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Today’s wordy Wednesday is brought to you by the word LEARN 😉 I’ve put together a list of terms we often see in digi-scrap land that beginner scrappers who have just joined this fantasmical world we live in may need a little help with understanding.

Action – as defined by Adobe: An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files—menu commands, panel options, tool actions, and so on. For example, you can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies an effect to the image, and then saves the file in the desired format. ATN files can be super helpful with repetitive tasks.

Alpha – short for Alphabet. Alpha packs consist of the letters A-Z and will sometimes also include the numbers 0-9 and special characters. They are great for creating titles on your pages

Brush – used for drawing lines & shapes on a layer in any color. A brush is basically a digital ‘stamp’… with a click of the mouse the brush appears on the layer.

Cluster – This is just how it sounds. It’s a cluster of elements. Cluster packs are saved as PNG files, and are great for quickly decorating your pages

CU – Commercial Use. A product with a “CU License” can be used to make other products for sale.

Collab – Collaborative. When 2 or more designers work together to create one kit or collection, it’s called a ‘collab’

QP – Quick Page. A flattened file (usually in PNG format) that you can slip a photo behind to quickly create a scrapbook page

Hybrid – Hybrid layouts and projects consist of digital designs that have been printed. Sometimes these layouts and projects also have physical items incorporated into them.

Pocket Scrapbooking – Pocket scrapbookers use pages of pockets to create their albums. The items they use to decorate their albums come in the form of pocket-sized cards that can be printed.

p365/52 – Project 365/Project 52. Scrappers create a layout for each day of the year (365 pages) or each day of the week (52 pages).

Template – A template is just that – it’s a basic mold of a scrapbook page. You clip papers and photos to the shapes on the template, add elements to decorate, and voila! They are super useful in making a page easily and fast

PU – Personal Use. A product with a “PU License” can only be used by you for your own layouts and projects.

BW or B&W – Black & White. Yep. That simple 😉

Credits – A list of products that you have used to create your layout. Credits are usually linked and/or listed with designer names to give credit to the creator of the items you used. You can see an example of crediting here. The scrapper has listed the product name (linked to the product) and the name of the designer who made the product she used.

PS/PSE – Photoshop (PS), Photoshop Elements (PSE) … two of the most common programs used to scrap digitally.

DPI/PPI – the number of dots/pixels rendered per inch in an image. The higher the dpi/ppi, the better quality it is. 72dpi is usually used for images that are posted on the web. 300dpi is what designers save their products at for the best printing quality for scrappers.

EHD – External Hard Drive. A storage device for all your scrappy goodies 🙂

JPEG/JPG – it stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group (creator of the file format) and is what digital scrapbooking papers are usually saved as. JPGs are flattened files that do not have transparent backgrounds

PNG – Portable Graphics Format. Elements, alphabets, stamps, quick pages… these are all saved in PNG format, which displays transparent backgrounds.

PSD – Photoshop Document. It allows a scrapper to work with individual layers even after the file has been saved. Templates are a very good example. They are created in layers so you can quickly scrap a page.

TIFF – Tagged Image File Format. These files work just like PSDs, but save as smaller files, so they are typically preferred by scrappers to save on storage space. Templates are a very good example here too!

LO – Layout. A scrapbook page.

LIFT – Scraplift. A scrapper “lifts” a layout to create their own page with a similar composition. To learn how to scraplift, check out this tutorial

If there are any other terms you’d like to see added, leave a comment and I’ll get them added!