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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.
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Customizing Layout Templates
Templates. Some people love them and some people hate them. The reason for the latter, I believe, is that some scrapbookers find templates rigid – rigid in that they don’t meet the scrapbooker’s needs and rigid in that they stifle creativity. People who love templates have discovered what I’m going to share with you today. […]
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Adjusting the Pattern Size of Styles in Photoshop Elements
What would we do without styles? Being able to add touches of virtual glitter, glass, paint, metal, wood, and so much more is one of the best parts about digital scrapbooking. Today, let’s work with one of the options available: adjusting the pattern size of styles by scaling. Since we might want to apply the same […]
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Fun with Pocket Life Cards
Journaling cards are here to stay. And these little gems are super versatile and can be used on many types of layouts from Pocket Life to art journaling to more traditional scrapbook pages. You can also wse templates to create customized pocket life cards to match your layout or project.
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The Basics of Clustering Digital Embellishments
Embellishment clusters can be a little intimidating. Knowing a few tips can make them so much easier to arrange.
First, remember that placement is key. Think about what you want to accomplish with a cluster. This will help you know where to start putting embellishments. -
5 Tips for Making Layout Templates Your Own
I have a confession: I am a rather haphazard scrapbooker. I never start with a plan beyond a few photos I know I want to use and a feeling I want to create. I generally just start sticking things on a page and moving them around until I’m happy. Layout templates (where the layout comes […]
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Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Paper Pusher
Whether creating a calendar, decorating your journal, or pulling together a scrapbook page, Elisha Barnett’s Paper Pusher is full to the brim with practical design elements. “My alphas, doodles, and hand-lettered days/months word art are all great to use on digital pages, Pocket Life layouts, and planner pages, but I think it would also be fun to print […]
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Getting Started in Photoshop Elements
A few days ago, one of my friends confided that she wanted to learn to digital scrapbook, but she wasn’t sure where to start. She had Photoshop Elements, and she had read a lot of tutorials; she had a file of pictures she wanted to scrap, but she still felt overwhelmed. I thought a basic […]