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Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Name of Challenge: Use a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template.
Layout by Jody West
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
For this layout, I used ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Curled Paper by Syndee Nuckles, selecting a template that featured a blended larger photo. However, the photos were portrait orientation (vertical), so I needed to rotate the photos and mask. I moved the text box and resized it to fit the new location. Most shadowing is included, so all I needed to do after merging was to add shadows to the framed photos. So quick and easy!
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Software Used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
Name of Challenge: Use a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template.
Layout by Sue Maravelas
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To remove a yellowish color cast on my photo using Photoshop Elements 6, I clicked on Enhance> Adjust Color> Adjust Color for Skin Tone. Following the directions in the new inset window, I clicked on one person's skin in the photo and watched the overall color cast of the photo change. I didn't like the first result, so I hit Reset, and then kept clicking on different patches of skin until I was satisfied. Alternatively, I could have moved the sliders at the bottom of the inset window to adjust the skin's tan and blush as well as the ambient light's temperature (from blue light to red light). When I found the setting I liked best, I clicked "OK," and the photo changed to the new color cast. If your photo contains people, this method adjusts the color quickly and easily.
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Software Used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for photo editing; GIMP for layout design
Name of Challenge: Use a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template.
Layout by Melanie Cockshott
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I started with a two-photo template from ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Album Series 14 Mini. I really wanted to make the octagon with my animal embellishments stand out from the other octagons in the grouping. In order to do this, I added a stroke on its own layer around each embellished octagon. Then holding down the Alt key, I resized the stroke so that it was just on the inside, acting like an edging or border. To add to the unity of the layout, I used the same technique on the inside yellow paper layer.
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Software Used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 10
Name of Challenge: Use a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template.
If you have praise, comments, or questions for any of our Product Designers or Layout Artists, did you know you can send them a PM (private message) using the Forum? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the Forum, 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 Scrap Girls team layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section and the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team section of the Layout Gallery.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- Pocket Life: January Special - Free with $15 Purchase!
- Cute Stuff
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
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While one girl's picture appears here on the Newsletter, Scrap Girls is really a community of talented designers, techy gals, thoughtful contributors and fantastic customers. We are ALL so happy to have you as part of the Scrap Girls community and we are very grateful for your support. Debbie OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUSuggest a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for a Gallery layout challenge? Submit it to challenges@scrapgirls.com. If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize! 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!
Of course, it is a surprise what you will receive because birthday presents should alway be a surprise! Make sure your Forum email address is current and that you have the correct birthdate entered into your profile to participate. |
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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). A commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple Club is also available here. With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:
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Layout by Laurel Lakey
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Designer Freebie by
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with her Together Collection Mini
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Today's freebie designed by Laurel Lakey
* 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.
Journaling Chat
Monday, January 14th - 8:00 p.m. ET
Do you struggle to get your words on your layouts? This is the crop for you! Join Carla (CRS) in the Chat Room for a Journaling Crop at 8 pm et that is sure to help you get journaling! This month we'll talk about using Amanda's ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Notebook Journal Mats. It's a great template set to help make your journaling part of your layout and not an after thought!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, January 16th - 12 Noon ET
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 12 Noon ET for the High Noon Crop. All coasts and time zones are welcome! 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 January 16th, we'll do a Font Challenge. Use a font that you haven't used before in your layout. If you need some font inspiration, check out the fonts in the Boutique.
Create your layout and upload it to the special High Noon Crop Gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you! Hope to see you in the chat room!
Heritage Chat
Thursday, January 17th - 9:00 p.m. ET
Do you have boxes of heritage photos just waiting to be restored and scrapped? Are there family stories just waiting for you to write down and preserve? Then this is the crop for you! Join Carla (CRS) at 9 PM ET for the Heritage Crop and Chat and learn ways to use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Jot It Down Biggie to dress up your journaling for heritage pages. We'll help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy.
January's Forum Game: Jumpstart January!
It's time to kick off the new year with some fun and a focus on scrapbooking! Join us on Scrap Girls Forum for "Jumpstart January!" This is a game and challenge that focuses on taking time to scrapbook regularly despite the little "speedbumps" of life. When the month is over you'll have completed several layouts and been treated to some fun along the way.
A Welcoming Committee Member will post a task each Monday through Saturday from January 1-31. The tasks will be formatted in a LARGE PURPLE FONT for ease of locating them in the game thread as it grows. Some tasks will require message board participation, email responses or gallery posting. Read each daily task carefully to see what is required of you.
Those who complete all the required tasks and submit or post required participation by 11:59 pm (ET) January 31st will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $10 Gift Certificates to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Those who complete all the layouts will be entered in a drawing to win one of two $5 gift certificates. Each person who completes a layout will be entered – once for each completed challenge page - into a drawing for one of three $3 gift certificates.
For complete details, visit the Monthly Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
January Monthly Layout Contest: Our scrapbooks are full of the holidays, birthdays and special events. But what about those little, everyday moments? For the January Layout Contest, we'd love to see your layouts featuring everyday moments or habitual tasks that would otherwise go undocumented. Please post your layouts in the January Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight ET on January 31st and you could one of the two people who will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Please be sure to list your layout's product credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties.
Club Concepts Layout Contest: Post your new layout using the current club selection (either the Scrap Girls Club or the ScrapSimple Club) in our Scrap Girls Club Members Gallery or the ScrapSimple Club Members' Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used. If your layout is chosen, it will be showcased as a Club Concepts layout winner, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Check our Forum calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in the Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)