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10 Common Mistakes in Digital Scrapbooking

March 25, 2024November 20, 2011 by Cassel

Whatever program is used for digital scrapbooking, the scrapper is responsible for doing everything. That means sizing, shadowing to writing to texturing, while paper scrappers do not usually have to worry about it. Unfortunately, a lot of details escape the mind of the user and the resulting layout will make one raise eyebrows. Sometimes, we will look at a layout and immediately spot the error. Other times, it is more subtle and although we might not pinpoint the problem, we have the feeling that there is something wrong. Let’s look at some common mistakes we can see in digital scrapbooking.

More than scrap – what else can you do?

August 22, 2024August 29, 2011 by Cassel

Although digital scrapbooking supplies are naturally used for digital scrapbooking, you can surely give them a second life. I have found that every now and then, a project comes up and even though it is not scrapbook related, I will open my graphic software and dig into my digital supplies to complete it.

14 Tools to Create Color Palettes

October 24, 2024August 13, 2011 by Cassel

Maybe you are a designer who likes to create scrapbook kits within a pleasant looking color palette, or maybe a scrapper who is struggling to find the perfect color to … Read more

14 Color tools to pick colors from your photos

October 24, 2024July 30, 2011 by Cassel

Choosing colors to use in your layout can be done in many ways, one of which is to start with the photos you want to use. As the poll on last week’s post indicated, most people do exactly that: they base their choices on the photos themselves. You can often pick colors with the color picker in Paintshop Pro, but with most photos, there are so many colors at the pixel level that it might be hard to find harmonious color combinations. That is why various tools have emerged on the net. This first post on the subject will look at 14 tools that you can use to pick a palette based on your photos.

6 ways to choose colors for your layout

December 4, 2023July 24, 2011 by Cassel

When you start a project on a scrapbook layout, how do you choose the colors you will be using? Do you look for the overall color of the photos? Do you look for accents in the photo? Do you just choose a kit with a similar theme as the photo, no matter what the colors are? There are many ways to pick colors, and it will most often depend on your style of scrapping, your style of creating, and maybe the purpose of your scrapbook page.

8 ways to use bad photos in a scrapbook page

November 6, 2021July 16, 2011 by Cassel

Are you taking tons of photos of people, places and events surrounding you? Do they always turn out great? Out of 100 photos, how many you would consider real keepers? How many you would immediately toss out? If you have that many photos, you probably can spare half of them to fill the trash and still have plenty to play with, but if you are only taking few photos, here and there, or if you are using photos that are in limited numbers, for whatever reason, it is hard to choose to toss out some of them. Even “bad” photos still hold memories, and tell stories. Maybe you only have one or two photos of Grandpa who passed away, or only a handful of photos that were spared from a computer crash. How can you choose if you have so few? Often, you can’t. Or maybe you don’t want to. And really, you don’t have to either as there are ways to use “bad” photos in your digital scrapbook layouts. Various tips here can give you ways to turn either bad or boring images into interesting and fun photos.

Creating a slideshow with layouts

October 24, 2024July 9, 2011 by Cassel

A few weeks ago, a colleague at work asked me for help. She knew I was into scrapbooking, and computer and all that and she had a special request for … Read more

Prevent disaster : back up your precious data!

August 16, 2023June 11, 2011 by Cassel

We have all collected a lot of information, documents, and photos on our computers over the years. What would happen if your computer was to crash? Or if your drive becomes unreadable? All those precious documents and photos will be lost. This is just as bad as losing all the photos in a fire: there is no way to retrieve them. That is, unless you have a plan in place.

Templates or sketches? Different tools for different uses

May 16, 2022May 23, 2011 by Cassel

When digital scrapbooking started, several scrappers felt the need to get inspired (myself included), to get passed the “blank canvas” hurdle, and one way to get a jump start was … Read more

Picture tubes in PaintShop Pro

March 4, 2021April 29, 2011 by Cassel

Picture tubes are a feature that is apparently unique to PaintShop Pro. I am not sure at which version they started using tubes, but I know for a fact that version 4 had them, so it is definitely not new. For anyone who is not familiar with the basics of what picture tubes are, think of a roll of stickers: you can have a roll with all identical stickers, or a roll with several different stickers. Unlike brushes, the picture tubes are colored images by themselves, and you cannot change that, just like a sticker would have its own colors.