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 »
Hi, it’s Kate here with a tutorial on spacing out the lines of your journaling. I’ve written this for Photoshop, but it may work in PSE also. This is a layout I did recently using Penny’s fantastic kit, [b]4 Sho[/b]. Notice how the journaling is lined up on the paper. There’s an easy way to [...] Read more »
Wow, it’s only 4 days until Christmas – I can hardly believe it! I have to say that I’ll be glad when Christmas is here so that I can stop getting ready for it and just enjoy it!! Besides, after Christmas I’ll have lots more time for scrapping! Today I’d like to show you some [...] Read more »
Since it’s a busy time of year for just about everyone, I decided to keep my tutorial simple this time – blending papers. It may be easy to do, but it can give some fantastic results. Take a look at this layout that I did with Penny’s collab with Eva Kipler, Just Sayin’… You can search for [...] Read more »
One of my favorite Photoshop tools is the brush tool. This tutorial will give you a basic introduction to loading and using brushes in Photoshop. 1. Select the Brush Tool. 2. Click and hold the triangle to the right of the brush – a fly-out menu will appear. 3. Select Load Brushes, browse to the [...] 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 »
