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Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas
A photo, an idea, and simple crafting skills are all you need to transform your pictures into useful, fun, giftable art. With clear DIY instructions, Photojojo! by Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensen shows you how to turn your forgotten photos into ingenious photo projects.
Do you have lots of pics of friends and family you want to show off? Make a sleek, stylish photo display rai...more
Do you have lots of pics of friends and family you want to show off? Make a sleek, stylish photo display rai...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
September 15th 2009
by Potter Craft
(first published 2009)
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I love Photojojo! I won this book in a Twitter contest they ran when it was released. But I was already an avid fan, so I was thrilled to receive it.
The great thing about this book is that it really encourages you to just go out and take pictures and show them to the world. This isn't a primer on how to take a perfectly composed photo, but it will show you how to take FUN pictures! A lot of the ideas are pretty simple to execute, like creating large photo mosaics for your wall, or turning every...more
The great thing about this book is that it really encourages you to just go out and take pictures and show them to the world. This isn't a primer on how to take a perfectly composed photo, but it will show you how to take FUN pictures! A lot of the ideas are pretty simple to execute, like creating large photo mosaics for your wall, or turning every...more
Fun!
Ideas:
CD jewel case frames. Trace an outline of the paper from the CD insert on cardboard. The cardboard inserts will back the photos and stop them from buckling. Crop your photo to exactly 5 3/8" x 4 5/8" to fit snugly in the back of the jewel case. Use velcro or removable adhesive to attach the jewel case to the wall.
Magnetic photo chain.
Attach ring connectors ("type a" from www.ballchain.com) to 72 (1.8m) steel ball chain -- they used 2 36" lengths.
Hammer a nail in the wall where you wan...more
Ideas:
CD jewel case frames. Trace an outline of the paper from the CD insert on cardboard. The cardboard inserts will back the photos and stop them from buckling. Crop your photo to exactly 5 3/8" x 4 5/8" to fit snugly in the back of the jewel case. Use velcro or removable adhesive to attach the jewel case to the wall.
Magnetic photo chain.
Attach ring connectors ("type a" from www.ballchain.com) to 72 (1.8m) steel ball chain -- they used 2 36" lengths.
Hammer a nail in the wall where you wan...more
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If this book was published in 2007, it would have meant a lot more to me, but it came out in 2009. It's not that the ideas don't have their place, but they are not especially my style or taste. The first half is focused on projects you can do with the photos you take - make a photo montage for your wall, for example, or a photo display rail or a stamp out of your photo. The second half is supposed to be inspirational - in case you are out of material, inspiration or motivation to photograph thin...more
Mar 20, 2011
Peggy
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone looking for different, inexpensive and creative uses for their camera and photos
This book was a fun and interesting read. It is a combination of easy, inexpensive photo projects and ideas for different ways to use your camera - designed to inspire creativity. It did supply me with a few ideas for projects I might consider. I liked the suggestions at the end of the book for playing with the camera in new ways - take a picture a day for 365 days (photo daily journal), create a fish eye lens from a peephole, a diffuser from a white film canister, choose an adjective and shoot...more
Already a fan of the photojojo website, when I spotted this book with a camera-harnessed dog on the cover, I couldn't resist!
I really go along with the idea behind the book, that people should do something with all those digital pics they take instead of just leaving them on their cameras/computers. The book has a fun, irreverent tone and lots of neat project ideas. I'd like to remember/try:
-Splitting up one photo into many smaller images, perhaps displaying in CD cases or making a photo puzzle
-...more
I really go along with the idea behind the book, that people should do something with all those digital pics they take instead of just leaving them on their cameras/computers. The book has a fun, irreverent tone and lots of neat project ideas. I'd like to remember/try:
-Splitting up one photo into many smaller images, perhaps displaying in CD cases or making a photo puzzle
-...more
I have occasionally seen posts from the photojojo blog and forum on a craft blog I frequent, and I have been taking pictures for about 8 months for a project I saw on that blog, so I was excited to see the same people had come out with a book of still more projects. There are some great ideas here, and many that I want to try. There is also a section on taking better pictures, and ideas for stretching yourself as a photographer. Me, I was really just looking for the craft part, and I certainly f...more
I liked this book. It was well done, with projects ranging from display ideas to making a tripod out of a water bottle. I'm sure people who consider themselves 'serious photographers' will not get much out of this book. The main focus is having fun, and they say as much when they recommend getting a point and shoot even if you own an SLR, because most people don't throw an SLR in their bag every day. Overall a fun interesting read.
Plenty of neat ideas and tips on how to improve your photography and how to use the photos. Some projects are super easy, like turning a empty tea light tin into a photo stand. Other projects require the use of camera that has an adjustable shutter speed. All in all, it's a good book to take a peep at to get the creativity juices flowing.
This is the "crafty" end of photography, namely all kinds of things that you can make using your photographs, digital or otherwise. No particularly my cup of tea. On the other hand, there are interesting techniques and cheap hardware hacks that could be useful or, at least, stimulate ideas.
I love photojojo's ideas, but most of the ones in the book weren't meant for dSLR users, it was as if they were trying to appeal to the 14 year old girls out there. Also, each project would have cost a lot of money in quality printing to do right.
This book has some surprisingly great ideas and inspirations. Also, the tone is fun, funny, wry, and upbeat. I could tell the authors REALLY put in a lot of hard work. Now off to start my own 365 photo project...
Thoroughly fun creative book about various things you can do with digital cameras: how to take pictures, suggestions for doing weird things with pictures, camera hacks, organizational ideas.
It took me nearly the entire month of January to read this book because it's not a "sit down and read all in one sitting" kind of book. In fact, it's really more of a reference book for when you're feeling creative (which I was not this month). What makes it better than a reference book is the humor, random facts and great photographs within the book. I almost feel inspired to start working on some projects. I will once the weather is better and I'm not overtired and grumpy!
There are some really great ideas in this book for taking interesting pictures and making some creative photo-related goodies.
By Internet smartypants Amit Gupta and former Mutter Museum cataloger Kelly Jensen. I like the photo album in an Altoids tin.
Have been wanting to get some of my own pictures up on our walls. This book provided me with some great ideas to try.
I love the idea of taking a photo of everything you buy. And the lollipops.
Whimsical and fun!
Whimsical and fun!
what an amazing book! such great ideas! i'll definitely be trying them all!
Great to inspire... Didn't try any of the projects, though.
this book has amazing ideas!!! can't wait to try them all!
this is a great book for diy projects that take your fotos to the stars
Here are some of my favorite projects from this book:
Photo tattoos
Photo cupcakes
Human Calendar
Laptop Sleeve
photojojo.com (rules)
Photo tattoos
Photo cupcakes
Human Calendar
Laptop Sleeve
photojojo.com (rules)
I love Photojojo, but this book was really disappointing. Most of the projects in this were pretty tacky and not too exciting. Stick to the blog for better content.
Pretty cool. Mostly of the Ready Made (magazine) feel for me. Which means I liked it, it offered some ideas and inspiration, but was mostly not my style. It did give me some ideas for photo gifts for the men in my life I can't sew for. Even if it wasn't all my style it was still a fun read and very nicely designed, organized, written and compiled.
this book was kind of a letdown, the crafts seemed very narrow in scope, and the whole book isn't even projects, most of it is techniques for takig cool pictures. i think it would be great if you had never seen any of those techniques before, however. i'm just jaded i guess!
Absolutely LOVED this book!! I can't wait to start on my own diy projects!
Lots of good projects.
May 14, 2013
Sónia Coelho gomes
marked it as to-read
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