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Got a craving to scrapbook? Then you'll appreciate this
sale that will let you experience a little self-indulgence at a discount.
After all, you love saving money on your digital scrapbooking goodies!
But remember, this opportunity to get a deal
on scrapbooking delights ends on Midnight (MST), Janurary 31st. Time's
running out fast!
What's New in the Scrap Girls
Boutique?
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them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the
message board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom
of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more
of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: Almost Perfectly
If you’ve been reading the Scrap Girls newsletter for a while
now, you know that several months ago I had eye surgery. Because I
am 50 years old, the correction needed to occur in a manner that would
allow me to read, while ensuring that my long distance vision is adequate.
As a result, the eye doctor gave me something called monovision.
Monovision
simply means that one eye is corrected to see close up – so
it is your reading eye. The other eye is corrected so that it sees
far away – so it is your long distance eye.
When you receive monovision,
it takes a while for your brain to adjust to the new situation – at
least, it did for me. I could instantly use my computer because the
distance lies in the middle and my monitor screens are large. (That
was a relief!) But, reading was very difficult and I quickly found
that I got confused if I went into stores, particularly bookstores.
All of the details overwhelmed me.
To make things worse, I had light
sensitivity and halos when looking at bright lights. I simply couldn’t
drive at night, as oncoming headlights overwhelmed my vision.
I felt
sick. What had I done? Had I ruined my vision – and my
life?
I remembered what my eye doctor had said to me, “Be patient.
It may take a while for your brain to get used to the new situation.”
I
also knew that the doctor wouldn’t even consider redoing my
eyes until after three months had passed, as the eyes are still healing
during that period and your vision may change.
I am glad that I was
forced to soldier through it now. I can read beautifully. The middle
vision fuzziness has retreated, as my eyes aren’t battling each
other for dominance. The light sensitivity is going away (after a course
of steroid drops and time passage) and the halos have nearly faded.
But,
I have one problem: my long distance vision isn’t quite
good enough. Technically, it is good enough to pass the driving test.
But, “untechnically,” it isn’t good enough to keep
me from going batty. Things are slightly fuzzy. I have to sit closer
to the television than I like. I can’t read the numbers of the
hymns we will sing at church, because the display is too far away.
I find myself squinting at everything as my brain desperately wants
to sharpen the picture.
I’ve been tested and, sure enough, my
left eye – which
is the eye that received the long distance correction – has slipped
backwards. At my last visit, it was tested at 20/30. I suspect it has
gone downhill since then.
I will have it corrected again in February – once
the three month waiting period is over – and then I will have
the vision that I longed for when I started this journey. I’m
not afraid now, because I can “see” that it is possible
and that the outcome will be good. I also know that my eye doctor is
willing to ensure that I end up with 20/20 in that eye.
But, my experience
has taught me a lesson that I hope I will never forget: “almost
there” is not good enough.
I “almost” have perfect
vision – but because it
isn’t perfect vision, I am uncomfortable. If I apply this principle
to my life, I realize that when I “almost” get a job done,
I have let myself down. When I “almost” finish painting
the trim in my home, I haven’t finished it. I need to drag myself
out one more time and complete the job. If I do, the weight of the “almost” won’t
be sitting in the back of my mind, interfering with other activities
I might wish to do “if I didn’t have to finish that paint
job that is almost finished.”
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If I “almost” get ready to go in the morning, I am
not ready to go anywhere and so I simply don’t go anywhere.
I stay at home and I miss what I might have seen outside my walls.
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If I “almost” always pray, I am denying myself the
strength that I would have enjoyed on the occasions when I ran
into my life without stopping to communicate with my Heavenly Father.
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If
I’m “almost” committed to improve my health,
I never begin to improve my health. It becomes an impossible dream
because I can’t quite summon the courage to overcome the thing
that is causing me to “almost” be ready to do it.
As I’ve considered the term “almost,” I’ve
realized that it is a word that, if used carelessly, can lead to inaction,
excuses and procrastination. But, let’s not beat up too hard
on “almost,” because it can occasionally mean that something
good has nearly arrived.
