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Not every family has 11 children in it like this one. With Mom and Dad at 12, and the kids in birth order representing all the other times it really worked well. The clocks came in fun jelly colors and since I made 12, it really helped to do everything assembly line style. So it was print, print, print, trim, trim, trim, mount, mount, mount, assemble, assemble, assemble, wrap, wrap, wrap and it went pretty quick. I think I did the last 3 steps during one episode of ER.
Tools/ Equipment
Images
Get pictures. I started with I-Zone photos I took over
the course of a year.
Scan, Process and Layout
I scanned in the pictures, and color corrected them
in Photoshop. I then imported them into Quark Xpress. On a letter size document
I made a large circle the size of the clock face. Mark the center which can
be seen in the "view guides" mode with a small circle. I made a
horizontal line through the center of the circle, duplicated the line, rotated
it 30 degrees (360 degrees divided by 12) then duped and rotated the line
again and again. This is as a guide for photo placement. Group all the lines
so you can send them to the back if you don't want them to print.
I used photo boxes of equal size, some of the photos I cropped. Since some were horizontal, some vertical I couldn't center images directly on the hour mark, so I placed an orange dot to indicate hour. After a test print or 2 to further tweak color I was ready for assembly.
Print & Mount
Print out all the clock faces. If your clock has a face on it already (and
you can't remove it) you will need to mount your printouts
on heavier stock so the existing clock face won't show through. I used my
xyron to adhere these to ledger bond.
Carefully trim the faces out. Carefully cut a hole in the middle.
Assemble
Disassemble your clocks. Carefully remove the
cover, my plastic one was held together with tabs and slots. Now carefully,
yank the hands off of your clock, these are very light and delicate, so grip
them on the sides-don't just yank on them, they will bend. Slap some double
stick tape on the back of your printouts, if your clock is wall hung make
note of which way is up when you put on the clock face.
Put the hands back on, it's easy as they sort of nest and you can reset them to any time you want. Please note, if you choose to use a dark background image the black hands may not show, so adjust image color or paint the hands.
Ta Da! You're Done
Click here to look at a
close up of the finished clock, it looks sort of cool because the second was
moving while the image scanned, but the color and focus is a bit off because
of the distance of the clock face from the scanner. Neato!
