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Your spirit will go "ahhhh" when you find how amazing
it is to be a digital scrapbooker. So go ahead... take a leap of
faith and try it. And now is the perfect time to get started because
you can get a great deal on your digital
scrapbooking supplies! But remember, the
sale ends on Midnight (MST), February 29th. Don't miss
it or it will fly away...
What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
My family is used to hearing sounds from my office. I'm
often on the phone, discussing company matters with my team, helping
customers, or just doing boring business things. What my family isn't
quite as used to hearing is the sound of pure, delighted laughter coming
from me when there's no phone attached to my ear. I was trying out
our new product line, Dynamic Brushes, and I just couldn't help myself.
These are the most freaky-crazy-amazing things I've ever seen. You
just can't believe it until you actually use them yourself.
They make
brushing on your layouts SO easy, you will wonder how you lived without
them before! Look...
It's
like magic! I did this without changing my brush settings. I just "drew" these
stitches with my mouse. The angles changed all by themselves and I
didn't have to do a thing! I can simply draw around the edges of an
embellishment to stitch it to my layout. Or, I can write in stitching
using my mouse or pen tablet. Or, I can doodle my own stitched
backgrounds. The possibilities are endless, and that's just with this
one set! Imagine what you can do with a collection of these amazing
tools!
You MUST
try these. You will just die! They will change the way you scrapbook
with brushes!
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If you have praise, comments, or questions
for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
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: The Simple
Joy Project – Try Again
Everyone bends a few nails when they are whacking away at their
goals. It’s not the failure to succeed on each attempt that matters.
It’s the failure to try again.
My first few jobs didn’t go
very well. When I was fourteen, I was hired to clean motel rooms. Although
I quickly became known for my talent of cleaning bathrooms spotlessly
(thanks, Mom), I hated the work and I quit after two weeks. I never
received the pay for my work because I assumed that one didn’t
get paid if they quit a job. I didn’t tell my parents about it
for thirty years and by then, it was clearly too late to retrieve the
money I had earned.
My next venture into the job market was as a typist
for a music store. Since I am musical, I thought I would be successful
in my new career. However, I struggled with the typewriter I was
assigned to use and made mistakes. This made my supervisor unhappy.
Her unhappiness made me unhappy and once again, I quit. Because I still
had the opinion that one didn’t get paid for work if quitting
a job, I didn’t
receive money for my efforts at the music store. I didn’t ask
for it and they didn’t offer.
After I married, I was hired as
a typist once more. This time I stayed long enough to receive pay.
I discovered that I truly didn’t
like being a typist. The work was too boring for a mind that is inquisitive.
I found myself typing the same names on endless stacks of papers for
eight hours a day. After three months, I quit and looked for a better
opportunity.
I believed I had found it in banking. Tellers seemed sophisticated
to me. They dressed sharp and handled money. Surely, that was an important
job. Why wouldn’t it be?
I found myself filing checks and shredding
documents endlessly.
Fortunately, Gary and I decided to move to the
other end of the state and I had a reasonable excuse to quit.
Once we
had relocated, I decided to give banking another try. This time I became
a teller. Sophistication was on the way...
I was surprised to learn
that not only was I not considered sophisticated, the men in the building
(this was in another age) considered tellers as dim-witted women who
didn’t need adequate pay because they
were just working for “pin money.”
What?
I decided to teach music lessons on the side to supplement my
minimum wage job. I was disciplined by the president of the bank for
my extracurricular activities. I quit again.
My experiences with these
unsatisfying jobs taught me that the time had arrived to complete the
college degree that had been haunting my dreams. My parents had warned
my husband-to-be during the “May
I have her hand?” inquisition that I would never be happy without
my degree and they had been proven correct. I wasn’t happy. My
inquisitive mind demanded information.
Whack! Whack! Bend a few nails.
Pound a few more. Try. Find that nail didn’t work for you. It
was the wrong kind. Take a different kind out of the tool chest and
use it instead. Pound it in carefully. Try again... and again... Whack!
Bend the nail over. Straighten it up. Tap the nail back in...
