Inspiring ideas for photo presents, decorations, and more

Giving away joy with the Photo Service App from ifolor

13. Jun

The Gift Booklet with your best holiday photos can be designed quickly and easily. We show you how easy it is.

Tips and gadgets for perfect festival photos

11. Jun

The festival summer has begun. We'll show you how to best capture your festival memories photographically.

Ready for Takeoff – Smart travel preparations

07. Jun

Traveling can be so easy. We show you five smart apps that are essential for your travel preparations.

10 Tips for Unforgettable Holiday Photos

06. Jun

Going on holiday? Hoping to take breath-taking photos? These ten tips will ensure fabulous holiday pictures.

Capturing Holiday Memories for Eternity

06. Jun

Unique holiday photos are a nice reminder of your trip. We give you creative impulses and show you tips coming from a professional.

Plan a Birthday Blowout: 5 Tips with Our Handy Checklist

05. Jun

Plan your birthday party without stress: with our tips and practical checklist, you’ll manage in a jiffy.

5 tips/ideas to get the most out of your holiday photos

20. May

Whether it’s city breaks, beach or adventure holidays – 5 tips/ideas to get the most out of your holiday photos

Photo Book Tips – Creative work with the ifolor Designer (MAC OSX)

14. May

You want to create a unique Photo book with your Mac quickly and easily? We will show you how to use the ifolor Designer in the video tutorials and manual below.

Photo Book Tips – Creative Work with the ifolor Designer (Windows)

09. May

Have you downloaded the ifolor Designer software yet? We'll guid you trough the steps to creating the perfect photo book in this article, video tutorial and handbook.

The Photo Book Deluxe – Inspirations for your individual photo book

02. May

Design a slightly different photo book with ifolor Photo Book Deluxe. You will find instructions and inspirations here.

Photographing flowers made easy

29. Apr

Flowers are especially photogenic and multifaceted. Here you’ll find tips for taking the perfect flower photo.

ABC Book for Small Children

29. Apr

A special photo book for children combines personal things they’re accustomed to with the alphabet: a simple idea to motivate them to learn their ABC’s and make the whole process a bit easier.

The Travel Yearbook

29. Apr

Create a breath-taking travel yearbook with the best photos from your unforgettable travel experiences and special moments. Let yourself be inspired!

Photo Book Fast

29. Apr

Creating a photo book can be quite time-consuming. With these tips you’ll be able to design your own personal photo book in less than 4 hours.

Photo Gifts for Mother's Day

25. Apr

Make your mother especially happy on Mother's Day with creatively designed ifolor photo gifts.

Mother’s Day Gift Idea: Herbs Planted in Photo Mugs

25. Apr

Give your mother a piece of spring this Mother’s Day: brilliant self-designed photo mugs from ifolor with culinary herbs planted inside.

A Personalised Photo Book for Mother’s Day

25. Apr

Spoil your mother with memories: we show you how to fill a personalised photo book with your favourite moments.

Simply great family photos

25. Apr

Whether it’s on holiday, at home or doing your favourite hobbies: memories should be captured so that you can relive them time and time again. We show you tips & tricks for how you can take great photos of your loved ones to make your snapshots look even more impressive.

Crafting with Children for Mother’s Day

24. Apr

We present to you 4 great crafting ideas with photos that are perfect for doing crafts together with kids for Mother’s Day. Discover this now!

How to create a garden diary out of a photo book Spiral

24. Apr

Five ideas for a creative Mother’s Day gift

24. Apr

Mum blogger Isabelle Kade from “Mini und Stil” shows 5 creative ideas on how you can surprise your Mum on Mother’s Day

Pro Tips for Designing a Travel Photo Book

23. Apr

Instagram pro Martina Bisaz puts together 7 tips on how you can make the most beautiful photos from your trip last forever in a great photo book.

Gift a Heart of Photos This Mother’s Day

16. Apr

This Mother’s Day, design a heart mosaic out of photos, or create a digital photo collage for a poster.

The Perfect Wedding Invitation

11. Apr

The invitation card to a wedding is much more than “just” a card...

A Photo Mug Gift for Your Host This Easter

11. Apr

A lovely table decorated with hand-made Easter decorations adorned with a feast of tasty treats - your hosts for this year’s family Easter celebration definitely deserve a bit of attention themselves! You can create your own individualised gift for your host in the blink of an eye by designing a photo mug from ifolor - personalise it with a funny, modern, or traditional touch or even with your own photos.

Finding the Perfect Wedding Photographer

10. Apr

Every bridal pair wants precious snap-shots of their successful wedding ceremony ...

Design Your Own Greeting Cards for Easter

10. Apr

Deliver Easter joy with photo cards, beautiful script, and a passe-partout

Easter Baskets for Big and Small

09. Apr

What goes into your Easter baskets?

Original DIY Decoration Ideas for Easter

08. Apr

Discover several creative decoration ideas you can use to transform your most favourite photos into individualised Easter decorations.

DIY: Table Décor and Tiny Surprises for Your Easter Brunch

04. Apr

Time to plan your Easter brunch! We collected great gift and decoration ideas to enchant each and every guest at your table.

A Photo Puzzle as an Easter Gift

04. Apr

For those of you who’d like to give your family something special this Easter, why not give them a gift voucher in the form of a photo puzzle good for an outing together - this’ll lend your gift an extra degree of fun and pleasant anticipation while they assemble it.

Decoration and Cooking Ideas for Easter

03. Apr

Find inspiration for Easter decorations as well as some Easter recipes from three awesome blogs.

Photographing Landscapes for Beginners

02. Apr

Here we’ve gathered together useful tips and motif ideas that you can use to shoot impressive landscape photos. Get inspired!

Which DSLR lens is best suited for which demands?

26. Mar

Comparing various types of lenses helps you when deciding which lens to buy.

Spring photography

25. Mar

Springtime is the perfect time for fresh and colourful motifs: strap on your camera, go outside, and capture the essence of spring!

The Most Romantic Wedding Locations in Switzerland

21. Mar

In this article, we will show you some of the most beautiful places in Switzerland for an unforgettable wedding celebration.

