You can personalize a photo portfolio with items from your home.
Photography is a hobby that many amateurs participate in on a daily basis, with images of vacations, family outings and anything else worthy of the camera's lens. To bring these images together, photographers create homemade portfolios for all their images, and albums personalized to each individual's liking. You can make a homemade photo portfolio from everyday items around the house or that you can purchase at a crafts store.
Instructions
1. Select the photos that you want to include inside the portfolio. These images will be the photos that appear on the inside pages of your homemade portfolio. Any additional images that you may have can be used to decorate the outside covers of your portfolio. You can also use duplicates of images for decorations if available. If you do not have any extra images and want to use them all, then you can decorate the covers in a different fashion.
2. Decorate the outside covers of your homemade portfolio. You can use extra images that may be at your disposal or pictures from your favorite magazines. Cut the pictures so you can display a variety of images on the covers of the album. If you do not want to cut your pictures, you can cut images out of magazines and use those instead. Use the glue to place the images on the covers of the album.
3. Use the markers to write on the inside and outside covers of the portfolio. You may want to write the names of people whose pictures will be featured in the album or phrases and memories that are relative to each image.
4. Cut the construction paper to use as background border for each image. Color code the images to represent specific trips or times in your life before placing them in the portfolio.
5. Review the portfolio by turning through the pages. Make any adjustments as needed to ensure that the images appear just as you would like them. Place the portfolio to the side to allow it to dry.
