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I don't know when they are going to let me get away with this kind of
sale again. Almost everything in the Scrap
Girls Boutique is 21.9% off! But you know how it goes, I do have
to turn it off soon, so here’s your warning: It
will be over at Midnight, MDT, April 30th. THAT'S TODAY!
Shhh! This is Valerie. Don't tell Ro, but I have hijacked
the newsletter to bring you an EXTRA discount!
Ro thinks she can just give you a big sale against
my advice, does she? Well, I'll show her! We'll see how she likes
THIS sale! You can get an EXTRA 5% off
the sale prices in the boutique! That means you will get 26.9% off
almost everything in the boutique with this coupon!
To recieve the discount, you must type the coupon code
in exactly as you see it here: BwaHaHaRo.
Not BWAHAHARO, Bwa_Ha_Ha_Ro, or any other variations. BwaHaHaRo is
the only code that will work.
You must hurry though, this
coupon will end, along with our regular sale, at Midnight (MST),
on April 30th, 2008. THAT'S TODAY!
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.
Mischief Week Continues...
New for Today...
Make sure to keep checking the Message Board. You never
know what fun games will show up!
Already Running...
Check out our Mischief Week Forum (Scrap Girls
Message Board> Fun and Games> Events> Mischief Week 2008)
on our Message Board for all the details on these great games. And
don't miss the random games that are popping up all over the place...
it IS Mischief Week, after all!
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Scrap Girl Guess Who (Baby Game). Correctly identify the Scrap
Girls team member with her baby photo and you could win Collections
from our boutique!
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Boutique Bingo. Details for this one are on the Message
Board. You can win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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Moss Fairy Treasure Hunt. Be a star and win this treasure
hunt! The winner will get a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls
Boutique. The rules are simple. Check them out in Friday's
newsletter or on the message board!
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Boutique Scavenger Hunt. Check out Friday's newsletter
at http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/Chit_Chat_080425_Fri_Scissors.htm if
you missed the rules on it. There's an automatic $10 Gift Certificate
prize available, as well as three other Gift Certificate opportunities!
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Whack-A-Valerie. Check out Thursday's
newsletter at http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/Chit_Chat_080424_Thurs_Mischief.htm if
you missed the rules on it. You can win a $10 Gift Certificate
for this one!
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Never-ending Story. This is happening on the
message board right now. Check the Scrap Girls Message
Board> Fun and Games> Events> Mischief Week 2008.
- Posting Contest. A favorite at Scrap Girls! The top 10 posters
for the week will win a prize, so get to it!
What else is happening this
week?
Make sure you check the schedule below for upcoming Crops
and Classes. We are having loads of them and there will be surprises
in each one. (Lots of mischief going on!)
We will be having all sorts of games and fun on the message
board, too. You’ll want to keep peeking in the board so you will
know what is going on. So stay alert... Mischief Week means there is
going to be all sorts of silliness and opportunities to win prizes!
See ya on the message board!
- Ro
Life Muses by Ro: You are Living Your Big Life
One of the challenges of writing a regular column such as this is
that a great deal of the time, you feel that nothing particularly interesting
or inspiring happens to you. You get up, shower and dress, eat the
same breakfast that you’ve eaten for weeks, do the same work,
talk to the same people, go to the same places, watch the same TV shows,
and go to bed at the same time each evening.
Nothing has especially
inspired you. Nothing has moved you to think differently or act in
a unique way. When you look back, you can’t
particularly remember what has occurred. Life feels a waft in sameness...
ordinary, blank-minded sameness.
But then, without warning, your mind
grasps the idea that your big life is found between the covers of small
days. While your life may appear to be connected through major milestones
such as births, deaths, marriage, graduation, moves to new cities,
and radical changes in employment, those events are simply markers
placed along the path so that you might know where you are on the journey.
The
journey itself – life – is found in the moving through
one simple activity - at a time. Each time you stand in a line, make
a meal, take out the trash, put clean clothes in your closet, read
a book, chat with friends, laugh with a family member, comb your hair
or even engage in your favorite hobby, try to remember that you are
living your big life at that very moment. And, the very moment you
remember that you are living your big life, you’ll feel inspired.
This
is your life. Isn’t it interesting?
- Ro
P.S. I took this photo of a stand of ornamental grass last fall.
I feel inspired every time I look at it. It was so simple that I nearly
missed it, but then I saw the light hitting it and I realized that
it is how we see the details of our life that matter.
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Supplies:
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to [email protected]. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
Enjoy Ro's Muses? She now has a blog where she is posting some of our readers' favorites, along with blog-only topics. http://lifemuses-ro.typepad.com/life_muses_by_ro/
Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to
print, save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
Tutorial: Demystifying RAW
Conversion
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop
CS3 on a PC.
Photography is a huge part of digital scrapbooking and most of us
aren’t professional photographers. If your camera offers RAW
format, you might wonder whether you can handle shooting your images
in this way. You know that you’ll get much larger files and that
you are supposed to have greater control over the end product. But,
what exactly does that look like? Maybe you’ve seen the RAW conversion
dialogue and it looked way too scary.
I’d like to show you some
basic steps on improving your photos through the use of the RAW conversion
system. This won’t be a comprehensive lesson on the wonders of
RAW, but, hopefully, it will get you started and perhaps give you the
impetus to continue on down that road.
You may know that there are certain
things you can do within Photoshop that will improve your photos. However,
there is a limit to how much you can fix them there. For example, here
is the photo I want to work on, along with an example of the photo
I have fixed within Photoshop’s
regular interface. There is a nice improvement, but I’d like
to show how much better the final result will be when the conversion
is done using the RAW Conversion Box.
Open an image from the Adobe Bridge.
