Your Name in Pictures

There are lots of places where you can order a picture collage of your name made out of pictures of objects that look like letters, but I decided it would be more fun to do it myself. As a quick project, I photographed a bunch of items around the house that looked like the letters "R-O-S-A-T-I." In Lightroom, I edited my first photo with a B&W preset that I liked, applied a small post-crop vignette, and cropped the photo 1:1. I synced these settings to the other photos of of the other "letters" in my name so they all has the same general look and feel. After some quick adjustments to the crops, I was ready for printing. In the print module, I laid out the page to landscape and the letters in a single row with 6 columns with the contact sheet set as my layout style. Just add or remove columns for the number of letters in your name. Play around with the size of your cells to get the proper spacing between cells. The trick here was getting the letters to appear in the correct order. In the filmstrip at the bottom of the Print module, you have to click on the picture itself (not the border of the picture) in order to drag the photo the correct place in order. Of course, you can always print each photo individually and frame them across a custom mat. Above is my final result. It is not great, but was a fun exercise to get the creative juices flowing.