When you do a screen print, it results in a .PNG file which is recognized as a photo in most of the photo software that is downloaded on your computer such as Blurb and iPhoto.
However, many of the web based applications ask for a .JPG file and you'll see that when you try to load a .png file up into their services, that they are grayed out.
Now it's my iPad that is sitting up on the counter rather than a cookbook. I keep all of my recipes in an app called Paprika, which enables me to download and personalize recipes from the web or enter them myself. This is a great help in the kitchen as it will scale any recipe to different sizes and I can forward them to friends by email.
For years, good friends of ours gave us a jigsaw puzzle as our annual family Christmas present and it has become a treasured holiday tradition for the four of us to slave over a puzzle of increasing difficulty. Whenever we finish the puzzle, we send them a photo of the finished product, then break it back into thousands of pieces and return it to them to give it a whirl. I thought it might be fun to create a puzzle for them from a favorite photo.
At our annual party, we always have a bowl or two of M&M's. I decided that this year it was time to see if anyone pays attention to what they are eating.
I admit that I never would have checked this out if I hadn't received a Groupon for $15 off, but in the spirit of the upcoming holiday season, I decided to give it a whirl.
Why not create a humorous cookbook for your new daughter-in-law, describing your son's eating habits, likes and dislikes over the years? I'm sure you'll be able to pull up some great baby shots with a face full of food, or maybe eating ice cream at the beach, or devouring his birthday cake when he was three.
Every day my kids used to bring home artwork from school and it was hung with great fanfare on the fridge, the windows and the doors of our kitchen. New creations took the place of the old in our ever changing gallery. Eventually, our favorite masterpieces were placed in huge bins in the attic, never to be seen again.
Why not preserve the best artwork and create a book? You can do it yourself, or turn to the experts....
When my kids were little they loved playing with wooden building blocks with their Dad. He always encouraged them to use every block in each creation. As our collection of blocks grew, this became more and more of a challenge - especially since we would seek out the most obscure shapes and buy only 1 of each because it was so fun to watch him struggle with his innate sense for symmetry.
I saw an animated version of Good Night Moon on the web and realized that I still knew every word. My college age son is considering updating his room and I realized that the new look would forever erase the personality piled into that space.
Why not take a book you love and personalize it for someone? In this story, we say Good Night to everything in my son's room.