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Tutorial: Birthday Party Sign

Tutorial created using Photoshop CS5 using Mac OSX Yes, you can make your own birthday party printables! This is so easy (not to mention cost-effective), and you have everything you need at your fingertips with Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking products. Today, I’m going to show you how to make a cute and fun door sign […]

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Making Digital Scrapbook Brushes Handier and Even More Useful

When you install brushes, Photoshop creates a preview thumbnail in the Brush Palette to help you select a brush. You can select “Stroke Thumbnail” for brushes used as strokes; I use regular “Large Thumbnail” for most shape and texture brushes. Unfortunately, Photoshop shows all brush preview thumbnails squeezed to fit in a square shape. This […]

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Technique Tuesday – Extract an Image Using Photoshop

Extracting images from a photo or other background source is one of the most eye-catching things you can do in Photoshop. It’s also one of the most useful! It looks like you spent hours doing it, when it only takes a few moments. Let me show you some quick steps!

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3 Ways to Frame A Photo

For this tutorial, I will show you several different ways to frame a photo. As we walk through the process, you will see that framing your photos can be anything from simple to elaborate, depending on your mood, the purpose of your framing, or your time available to scrap! Let’s get started. The simplest, most […]

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3 Steps to Eraser Stamping

Eraser stamping is a popular technique that is showing up in everything from scrapbooking to clothing to children’s crafts. Basically, you take some paint or ink and use the end of a pencil to stamp it onto paper. Using multiple colors of paint or ink, and several different pencils adds layers of interest. Eraser stamping […]

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Blending with the Brush Tool

Brushes are one of the most versatile tools in photo editing software. They can be used to stamp, emboss, erase, even to die-cut. I’d like to show how you can accomplish blending with brushes in your digital scrapbooking layouts. The best brushes for blending are those without hard edges. One example is the #100 Rough […]

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Using Shortcut Keys in Photoshop

Once you get the hang of Photoshop shortcuts keys, they can really speed up your digital scrapbooking. One nice thing about shortcuts is that they are often the same for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. While you can change and customize them in Photoshop, this tutorial will cover how to find the default keyboard shortcuts, plus […]

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5 Creative Uses for Brushes

Brushes are one of those things that most digital scrapbookers either love or hate. There are very few people who don’t have a definite opinion on brushes. My aim today is to support the brush-lovers and to hopefully, sway a few of you brush-haters over to our side by presenting some creative digital brush use. […]

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Give Your Layout a Romantic Feel

Audience: Beginners Category: Photoshop Tips Operating System: Windows 7 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Nothing says Valentine’s Day than brilliant bursts of rosy color, and the Love So Sweet Collection Biggie by Doris Castle, is bursting with shades of pretty pink, passionate purple, and romantic red. It’s packed with plenty of inspiring papers, a seemingly endless array of […]

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