Photoshop® Elements 7 for Dummies®

Chapter 18. Ten More Project Ideas

In This Chapter

• Decorating your computer screen

• Advertising in flyers and online auctions

• Decorating your duds

• Going big with posters

• Creating a household inventory or project documentation

• Sprucing up your homework

So, you posted all your holiday and vacation photos in an online gallery and made enough photo books, slide shows, flipbooks, and greeting cards to keep your family and friends content for months to come? Sounds like you may be ready to take a crack at some other projects. In this chapter, you can find some ideas on how you can use your inventory of digital images to make your life more productive, more organized, and more fun. Remember that this chapter just scratches the surface. With a little imagination, before you know it, there won't be anything left in your life that doesn't include your photos.

Wallpaper and Screen Savers

If you like an image so much that you want to gaze at it while you're toiling away at your computer, why not use that image for the background of your computer, better known as the desktop wallpaper? If you can't choose just one favorite image, you can use several to create a multi-image screen saver.

Note

If you're serious about image editing, you really should have a neutral gray background. But as long as your wallpaper isn't showing while you do your color corrections, feel free to decorate your desktop with your favorite ...