You’ll want to left-click
on the image and choose “Open in Camera Raw.” You’ll
need to be sure that the image you choose has been taken in RAW format.
You can make sure of this by checking the extension of the file against
the RAW extension your camera offers. Check your camera's manual for
this information. (If you have CS3, you can open JPG images in RAW
from the Adobe Bridge. Simply right-click on your image and choose
"Open in Camera Raw". Not all of the features are available for JPG
images, but there are enough there to play with!)
Take a look at the RAW dialogue box. The first thing
that you’ll
notice is a large collection of sliders and buttons on the right side
of the screen. Don’t be alarmed! They are your friends!
We will
start with the top of the slider panel. The Photoshop team knew what
they were doing when they organized this list. Each slider is placed
in the order that you should use them, for the most part. Although,
sometimes, you may want to vary from this path.
We’ll begin with
White Balance. White Balance allows you to change the
appearance of the lighting in which you took the photo originally.
In this case, I took the photo in the shade. Shade tends to give a
bluish cast to a photo, and we want more natural colors to be present
in the image. If I click on the arrow at the right of the White
Balance display,
I get a drop-down box which gives me some presets for typical lighting
situations. So, if I took the photo in shade, I may want to try the
"Shade" setting first.
Having tried the "Shade" setting, I like the results.
However, I think
it’s a bit redder than I want it to be. Next,
I’ll go to the Temperature slider and adjust it slightly
to the left to tone down the reds just a bit. You can see that the
image is a bit less red because I adjusted the Temperature from
its original 7500 down to 7250. I like the look of this better.
I also adjust the
Tint slider back to zero. This adds a bit of the green back
into the image and tones down the magentas.
The next slider is where
we will see the most dramatic difference. The Exposure slider
will allow us to essentially increase or decrease the exposure as necessary.
Unless you’re an amazing photographer
with very high quality equipment, you may find it a bit tricky getting
the exposure just right. In that case, when you shoot your images in
RAW, you can adjust for this according to your tastes. My image is
too dark, so I’m going to move the slider to the right to brighten
things up.
You can see that the image is much brighter, but some of
the detail seems to be lost. I want my image to be a bit dramatic,
so I’ll
use the Blacks slider to help me accomplish this. I increase
the Blacks to "15" to get the look I want. This brings out the
details in my image quite a bit.
However, I still want to boost the
Contrast a bit more, so I increase the Contrast to "50".
Finally,
I want to bring out the details in the veil. I’m going
to do this by using the Clarity slider. I increase the Clarity value
to "53" and achieve some more definition in the veil.
Here is the final
result: A beautiful image very clearly defined and beautifully exposed.
Now, we just need to showcase it in a layout!
Again, compare what can
be achieved in RAW with what can be done inside Photoshop’s typical
interface.
You may notice that we haven’t used all of the sliders
inside Photoshop. Since each image is different, it requires the
use of different adjustments. I recommend playing with the sliders
to get the feel of what each one does.
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you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look
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You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows
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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.
Scheduled Mischief Week
Events!
Wednesday, April 30
- 12:00 Noon ET - High Noon Chat
- 1:00PM ET - NSBR Chat
- 8:00PM ET - Zaz & Shari's Sensational Scrap Girls
Adventure
- 9:00PM ET - Hodgepodge Sketch Challenge
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High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 30th
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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 April 30, we'll do a "Push yourself" challenge! Create
a layout that really pushes your personal style - either
something you've never done before, or a layout that is very
much your style - just INTENSELY your style!
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!
NSBR
Chat
Wednesday, April 30th
-1:00PM
ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything! It’s a great
way to meet new people and get to know everyone. Catch up on
what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have any questions,
we'll try to answer them. So, join me, Launa for some fun on
April 30th, at 1 PM EST, in the Chat Room! Hope to see you
there!
NSBR
Chat
Thursday, May 1st -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 May 1st, at 1 PM EST, in Chat Room #001!
Hope to see you there!
NSBR
Chat
Monday, May 5th - 9:00PM
ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking.
It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on
what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem,
we’ll lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some
great news to share? We’d love to celebrate with you.
So, join me, Carla (crs),
on May 5th, at 9 PM EST, in Room #1! Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, May 7th
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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!
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, May 7th
- 9:00PM
ET
Join Launa & Zaz,
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 grandmother's
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!
Sketch
Crop Challenge
Thursday, May 8th - 9:00PM
ET
Join me, sprinklz,
for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, May 8th 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 "00_Room_1" room
of the chat. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link. Once
you are in the lobby, click on the "Show Rooms" button (on
the upper left), then select "00_Room_1" from the list on the
left side.
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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-April
Layout Contest: Everybody’s life needs a little
silliness in it. For the mid-month contest, we want you to
scrap something silly. It could be photos of your kids, pets
or yourself doing something silly, a practical joke you played
on someone, or a silly story. Post your layout sharing something
silly by midnight on May 14th and you might win $10 to the
Scrap Girls 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
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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.)
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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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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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You are Living Your Big Life
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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In this issue:
- 21.9% Off Mischief Week Sale!
- Sale Coupon!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Mischief Week Events
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Demystifying RAW Conversion
- 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
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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
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Created for you
by Keri Schueller
Alert! Alert! TODAY
is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls club and
still get this great group of products at this amazing price.
Don't delay... sign up now!
Remember, these items are available
separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would
rather not join a club.
(Note: The Scrap Girls
Club contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the
Boutique at their regular prices once the associated club month
is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never
seen before product releases for each month!) |
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ScrapSimple Monthly Club |
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Join
the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest
ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99
or less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club
contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest
business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you
will receive:
- 1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
- 1 Brush Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
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Created for you
by Erica Hite and Sarah Batdorf
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
to use it. |
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 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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