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of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
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Life Muses by Ro: The Time to Live Life is Now
“A little garden in which to walk, an immensity in which to
dream, at one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked;
overhead that which one can study and meditate upon; some herbs on
earth and all the stars in the sky.” – Victor Hugo
Every spring I gravitate towards gardening magazines, rich with greenery,
and sigh at the lush borders and thick flowers. I imagine what it might
be like to live in a spot where roses climb up walls and I have private
little places to sit, think and write. I envision cool breezes on hot
summer days, glasses of icy lemonade, bees buzzing, and wafts of sweet
lavender.
When we purchased our current home, the yard was a disaster.
My daughter reported that the neighborhood children told her that she
lived in a haunted house because the plants were so over grown and
creepy looking. The chain-link fence surrounding the front yard was
broken and bent. The towering pine trees were in desperate need of
water and their needles dropped on the lawn and smothered it. Bind
weed threatened to exterminate the patches of lawn that struggled for
sunlight. The unattractive junipers lining the front of the porch had
seen better days and couldn’t
be saved.
The backyard was worse with its cracked and collapsing cement
surrounded by indescribable plant life. But, the trees... oh,
the trees in the back yard – including one magnificent maple – had
sold me. I adored the trees and since it takes decades to grow trees
like this house has, I had decided that the rest of it could be fixed.
It would be worth the pain to own these trees.
There were a few redeeming
plants in the front that could be saved: some Quaking Aspen trees,
a Flaming Bush, and two unrecognized green things that could stay until
the sprinkler system was installed.
We cut things down, dug things up,
seeded and weeded, installed borders, put weed cloth every place we
could, put bark on the weed cloth, planted my beloved rose bed at the
entry of the home. One of the roses was trained to climb up the front
of the porch. We planted Myrtle under the Quaking Aspen trees, as its
hearty nature, glossy green leaves and purple flowers commanded the
bind weed to disappear.
Eventually, I was able to sit on my front porch
in my grandparents'
old chairs and hide in the greenery. It seemed I had what I wanted – at
least in one lovely little spot. But, sadly, I missed it completely.
Instead,
we were focused on future yard goals. The Flaming Bush had to be moved
over by the house because it was blocking the sunlight in the living
room. The house desperately needed to be painted. And the sprinkling
system was tired of dragging the hose around the yard all summer. (I
was the sprinkling system.) I wanted a legitimate sprinkling system
so that I could begin seriously gardening without worrying that a trip
out of town would parch my plants. My mind spun and spun and spun into
the future.
I stumbled upon this photo in my files a month or two ago
and gasped. There it was – the lush green corner I had been cutting
out of gardening magazines for years. It had everything I had wanted:
the cottage... the vintage chairs... the roses... the
plants... And,
I hadn’t noticed.
I suddenly felt sick. I realized I only sat
on our front porch under those conditions a handful of times. I had
been so focused on the future that I had missed the happiness of the
present.
Eleven years after purchasing our home, our “fixer-upper” is
beginning to look fixed up. The house has been repainted. I now have
a legitimate sprinkling system and flower beds with weed cloth underneath
them so that I can plant anywhere I choose minus the worry of Bind
Weed running my garden. Utah’s desert conditions will not ruin
my plans should I visit my mother for a few days.
I am out of excuses.
And so, when warm weather arrives in our neighborhood,
you will find me sitting in my chairs, looking at my roses, sticking
my hands in dirt as I plant greenery and flowers, drinking lemonade,
writing and working with my laptop.
The time to live life is now.
- Ro
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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.
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Tutorial: Using Quick Masks to Create Realistic Shadows and Highlights on a Ribbon
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop
CS3 with Mac OSX.
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how using Quick Masks can help
you in your digital scrapbooking layouts. I’m going to thread
a piece of ribbon through a ribbon slide and make it appear more realistic
with shadows and highlights.
I’m currently working on a 4x6 mini
album, so I create my layout using some paper from the Intertwined
Collection Mini, which I crop into the 4x6 size. I add some brushwork
and my photos, edged in white ink. Now, I’m ready to add my ribbon
slide and ribbon.
I use the ScrapSimple Tools – Shape: Ribbon
Slide 8301 to create a ribbon slide and then apply the ScrapSimple
Tools – Styles:
Chipboard 1801 style to it. I open my ribbon (also from the Intertwined
Collection Mini) and place it on top of my ribbon slide.
You can
choose to thread your ribbon from behind or from the top – it
just depends on the look you want. Since I plan to put some text on
top of the ribbon slide, I will want the slide showing and will thread
from the top on this layout so that the ribbon goes behind the slide.
Using your Rectangular Marquee Tool, select the area on the ribbon
that will be behind the slide.
Hit Delete.
I then copy each of the sides of the ribbon (right and
left) to their own layer, so that I can create the shadow and highlights
independent of each other.
Now, I’ll create the depth with the
Quick Mask. I select the right side of the ribbon by holding down
my Apple key and clicking on the thumbnail in the Layers Palette
(Ctrl+Click for PC).
You should see the marching ants around
the segment of the ribbon. Next, click on the Quick Mask button.
A transparent,
red overlay (the Quick Mask) should appear over your entire layout,
except your selection.
Now, use your Magic Wand Tool to select your
ribbon segment again in the Quick Mask mode. This will allow only
your ribbon segment to be affected by the next step.
Next, I will use
the Gradient Tool to modify my selection. By dragging the gradient
from the outside of my ribbon edge toward the slide, I will create
a faded selection.
