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What's New in the Scrap Girls
Boutique?
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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: Little Things Matter
In between the Boutique upgrade and personal issues (remember “The
Door” incident from Tuesday’s newsletter?) last week, I
simply did not have time to write any muses for the newsletter this
week. So, I’m taking this opportunity to bring you some of my “Best
of Ro” muses. Enjoy!
She vigorously told us to stop. “We are getting soaked,” she cried. “Stop touching it.”
We could see that she was right and with each finger stroke, water moved from the outside to the inside of the canvas. We were in a tent and it was supposed to keep us safe from the storm. But to a ten-year-old 4-H camper, the little bit of moisture our curiosity brought inside the tent seemed immaterial. We felt driven to follow the rivulets of water with our fingers in the same way an ant is programmed to follow a path as it carries food back to its home.
As the ferocity of the storm increased, our teenage camp counselor became increasingly concerned. We would not stop stroking the sides of the tent and our sleeping bags were becoming soaked. And because we had been dropped off in the canyon by one of our parents for our overnight experience, we had no viable way of returning home without outside assistance.
Once my friends and I realized the gravity of our situation, we began to cry. We imagined we would drown as the nearby creek flooded, starve from lack of food, or freeze from exposure to the elements. We were certain we were going to die.
At last, our leader remembered that the campground had a roofed pavilion. We hastily dressed and ran towards it. We arrived at the shelter splattered in mud and tears.
I’ll never forget the sense of hopelessness I felt that night because as we ran, we discovered all of the other campgrounds had been abandoned. We were alone. I’ll also never forget the sense of relief I felt when we saw a set of car lights pulling into the pavilion’s parking lot. One of the girl’s parents woke in the night and, sensing that we might be in trouble, had driven to the campground to check on us.
It occurs to me, as I reflect on this event, that it is a parable what may occur to us in our life. Every moment we are faced with small, seemingly inconsequential, decisions.
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What time we get up in the morning
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What we eat
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When we eat
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What we say to ourselves when we look in the mirror
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What we say to ourselves about how we spend the next 15 minutes
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How we respond when someone says something that bothers us
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What we do with junk mail. (Do we throw it away immediately or do we leave it on the counter to do later?)
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Do we allow ourselves a little bit of time to do something for ourselves today or not?
Every breath, every moment, every minute leads to an hour. Hours add up to days. Days quickly turn into months and before you know it, years or even decades have gone by.
Yesterday, I finally had a mammogram. It had been eight years since I had the last one. My doctor repeatedly told me to have one as I am over forty and it is recommended that someone in my age group have one annually. It is extra important for that I have one as I have been taking hormone replacement therapy for fourteen years because my ovaries were removed when I was a young woman. And yet it took me nearly a decade to follow through and schedule this important exam.
Why?
Because I didn’t pick up the telephone and dial the number. I have various reasons: I had to look up the number prior to dialing it. I imagined that it would take too much time out of my busy schedule. I remembered the embarrassment and discomfort I felt when I had them before.
My failure to get my annual mammogram – this life saving exam which takes less than one hour – came out of small, seemingly inconsequential but repeated decisions to tell myself, “Ill do it later.”
How often do we do this to ourselves? How many goals are we not achieving because we choose to do something less important? How many hugs do we fail to warm our souls with because we are too hurried to stop and hug our family members or loved ones? How much heavier are we because we think, “This bite won’t matter.”
My friends and I were flooded out of our tent so many years ago because we made a series of small, bad choices. I am enjoying a certain amount of success and happiness at the present because I have made a series of small, good choices. Small decisions give me the skills I have needed when I am faced with larger, life-altering decisions.
We have been blessed with free well to decide the course of our lives each and every moment we live and breathe.
Let us all choose well.
- 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.
Way Cool Stuff Product
Review: Digital Layout Templates
Note: This product review was written using Photoshop CS3 on a PC.
Digital layout templates are one of my favorite ‘tools’ in digital scrapbooking. This is because of the complete versatility they give me when putting together a layout. I use them when I have a mojo no go or alternatively, when I am stuck in a little designing rut or, quite simply, when I see a template that I just love and have to have NOW! They are also a fantastic launching pad for newcomers to digi-scrapping for creating a layout on the computer without the stress of trying to come up with a completely new design and concept whilst just beginning a digi-scrapping journey.