It is “almost” time for my section
eye surgery. I am excited for it, but am grateful that I’ve had
the opportunity to see “almost” perfectly.
It was an unexpected gift that has been rippling through my life, making
me question how often I have allowed myself to “almost” do
what I want to do.
This muse is “almost” over now. But
first, I need to say that I can see perfectly that life can teach us
the lessons we need to learn, if only we are willing to see them.
- Ro
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to [email protected]. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
Enjoy Ro's Muses? She now has a blog where she is posting some of our readers' favorites, along with blog-only topics. http://lifemuses-ro.typepad.com/life_muses_by_ro/
Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to
print, save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
Tutorial: Photo Collage with
Blended Overlap
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop
CS3 on Windows XP.
For today’s tutorial, I wanted to create a photo collage where
the overlapping edges of the photos gently faded into each other, while
leaving a crisp outside edge.
To begin, arrange three photos into a
collage on a 12”x12” blank
canvas. The edges of each photo need to overlap more than one inch each.
In the
Layers Palette, make the top photo layer active (highlighted blue).
Then, click on the Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette
to create a layer mask. The layer will show a second thumbnail when
the layer mask has been applied.
Layer masks are very useful in digital
scrapbooking because the changes are not permanent. At any time, if
you wish the layer to return to its original state, simply delete the
mask.
Using the Rectangle Marquee Tool, select a portion the left edge
of the photo by clicking and dragging the mouse across the photo (the
width you wish the fade to appear). The marching ants will be visible
around the selection.
Note: You may find it easier to
make an exact selection if you zoom in closer to your photograph.
Any time
you are working with a layer mask, the foreground and background colors
automatically change to black and white. Black added to any portion
of the mask will make the photo (or paper or whatever is masked) disappear,
leaving the layer below visible. White added to any portion of the
mask will make the photo reappear.
Because I want the edges to disappear,
I select black as my foreground color.
To make the fade a gentle transition,
use the Gradient Tool (under the Paint Bucket). With the Gradient Tool
selected, along the Option Bar, click on the drop-down menu to the
right of the color gradient. The Gradient picker will appear – click
on the top left square to use the Foreground/Background colors for
the gradient.
Also on the Option Bar, select the left icon, Linear Gradient,
as your gradient type.
To apply the gradient, click and drag the mouse
across the width of the marching ants, starting from the outside edge
of the photo going towards the center of the photo.
The gradient creates
a gentle fading effect on the edge of the photo. Use Ctrl+D or
Select> Deselect to turn off the marching ants.
Repeat
this process with the right side and top of the photo by using the
Rectangle Marquee Tool and the Gradient Tool again.
Where the fading
from the top and the side intersect, you may see a new sharp edge created
(noted by the red circle).
To correct this, use the Brush Tool with
a soft edged brush and black as the foreground color. In my sample,
I used the Airbrush Soft Round Brush with a Master Diameter (Size)
of 200 pixels and Opacity of 50%.
By clicking a few times with the mouse,
this edge fades away.
To continue on the collage, select the next photo,
add the layer mask, and use the Rectangle Marquee Tool, Gradient Tool
and Brush Tool to soften the edges.
Here is how the photos appear after
the mask work. Notice that all three photos gently fade into one another
to create a seamless image.
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Online Classes Available
Cooking
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February 5 and 12, 9 PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, January
30th -
12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos
and themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and
a fun, new challenge each week!
On January 30, we'll do an All About Me
challenge! Create a layout using a quote you love!
You'll have one hour to create a layout
and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be
amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends
and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
Desktop
Crop
Wednesday, January
30th - 9:00PM ET
Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum)
at 9PM EST for the Desktop Challenge Crop.
Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've
liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with
your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background
for your enjoyment? A few hours before the chat, we will provide
you with a source of inspiration, so stay tuned!
