Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial - How to cut photo

Well I know I have not posted in a few days - we have been oooberrr busy...we were plagued with pink eye, my eldest broke his arm last week, then we went camping over the 3 day weekend with the hunters in our family, finally to return and I wasn't feeling well...so long story short, I haven't been up to posting...ohhh and I should mention I am sort of addicted to Farm Town on Facebook - what is up with that? must bring me back to my childhood and growing up with a mom who grew a garden (and still does) that is out of this world wonderful...I can finally be like my mom and her fabulous green thumb - only virtually!!! and weeding is so much easier than in real life! hahahahaha

ok I had a question on one of my layouts - "Lil boy stew" - the question was on cutting the photo into pieces and how it is done.

Well the way I did this particular one, was to use a template.

In photoshop I had three layers - the white layer, the gray layer, and then the black strips layer. I placed my photo above the black strips layer and then did >layer >create clipping mask to just clip the photo into the strips. You have to ensure your photo is large enough to cover all the strips and vola - easy peasy!!

If anyone would like a copy of the psd layered file - I can get it to you, just drop me an email.

Digital Scrapbooking101: Hybrid Projects

HYBRID PROJECTS

Besides just regular layouts you can do so many other fun projects – basically just by creating mini layouts and incorporating into other projects, here are a few fun projects I have done:

Digital Scrapbooking101: Layout from Scratch

Option Three: ADVANCED

CREATE LAYOUT FROM SCRATCH

In this option you can purchase full digital kits that include various color coordinating digital papers, transparencies, fibers, alphabets, tags, digi-tools, brushes, embellishments like photo turns, brads, paperclips, etc. You can do all sorts of techniques and experiment away with creating all sorts of fun layouts with all the pieces/parts of these kits. There is a wonderful monthly kit available from ClubScrapDigital that I belong to and just adore!!

Here is a just a sampling of a few different ClubScrapDigital kits:

Digital Scrapbooking101: Layered Templates

Option Two: INTERMEDIATE

USING LAYERED TEMPLATES

Now if you are looking for a pretty fast, yet more flexible method of digital scrapbooking that gives you more control over your layouts – Digi-Templates might be the way to go for you. Digi-Templates are gray scale layered files that you can easily use over and over again with multiple papers. You can also resize or rearrange the location of photos, mats, paper piecings as well.

Here is an example of a blank digital template using the same format as in the pre-designed layout as used in Option 1. It is created with black, white and gray areas that you just fill in with patterned, plain papers and digital photos.

Here you can see that I took the simple digital template to the left. I rotated the template 180 degrees, added in papers into the various colored shapes, added a few digital brads, a digital tag with fiber and plunked in my journaling and it was done!!

Digital Scrapbooking101: Pre-Designed Layouts

Option One: EASIEST-BEGINNER

USING PRE-DESIGNED LAYOUTS

These are fast and easy – especially great if you are trying to throw an entire digital book together in a very short amount of time. Also a great way to dip your toe into digital scrapbooking without getting too overwhelmed.

Here is a example of a blank pre-designed layout from ClubScrapDigital this one came with photo mats for 2 large and 2 small photos. All you need to do is add your photos and any extra embellishments as you see fit.

Here you can see that I have taken the blank layout and added 3 of my photos, used a sparkle brush to sprinkle sparkles around the layout. I also used a curly transparency to add more embellishment to the layout. Add some journaling and your done!!

This method makes for quick work, it is extremely fast and easy to throw these pages together. You can get an album done in no time going this route!!

Digital Scrapbooking101: Where to Begin?

Digital Scrapbooking – Where to start?

You will need a few things to get started:
→Digital photos (can be scanned in photos saved as jpg.s)
→Photo Editing Software (like Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro, etc)
→Digital papers, pre-designed layouts, or templates
→Digital elements (optional)

There are basically three kinds (or stages) of digital scrapbooking, I will briefly cover them here on my blog and you can try to determine which method will work best for you.