Using any of these resources will give you a great range of possibilities for creating a vision board suitable for your needs. For creating a quick vision board on the fly its very usable, available, and FREE. Again the layout is pretty standard but not bad looking. This site offers you the tools to take the URLs of images you find online and dump them into a collage online. The one that I looked at before writing this article is called Collagr. If you don’t want to download and install software (even for free), or maybe you aren’t near your own computer but still have Internet access there are several online image editors and collage makers. But it’s a much less complicated procedure. Your layout choices are much more limited. That takes your photos and arranges them for you on the page to create the collage/vision board. This is a free download from Google for photo editing and they have recently added a “collage” feature. The learning curve is the steepest but the larger freedom to create is well worth it.Īnother free piece of software is Picasa. Once you’ve learned the basics of Cut-and-Paste, Resizing, and Layers, you are on your way to creating any type of collage or photo mosaic you could need. If you are completely new to image editing you can find tutorials all over the web and some very good video tutorials on YouTube. While Photoshop will set you back hundreds of dollars, GIMP is absolutely free. This is a very powerful software package that is a fantastic image/photo editor, nearly on par with Adobe Photoshop. The first software package I am recommending is GIMP. You may have some already on your system but if you don’t there are several packages you can choose from and some of the best ones are absolutely free. Instead of using a software package dedicated to vision boards (though I imagine they would work just as well) you can use any photo editing software. To start, I am recommending a digital approach to creating this vision board. The two parts being the creation of the actual board and the production and distribution of the finished product. It’s a two-part approach that may require a small learning curve (but not much more of a curve than learning to use a dedicated vision board software). My approach gives you the best of both worlds with a few added benefits. The pictures are “you” but the arrangement is the creation of the software designers. While the screen savers are very cool and all, fitting your goals into the software’s template takes a lot of “you” out of the equation. You need bigger space for your big plans. However I find that an 8.5×11 printout of a vision board is really selling yourself short. You can print a copy and keep it with you and its probably okay to have it as a screen saver on your computer at work. The digital versions of the vision board cover some of these problems. Its not very practical to carry a large piece of foam-core with you throughout your day, but wouldn’t it be cool if you had it with you more often to keep it in sight and therefore in mind? Keeping it over your desk may keep it in sight but unless you can really personalize your workspace it may not be an option. You may place it on your bedroom door, but there it stays.
The limiting factor is also what makes it so special. The way they are laid out is a reflection of your own artistic personality and means a lot to you (even if its only subconsciously). The hand-made, cut-and-paste version, is big and beautiful and full of your own energy. However you make your vision board, it’s a good thing. You can then use it as a screen saver on your computer or, in some cases print it out on a regular 8.5×11 sheet of paper.īoth of these methods are highly effective, but each is a bit limiting in its own way. You surf the Internet and find the images (or scan them), then plug them into the software and you get a pre-made template of a board with your own images pasted into it. More recently there have been several types of software that let you create vision boards on your computer. For instance over your desk or on your fridge or bedroom door. You then place this board in a spot where you could see it often and regularly. When you are done you have a collage of the things in life you are gunning for. You would take a poster board or a foam-core board and a stack of magazines and start to cut out images and words that represent you and the things you are aiming for, and gluing and/or taping these images and words to the board. Traditionally, creating a vision board was an exercise in arts and crafts.
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