Practical Tips for Brilliant Photos

20. Mar

How to enhance your compositions in photography

Springtime Is Décor Time

18. Mar

No motivation for the annual spring-cleaning or preparing to move to a new home? Here we’ll give you some tips on how to deal with both as well as several impulses for impressive spring decorations.

How to – wall design tips from a pro

16. Mar

How to skilfully stage your wall decorations

Hang Your Wall Decoration Correctly

15. Mar

Do you want to know how best to hang your wall decorations? We’ll show you how!

A glimpse into the LittleCITY office

15. Mar

Valeria and Adi from LittleCITY are content creators, bloggers and online shop owners with a passion! They have been reporting about travel, food and all the beautiful things that life has to offer on LittleCITY.ch since 2012.

Wall decorations by ifolor

14. Mar

Individual decoration for your home

Photographing Children - ifolor Photo Hacks

12. Mar

Photographing kids is a challenge for both the camera and the photographer. Here we’ll give you tips on how to take expressive children photos.

How to achieve the perfect result for your wall decorations

12. Mar

Admittedly, the ifolor Designer makes it relatively easy to achieve a perfect print result. Nevertheless, it helps if you pay attention to a few things when preparing your picture to ensure the perfect result.

A Wall Decoration with Our Multi Panel Photo Canvas

11. Mar

With multi panel photo canvases, you’ll be able to do more than just creatively display your motif. We’ll show you which canvas formats and motifs work best.

Time-Lapse Photography

11. Mar

We’ll show you how you can create impressive time-lapse videos and cool photos with long-exposure effects as well as what you should pay attention to.

Photography for Instagram - 5 tips

07. Mar

I am delighted to give you 5 tips in this article on how you can lick your Instagram feed into shape.

The somewhat different family tree

07. Mar

Use your digitised photos to make a creative family tree for your living room or children’s room

Tips for a Decorative Photo Gallery – Create a Photo Wall in No Time

04. Mar

Decorate your walls with a photo gallery! We’ll show you here how to make your own photo wall with square prints.

For Shutterbugs: Carnival Photography

26. Feb

Great Photo Ops and Lively Colours

Compact Glossary of Digital Photography

20. Feb

We’ll present you the 20 most important terms in the world of digital photography as well as give you some tips on focal length, ISO, aperture, HDR, exposure time, and more.

Carnival Events in Switzerland 2019

18. Feb

Carnival is a highlight for young and old alike. Here we’ve compiled a selection of various Carnival events in Switzerland.

Drone Photography for Brilliant Aerial Pictures

15. Feb

A drone enables you to take brilliant aerial pictures. Here we’ve gathered together for you the most important info for getting started with drone photography.

Your family chronicle – with digitalised snapshots

15. Feb

Design your family chronicle in the form of an individual photo book

Carnival Costume Ideas with Photo Posters

14. Feb

DIY creative Carnival costumes made from photo posters - create paintings, Gameboys, and more in just a few steps.

SOS - Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gifts

31. Jan

SOS Valentine’s Day gifts: we’ll show you 4 brilliant ideas for romantic last-minute gifts for your partner. It doesn’t matter if you still have 8 days or only 2 hours…

Greeting Card Messages - Romantic, Humorous, and Everything in Between

29. Jan

Surprise your loved ones this Valentine’s Day with a one-of-a-kind photo greeting card. Here you’ll find inspirational quotes to add to your photo greeting card.

A romantic Photo Garland for Valentine's day

28. Jan

DIY Photo Garland with Retro Prints! Really easy and highly personal: surprise your loved one with a customised wall decoration.

The Partner Mug as a Valentine’s Day Surprise

28. Jan

Surprise your better half this Valentine’s Day with a personalised partner mug. Let yourself be inspired by our design ideas to create a completely original photo mug!

Sport photos: Quick and dynamic

27. Jan

Tips and Tricks to capture the perfect jump on a picture. Sport Photography is possible for everyone with these simple rules.

Decorate Your Candy “Bar” with Photo Products

27. Jan

Brilliant inspirations for a sweet and personally-decorated buffet. From modern to playful – get some ideas for your own wedding or family get-together.

DIY Ideas with puzzles

27. Jan

We’ll show you two great ideas for a creative wall design with photo puzzles – for your loved ones, best friend, or simply as a tiny gift.

The birth of a baby changes our life

27. Jan

Finally the time is here. The moment that expectant Mums and Dads look forward to for a long 9 months and sometimes much longer.

The Gift Voucher as a Photo Puzzle

25. Jan

Add a bit of fun to your gift voucher: try to puzzle the recipient! Quickly and easily design a completely individualised gift voucher with an ifolor photo puzzle.

Chat Transcripts as a Photo Album – the Unique Valentine’s Day Gift

23. Jan

A totally different Valentine’s surprise: memorialize your shared history with your chat transcripts in a unique photo album for your partner or best friend.

The Photo Love Story

22. Jan

On Valentine’s Day every year people search for a special way to show their significant others that they love ...

Photographing Animals

09. Jan

Photographing animals is no easy task. Here we’ve compiled some tips and tricks for you to keep in mind while photographing your four-legged companions.

Motivating Resolutions in Your Own Photo Flip for 2019

28. Dec

A new spin on motivation and inspiration. Design your own photo flip with 24 beautiful pages for the new year.

Brilliant Ideas for Your Party Photos

27. Dec

Whether it’s a birthday, New Year’s party, or a housewarming party: we’ll show you brilliant ideas for your party photos and how you can keep hold of them forever.

Hold on to them, the most beautiful moments of your year!

21. Dec

The New Year always triggers conflicting feelings in me. I look forward to what lies ahead, but look back on the old year a bit sadly at the same time. I reflect. Go through the months in my mind.

Crafting Instructions: A Snow Globe with Your Own Photos

19. Dec

Bring your loved ones into a winter wonderland with a self-made snow globe. We’ll show you two variations - with and without water.

The Party Yearbook

17. Dec

Design your year in review with your party highlights of the past year as a photo book for yourself as well as friends. With these tips your album will be a completely individualised keepsake.

Capturing and giving the most wonderful moments

17. Dec

Live out your passion for photography and create a photo book with the most beautiful moments.

The Family Calendar - Create Your Own Personal Photo Calendar for the Whole Family

12. Dec

The photo family calendar - to give away as a gift this Christmas season or to keep track of your own family’s appointments and events at home.

