What Are Blending Modes?

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Tutorial written in Adobe Photoshop CS5 on a Mac running OS X Lion What are Blending Modes? What do they do? These are questions I run into frequently. Today I’m going to try and answer those questions for you. There is a lot of information out there about Blending Modes, and a lot of it [...]

Using Dynamic Digital Brushes

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 with Windows 7 I decided that for today’s technique we would have a little fun… scribbling! I know it sounds odd but stay with me… it’s fun, looks so artsy, and it works well on nearly all photos, but especially those with contrast and defined edges. I’m using [...]

Super-Powered Journaling

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop CS5 with Windows 7 My children know they are not always (ever?) angels, and while I wouldn’t want to air all their mischief and misdeeds in my digital scrapbooking layouts, I do want to be “real” with my journaling. How can I be loving, respectful, and yet real? I tend [...]

Resizing Journal Card Layouts

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Tutorial created Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Windows Vista Recently on the Scrap Girls Forum, there was a new topic from a member about how to use the Pocket Life digital scrapbooking products and the Pocket Page templates and how could they be adapted to an 8×10-inch layout format. At the time, there was a flurry [...]

Personalizing Digital Scrapbooking Templates

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 with Windows 7 When I first started scrapping and seeing digital scrapbooking templates in the Scrap Girls Boutique, I thought they looked really complicated and like something that just “wasn’t for me.” But then I tried them! I started out by clipping papers to the pieces and adding [...]

Selective Color Technique in Photoshop

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Article written using Photoshop CS5 with Mac Without a doubt, the Selective Color Technique is my favorite quick and easy way to change a targeted color in a photo or digital scrapbooking product. Even the slightest alteration in the hue of an object can make the difference between a harmonious digital scrapbooking layout and one [...]

Out-Of-Bounds Technique in Photoshop Elements

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 with Windows 7 Vista Have you ever seen a page where it looks like someone in a photo is popping out of the frame? I’ll show you how to do this out-of-bounds technique on your next digital scrapbooking layout! For this photo, I wanted to make my guys’ [...]

Scanning Photos

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 with Windows 7 Digital photography has really changed the way we take pictures and has brought with it some fantastic solutions for editing not-so-great shots. I’m so glad most of my pictures are in digital form already. (That’s what makes digital scrapbooking so much easier and quicker!) However, [...]

Coloring Fonts With The Paint Bucket Tool

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I love fonts! Although I like to work with all the graphic elements in digital scrapbooking, I would definitely say I am obsessed with fonts! I think there is a good chance a lot of you are like me in that respect; maybe we should start a Fonts Anonymous group here at Scrap Girls! Today, I’m going [...]

Using Photojournalism On Your Digital Scrapbook Layouts

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Article written using Adobe Photoshop CS5 with Windows 7 What do you think of when someone says “spring”? Insects are not the first thing I think of, but somehow that’s what I ended up featuring in this digital scrapbooking assignment! Most of us take many, many photos of an event or subject. Sometimes there’s that WOW! photo [...]

 

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