etc.).

Colors indicate relationships (all cousins have a blue background, for example), and the letters are placed to show maternal or paternal relationship (letters for people on the father's side are on the left, those for the mother's side on the right, as below).

Family Contact Info Sheet

A single-sheet summary of the addresses, phone numbers, and birthdays of 18 people in six households.  The overall dimensions are just right for printing on 8 by 10 photo paper, making it easy to get a high-quality hard copy from the digital file.

Note that the information shown has been scrambled and fictionalized (even images are not of the people that appear in the original).