The Family Yearbook

10. Dec

With our creative design tips for your photo book, you’ll be able to create a one-of-a-kind family yearbook full of your most cherished moments with your loved ones. Let yourself be inspired!

Gift Idea for Decadal Birthdays

10. Dec

A gift idea for decadal birthdays: give them a small gift accompanied by a personal photo for each year of their life. We’ll show you how it’s done.

DIY: Embellish Photo Cards for Every Occasion

10. Dec

Refine your elegant invitations and greeting cards at home with stamps, lace, and metallic paint.

GoPro: Time-Lapse Videos for a Cool Effect

07. Dec

Learn what time-lapse videos are and how you can easily create these directly on your GoPro or with an editing programme.

My favourites are going to see me through 2019 too

01. Dec

Instagram pro Martina Bisaz creates a photo calendar for 2018 out of her most beautiful moments

Christmas-Themed Table Decorations

30. Nov

With our creative crafting tips you can create Christmas-themed table decorations with a personal note by using self-designed photo greeting cards. Let yourself be inspired!

The perfect personal Christmas present for your loved ones

30. Nov

Instagram pro Martina Bisaz creates Christmas presents for family and friends out of her photos for Christmas

Ideas for Individualised Smartphone Cases

29. Nov

Really make a statement with an individualised smartphone case. Here you’ll read several tips for creative designs with images and text.

Cooking with ifolor

26. Nov

The special gift: your personal cookbook

LandLiebe food styling - Part 3: "Styling"

22. Nov

Besides basic knowledge of photography, the right styling is the be all and end all for attractive food photography. We give you a few tips.

Year after year – a photo book full of unforgettable family moments

22. Nov

Tips and inspiration on how you can create your photo yearbook too.

Self-Made Christmas Tree Decorations

20. Nov

Use self-made Christmas tree decorations made from your favourite photos to lend your tree an extra personal touch. We’ll show you how it’s done.

An Eye-Catching Acrylic Photo Block for Christmas

20. Nov

The acrylic photo block makes a fantastic Christmas gift, which you can brilliantly decorate with just a little effort. Here we’ll give you some craft ideas for Christmas.

Gift idea – eye-catching photo chalkboard

20. Nov

Chalkboards and unique photo moments are all the rage. What could be better than combining both in a DIY craft project?

LandLiebe Food styling - Part 2: "Arrangements – compositions"

16. Nov

Your photos instantly look better and more professional with a few basic composition rules.

Food styling - Part 1: "Food photography using a smartphone"

13. Nov

Find out what matters when it comes to food photography and how to take great photos of delicious meals with a smartphone.

Ordering photo products directly from Apple "Photos"

09. Nov

Apple stopped its photo service on 30 September. ifolor provides suitable Apple software to still conjure up brilliant gifts.

Design a Photo Yearbook with ifolor and Eternalise Your Memories

06. Nov

Let yourself be inspired by our tips and design ideas and gather together all of your most wonderful moments in a photo yearbook from ifolor.

The Perfect Photo Yearbook

06. Nov

Encompass the entire year with each unforgettable moment in one photo book for perpetuity. We can show you how!

Photo Christmas Gifts for the Parents

06. Nov

5 creative photo gifts for the parents - we’ll show you how you can design something completely personalised to bring joy to your parents this Christmas season.

Seven Special Christmas Markets in Switzerland

06. Nov

The first Christmas market stalls are usually already set up in the end of November. Visitors are put in the Christmas mood and can be entertained by all kinds of different attractions. In Switzerland, there are a few extra special Christmas markets you won’t want to miss

Christmas time – presents time

06. Nov

Personalise your Christmas presents with creative photo stickers

The Best International Wedding Photographers

28. Oct

Still looking for your wedding photographer? Be introduced to some of the best international wedding photographers in this article.

Preserve your memories in a retro look

24. Oct

Preserve memories and capture that holiday feeling wonderfully with the square and retro prints

Craft Idea: Creating a World Map with Square and Retro Prints

23. Oct

Here we’ll show you how you can enjoy the feeling of being on holiday even while at home. The world map designed with your own holiday photos in the form of square and retro prints is the perfect fit for globetrotters.

Wedding gallery in a shabby chic photo frame

17. Oct

Create a modern vintage look with our retro prints

Halloween Party: Ideas for a Ghastly Get-Together

16. Oct

You want to throw a Halloween party? Here we’ll give you some tips for organising it as well as how you can design your own spooky invitations.

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Hot Air Balloon Ride on Lake Constance

25. Sep

Some moments pass in the blink of an eye, but they last forever in our memory. Join us on our trip with the ifolor hot air balloon!

The Right Perspective

25. Sep

You have a great picture, but it leaves something to be desired…. We’ll show you how to choose the perfect angle of view.

The basics of calligraphy – Part 3: “How handwritten letters make everything more beautiful.”

25. Sep

As soon as you have had a bit of practice with calligraphy, there are a huge amount of possibilities for you to create all kinds of things with it. Once you have mastered one style, you can also start playing around with other styles and decorative elements.

The best drinks recipes throughout the year – the DIY cocktail calendar

06. Sep

We show you how you can immortalise your most sparkling summer cocktails and warming winter drinks in a personalised cocktail calendar

Black and white photography applied properly

06. Sep

If you would also like to switch to black and white photography or experiment with it, it’s worth taking note of a few tips that can give a black and white photo more expressiveness and depth.

Size of photos

05. Sep

Have you received different sized photos as a surprise when ordering photos? We are going to tell you how you can receive photos which are all the same length in future.

The basics of calligraphy – Part 2: “Our tools and the secret to success: practice.”

05. Sep

For calligraphy to be a success, certain tools are used like pens, brushes and the right paper. In this blog we show you which equipment is suitable for this.

The basics of calligraphy – Part 1: “Let’s talk about (hand)written words”

21. Aug

When did you last pick up a pen and write someone a letter? Handwritten messages have a very special importance today as a result of their rarity.

Design Ideas for Personalised Photo Stickers

09. Aug

Whether on greeting cards, gifts, storage boxes, or a friendship book, our self-sticking photo stickers are real eye-catchers. We have some cool design ideas and possible applications for you.

