Blending photos is a fairly popular technique in our gallery… and it can lead to some pretty amazing pages. There is more than one way to blend a photo, but here’s a pretty easy way to do it! Download the PDF Add your photo to your page and click to create a layer mask on […]
I see a lot of layouts in the galleries across the web, where a kit was used, and some of the elements look the same – same size, same orientation. To me, that just looks so wrong. Two flowers of the same color aren’t going to fall onto your paper scrapbook page the exact same […]
Jen posted a great “What Not To Do” Tip a few weeks ago about not stretching or “squishing” photos to fit a frame. You can see that tip here. I’d like to follow that up today with a similar tip. Download the PDF Designers go to great lengths to create designs that in the right […]
Last week I showed you how to lighten up a photo, but because my camera phone is pretty crappy, the photo came out with some grainy-ness that I didn’t like. There is a SUPER quick way to fix that in photoshop (and elements). Here’s a look at last week’s photo after I lightened it up: […]
I want to talk to you about paint smears and spatters. So many times I’ve wondered… why did this scrapper shadow the paint spatter? It just looks wrong. Spatters, splatters, splotches, smears, etc… they don’t have shadows on a for realz paper layout when you spatter them on the page (unless you’re using really, really […]
I’m no expert scrapper, and by no means any kind of judge and jury, but there are some things that just don’t look good on a page & others you just flat out don’t do. I have seen people squish their photos up & distort them, just to fit the frame. Download the PDF […]
Editing photos and adding cool text effects to our titles on the pages we scrap is a lot of fun & doesn’t necessarily mean we have to put a whole lot of (frustrating) work into it! We have a whole host of Layer Styles and Actions in the shop and other fun things that you […]
Here’s another pointer tutorial for you today! This one deals with your fonts and putting them on a layout, whether you use them to journal or for titles. When you write on actual paper with an actual pencil or pen – even using brushes – what you are writing/painting takes on the texture of the […]
Color toning your photos is really simple, really easy, and I’ve had way too much fun playing with it this past week! And the best part is, you can do it without destroying your photo and having to undo to fix any happy little mistakes 🙂 Here’s a before/after for you as an example: images […]
Have you ever looked at one of your past layouts and thought “I wish I could remember how I did that!” I know I have, and it’s the most annoying thing ever when I can’t remember. When Adobe put out the CC version, I discovered how to make photoshop TAKE NOTES for me using the […]