Now, click on the Quick Mask button again. You will
see your marching ants have changed – the selection is narrower.
This is because of your faded selection. Next we will add the highlights.
Go
up to Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast in your
menu.
I use a Brightness setting of 40, but you can experiment to see
what you like.
In this screenshot, you can see that the ribbon segment
on the right is gradually highlighted as it approaches the ribbon slide.
Now,
we will apply a little shadow right where it meets the ribbon slide
and goes behind it. We will follow the same steps as we did above,
with some slight adjustments.
After selecting the ribbon segment again as above, click on the Quick
Mask button again. Then, use the Magic Wand Tool to select the ribbon
again.
Now, we will use the Gradient Tool again, but our gradient blend
will run in a much smaller range, since the shadowed part will be very
narrow. See the screenshot above.
Click Quick Mask again and you will
see that the selection (marching ants) is very narrow. This is the
only part that will be affected by the shadowing.
Once again, go to
Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast in the
menu, but use the Brightness setting to darken this selection, instead
of highlighting it. I use a setting of -80 for mine.
After you add the
shadows to your ribbon segment on the right, repeat all of the same
steps to add highlights and shadows to your ribbon segment on the left.
Here is a screenshot of my finished ribbon with highlights and shadows
on both the right and left segments.
I finish off my layout with some
text on the ribbon slide and some flowers and leaves as embellishments.
Here is the finished layout. Notice how realistic the ribbon looks,
as if it were threaded through the ribbon slide. All done through the
magic of Quick Masks!
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Tutorial written by Cherise Oleson
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you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look
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High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 2nd
-
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 April 2, we'll do a black and white challenge! Create a
layout using black and white - either black and white papers
and elements, or black and white photos, but not both!
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
Inspiration Chat & Crop
Wednesday, April 2nd
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, Launa,
for a Textile Challenge and Crop. We will meet the first Wednesday
of each month at 9pm EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Do the paterns, 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!
NSBR
Chat - Early Edition!
Thursday, April 3rd - 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 April 3rd, at 1 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat
Room! Hope to see you there!
Quote Challenge Crop
Sunday, April 6th -
Time 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!
NSBR
Chat
Monday, April 7th -
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 us, Carla (crs)
and Carol Ann (Zaz), on
April 7th, at 9 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat Room! Hope to see
you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 9th
-
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 April 9, we'll do a pastel challenge! Create a layout using
pastels!
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!
Recipe Swap Chat and Crop
Friday, April 11th - 8:00PM
ET
Join scrappylibrarian in
the Chat Room at 9pm ET for our Recipe Swap Chat! Check the
message board on Thursday, April 10 for out theme this month.
New
Member Chat
Tuesday, April 15th - 3:00PM
ET
Join Dee (DDecker)
at 3:00 PM ET for a fun chat to get to know our newest members.
We will discuss the message board, gallery, chocolate and so
much more! Everyone is welcome new or not so new! Not sure
how to get there? Just click the Live Chat button above, you
will need JavaScript enabled to access the chat room.
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April
Events
April Board Game: Who Am I?
In honor of the month that starts the silliest
way possible... it's time to get our silliness on! This month
we'll be getting to know some silly and little known facts
about our Scrap Girls Team Members as we play a rousing game
of "Who Am I?" Every day, a member of the Welcoming
Committee will post a fact about one of the ScrapGirls Team
Members and ask, "Who Am I?" A new fact will be added
daily until someone correctly guesses which team member is
being described. Once a team member is correctly guessed, a
new team member will be featured starting the following day.
Team Members include anyone featured on
the "About
Us" page of the ScrapGirls website including Product
Design Team, Layout Artist Team, Welcoming Committee, etc.
Answers to the “Who Am I?” puzzles can be found
anywhere on the ScrapGirls site... including Gallery Layouts,
team member bios, Boutique Layouts, etc.
If you are the first to guess one of the
team members correctly you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to
the Scrap Girls Boutique! Remember you may only win ONCE during
the monthly message board game. We want as many people to win
prizes as possible!
April Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: Say "Yes" to life! With
springtime arriving here in the northern hemisphere, now
is a good time to scrap the new life that is around you.
Your subject might be new plants, baby animals, new babies,
or even a new life in God. Post your layout about the new
life around you to the April Monthly contest gallery before
Midnight (EST) on April 30th and you could win $10 to the
Scrap Girls 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 and win a $25
Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique, send the
following items to [email protected]:
- 500-900 word essay about
your experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and
specific examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created
that uses Scrap Girls products.
- 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.
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
Layout by Brandy Murry
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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 Time to Live Life is Now
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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In this issue:
- What's
New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Using Quick Masks to Create Realistic Shadows
and Highlights on a Ribbon
- 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
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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:
- 1 Collection Biggie
- 1 Paper Super Mini
- 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
- 1 Embellishment Set
- 1 Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
Layout by Keri Schueller
using April's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Keri Schueller
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 Thao Cosgrove 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 & 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.
- Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
- Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
- Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
- Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there waiting
in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing
pen, and more.
- See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make
things that are creative and unique.
- Learn advanced tricks for using tools that
you already know and love.
- Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That
is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you
do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers.
It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers.
Very private stuff.)
- See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do
that with, too...)
- Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating
you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder
why you haven't been using it all along.)
- Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
- Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
- And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop
before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software,
you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers,
where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills
that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 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...
- 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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