Tips & tricks for photographing fireworks

23. Jul

Tips & tricks for photographing fireworks

A sporty leaving gift as a memento of the class

18. Jul

The end of the semester is followed by a change of class – so how about a personalised leaving gift for your children’s favourite teacher?

A Creative Marriage Proposal

16. Jul

Rosa and Erkan's story has a happy ending: a creative marriage proposal using a photo album which led to a romantic wedding.

Successful and impressive wedding photography

12. Jul

Good equipment and sound photography skills are not enough when it comes to capturing special and unforgettable moments from the most important day in two people’s lives.

The best Swiss photo spots on Instagram

22. Jun

Switzerland – a paradise for Instagram photographers? It’s possible that there’s no other country on earth that offers so many rewarding motifs in such little space for landscape and outdoor photographers.

Ideas and Bracket Pools for the World Cup

14. Jun

The World Cup is about to get underway. We’ll give you the perfect gift suggestion for the winner of your bracket pool.

Four slightly different ideas for a World Cup party

12. Jun

Goooaaalll! It’s nearly time for the World Cup to start! Emotions are running high, flags are being waved and the fans are singing.

8 tips and ideas for the perfect hen party and countless wonderful moments for the bride

11. Jun

Would you like to organise an unforgettable hen night and need ideas? These tips will help you host the perfect hen party for your best friend or sister. For a hen night that the bride will fondly remember.

DIY: A Puzzle Guestbook

08. Jun

A guestbook in the form of a puzzle with the personal well wishes of your guests creates a unique memento of your wedding. We'll show you how to easily do it yourself.

Mundialito – the football stars of tomorrow

08. Jun

“Integration and tolerance” – that’s the guiding principle behind the mundialito.

The perfect World Cup barbecue party

28. May

The Football World Cup is approaching! We provide you with some ideas for how you can give your football evenings with friends a creative twist.

5 Tips for Planning and Preparing Your Wedding

23. May

Keep a cool head and maintain perspective with help from our tips and extensive checklist when planning your wedding.

A Stylish DIY Decorating Idea

23. May

In this DIY article we’ll reveal how you can display cacti and succulents in stylish photo mugs used as flowerpots as well as how to correctly plant them.

Personalized Thank You Notes

22. May

Lovingly design a thank you note with creative formats and templates. We’ll show you how to do so for any occasion.

ifolor at BRICKLIVE – a review

18. May

ifolor took part in BRICKLIVE from 20–29 April. Find out what really got the visitors going.

The Original Wedding Guestbook

17. May

We show you how to easily create an unusual wedding guestbook with the help of our ifolor Gift Booklet app.

Design Balloon Release Cards for Your Wedding

08. May

We’ll show you how to design your own cards for a balloon release at your wedding, and what you need to know about doing a balloon release.

Heading for new shores: how to successfully decorate your own home after moving!

04. May

Valentin and Roman from Twintheworld tell us how they furnished their shared accommodation with their own photos and what they considered in the process.

Shoot Fascinating Macro Photos

20. Apr

Close-up photos with typical magnifying effects - 9 photo hacks you can use to take fascinating macro photos.

“Love you ‘till the end” – and forever after

13. Apr

How to capture memories of a loved one

Life hack: Two photo books in one

13. Apr

How to capture an event’s most wonderful and exciting moments creatively in a photo book.

The special post frame - make decorative poster frames out of wood yourself

30. Mar

It doesn’t take much for your personal photo posters to be out of the ordinary – this home-made poster frame does the trick. You can make effective display options yourself out of just a few and above all cheap materials.

Taking Live Photos on iPhone and Creating Moving Photo Books

28. Mar

We’ll show you how you can bring your pictures to life using the Live Photo function and then create your own photo book full of life in the My Moments app.

Pre-Easter activity with kids

19. Mar

Let’s do handicrafts!

My Moments App

16. Mar

This innovative app brings the most beautiful photos in your photo book to life again: whether it’s birthdays, the last weekend outing or your baby’s first steps, the new ifolor “My Moments” app magically brings photo moments to life again.

Get planning

12. Mar

You've said yes, the date has been set. Which means there's going to be a big celebration soon! But besides organising the wedding ceremony, reception, wedding dress and much more, one thing must not be forgotten: the earlier your guests are informed the better.

Dye and Design One-of-a-Kind Easter Eggs

06. Mar

Whether whole or hollowed, dyed, painted, or artistically decorated, Easter eggs are an integral part of any Easter basket and Easter decorations. Here we’ve gathered together several ideas on how you can simply create your very own one-of-a-kind Easter eggs. Let yourself be inspired!

New ifolor Photo Poster

05. Mar

Create a brilliant collage of vacation photos with the ifolor Editor and the new photo poster for your living room.

Paying a compliment – you can find suitable tips here

01. Mar

Little compliments make everyday life sweeter – give it a try! You can find our tips on this here.

Inside ifolor - Gizmo visits the Zurich office

27. Feb

You can follow everything that Gizmo got up to in our office here. We also prepared surprises for this great visit, that might inspire you too.

Arrange flowers in a decorative glass frame

14. Feb

To bring spring into your home all you need is just a few colourful accents, for example, in the form of this self-styled flower frame. You can arrange this subtle and modern decoration yourself really easily out of just a few and above all cheap materials.

Making Your Own Christmas Crackers

12. Feb

We’ll show you how you can create and fill your own Christmas crackers as a special gift wrap.

Winter Sport Photos with Camera and Smartphone

07. Feb

Photographing in the snow is associated with particular difficulty. Here we’ll give you some advice on how to take particularly good photos.

A Handwritten Love Note on a Mug

06. Feb

We show you how to design and print handwritten love notes on a coffee mug for Valentine’s Day.

Craft a Personalised Declaration of Love—out of Photos

05. Feb

A crafting idea for Valentine’s Day: We’ll show you how to create a personalised declaration of love out of photos—the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Give the Gift of Wall Décor for Valentine’s Day

02. Feb

This Valentine’s Day, make your sweetheart a unique gift to decorate their walls. We’re going to show you two romantic, easy gift ideas.

Inside ifolor - a look behind the scenes

02. Feb

The new format Inside ifolor will give you - our valued customer - a glimpse behind the scenes of ifolor. Join us in our turbulent everyday life and get to know the way from the production of our products to your doorstep.

