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START DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING Melissa Shanhun, Digital Scrapbooking HQ Video #1 — Getting started Good day. I’m Melissa Shanhun, founder of digital scrapbookinghq.com. I’m your workshop post for a start digital scrapbooking. I’m excited to show you how to create a scrapbook page like this with your computer. Digital scrapbooking is pretty similar to paper scrapbooking. We use photos, words, and beautiful embellishments to tell the stories of our own lives or the lives of people that we love. This page features me from 1987. Why don’t you grab a photo? It could be vintage; It could be off your camera roll from yesterday. Let’s get started creating this beautiful digital and some embellishments like this ribbon, a scrapbook page. To create our scrapbook bow, button, flower, and this little camera page, we’ll need Photoshop elements 2021. stamp. You can download a trial version at the link The title could also be made from alphabet in the class information. We’ll also need the stickers or a font. All of these pieces of this digital supplies, the paper, embellishments, page are put together in Photoshop and letter stickers provided by the pink elements. You can grab a trial of Photoshop reptile design. Thanks, Megan. You need one elements at digiscraphq.com/Pse trial. Which photo. Let’s get started; I’m excited to be will let you have 30 days to play with the with you today. Let’s learn a little bit about software. Photoshop elements are my digital scrapbooking and how you can create recommended tool because you only need beautiful pages like this one. Digital to buy it once. You don’t need to pay every scrapbooking typically has a photograph; it month as you do for Photoshop cc. may also include a title, a story or journaling, Start Digital Scrapbooking - Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ - 1 However, you can use Photoshop cc; the lily pad. Thanks so much for providing the principles apply the same to other software tools we needed for this class well. Let’s get too. I have got you all the supplies you’ll started; the first thing you’ll need to do is need to create this page. Let’s show you how open up Photoshop elements. When you you can take these digital suppliers and first open Photoshop elements, you’ll notice create this gorgeous page. On the class you’ll be brought to this welcome page. The downloads program we want to use is the photo editor. Let’s click on that blue icon. We don’t need page, you’ll find a link to this zip file. If you’re the welcome window, so let’s close that for on a mac, it will have unzipped already, and now. you’ll find the folder in your downloads folder. If you’re on a pc, you can click extract all; it will decompress all the files, so they’re Video #2 — Making the page at full size, resolution, and easy for you to use. Our first step to creating our scrapbook page is to go to a new blank file. You’ll notice When we’re talking about digital scrapbook that adobe has been thoughtful enough to supplies, there’s a couple of different file include some premade digital scrapbook types that we’ll use. We use jpegs for sizes. There’s 12 by 12 inches; we click ok. background papers such as this; this is our Once we’ve created our 12 by 12 scrapbook digital patterned paper, all of these come in page, we’re ready to start. The first thing I your download. We use png files, portable always like to do is save our work; let’s save, network graphics files for the we’re going to save this as a Photoshop embellishments so that any white space is document. A Photoshop document will transparent. You can easily put it on your retain all its layers, editable text and layout to create that collage design resizable images. It’s going to be the format reminiscent of scrapbook pages. Pink reptile that we want to use for our digital scrapbook designs have also provided us with an pages. Then let’s bring in our photos and alphabet so that we can make our title. Pink supplies; the supplies are easy. For this one, reptile designs have kindly provided this I’m going to open up all of the images in mini kit. Megan is a talented digital Photoshop elements. If you’ve got an old scrapbook designer; she has a store at the computer, you may not want to do this, Start Digital Scrapbooking - Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ - 2 because it can put the computer under a bit photo is from my pre-primary photo day; it’s of strain to open all these files at once, but hiding behind the photo. I’m going to click that’s how I like to do it. The other thing we and drag that up to the top of the layers need for a scrapbook layout is a photograph; panel so that I can see it. I will continue to let’s pull in a photograph. Whenever you’re drag on some different items that I think teaching online, it can be hard to find photos might look good on my page. I’m going to to use in your layout, so I made it easy on try and use all the pieces that Megan has myself. I’m going to use a photograph of me; provided us for the kit. Now that we’ve got all I’m going to do is click my photo wherever them on the page, you’ll notice that they’ve it is, whether it’s in my photos app on my all come in at different levels throughout the desktop or in another programmer; I’m layers panel. I will move them around to going to click and drag it over the Photoshop where they might look good; I can even elements editor icon, and let go of it when zoom in using my zoom tool. With my zoom the plus appears, or you can always go to tool, I can click once to zoom in, or you can file, open and click open that way. always click and drag to make our screen be filled with just one section. So, now using the Let’s go back to our page; now, we can add auto-select layer feature in Photoshop things to our scrapbook page. I’m going to elements, I can click and move any of these start by clicking on the thumbnail for the around. This twine is behind the button; I’d ledger line paper, dragging that in. you’ll like it to be in front of the button. In the notice in the right panel, If you’ve got the layers panel on the right, I’m going to click layers turned on, you will see the different and drag to move it on top, so it looks like elements as we add them to the page. I think it’s tied through; that’s cute. I want to keep that’s a nice little background; we might add these two together, so I’m going to use my this pink polka dot paper next. I’m going to layers panel to group them. I will click once move it over to the edge, so it’s a bit of a on the layer and then hold down shift and border here, then I’m going to drag on my click on the other layers that I want to photo of myself. I notice as I’m moving this include in this group. I’ll go to layer, group around, it’s sitting below the layer of the pink layer. Now they’re grouped, they’ll move paper. In my layers panel, click and drag it and resize together. I don’t know if I love this down, so it sits on top of there. It looks good. journaling card; it seems quite heavy and I think this picture icon works because this Start Digital Scrapbooking - Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ - 3 black compared to some other parts of our I’m going to add some text; firstly, I’ll zoom in layout. I’m going to click the eye icon to turn on the section where I want to add my text, off that layer for now. I can decide if I want then I’m going to click the type tool, click and to bring it back later. I’m going to press ctrl 0 drag to create a text box, then I’m going to to make my page fit my screen again. look at the bottom to see my fonts. I’m going to choose a font that I know I like; I’m I’m going to try making this a little going to make it about 14 points; if I print 14 embellishment cluster over here; it covers points out, it’s generally going to be readable up. You can click and keep moving things at any size from 8x8 to 12x12. I only have an around and playing with it. I want the label A4 printer at home, so I will be printing this in front of that flower; I think I might like to at 8x8 to show you. Now, I’ve started typing, have the idea of a journaling block. I’m going but you can’t see what’s going on.

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