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How to Load Actions in Photoshop Elements

One of the greatest improvements Adobe made with Photoshop Elements 11 was to streamline how you load add-ons into the program. In previous versions, loading such items as brushes, styles, and actions involved several steps culminating in the dreaded rebuilding the metadata upon restarting your program. After Photoshop Elements, however, the process for loading actions […]

Five Steps to ‘Watercolor Fabulous’ Templates!

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a fun way to color vintage overlay Templates using a watercolor brushes.

Installing Patterns in PSE

I’m going to cover two methods for installing pattern files. The first method involves loading the file as opposed to installing it. The second method involves installing the pattern file.

A Quick Way to Age a Photo

Ginny Whitcomb’s Family Ties Collection is rich with everything a scrapper needs for making memory pages. It provides charming designs, colors, and antique-looking elements — everything needed to finally make those family heritage pages we’ve been wanting to put together. However, while you are gathering and scanning those precious old family photos, you can enjoy Family […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Sweet Summer

Don’t let your summer memories fade before you capture them in some layouts to enjoy forever – so grab Brandy’s Sweet Summer club to make it all come together fast!

Shape Repetition for More Engaging Layouts

Shape repetition – duplicating elements, textures, themes, or colors in a digital scrap layout – is an easy way to give your layout a compelling flow. A shape constitutes anything from the simplest form, such as a circle, to more complex ideas found in curving lines.

Using Custom Styles to Add Bling to your Digital Layouts!

We have some wonderful styles in the Scrap Girls Boutique to help you add that special touch to your layouts – glitters, metals, jewels, epoxy, foils, and glass. This tutorial will show you how to use them to bling out your layouts.

Fine Tuning Justified Text in Photoshop

Justification works by adjusting the spaces between the words in each line to make all the lines the same length.

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Going Places

Designer Armi Custodio loves to travel, so she created this month’s ScrapSimple Club: Going Places to cater to all kinds of travel themes, whether road trips, air travel, or just a quick trip to the city. Plus, Armi included plenty of cool technology pieces so you can drop them into your selfie-inspired layouts all year long! Fun Fact: Armi explains that […]

Using Levels to Enhance Photos

As digital scrappers, we always want our photos to look their best. There are several edits you might be doing on a routine basis, such as cropping or removing red eye. After that, however, one of the easiest and quickest ways to correct problems and to enhance photos is by using Levels adjustments in Photoshop. […]