Always Keep Your Appointments in View with the Monthly Planner

29. Jan

Create your own personalised monthly planner with your own photos, important appointments, matching clipart, and much more. Get your inspiration here.

Shoot Fascinating Macro Photos

29. Jan

Close-up photos with typical magnifying effects - 9 photo hacks you can use to take fascinating macro photos.

Tips for Action Videos with the GoPro Actioncam

16. Jan

Filming a high-quality GoPro video is not as easy as it looks. We have put together five tips.

86 years of love – a documentary photography project

12. Jan

Rolf Neeser accompanied the couple, the Freis who have loved each other for 86 years, in their day-to-day life. He tells us more about the lovers in an interview.

Throw a Princess Birthday Party

11. Jan

Here you’ll find ideas for throwing a fairy tale princess party: photo mugs as creative name cards, colouring posters, and matching decoration ideas.

Children’s Photos as an Individualised Kitchen Decoration

03. Jan

We’ll show you how you can prominently showcase your fondest moments with your children on a durable photo display for your kitchen.

Patchwork Christmas – every family has its own story

30. Dec

Christmas is no longer just celebrated with the family. Friends, your daughter’s partner, neighbours and above all a personal story are all part of Christmas.

Create a Photo Book as a Garden Yearbook

27. Dec

You’re always close to nature when you spend time in your garden. Here you’ll learn how you can eternalise these magical encounters in a photo book.

Happy New Year Greeting Cards

19. Dec

With the ifolor greeting cards you can surprise your loved ones with personalized wishes for the new year. Get inspired here!

Design Your Own Songbook for Christmas Eve

14. Dec

Singing together with your loved ones is a lovely way to spend Christmas Eve. Here you’ll learn how you can design your own songbook for Christmas Eve.

The Completely Personalised Wine as a Party Favour

14. Dec

Create a hospitality gift for your closest friends and family with a personal photo and a lovely message. We’ll show you how you can brilliantly decorate a wine bottle.

Give Someone a Gift Voucher Book for Christmas

13. Dec

With a self-designed photo book spiral full of individualised gift vouchers you can spend some quality time with the recipient and bring a smile to their face on Christmas.

Personalised Christmas Cards as a Year in Review or Advent Greetings

13. Dec

Surprise your loved ones with Christmas cards featuring the highlights of your year or 24 of your own postcards with lovely greetings for Advent.

Extravagant Christmas presents for discerning tastes

12. Dec

Are you looking for a little luxury for your loved ones? Large-format photos printed on exquisitely elegant materials make any home look beautiful and stylish. And you turn any photo into a personal work of art. Your unique photos ensure the individual touch. 

Photo Gifts for the Grandparents This Christmas

11. Dec

Surprise the grandparents this Christmas with completely personalised photo gifts. With our gift ideas you’ll be sure to bring joy to the grandparents and make their Christmas extra special.

A Gift Booklet as a Christmas Present

11. Dec

In just a few steps you can create a brilliant gift booklet directly on your smartphone using your favourite pictures. Here we’ll give you some tips for designing your own.

Create Picture Frames with the Kids as a Christmas Gift

07. Dec

Display your favourite photo in style - brilliant design ideas for easily crafting your own individualised picture frames as a special Christmas gift.

Crafting Gift Tags out of Postcards

07. Dec

We’ll show you how you can transform your set of 10 postcards into small Christmas gift tags featuring photos and a personal message.

A Christmas Photo Garland as a Fillable Advent Calendar

06. Dec

This year, create a really special advent calendar. We’ll give you tips on how to create an individualised advent garland by using your own photos.

The Alternative Christmas Tree

04. Dec

The space-saving, clean, and personalised alternative to the traditional Christmas tree: your Christmas tree in the form of a photo poster and Advent calendar.

Make a last-minute Advent calendar in next to no time

01. Dec

With this last-minute Advent calendar you will have enough time for all the other things that have to be done at Advent time.

Photo Gifts for Your Partner This Christmas

27. Nov

Personal gifts make the best gifts for Christmas. Here you’ll find ideas on how you can surprise your partner with photo gifts for Christmas.

Design Your Own Christmas Cookbook

22. Nov

A different spin on the photo book: we’ll show you how you can compile all your favourite Christmas recipes in a completely personalised cookbook. Let yourself be inspired!

Christmas Window Decorations Made from Your Best Photos

21. Nov

Crafting Gift Bags out of Photo Posters

21. Nov

It’s really easy to make your own gift bags out of paper. We’ll show you how you can fold and give away these bags using posters of your own photos.

Creating Your Own Board Game

20. Nov

Surprise your family this Christmas with a personalised board game. We’ll show you how you can create your very own “Ludo” board.

A Mug Cake in a Self-Designed Christmas Mug

15. Nov

Christmas is a time for feasting and eating tasty treats. A self-baked mug cake in a personally designed Christmas photo mug makes a great small present for any Christmas celebration.

A Christmas Colouring Book as a Gift Idea for Kids

15. Nov

A self-designed Christmas colouring book is a personal and individual gift idea that will be lots of fun for kids to colour in all while reliving precious memories.

Design a Photo Canvas as a World Map

14. Nov

Make your travel destinations into an especially eye-catching decoration for your home: we’ll show you how you can create a completely original traveling world map out of a photo canvas.

Original and quickly crafted: a very special calendar

13. Nov

At the end of the year, calendars are not only a wonderful gift – but also one with a long date of expiry. Instead of a photo calendar, beautiful calendar pages can also be created from individual picture motifs – and very originally presented using the lever of a discarded ring binder

The Photo Flip as an Advent Calendar

06. Nov

An advent calendar raises the pleasant anticipation in the days before Christmas. We’ll show you how you can create your own completely personalised advent calendar for your loved ones from a photo flip.

Create a Maxicard with a Christmas Carol

06. Nov

We’ll show you how you can create a very special Christmas card for your loved ones featuring both a nice photo and a Christmas carol.

Photographing with Artificial Light

26. Oct

Continuous light sources and studio flash units help to perfectly illuminate a motif. Here you’ll read about the most important differences as well as their various applications.

