I love all the different ways we can use Photoshop and Elements to create interesting styles for our type when creating new digital scrapbooking layouts. Whether it’s simple gold text, a set of drop shadows or something more complex, the different ways you can change the type to suit your layout is endless. This effect is one of my favorites. Called the Letter Press
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I know it’s the lazy, hazy days of summer for some of you, but here in southeastern Tennessee it’s back to school time! The kids have been in school two weeks now, and we’re settling into our regular routine of sunrise drop-offs, music lessons, club meetings and general mom-taxi time. We’ve had a busy summer – I put on two art camps for the
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A reader asked a question today which reminded me of this cool tutorial on using gradients. It shows you how to make custom gradients and use them to kick up your scrapbooking supplies like this: But then we got talking about photo overlays, and I wondered how gradient overlays would work with photos: Pretty cool! So to get you to try it, here’s a
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If you’ve spent any time at all playing with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you know that there are a million ways to accomplish everything. Or at least it seems that way! Last week we learned a neat little trick to crop a photo without throwing away the parts we cropped out. Cool. This week, the topic of cutting out a portion of an image
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We’ve had TWO huge snowstorms here in Tennessee since Christmas! We’ve lived here for 10 years, and haven’t had more than an inch at one time, and we got 8 inches in 6 hours yesterday! Needless to say, there’s been lots of snowplay going on! And those of you who live in the cooler climates know that playing out in the snow will make
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