Digital Scrapbooking Designs by Penny Springmann, Hybrid Crafts, and Photoshop Tutorials
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 »
For this tutorial we will be working with Penny’s Castle Template. First – create a new layer directly above the layer you want to fill with color Second – click on the adjustment layer button Third – pick your color Fourth – clip your color fill layer to the shape layer below (ctrl-G for windows [...] Read more »
Do you like to use shapes on your layouts, but don’t like being restricted to the default shapes in Photoshop? The solution to that is to make your own custom shapes – and it’s easier than you’d probably think! There are really only two steps: (1) define a path for your new shape, and (2) [...] Read more »
Hey, Amanda here with your photography tutorial for July. This month I’m going to talk a little bit about Lightroom (LR). Prior to having this fabulous program I did all of my editing in PSE & editing took me a really, really long time. I started shooting in RAW format at the same time as [...] 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 »
I’ll admit that I’m totally addicted to fonts. I have my favorites that I come back to again and again, but I also love to try new fonts. Over time, I’ve picked up a few tips for working with fonts and I’d like to share them with you today. If you’re not happy with the [...] Read more »
Hey there! This is Alli with a tutorial on getting your camera off auto mode. Be sure to leave any comments or questions you might have! There are a few easy ways to get your camera off auto mode (this is written for people with a DSLR and based on my experience using Canon cameras) [...] Read more »
To celebrate St. Paddy’s Day I thought it would be fun to create a collage of “green” pictures I’ve taken over the past year. This collage contains pictures from our visit to the Arch, fishing with Uncle Billy, Swimming in the lake, baseball, Dan hiking (ok, so I didn’t take that picture), nieces and nephews, [...] 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 »
I know that not everyone out there has the benefits of using Lightroom or even a full-fledged version on Photoshop; I didn’t for the longest time & found lots of useful editing tricks that I could accomplish in PS Elements (up until recently I was still using version 5)!! Sometimes I pull a photo onto [...] Read more »