Upcycling tip: how to modernise a lampshade

16. Oct

The most beautiful home-made wall decorations

13. Oct

Instagram pro Martina Bisaz displays her most beautiful photos as creative wall decorations that can be created quickly and cheaply

How to make a lantern out of a photo poster

12. Oct

How to create a magical photo cube

12. Oct

Personalised Photo Book Birthday

19. Sep

Eternalise the most cherished moments from your child’s early life and youth in a completely personalised photo book for their 18th birthday. Here you’ll read how.

Ideas for Individualised Smartphone Cases

11. Sep

Really make a statement with an individualised smartphone case. Here you’ll read several tips for creative designs with images and text.

Organise Private Events with Photo Products

28. Aug

ifolor photo puzzles and postcards you can design your own personal invitations for private events. Here we’ll give you some tips and ideas on how.

Accessories made from photo posters

23. Aug

Quickly made from an ifolor photo poster: a sunglasses case, mini wallet and treasure chest for the summer’s souvenirs.

Video of the largest Swiss flag in the world on the Säntis.

01. Aug

Video of the largest Swiss flag in the world on the Säntis.

Creative Decorative Ideas for Summer Parties

27. Jul

To ensure your next summer party is a complete success, we’ll show you how you can create your own individualised decorations for your balcony or garden.

Decorations for a Children’s Birthday Party and Party Games

05. Jul

Here you’ll find some ideas for throwing your own pirate party for a children’s birthday celebration. A treasure map in the form of a puzzle, themed invitations, and ideas for the treasure chest can all be found here.

Photo Book of Your Pet

04. Jul

We’ll show you how to create a very special photo book that features your four-legged friend.

Special Wedding Guest Photos for the Guest Book

28. Jun

We’ll give you some creative ideas on how you can really showcase your wedding guests.

A Marriage Proposal on a Photo Puzzle

28. Jun

Brilliant inspirations for a one-of-a-kind and personalised marriage proposal in the form of a photo puzzle.

Step by step to the perfect post-processed photo

28. Jun

Photo blogger Martina Bisaz explains perfect photo post-processing and lets you in on her app tips (Apple and Android) for great Instagram pictures

Decorating Your Desk with Photo Products

28. Jun

Find out what kind of “desk person” you are and get some inspiration on how you can give your desk a whole new look with photo products.

Faszination Actioncams

27. Jun

Egal ob Sand, Wasser oder Schlamm - Actionkameras machen in vielen Umgebungen eine gute Figur. Lesen Sie, warum Actioncams immer beliebter werden.

Original decoration for your summer party: little guests at the cake buffet

20. Jun

There can’t ever be too many surprises when it comes to birthdays. A nice gimmick are stick-in cake or muffin figures made out of photos. And they’re this simple to make.

10 tips for a perfect landscape photo

26. May

There is hardly any other Swiss person who has as many Instagram followers as her. Martina Bisaz, born in Grisons, impresses more than 211,000 followers with her landscape photos on the Instagram photo platform as kitkat_ch.

Home-made design mobile with holiday photos

12. May

This design mobile made up of your favourite motifs can be created in no time at all.

Photo Cards for Mother’s Day

28. Apr

Here you’ll find some amusing ideas for creating photo cards for Mother’s Day.

For Mother’s Day: Design Creative Gift Vouchers with the Photo Book Spiral

28. Apr

The perfect surprise for Mother’s Day: here we’ll show you a few ideas how you can use the photo book spiral to create fancy gift vouchers for a meal together.

Photo Collage on a Photo Display as a Mother’s Day Gift

27. Apr

A gift idea for Mother’s Day: we’ll show you how to create and design a photo display that’s perfect for Mother’s Day.

Animal-themed Smartphone Case

31. Mar

Create your very own smartphone case featuring your furry friend. Use a favourite photo of your pet or even a collage of several photos so you’ll always have your dog, cat, or other animal companion by your side.

Creative Family Coat Rack with Photo Mouse Pads

31. Mar

Without some kind of system, your foyer can quickly become chaotic - we’ll show you how to bring about a bit more order with your own self-made and personalised coat rack.

Storing Your Photos in One Place like a Professional

31. Mar

Keeping all of your photos well organised in one place has many benefits. We’ll show you various possibilities and practical tools for storing your photos.

The ifolor Digital Photos App

30. Mar

This free app makes it possible to order prints of your digital photos easily and directly from your smartphone in just a few minutes.

iPhone Postcard App

22. Mar

Sending out greetings during your travels is not always so easy. Most people would rather send their friends and family back home a more personalised greeting that just the typical touristy postcards with their impersonal photos on the front. Also, depending on where you’re on holiday, it can take weeks for the postcards to arrive in the post. It can be aggravating to have your friends and family know you were thinking of them during your holiday long after you’re already back home.

Hold on to Family Easter Traditions in the Form of Photos

21. Mar

Easter is a time for being with family. While searching for colourful eggs on Easter Sunday may be a tradition for most families in Switzerland with children, there are many other Easter traditions that vary from canton to canton. Then there are the family-specific traditions, like going on an Easter stroll, eating certain foods, or playing games. Easter is another occasion where many photos are taken once the family is all together. Let yourself be inspired and do something different this year by creating your own small Easter photo book for the whole family.

When chicks dye eggs themselves: DIY Easter fun with children

14. Mar

Anyone who wants to create immense joy in anticipation of Easter should dye Easter eggs together with their children.

Friends made out of photo paper: original decoration for children’s rooms

10. Mar

This miniature star poster is not just a wonderful farewell gift but also a lovely reminder of those who live much too far away to come and play every day.

Sweet greetings: lollipop card fun for all ages

10. Mar

Are you looking for a very special and personal greeting card? Or an original invitation to a children’s birthday party? Simply send the sweetest greetings there are

Your Individual Winter Moments

18. Feb

Winter is a time for taking photos. During the winter holidays while in the mountains on the ski slopes on a sunny day: it’s the perfect time for taking plenty of brilliant snapshots. Why not gather together your best photos in a winter holiday photo book and keep your special moments alive?

Romantic Gift Certificates for Valentine’s Day

31. Jan

When the day of love is right around the corner, many couples try to come up with the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. What could be more romantic and personal than a booklet full of personal gift certificates for the love of your life?

