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Using the Flip-Pal Scanner

Using the Flip-Pal Scanner

At my last newborn portrait session, I decided to try something different. Instead of inking the baby’s feet to get a print like they do in the hospital, I pulled out my Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner! While the baby’s mom held her little one, I warmed up the scanner glass a bit with the heating pad. Then I gently pressed the tiny little foot to the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner bed and scanned it! Baby Jenna didn’t budge, and I got a clean scan.

Now, what to do with that little scanned foot? Jenna’s parents had ordered a disk of images they wanted to use in a slideshow as a screensaver. I decided to incorporate her little footprint on the cover image of her disk.

After I designed the layout, I started thinking about how I could make her footprint actually look more like a print and less like a complete image.

I extracted just her foot from the base image – doing my best to only keep the parts that were in contact (even light contact) with the scanner bed to better replicate the look of a print. After that, I used the Magic Wand Tool to select the lighter tones and saved them to their own layer. Once that was done, I was able to delete the lighter tones from the background (which I had converted to a layer so I could have transparent pixels). After that, it was just a matter of selecting two colors that went well with the elements I used to create the rest of the layout. I chose two colors that were fairly similar so I could have some depth in the print, but not too much contrast.

While it doesn’t look EXACTLY like an actual footprint, it does look pretty cool, and her parents loved it!What fun things can you scan with a Flip-Pa Mobile Scanner for a truly customized project? Give your ideas a try, then share them with us in the Scrap Girls Gallery!

 

Jennifer hamilton

Tutorial by Jennifer Hamilton

 

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