Life is
a series of trials and errors. It isn’t important that
you error when trying something new. But, it is critical to your ultimate
level of joy that you simply keep trying.
- Ro
Layout by Ro
Supplies:
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.
PSP Tutorial: Using Photo Mask Templates in Paint Shop Pro
Note: Tutorial created using PSPXi and Windows Vista.
ScrapSimple Paper Templates are a staple of digital scrapbooking
and most can be used as masks. Masks are black and white or grayscale.
Black hides or covers all, white shows all and grayscale allows different
amounts to show depending on the darkness/lightness of the gray.
My layout
uses the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Masks – Downtown.
Photo masks tend to be smaller than 12X12, but will conform to your
12x12 layout. The great thing is that you can RESIZE a mask once
you have applied it!
First, I open my ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates:
Photo Masks – Downtown and Just the Basics Paper in
two separate windows.
To create the mask layer, activate the paper, Layers> New Mask Layer from Image,
and then chose the template from the dropdown menu and click "OK."
This
creates a new group, with the paper on the bottom and the mask on the
top. I am using a landscape orientated photo so I rotate the mask.
You can do this before or after you apply it.
To resize the mask, I
click on it in the Layers Palette and activate the Pick Tool (K).
I then grab the top left corner and drag it in. If you look at the
mask layer, there is now more black showing around the top and right
sides. To add the mask layer to my layout, I can do one of two things:
Activate the Group and Edit> Copy, Edit> Paste onto
my layout, which will paste my group, or I can merge the group and
move just the one layer. To add a drop shadow, it must be a single
raster layer. I save my layer group as a .pspimage in case I
need to make changes later. I then add the merged group to my layout.
I
apply a mask to my photo in the same way. Notice that I rotate the
template before applying it this time.
The best way to learn what each
option in the mask dialogue box will do is to play with different templates
and settings to see what happens. Enjoy a new way to use your Scrap
Girls templates!
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Online Classes Available
Conquering
the Fear of Patterned Paper
March 1 and 8, 3:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
 Did
you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look
for this icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the message board
forum listing. We have two feeds:
 Scrap
Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter
on the board.)- Scrap
Girls Radio Digital Scrapbooking Podcast (This is a sound
broadcast with tips and tricks, inside news and dirt, chat/crop
updates and more. Ro is your show host.)
You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows
Media Player, iTunes, or even your iPod - if you load the mp3 file
it on it. Just download the mp3 file to your computer and away you
go... or simply click on the podcast link and the podcast will start
right in your browser. You can also access the podcast through the
Scrap Girls Radio forum on the message board.
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New
Members Chat
Tuesday, February 26th
- 8:00PM ET
Join Patti and Pat (ruralscrapper and PBarnes)
in the Live Chat/New Member Chat room on February 26th, 8pm ET.
All members are welcome, not just newcomers. Bring any questions
you have about Scrap Girls in general or software questions -
whatever - and we'll do our best to answer them! Hope to see
you there.
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, February
27th -
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. 27, we'll do a design elements challenge!
Create a layout using the design principal of dominance! Not
sure what that means? We'll explain and discuss at the crop!
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, February
27th - 9:00PM ET
Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum)
@ 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!
Sketch
Crop
Thursday, February 28th -
5:00PM ET
Join me, laurellakey,
for a Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, February 28th at 5pm
ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room.
Like getting a little jump start on your layouts
while still keeping true to your own style? 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. It's all up to you, the sky is the limit!
What's a sketch? A sketch is a flattened JPG
image with specific places for your photos, elements, journaling
and title. You get to keep the free sketch as part of the challenge.
Use it as many times as you'd like! Looking forward to seeing
you there!
We'll be meeting in the "Chat_and_Crop" room
of the Live Chat section. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link
(in the purple bar at the top of this page). 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.
*RESCHEDULED!*
ATC Crop Chat
Sunday, March 2nd - 7:00PM
ET
Please join Pat Bowman in the ATC Crop Chat
Room at 7:00 pm ET for our rescheduled February ATC chat/crop.
All are welcome!