A Valentine’s Day Gift Idea for Your Bestie

31. Jan

Why not also get your bestie something special this Valentine’s Day? After all, she’s always there for you, shares your ups and downs, and deserves some recognition. How about giving her the recognition she deserves with an original Valentine’s Day photo book of friendship?

Photo Collage Greeting Cards for Valentine’s Day

31. Jan

Design the perfect collage for your greeting card this Valentine’s Day using your own photos and ifolor graphics. We’ll show you how it’s done.

Valentine’s Day Partner Smartphone Case

27. Jan

With these tips you can design your own personalised smartphone case for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day.

The Perfect Candlelight Dinner Table with Photo Greeting Cards

26. Jan

What’s better than indulging your partner with dinner prepared by yourself on Valentine’s Day? You can give your dinner a bit more of a romantic touch with a lovely decorated table with personal greeting cards. Here we’ll give you tips for making the perfect arrangement.

16 Tips for Beautiful Portraits - ifolor Photo Hacks

05. Jan

The Photo Bookmark

12. Dec

Individual bookmarks to give as gifts

Design a smartphone case together with your child

08. Dec

Design a really unique smartphone case together with your child. We show you everything that you need here. With guaranteed success!

A Cooking Calendar as a Christmas Gift

09. Nov

A Christmas gift for those who like to cook: a culinary calendar with your own photos

Creating Fascinating Nighttime Photographs with the GoPro Night Photo Setting

01. Nov

Nighttime photographs are always difficult. With our tips and the right settings on your GoPro, however, you’ll be sure...

Create a Personalised Photo Calendar with Your Own Kids’ Drawings

01. Nov

A photo calendar with your kids’ drawings - a personal gift idea for Christmas. Here we’ll give you tips on how you can quickly and easily make your very own photo calendar.

The Christmassy Photo Pennant Streamer - A Real Eye Catcher Made with Your Very Own Photos

31. Oct

The photo pennant streamer - add to your Christmas decorations with an individually designable pennant streamer made with your own photos - perfect for every occasion.

Send Out Christmas Greeting Cards with Out-of-the-Ordinary Photos

28. Oct

We’ve gathered together for you some simple yet creative ideas for photos to use for your Christmas greetings this year.

Create Your Own Table Decorations for Christmas

27. Oct

Table decorations for Christmas: here we’ve gathered together for you a few ideas that will help you to decorate your dining table in an individual and festive manner.

Homemade Christmas Tree Ornaments - Eye-Catching Decorations for Your Christmas Tree

27. Oct

With self-made Christmas tree decorations made from your favourite photos you’ll be giving your Christmas tree a unique and personal touch

Secret Santa Gifts for Under 30 CHF

26. Oct

For a Secret Santa exchange you usually just give something small - here we’ll give you some ideas for inexpensive Secret Santa gifts for under 30 CHF.

Individually Designed Photo Candles as Christmas Gifts

26. Oct

Individual photo candles. Whether as a Christmas gift or for decoration, here you’ll get tips on creating your own personal photo candles for Christmas.

A Gift Voucher as a Puzzle

24. Oct

Are you looking for a special Christmas gift for your loved ones? What about a photo puzzle made as a gift voucher for an adventure you can experience together? Ifolor makes the whole process easy!

A Photo Garland for the Grandparents

24. Oct

The photo garland for the grandparents will be completely different this year. You can transform a clothes hanger into a real head-turner whether it’s displayed on a wall, on a door, or in the middle of a room.

Ten tips for better holiday photos

23. Oct

With these 10 tips for better holiday photos, you can enjoy your holiday for a long time afterwards.

Beautiful surprise for children: Measuring chart for children’s rooms

19. Oct

Do you want to add something special to a children’s room? Follow our instructions for an attractive wall decoratio

Give Them a Gallery of Memorable Moments

19. Oct

Create your own personal gallery of smiles and give your loved ones a special feeling this Christmas. It’s really simple with ifolor wall decorations.

Photo calendars from ifolor

11. Oct

Your favourite memories accompany you through the whole year

The History of Photography from Its Beginnings to Today

10. Oct

Photography has been a popular media form since its creation. It enables us to document, experiment, and remember. Having a camera might have been something special 100 years ago, but today...

The History of Photography - Part 2: The Industrialisation of Photography

07. Oct

The improved drying process and the reduction in size of amateur cameras until the end of the 19th century gave the world...

The History of Photography – Part 3: Leica, Barnack & the Electronic Flash

07. Oct

“I’ve decided: it’s going to be risky” - with these words, the unexpected success of the first 35mm camera Leica began in 1924...

The History of Photography - Part 4: The Discovery of Colour Film in 1936

07. Oct

The first patent for colour film was applied for in 1912. In 1932, the first 35mm film was developed for...

The History of Photography - Part 5: The Single Lens Reflex Camera

07. Oct

The development of the single lens reflex camera (SLR) that we all know and love today took over 320 years to complete...

The History of Photography - Part 6: The Implementation of the Instant Camera

07. Oct

Instant cameras never really went out of style, but in the last couple of years they have experienced a bit of...

The History of Photography - Part 7: Digitalisation of Photography

07. Oct

Digital photography is something most people take for granted nowadays. Just snap a quick photo and in no time...

The History of Photography - Part 8: Smartphone Cameras

07. Oct

You don’t always readily have your camera at hand. Imagine you’re on the go and you see something amazing...

Tips for Editing Action Videos

30. Sep

You got some great footage with your GoPro on your last ski trip or you would really like to accentuate some of your stunts?

Tips for Action Videos with the GoPro Action Cam

30. Sep

In the past couple of years there have been countless videos uploaded to YouTube and other video portals of spectacular stunts performed by adrenaline junkies...

Foto-Pinboard aus Mousepad gestalten

02. Sep

Here we’ll give you some tips for designing and creating your very own.

GoPro Photo Tips - Impressive Photos with an Action Cam

16. Aug

GoPro action cameras make it possible to take breathtaking photos. In this article we’ll go through...

The History of Photography - Part 1: The First Photographs from 1839 to 1880

01. Aug

It was a Monday, the 19th of August 1839 - the birthday of photography. The Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Fine Arts invited all of Paris...

The History of Photography - Part 9: Action Cams, Drones, and Other Novelties

01. Aug

In the eighth part of our series it became clear that smartphones have already taken up their place in the world of photography...

