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Cute Stuff
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This product
is included in this month's Scrap Girls Club offering. Members
receive a substantial discount on these club supplies. They are also
available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals
who would rather not join a club.
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The first five products
are included in this month's ScrapSimple Club offering. Members
receive a substantial discount on these club supplies. They are also
available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals
who would rather not join a club.
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.
Customer Muse: Greatest Gift
Amid the chaos of ripping paper and squeals of delight as the boys dove into one present after the other on Christmas morning, there came a magical moment when my sons gave me the best gift I could have ever imagined. I didn't open the gift. In fact, it was the boys who each opened a gift and managed to bring tears of joy to this Mama's eyes.
After several months of creatively toiling over digital layout after layout, I'd managed to create a personal story book of each of my three sons' lives from their previous year. Full of photos and stories, anecdotes and memories, the albums had been a labor of love, and one that I did with passion and enthusiasm. But I just knew that my 10 year old, 6 year old and 2 year old sons couldn't possibly appreciate the effort I'd gone through to capture their personal stories, and I convinced myself (to avoid my own disappointment in their Christmas morning reactions...) that the value of those books wouldn't be realized until my kids were much, much older and "wiser." Maybe not even until some future day, years from now, when they would be sitting on a college dorm room bed and longing for a hug from home, or cuddling on a couch with their spouse, expecting or enjoying a child of their own.
I waited patiently as they each tore through the wrapping on their own story book. I wasn't disappointed at all when I saw them each realize what they were holding and then smile at their own photo smiling back at them from the cover of their personal book. I smiled contentedly and expected them to eagerly move on to the next, more exciting gift. But something very unexpected happened next. A hush fell over our family room as my sons became mesmerized in the gifts they held in their hands. They paged carefully through their individual story books. They had been giddy and boisterous as they were opening presents, but when it came to their scrapbooks they just thrilled at seeing their own stories and photos in hardbound printed books, and quietly settled in for several minutes of quiet, happy reminiscing as they literally flipped through and looked at each page in their own book with no coaxing or encouragement from me. It was such an emotional moment for me to see them excited about seeing themselves in their books. Tears of joy streamed down my face as we all shared a special moment together as a family.
I truly believe that preserving their stories is one of the greatest gifts I can give to my children. And their reaction was easily the greatest gift I could ever have asked for at Christmas time!
- Angie Campbell (AngRoCamp)
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.
What Customers Are Saying...
Layout Winners
Weekly Layout Winners:
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Want to see your layouts make
an appearance
in the Scrap Girls' newsletters?
Simply post your digital or paper
layouts that use Scrap Girls products in our online gallery, and
if we choose your layout to be featured in the newsletter, you'll
win a prize! To be considered, don't forget to list the Scrap Girls'
products that you used in your layout.
Congratulations to this week's selectees.
Please email [email protected] to get your prize!
Online Classes Available
Demystifying Layer Masks in PS
March 18 and 25, 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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Scraplift
Crop
Sunday, March 9th -
5:00PM ET
Join AngelaNussbaum and TysMommy for
a Scraplifting Crop. A few hours before the crop we will tell
you the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be
able to choose one of their layouts to be your inspiration.
During the crop we will also help explain about scraplifting,
how to use a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving
credit. Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join us, you're
sure to enjoy it!
New
Members Chat
Tuesday, March 11th - 8:00PM
ET
Join Welcoming Committee Members Pat (PBarnes) & Patti
(ruralscrapper) for an
evening of chatting and fun, at the New Members Chat, Tuesday,
March 11, at 8 pm ET! We will be there to answer any questions
you may have about digital scrapbooking or Scrap Girls in general.
This chat is a great way to meet other digi
scrappers and ask any questions that you may have. And, there
is bound to be lots of laughs and a few noises too! We welcome
our more experienced members also to join the party too.
To join, just come to the Scrap Girls Chat
Room by clicking on the “Live Chat” link from either
the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page. Click on the "Rooms" button,
and double click on "NewMember".
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 12th
-
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 12, we'll do a 3-photo challenge!
Create a layout using three photos!
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!
Book Club Discussion Chat
Wednesday, March 12th
- 9:00PM ET
We've revealed our first ever Scrap Girls Book Club selection. Now it's time to discuss it! Shari (PV Mom of 2) and Carol Ann (Zaz) would love to hear what you think about the book "Made From Scratch" by Sandra Lee! Let's get together and have a good time at 9 PM Eastern. What time is that in your neck of the woods? Click here to find out!
Hope to see you there!
Sketch
Challenge and Crop
Thursday, March 13th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz,
for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, March 13th 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.
Secret Scrap Girls Revealed Chat
Friday, March 14th
- 9:00PM ET
Secret Scrap Girls Pals! Come join Tracey and angelaNussbaum for our Revealing Chat! We will be meeting in the chat room on March 14th, @ 9PM EST. We will be discovering who our Secret Pal really is? Did you think you knew? Did you have it right? Come join us in the fun of discovering!
Recipe Challenge Chat
Saturday, March 15th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, scrappylibrarian, for our monthly Recipe Swap Chat at 9 PM EST! Check the message board on Thursday, March 13 for our topic for this month!
Quote Challenge Chat
Sunday, March 16th
- TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for the Quote Challenge Crop!
Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll 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 I will 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 on Sunday, 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!
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March
Events
March Board Game: Posting Contest
Are you ready for a workout? It's important
to warm up before exercising, so try this with me. Open your
hands and stretch your fingers as wide as they'll stretch.
Now make a very tight fist. Again.... Stretch! Make a fist!
Stretch! Make a fist! There you go! You're now sufficiently
warmed up for this month's message board game.
It's time to put those fingers to the test
and get chatty. We want to see you post the most! The top 10
posters this month will each win a gift certificate to the
boutique! (Top 1-3 will each get a $10 GC, 4-6 will each get
a $5 GC and 7-10 will each get a $3 GC!) We've got a system
to keep track of your posts. If you want to keep your own tally,
note your post count before you start posting on Saturday March
1st. Contest ends on Monday March 31st at midnight ET!
Remember to repeat your stretching exercises
as necessary throughout the month!
March Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: This month we want to see your
layouts of people or things that are on the move! It could
be a great action sports shot, someone running a marathon,
or even a child running through the grass. It could even
be your pet flying across your photo. So, give us your
best action shot and the story behind it posted to the
March gallery before midnight EST on March 31st and you
could win $10 to the boutique!
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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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!
* 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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Greatest Gift
Saturday, March 8, 2008 |
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In this issue:
-
Cute Stuff
- Customer Muse
- What Customers Are Saying...
- Layout Winners
- 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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This special weekly Customer Edition
of the Scrap Girls newsletter is created for you by a virtual
army of Scrap Girls team members and customers. 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 $27.94 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:
Layout by Valerie Randall using
March's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Valerie Randall
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:
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1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
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1 Brush Set
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1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
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1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
Layout by Shalae Tippetts
February's ScrapSimple Club
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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 & 6.0
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.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
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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.
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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.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
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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.)
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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...)
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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.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
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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 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)
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...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for
printing or sharing them with your friends and family over
the internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased
brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts
to look like they are "real"
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting
effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an
embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit
your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased
textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
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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 | |
