Sooooo.....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Heh, now that I think of it, I don't think I've been back in since the rebranding. I'll have to check.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It's freaking beautiful out this morning. All the snow on the trees. A veritable winter wonderland

You should take some pictures and start a thread about it!

[Morrigoon]

I stayed up through the night last night because I got caught up doing this cool project (for no particular reason other than I thought it would be interesting and that the family might appreciate it). It's a photographic family tree. In my family this sounds easier than it is. Branches everywhere due to multiple marriages, kids on both sides, one person dropping down a generation because my ex-sister-in-law's little brother married my brother's (her ex-husband)'s daughter from his first wife (can you tell which part of the family is in Texas?), and because there are non-related family members that I felt compelled to include because they're related to so many others on the tree.

Anyway, my family tree-squiggle came out pretty cool. It's technically not done, because I'm missing a few pictures/names, but it's awfully damn complete all things considered, and tracks up to 6 generations down, from my great-grandmother and great-grandfather down to my cousins' grandchildren.

Not sure how well it'll come out online (the real file is 20"x30", so I had to compress it down, and I'm sure photobucket compresses further), but here is the fruit of my labor.

Spoiler:

edit: aw cr@p... how did my grandmother's name go missing?

[MouseWife]

I don't know how you could organize all of that...it is awesome!!

yeah, families aren't always so easy to organize. I was going to White Page my mothers' sisters to find out how old they are {I don't know}. I then realized I don't know their LAST NAMES!!!

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

I stayed up through the night last night because I got caught up doing this cool project (for no particular reason other than I thought it would be interesting and that the family might appreciate it). It's a photographic family tree. In my family this sounds easier than it is. Branches everywhere due to multiple marriages, kids on both sides, one person dropping down a generation because my ex-sister-in-law's little brother married my brother's (her ex-husband)'s daughter from his first wife (can you tell which part of the family is in Texas?), and because there are non-related family members that I felt compelled to include because they're related to so many others on the tree.

Anyway, my family tree-squiggle came out pretty cool. It's technically not done, because I'm missing a few pictures/names, but it's awfully damn complete all things considered, and tracks up to 6 generations down, from my great-grandmother and great-grandfather down to my cousins' grandchildren.

Not sure how well it'll come out online (the real file is 20"x30", so I had to compress it down, and I'm sure photobucket compresses further), but here is the fruit of my labor.

Spoiler:

edit: aw cr@p... how did my grandmother's name go missing?

Perfect!

We've been planning a family photo wall for quite some time. This is just the inspiration I needed. Doing this wall sized with all the lines and everything would be cool. I wonder if I could find a place to custom print photos from that sticky vinyl stuff.

[Morrigoon]

I chose 20x30 because it's the largest poster-sized print at Costco. They have an online thing where you can upload your photos, FWIW.

Also, the clusters are multiple photos of the same person (tried to have younger/older when possible), and of course spouses.

Red lines correlate to actual relatives, and blue are not exactly relatives (for example, the line between my grandmother and her first husband, who is not my dad's father, but is my aunt and uncle's father, and the line from him to my aunt & uncle's other half-sibling). Or from my dad to his first marriage and from him to his current wife.

You may also notice (only if you look REALLY closely) that there are light gray lines separating the "generations".

The lines worked pretty well until I got to my ex-sister-in-law's brother, who should be on her generation line, but I dropped him down a level because he married my brother's daughter from his first marriage (making my niece her own ex-aunt-by-marriage or something) and they recently had a child (whose picture I don't have digitized, so he's just a name at the bottom)

My recommendation is start with a HUUUUUGE canvas, keep the pictures relatively small, and keep the file uncompressed because you'll be shifting things around a LOT. Oh, and I started out with a vertical canvas, but figured out fairly quickly that I was going to need to go horizontal. Also if you do clusters, you can always link the layers (each cut and pasted image lands on its own layer) together to move clusters as one, which helps.

Also, lining up generations and putting a clear space between them was very helpful in keeping it organized, even when I'm squishing multiple people's kids together on the lower generation lines, having that space meant the lines of descent are pretty clear, which is really what you want.

[Disneyphile]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I wonder if I could find a place to custom print photos from that sticky vinyl stuff.

You mean you won't do it as a hand-painted portrait mural?

Amateur.

[lindyhop]

Could somebody explain Facebook to me?

[Kevy Baby]

Its a book

With faces on it

[JWBear]

Whose stupid idea was it to have the day start in the morning?