Creating lifted photo effect

In traditional scrapbooking, photos can naturally appear lifted since corners can come off the paper. In digital scrapbooking, there are various ways to achieve this effect, however, it often uses frames. This might only create a partially realistic effect. Let’s see how you can recreate that effect on any photo,

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Troubleshooting – My Fill tool is not working

We can use the Fill tool in a wide variety of projects. However, it does happen that the tool does not seem to work as expected. Unless you have a corrupt program (which is quite rare), there is usually a logical explanation and solution. Let’s look at different reasons why

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Scrapbooking Theme – Halloween

All Hallows’ Eve, more commonly known as Halloween, is a holiday celebrated annually on the night of October 31. The modern holiday of Halloween has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United

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Using Flow in scrapbook pages

While creating scrapbook layouts, another design principle that you can identify is Flow. It means how your eye goes from one element to another while exploring the content of the page. Some key considerations to achieve a good flow would include eye movement, logical sequencing, grouping and clustering, and visual

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Featured Resource – Shapecloud

Have you ever seen those fun wordart that include a lot of words in a particular shape? Those can be used in a variety of projects. An older post listed four word cloud options, but now, Creative Fabrica has added their own.

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Using Punches in PaintShop Pro

In the Creation Cassel store (a sister site), you can get a variety of scripts, picture tubes, fonts, and brushes. Some of the popular products are “punches”. They try to replicate punches available to traditional paper scrapbookers. Let’s see how you can use those punches with your PaintShop Pro.

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The Snap To Object feature in PSP

In version 2023 of PaintShop Pro, you will discover a new feature called “Snap to Object”. This new feature allows you to align elements based on each other’s position instead of relying on the Guides or the Grids.

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Scrapbooking Theme – Coffee

First popularized in Ethiopia, coffee has been enjoyed for centuries all over the world. The most commonly accepted story of its discovery is that a goatherd named Kaldi first noticed his goats acting unusually energetic after eating the berries from a certain bush. Intrigued, Kaldi tried some of the berries

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Scrapping adventure, events, or moments

Some scrapbook projects will cover larger adventures that often span over several days, like a vacation, a trip, or a journey. Other projects might document specific events that tend to take place in a single day, like a wedding, a party, or a visit to the zoo. Finally, other scrapbook

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Featured resource – Design Seeds

As someone who works with PaintShop Pro (and maybe other graphic programs), you are likely working with various color palettes. Although you can create your own color palettes, it is sometimes helpful to get inspiration. You can pick new palettes you like or a palette that will challenge you.

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