Art
Inspiration Challenge
Thursday, January 31st
- 9:00PM ET
Join Scrappinjo and ruralscrapper,
for the Art Inspiration Crop on Thursday, January 31st at 9
pm EST.
We will provide a piece of art to be used as inspiration for
your layouts. You can use the color scheme, the composition,
or any part of the art as the starting point for your own layout
- the only rule is that you use your imagination!
Quote
Challenge Crop
Sunday, February 3rd
- Time TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for
the Quote Challenge Crop! Here's how it will work. On Sunday,
we will post a thread on the challenge board giving you the
quote which you will use to make your own word art. It's not
hard, and we'll even have a layout with a Word Art example.
Then we'll meet in the chat room to have
fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout! We'll post the time
in that day's thread, as the time changes around each time
to allow participation by our international folks.
Everyone can participate and create a layout,
even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!
NSBR
Chat
Monday, February 4th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, Carla (crs),
for a NSBR Chat. What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbook related
chat. We talk about everything! It’s a chance to just
sit back and chat with friends, make some new friends and just
have some fun. If you have a problem and want some support,
we’ll be there to listen. If you have something exciting
to share, we’ll celebrate with you. If you have questions,
we’ll try to answer them for you. Come join the fun,
Monday, February 4th at 9 PM EST. Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, February 6th
-
12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos
and themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and
a fun, new challenge each week!
On Feb. 6, we'll do a color challenge! Create
a layout using a special color web site we'll discuss in the
chat!
You'll have one hour to create a layout
and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be
amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends
and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, February 13th
-
12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos
and themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and
a fun, new challenge each week!
On Feb. 13, we'll do a pattern challenge!
Create a layout using at least three different patterns!
You'll have one hour to create a layout
and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be
amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends
and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, February
14th - 9:00PM
ET
Join me, sprinklz, for a
special Valentine's edition
of the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, February 14th at 9pm ET in the Scrap
Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start on your
layouts? Then this challenge is for you! A few hours before
the challenge begins, I'll post a sketch for you to use as
the starting point for your page. You can be inspired by the
basic arrangement, the amount of photos, or copy it literally.
All interpretations are welcome and encouraged!
Looking forward
to seeing you there! We'll be meeting in the "Chat_and_Crop" room
of the chat. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link
(above right). Once you are in the lobby, click on the "Show
Rooms" button (on
the upper left), then select "Chat_and_Crop" from the list
on the left side.
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January
Events
January Board Game: Progressive
Word Scramble
Here's how it works. The object of the game
is to correctly guess a boutique item by solving clues and
unscrambling letters we give you. Each day you are given a
letter or several letters of the name of a boutique item as
well as a clue. You won't know how many letters are in the
boutique item name until it is complete. We will keep giving
clues until a correct guess is made.
The designer's name is not included as part
of the puzzle, and the word "collection" is not included
as part of the puzzle either. Letters from any other words
in product names (such as "biggie", "brush", or "transparency")
may be given as part of the puzzle.
Here is an example:
Day 1 Letters: i
Day 1 Hint: I'm oh so pretty
Day 2 Letters: t n
Day 2 Hint: I know you'll love my soft reds, and blues, and
greens
Day 3 Letters: u o i
Day 3 Hint: It was so nice of Angie to give me some flowers
Answer: Angie Briggs' Intuition Collection
Be the first to answer it correctly and
win a $5.00 Gift Certificate to the Boutique! You are only
allowed ONE guess per daily clue, and you are only allowed
ONE win per month. When you make your guess, you MUST link
it to the boutique item you are referencing. We will play the
game daily during the entire month of January. When a correct
answer is given, the new puzzle will start the following day.
January Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: You could win a $10 Gift Certificate
to the Boutique! With New Year’s Day here, we tend
to think in terms of our resolutions for the year ahead.
How about taking some time to reflect on the year that
has just passed? You could look at the resolutions you
made last year at this time and scrap about how you did
at keeping them. Or on a less serious note, you could do
a retrospective of your year with a few (or several) photos
that highlight your year. Maybe there is one event in your
year that was extra special, like a wedding, a birth, or
a death in the family. So let’s see your layouts
highlighting the year just past.
