Thing 11: Photo Fun!

This "thing" was actually a new experience for me! It was to find and customize an image on an online image generator. Like the Brevard County blog post about this "thing", I think that online image customizers would be useful to generate images for PowerPoint presentations, brochures, and other items that librarians create on a regular basis. They even suggested creating a calendar with images created using these generators. The one that I chose to use was Big Huge Labs  which allows you to create trading cards, jigsaw puzzles, and do other fun image creations.

For my image, I used the Hockneyizer, which creates a unique photo collage a la David Hockney. Since I recently visited London, and Hockney was based there for a time, I thought I would take one of my photos from my trip and turn it into something cool. Later, I want to try out creating a jigsaw puzzle out of an image--I want to make one of my family to make into a Christmas gift for my Grandpa (he loves jigsaw puzzles, and I thought it might be special to create one that means something). So, I tried the Hockneyized photo with one of my snapshots from my trip to England. It too a couple of tries to get the right number of Polaroids so that it was clear what the image was--Here is a photo of me in front of Big Ben! I was very lucky to stay at the dorms at the King's College Stamford Street campus, and was only 2 or 3 blocks away from the South Bank of the Thames. It was a wonderful experience!

What sorts of image generation/customization have you tried and liked? Or what have you tried and didn't like? What tools do you think are especially relevant and fun for libraries?