Photoshop Archives

Layout Design Process: Joyce Schardt

We are excited to bring you a new series here on the blog where we interview Scrap Girls Product Designers & Creative Team Members about their layout design process. We hope this will give you insight into the inner workings of their creative process and inspire you along the way! This time we are interviewing […]

Using Stroke Layer Styles in Photoshop

Audience: Beginners Category: Photoshop Tips Operating System: Windows 7 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Photos, photos, and more photos! I have a pretty large family, so when I make digital scrapbooking layouts, I tend to use lots of photos to get everyone in. Sometimes that works well, but other times it can be overwhelming visually. To […]

Layout Design Process: Laurel Lakey

We are excited to bring you a new series here on the blog where we interview Scrap Girls Product Designers & Creative Team Members about their layout design process. We hope this will give you insight into the inner workings of their creative process and inspire you along the way! Where do you find inspiration […]

DIY: Valentine with KaZoo Surprise!

Here is a quick, cute Valentine to make just in case you haven’t gotten a jump on them yet. This project is easy as One, Two, Three! Items Needed: 1. Party pack of Kazoos (if you look in stores now, they have Valentine Kazoos!) 2. Coin envelopes (perfect size to envelop your Kazoos!) […]

Using the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner for Recipe Cards

Audience: Intermediate Category: Apps, Technology & Hardware Operating System: Windows 7 Software: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Years ago, a friend told me that she could go into a kitchen and make the family’s favorite foods simply by choosing the messiest recipe cards in the box. I’m sure that is true for many of us, and my […]

Using the Sponge Tool in Photoshop Elements

Audience: Intermediate Category: Photoshop Elements Tips Operating System: Windows 8 Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 There are so very many tools in Photoshop Elements (PSE) that I have never opened, much less attempted to use. To be honest, they intimidate me. I have a habit of getting comfortable with what I know and forgetting about […]

Intro to Adobe Photoshop Touch

Winter is here and at our house that means we head to the mountains for ski season. Throughout the fall, my husband and children have been organizing the equipment and watching the weather reports, anxiously awaiting their first day on the slopes. I, on the other hand, spend most of the winter snuggled up in […]

Adding a Finishing Touch to your Layout

Article written using Adobe Photoshop CS5 with Windows 7 On most of my digital scrapbooking layouts, I find myself using an edger at some point. Sometimes, it’s just a simple outlining of the layout in a straight stitch using Dynamic Brush Set: Basic Stitching 4901 Biggie. Other times, I use a ScrapSimple product like ScrapSimple […]

Using Blending Modes

When starting a new digital scrapbook layout, I find myself always doing things in the same order. OCD? Maybe, but I’d rather look at it as being logical. Photoshop is all about layers, and just like constructing a building, you must start at the bottom and work your way up. First, I find papers in […]

Using the Color Isolation Action to Improve Your Photos

Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 with Windows 7 What are Actions? Actions are scripts that link a series of steps together to save us time. When we “run” an action, we are telling the script to go through all the steps for us, leaving us with just a finished product. Some actions require […]