Mid-January
Layout Contest: The new year can be a time for new
beginnings and fresh starts. Maybe you've recently reorganized
a room, put an addition on or remodeled your home. Or, maybe
you are working on turning over a new leaf in your life.
We want to see your layouts about something that's giving
you a fresh start (past or present). Post your layouts in
the correct gallery, and if your layout is chosen, you'll
win a $10 GC to the Boutique! All layouts are due by February
14, 2008 at Midnight, ET!
Ongoing Opportunities
Customer
Muses: It occurred to us recently that
it might be wonderful for our readers to share with each
other their own versions of Ro's Life Muses. We know each
of you has a wonderful story to tell. To have your own
essay considered for publication as a muse in the column
for our special Saturday newsletter, send your essay to [email protected].
If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift
Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique.
Way
Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to have
all of you meet some of the amazing people that have become
Scrap Girls! If you would like to be spotlighted and win
a $25 Gift Certificate to the Boutique, send the following
items to [email protected] :
- 500-900 word essay about
your experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and
specific examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created
that uses Scrap Girls products and its complete supply list.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun to
see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.
Customer
Freebies: We get a lot of requests from
you asking if you could share a freebie with your Scrap
Girls friends, and we have come up with a way to do it.
On Saturdays we will be sharing freebies created by you,
if they are available. If you are interested in participating,
download this
PDF with the specifications and you'll be on your way.
Please note that if you choose to use any Scrap Girls tools
or templates in your submission, commercial licenses for
those products are required. (Even our own designers must
purchase commercial licenses for any items they wish to
use in a non-personal manner!) If your freebie is chosen,
you will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls
Boutique!
Suggest
a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea
for a gallery layout challenge? Submit it to [email protected].
If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize
(such as a brush set, paper set, embellishment set, etc.).
The prize will be a surprise, but you'll be sure to like
it because you will get to pick out the one you like best
(from the category you'll be assigned to shop in when you
are notified that we are going to use your challenge idea).
Friday will be Customer Challenge Day so keep an eye out
on the message board calendar. It will be fun to see what
YOU come up with for us to do!
 Note
from Ro: Scrap Girls
is now giving away birthday gifts to our message board members! Of
course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday
presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure
because most people like money... Oops! Did I say that? No.
I didn't say that. You did NOT hear me say that. Anyway,
make sure your message board email address is current and
that you have the correct date entered into your profile
or you'll miss out on the birthday present! (You will only
be entering the month and the date so don't be shy. We won't
know how old you actually are!)
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Check our message
board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York'
as the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater
kit section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the
large number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital
scrapbooking as much as we do, and we have thousands of products
to feed your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's
so addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all
day long, every day of the week, and each day of the year.
You don't have to wonder about important questions like how
to back up your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to
scrapbook digitally (and which one to buy), or what type of
computer software is required to create digital scrapbooking
layouts. The answers are all here for you - in one easy to
use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a
little bit of extra fun!
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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Almost Perfectly
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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In this issue:
- 14.7% Off Cravings Satisfied Sale!
- What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Photo Collage with Blended Overlap
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Contests
- Ongoing Opportunities
- Designer Freebie
- Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Educational Products |
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The Scrap Girls newsletter is
created for you by a virtual army of Scrap Girls team members.
Without them, we couldn't possibly share these resources with
you, and I'm very grateful for their ongoing help and support.
I hope you enjoy today's issue as
much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Ro
CEO - Scrap Girls, LLC
P.S. Your email address is
safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with
anyone!
P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance,
please email [email protected] or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!
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Scrap Girls Clubs
Scrap Girls Monthly Club |
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Join
the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with
the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking
looks while saving! (A $26.93 value for $9.99 or less!)
