Digital Scrapbooking Designs by Penny Springmann, Hybrid Crafts, and Photoshop Tutorials
Templates! If you’re anything like I am, you love templates. When I scrap, I often struggle with layout composition. How many papers should I use? Where should I put the photos, flowers, journaling etc. Many times, I get so frustrated and creativity blocked that I find myself looking through my favorites in the galleries because [...] Read more »
Welcome to the wonderful world of digital scrapbooking! This tutorial is designed to walk you through making your first digital scrapbooking layout by showing you how I make one from start to finish. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 (in Microsoft Windows XP), so the screen shots will look different if you use a different version [...] Read more »
Learning any new program is intimidating. In this tutorial I hope to take some stress out of creating your first layout. The following images are from Photoshop, but the steps may be used in Photoshop Elements as well. Download Kim’s A Day in the Life quick page and unzip. (Your download will be saved to [...] Read more »
Good day, Penny fans! Raise of hands… who is looking for a way to make scrapbooking in Photoshop a bit faster? Whoa… that is a lot of hands!! LOL! Well, today I share with you a little treat … a handy Photoshop keyboard tip sheet. These aren’t all the the shortcuts the program has to [...] Read more »
Hey there, it’s Alli here with another quickie tutorial! Now that you have read the tutorial on creating your 1st digital layout the next step is resizing and sharpening it for the web. This example is shown in CS5 but it will work the same in PSE too. So, grab your latest layout & follow [...] Read more »
This tutorial discusses how to use blending and frame masks in your digital scrapbooking projects. For this tutorial I will use Picture Play – Blending Masks to create this layout: 1. select the mask you want to use and position it on your canvas 2. Drag your photograph/paper onto the canvas over the masking layer: [...] Read more »
If you are anything like me you have hundreds of fonts. They are so easy to collect & there are so many fun & interesting ones out there to use. But then how do you choose? How can you see what each would look like? PSP makes it easy. First select the text option from [...] Read more »
In honor of Memorial Day, we thought it would be a good idea to talk about heritage scrapbooking. This is something that is near and dear to my heart. Before I started scrapping, I was a genealogist. Actually, I still am a genealogist, I just throw in some scrapping now to make it complete. I [...] Read more »
Layering. You’ve heard the term, but what is it? Well, it can mean any number of things, it just depends on how you use it. It baking, it can refer to the layering of cakes, fillings, and icing. But, in digital scrapbooking, it refers to how you place items on a scrapbook page. Everything that [...] Read more »
Hey there, Alli here with a simple and easy trick that I use all the time! I am going to show you one way to get those alphas or elements lined up in your layouts so you don’t have to eyeball it. 1. Get all the letters on the page that you want to use [...] Read more »