Our digital layout templates here at Scrapgirls come in the form of a folder with a number of .png files inside that you build by placing one .png file over the other. Some of our templates even come with a .psd (Photoshop) file that Photoshop users can just open and all the elements are already in place and you can get started straight away.
For this project, I used two digital layout templates to show you that not only can you use a template to create your layout; you can mix things up a bit by combining two or more templates together, removing some aspects of one template or replacing it with something from another template.
Here I used Sarah Batdorf’s Loved One digital layout template and Syndee Nuckle’s Be Square digital layout template.
What I did next was combine elements from both templates into my own ‘design’ using only the items from each that I liked and wanted to use. I also played around with the actual placement of these elements until I was completely happy. The result is as you see it here.
Once you are happy with your digital layout template, whether you have played around with the elements or not, the fun begins. Start by placing your photos in the spaces allotted, or frankly, where ever you want them to go, and then continue ‘building’ your layout from there. In fact, once you are in the process of creating your layout from the template, you may find that there are elements you want to put back in or remove from your template design. With digital layout templates, your layout can come to life and even give you back that surge of creativity you may have been missing.
So, even for those of us who are seasoned scrapbookers, digital layout templates are a worthwhile investment, if only to save our sanity, once in a while, LOL!
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Jo lives in Melbourne Australia with her dh and two gorgeous kids. She is an avid digital scrapbooker who loves nothing more than sitting down at her computer and whiling away the time creating wonderful memories for her family as well as enjoying the creative outlet that digi-scrapping has given her.
Online Classes Available
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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.
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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NSBR
Chat - Early Edition!
Thursday, March 20th
- 1:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking
and usually chocolate. 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, Shari (PV
Mom of 2), on March 20th, at 1 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat
Room! Hope to see you there!
Keeping
Current Crop
Thursday, March 20th
- 4:00PM ET
Join AngRoCamp for
the Keeping Current Crop on the third Thursday of each month.
In March, we'll enjoy an afternoon crop beginning at 4 p.m. ET
(3 p.m. Central, 2 p.m. Mountain, 1 p.m. Pacific). Don't let
those photos pile up and become frustrating or overwhelming.
Join us in the chat room for fun and focus on "keeping current" as
we each tackle our most recent pictures and stories. So grab
the last photo... or two... or three... that are still hanging
out on your camera's memory card and get to work so you can say
with confidence, "I'm current!"
Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, March 24th
- 9:00PM ET
(Australian Eastern Standard
Daylight Savings Time!)
Please come join Karen (kazbar73) & Jo (ScrappingJo) @ 9PM (Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Saving Time)on Monday March 24th 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? Come join us in the Chat room and learn how to jazz up your desktop.
New
Members Chat
Tuesday, March 25th
- 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
25, at 8PM 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 26th
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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 26, we'll do a fave photo challenge!
Create a layout showcasing a recently taken favorite photo!
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!
Signature Challenge & Chat
Wednesday, March 26th
- TBA
Have you wondered how everyone creates those cool signatures on the message board? Come join Dee (DDecker) for a fun chat and challenge to find out how to create, upload and insert them into your profile. Dee will post a challenge earlier in the day to help you get started then during the chat we wil work on our siggy's and answer questions!
Art Inspiration Challenge/Crop
Thursday, March 27th
-9:00PM ET
Join Scrappinjo and ruralscrapper, for the Art Inspiration Crop on Thursday, March 27th 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!
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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-March Layout
Contest: It’s time to get into shape, and we want
to see your layouts about how you are doing it. From organizing
your workspace, planning your family’s hectic schedule
or trying to make it to the gym at 5AM to squeeze in that workout,
let’s see how you’re shaping up your life. Post
your layout to the mid-month gallery by midnight EST on April
14th, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift
Certificatae to the Boutique!
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. 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 your
category! 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
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.
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! (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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Little Things Matter
Thursday, March 20, 2008
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In this issue:
- What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Way Cool Stuff Product Review: Digital Layout Templates
- 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:
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 Angie Briggs using
March's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Angie Briggs and Thao Cosgrove
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.
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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)
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 ebook contains everything
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
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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
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