The Scrap Girls Club contents
are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business
day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you
will receive:
- 1 Collection Biggie
- 1 Paper Super Mini
- 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
- 1 Embellishment Set
- 1 Card and Envelope Set (printable version
only)
- 1 Easy Page
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
Layout by Amanda Sok using
January's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Amanda Sok
Alert!
Alert! THURSDAY is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap
Girls club and still get this great group of products at
this amazing price. Don't delay... sign up now!
Remember, these items are available
separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would
rather not join a club.
(Note: The Scrap Girls
Club contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the
Boutique at their regular prices once the associated club month
is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never
seen before product releases for each month!) |
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ScrapSimple Monthly Club |
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Join
the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest
ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99
or less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club
contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest
business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you
will receive:
- 1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
- 1 Brush Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
Layout by Melissa Renfro
using January's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Melissa Renfro and Theresa Kavouras
If you prefer not to join a club,
the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices
in the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking
the What's
New? section of the Boutique.
(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents
are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices
once the associated club month is released. But all club contents
are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for
each month!) |
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Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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*NEW!* MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions
6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements
versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 & 5.0
It's time for you to stop playing
catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more
advanced tricks that you see other people and professional
digital scrapbookers doing.
- Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
- Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
- Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
- Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there
waiting in your software for you to use such as paths,
masks, the drawing pen, and more.
- See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you
can make things that are creative and unique.
- Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
- Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear...
That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind
to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside
of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside
of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
- See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used
to do that with, too...)
- Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets
frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this
trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all
along.)
- Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
- Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
- And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used
Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself
in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have
to understand layers, where things are located, and all of
the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop)
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Are you wishing you could learn
how to scrapbook digitally, but feeling kind of intimated by
it? These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook.
You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about
why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short,
one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down.
It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking
lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
- Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
- Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
- Understand how to save your files for
printing or sharing them with your friends and family over
the internet
- Make your own textured brush
- Learn how to install and use purchased
brushes
- Make your own simple backgrounds
- See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts
to look like they are "real"
- Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
- Learn about transparency and lighting
effects
- Make your own digital torn paper edges
- Be able to isolate a single item in an
embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit
your fancy
- Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
- Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
- Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
- Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
- Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
- Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
- Learn how to install and use purchased
textures
- Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
- Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
- And lots more!
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Mastering Brushes |
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Mastering Brushes for
Photoshop Elements
This ebook was created from the popular online class Creative
Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who wants
to go above and beyond the basic brushing techniques taught
in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
Elements. Make your layouts shine with the polish that
advanced brushwork can bring!
Photoshop
version also available! |
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The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins |
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If you're at all curious about
filters and plug-ins, then The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Windows) is what you need! This 70 page ebook contains everything
you need to know to get started - what they are, what they do,
how to set up your computer, where to find them, how to get
them into your software, and more.
Paint
Shop Pro (PSP) version also available! |
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
eBook: This eBook (full of easy to understand information
and photographic examples) is tailored to the beginning digital
photographer who wants to take better photos. More advanced
photographers will also benefit from this eBook with the sections
that get you out of your comfort zone.
So get ready to turn that dial away from AUTO and start taking
extraordinary photos! |
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Ten Beginner Tips on Type |
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If you're creating a digital scrapbooking layout, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be using type on your pages somewhere. But did you know that type can make or break your page? What typeface will you use? What size font? Where will you place it on your page?
If you want to take some beginner steps towards improving the type on your layouts, and thereby improving the overall look of your layouts, then this eBook is perfect for you. It's written in a very simple style, focusing on one digitally scrapbooked layout while walking you through ten tips that take type from mundane and awkward to eye-catching and cohesive. |
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Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft Word |
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Look here to see all
of the things that you will learn with Scrapbook Secrets for
Microsoft Word, as it has a different set of benefits. |
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Start to Finish eBooklets |
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Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
Nothing could be simpler than
learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish
eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots
will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included
with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create
a finished project!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to use ScrapSimple Tools: Custom
Shapes & Patterns also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Emboss & Texturize with
ScrapSimple Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using ScrapSimple
Card Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available! |
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