Our inspiration will be the Groovy 60's. Create
an ATC card that represents your feelings of the 60's. What does
the 60's make you think of or feel? Maybe it's a song, maybe
it's a movie or TV show, maybe it's the fashion, maybe it's the
wild colors - only you know, and we want to see it!
NSBR
Crop
Monday, March 3rd -
9:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking.
It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what
everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we’ll
lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to
share? We’d love to celebrate with you. So, join me, Carla
(crs), on March 3rd, at
9 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat Room! Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 5th -
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 March 5, we'll do a design elements challenge!
Create a layout using the design principal of contrast! Not sure
what that means? We'll explain and discuss at the crop!
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!
Textile Challenge Crop/Chat
Wednesday, March 5th - 9:00PM
ET
Join me, Launa,
for a Textile Challenge and Crop. We will meet Wednesday, March
5th at 9pm EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Do the patterns,
textures, and colors of textiles facinate you? Do you get inspiration
from anything from pillows to your grandmothers apron? Then this
challenge is for you!
A few hours before the challenge begins,
I'll post a textile for you to use as the starting point for
your page. You may be inspired by the colors, placement of patterns,
textures... just let it be your inspiration! I can't wait to
see what you come up with!! See you there!
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February
Events
February Board Game: Bingo
Yep, it is time for everyone’s favorite
game... Bingo!!!
I know you want to play, so here is how you
do it. Please pick 25 of the 80 words and phrases listed in the
thread on the message board and send them in an e-mail to [email protected].
Please make the subject of your email "BINGO Card" and
include your Scrap Girls forum user name (for example: BINGO
CARD wxchic or BINGO CARD AngRoCamp). Please PUT THE
SAME THING in your e-mail followed by your 25 words. I don’t
need your real name, just your screen name!
You have until Midnight EST on Sunday, February
3rd to sign up for the first round of Bingo! Any e-mails received
after that will be included in the next round of Bingo. I cannot
be held responsible for misdirected emails. You do not have to
register for each round of Bingo once you are playing. Your card
is good through all the rounds. (You will receive a response
from me that I have received your card. If you do not get that
response within 24 hours, let me know!)
On Monday, February 4th, the welcoming committee
will start calling words 5 at a time and keeping calling 5 words
a day (weekends NOW included) until someone posts that they have
a Bingo. What is a Bingo? You have a Bingo when they have called
15 of your 25 words. If the Bingo is valid (which we will verify
using the e-mails that you've sent us), we'll clear the cards
and start over.
Want to know what you're playing for? Each
winner will receive a $5.00 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls
Boutique! Have fun! Remember you may only win ONCE. We want everyone
to have the chance to be a winner!
February Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: February is here and love is in
the air! It’s time for chocolates, roses and romance.
Do you have a special Valentine? Who is the special someone
you trust your heart and soul with... the person you would
do anything for? Let’s pay tribute to these wonderful
people by creating a layout for the February Layout Contest!
Post your layouts to the February Layout Contest section
of the Gallery before February 29th at Midnight EST for a
chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Boutique. Good
Luck!
Mid-February
Layout Contest: Faith is a very powerful attribute.
On the Scrap Girls Message Board, we have all witnessed the
power of faith. For the Mid-February Layout Contest, we’d
like to see your layouts about faith…your religion,
a leap of faith, your faith in another person or object…whatever
moves you. The contest will run from February 15th until March
15th at midnight, EST time. To be eligible to win a $10 gift
card to the boutique, please post your layouts in the Mid-February
Layout Contest section of the Gallery. Have fun and Good Luck!
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! We'd love to introduce you to our readers, too!
If you would like to be spotlighted, 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.
- A complete list of any and all supplies used on the layout.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun to
see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.
If your entry is selected, you'll
win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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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The Simple Joy Project – Try Again
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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In this issue:
- 16.7% Off Leap of Faith Sale!
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- PSP Tutorial: Using Photo Mask Templates in Paint Shop Pro
- 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
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Created for you
by Syndee Nuckles
Alert! Alert! FRIDAY
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 Brandie Valenzuela
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Created for you
by Brandie Valenzuela and Shalae Tippetts
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
to use it. |
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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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