Ifolor: enthusiastic clients and customer satisfaction

21. Jul

ifolor. Photos forever

Video tutorial: photo calendars

21. Jul

Making photo calendars in just a few minutes

What winners look like

21. Jul

The ifolor competition has been decided

How to select the right image format

21. Jul

Image format can be a complicated notion to grasp in photography.

Interactive balloon card

21. Jul

Totally simple and brilliantly personal: surprise your favourite people with a hand-made balloon card.

Tips: photographing autumn like a pro

21. Jul

How to capture Autumn's mix of colours with your camera

Tips and tricks: the perfect wedding photo

21. Jul

7 simple wedding photo tips for the most beautiful day of their lives

Photo tips: landscape photography made easy

21. Jul

6 fundamental tips for better landscape photos

Understanding histograms

21. Jul

The tool for high-quality images

Luminous Acrylic Glass Plate Decoration

21. Jul

Turn your acrylic glass plate into a very special wall decoration and a guaranteed eye-catcher: we will show you how to light up your pictures.

Using Instagram successfully

21. Jul

Using Instagram successfully

Unforgettable Wedding Photos - Ideas and Tips for Exceptional Wedding Photos

21. Jul

Ideas and Tips for Exceptional Wedding Photos

Tips for aerial photographs

21. Jul

Taking photos and filming from above

Smartphone Photo Hacks

21. Jul

Smartphone cameras are always becoming more powerful and are capable...

Tips for still-life photography

21. Jul

Bring still-life photography to life with these tips

Depth of field

21. Jul

How to produce a greater effect of depth

Instructions: the family holiday photo book

21. Jul

Gastbloggerin Julia Marre erklärt, wie einfach so ein Familienurlaubsfotobuch erstellt ist.

Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day

21. Jul

Do you want to give your significant other more than just a box of chocolates...

Hanging pictures up correctly

21. Jul

How to create a unique atmosphere with your pictures

ifolor Designer for Windows

21. Jul

Design individual photo books easily and quickly

Tutorial: how to do lightpainting for beginners

21. Jul

Instructions: your own light painting in five minutes

Photo gift wrapping paper

21. Jul

Photo gift wrapping paper

Pro tips: hanging up pictures

21. Jul

How to do it: acrylic glass with a special wall mount

Photoshop tutorial: converging lines

21. Jul

Correcting converging lines in photoshop, step by step

Four Creative Design Tips for your Photo Book

21. Jul

The lovingly-designed photo book with its ability to bring memories back to life ...

Heart-warming greeting cards of children’s drawings

21. Jul

Send your friends and relatives your children’s works of art – really easily as ifolor greeting cards.

Photo book Premium photo paper

21. Jul

Rich colours and exact details – that’s what ifolor photo books ...

Decoration tips and tricks: painting photo canvases

21. Jul

Creative decoration for photo canvases

Wedding Games – a playful path to a happy marriage

21. Jul

Wedding games: We’ll show you 8 fun and ice-breaking games for beautiful memories and humorous photos.

The Photo Heart: A Photo Collage for the Wall

21. Jul

Stacks and stacks of beautiful photos of special memories are often just stored somewhere in boxes or remain saved on your hard drive. Make use of your photos and create your own heart-shaped collage for your wall.

The photo candle

21. Jul

A creative enlightening decoration in no time at all

A slightly different Easter nest

21. Jul

It doesn’t always have to (just) be chocolate and eggs at Easter. We have tips for ...

Unforgettable Wedding Photos

21. Jul

Her classic white dress creates a wonderful contrast to his ..

Creative Ideas for Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties

21. Jul

We’ll show you 5 creative ideas for stylish bachelor and bachelorette parties – for him and her.

Travel book: around the world on 80 pages

21. Jul

Die schönsten Ferien-Erinnerungen in einem Fotobuch verewigen

DIY: two home decoration ideas with your photo

21. Jul

Ideas for simple, yet stylish home decorations which will look great all year round!

Tutorial: photo cube decorations

21. Jul

Ideas for three dimensional photo ornaments

Creative gifts ideas for Valentine's Day

21. Jul

Creative, romantic gifts for the day of love

Hipstamatic - the charm of retro pictures on your smartphone

21. Jul

Timelessly nostalgic photography

ifomatic: Hipstamatic effects in photoshop

21. Jul

Download our special Hipstamatic effects guide for free

Catch the best light: the golden hour

21. Jul

We will show you how to capture the most beautiful light

Night photo tips: how to handle the lights

21. Jul

10 things which you should bear in mind for night photographs

Photographing children: capture the youth

21. Jul

Capturing your little ones in photos

Scan old photos using your smart phone

21. Jul

It’s so simple to scan old pictures and turn them into...

Alessandro Della Bella

21. Jul

Helvetia by night

René Burri

21. Jul

Portrait of a great Swiss artist

Olaf Unverzart

21. Jul

Of people and Alpine landscapes

Hans Findling

21. Jul

Light artist, photo architect, early riser

Create your own cooking calendar

21. Jul

Great recipes and photos for the whole year

Creative Gift Wrapping

21. Jul

You want to make sure that your presents underneath the Christmas tree really catch people’s attention? With creative and ...

Create your own menu cards

21. Jul

More than photo greeting cards: your own impressive menu cards

Fast and creative Christmas gifts

21. Jul

Create personal gifts with your own pictures in just a few minutes online.

Tips for Creating the Perfect Christmas Cards

21. Jul

We’ll give you several ideas for creating the perfect Christmas greeting card!

Look back on the year with a photo calendar

21. Jul

With a photo calendar from ifolor you will have a record of the best moments of the year, which you can keep forever

Your own biscuit baking book

21. Jul

Christmas baking with your children and ifolor

Four Photo Gift Ideas For Christmas

21. Jul

Every year we are presented with the same challenge of what kind of original Christmas presents we can give our loved ones to bring ...

The baby photo calendar

21. Jul

A photo calendar with your little treasure in the starring role

The photo banner chain

21. Jul

The personalised eye-catcher with your most beautiful photos

Emil Schulthess

21. Jul

Globetrotter and explorer

Photo gift wrapping paper

17. May

Double the joy when giving gifts