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 of 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, fower, 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 frst 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 frst 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 fnd a link to this zip fle. If you’re the welcome window, so let’s close that for on a mac, it will have unzipped already, and now. you’ll fnd the folder in your downloads folder. If you’re on a pc, you can click extract all; it will decompress all the fles, so they’re Video #2 — Making the page at full size, resolution, and easy for you to use. Our frst step to creating our scrapbook page is to go to a new blank fle. You’ll notice When we’re talking about digital scrapbook that adobe has been thoughtful enough to supplies, there’s a couple of diferent fle 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 frst thing I your download. We use png fles, portable always like to do is save our work; let’s save, network graphics fles 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 fles 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 diferent items that I think teaching online, it can be hard to fnd 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 diferent 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 fle, open and click open that way. always click and drag to make our screen be flled 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 diferent 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; frstly, 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, of 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 ft 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 fower; 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. Let’s click to make it out of a diferent paper. I’d like it the green checkmark, look over it in our to be this light blue. I will click and drag the layers panel. My type layer is too far down light blue paper icon onto my page; then, I the stack of layers to be seen, so let’s move it will use part of it for the journaling block. I’ll to above that journaling block. Now, you can use my marquee tool; I will make a marquee see it; the color doesn’t stand out too well. for the size I want the journaling block to be. Let’s make it black; now, you can see. I’m The journaling block is where I want to type typing; I can edit my text by just clicking my story. I will click the add layer mask; that around while I’m in text editing mode; I can will allow me to cut this paper down to size. select the text, I can also resize the text box. If I’m happy with how it looks, I can simplify When I’m happy with how everything looks, I the layer; now, it’s a smaller piece of that click the green tick or checkmark, as you paper. Because this is digital, I can always go might call it. Our page is looking pretty great back to the bigger piece of paper if I want to so far, but there are a few things I’d like to resize it again or choose a diferent size. I’m add. also going to do that same technique to this photo. Click on the photo layer; I’m going to Let’s see how we can add a title; you can click and drag to make it more of an even create a title using text, you can change the border around all the sides of my photo font to something that will stand out, and because the white’s a bit uneven. There we then you could drag a corner and resize it. I go. It’s coming together quite well. might like to use an alphabet sticker, though.

Start Digital Scrapbooking - Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ - 4 In digital scrapbooking, these kinds of moved out of alignment. We’ll try the same stickers are called alphas. They are for photos; we’re going to hold down shift individual png fles. For each letter, go with a and then click on each letter. Then we’re school photo. I will hold down my control going to use the tool options to align the key as I click on all of the letters that I need. tops and distribute the middles. Photoshop Have I got all of the letters? Well, let’s see. elements call it slightly diferently, you might I’m going to drag them and drop them onto expect that to be distributing the centers, Photoshop elements. Then I’ll drag them but that’s not how it works in Photoshop from the photo bin back onto my layout so elements. I noticed, though, that if you S, C, H, O, O, L, P, H, O, T, O, that’s a lot of compare, these top letters are a lot closer O’s. Aren’t you glad that you did this digital? together than this. To get it consistent, I’m We have unlimited letters, you can see. Here going to use my arrow keys to nudge the are all my letters. I’m going to click on the letters along. top letter in the layers panel, shift-click on It’s quite handy because all of these letters the last letter, and then I’m going to move are the same width, so they’re fairly easy to them to the front of the layout so that align. I will do what we call visual spacing they’re easy for me to move around. Let’s because the T looks weird when you leave bring our letters across and see. If you the O’s out so wide. Let’s now shift-click on accidentally move something, don’t worry; each letter, press ctrl g to group them, or you can always click the big undo button or you can go to your layers, group layers. Then press z. The L, P, O, T. we managed to get all we’ve got our title; it’s a matter of choosing the letters in well done. Let’s zoom in and colors and arranging where we’d like to see then use the move tool to sort out our it on the page. We might make this pink. I’ve letters. Now luckily for us, in school, all of the double-clicked on the text to select it; then letters are the same width. Let’s distribute I’m going to click this little color swatch icon; the middles to make them all evenly spaced. use some of the bright pinks from the paper Let’s click align top to align them all by clicking on a bright pink spot on this perfectly. I’ve selected all these layers by background paper; click OK, let’s see how it clicking on the frst one and then holding looks pretty fun. I might make this text down shift and clicking on the other letters. slightly smaller, and when I’m happy with Let’s group them so they can’t be how it looks, I press the green checkmark.

Start Digital Scrapbooking - Melissa Shanhun - Digital Scrapbooking HQ - 5 I’m not happy with how this blue journaling if you could have made it out of paper. Don’t block has turned out, so I’m going to turn it you think that’s pretty cute? There are so of by clicking the eye icon. I think it looks many other cute little supplies in this mini kit pretty fne without anything. So now we’ve that I haven’t even got to use yet. Cute little got a simple scrapbook page with a four-leaf clover, and then there are other background, a piece of paper, a border, a great patterned papers too. Now I’m going photo, a title made out of text and to print this out so you can see how it looks alphabets, plus some fun embellishments in real life. Well, I guess you have already that suit the theme. Now, let’s bring it to life seen it. by adding shadows; I like to use shadows in my scrapbook layouts to make them look a bit like they’re real scrapbook layouts. We Video #3 — Print your project can do that by adding a layer style; we click Here’s how you print your layout; once on something we want to add a shadow to; you’ve fnished your digital scrapbook layout, in this case, the fower, then we’re going to don’t forget to save it. You can click fle print, go to layer style, style settings, and we’re and you choose your printer. Make sure you going to click drop shadow. I’m going to don’t click crop to ft, so we go to custom, increase; you can see before, after; it looks and then we click scale to ft media, we click quite diferent, you can play around with the print. If you want to print it online with layer style. I think I’ll increase the opacity a persnickety prints, or your favorite photo bit; I’m going to click ok. Once I’ve got book printer like forever.com, you can save it everything correct for this little fower, I will as a jpeg fle. We go to fle, save as then we right-click on the layer and click copy layer click Jpeg and save. Now when this jpeg style. Then I’m going to select everything else option comes up, we want to pull it over to on my page that I want to add a shadow to. be the largest possible fle, click ok, and now So we’ll add a shadow to this ribbon, the your digital scrapbook layout is rendered as stamp. Once everything’s selected, we can a jpeg or photograph fle so that you can right-click and then click paste layer style print it anywhere you could print a photo. before and after. That looks amazing; let’s You also want to save the Photoshop add a shadow to that photo too. This page document as well, because then you can looks much more realistic; It almost looks as come back and edit it. After printing, you

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Thanks so much for joining me for this introduction to digital scrapbooking. I hope you have fun playing with the digital supplies that pink reptile designs have provided. Here’s my fnished page; I printed it of and trimmed the excess of my A4 paper to make it an 8x8 image. I can pop that in a photo album, or I can go ahead and print it along with some other digital scrapbook pages in a photo book. I have dozens of these little printed photo books because I’ve been digital scrapbooking for about 13 years. I love it, because it’s versatile, it’s fexible. I can bring it wherever I’m traveling on a laptop, or I can curl up on the couch and scrapbook. It’s no mess, and with four little ones running around underfoot, it can be fun to have something creative that doesn’t involve glue or scissors being out in front of small children. I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s workshop. If you’d like to learn more about digital scrapbooking or Photoshop elements, head to digitalscrapbookinghq.com.

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