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for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the
message board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom
of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more
of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: You Have to Fall Down
Susan is a 43-year-old successful business owner, specializing in
marketing and publicity. She is also a competitive ice skater.
I discovered
this while eating Waldorf salad with Susan at California Pizza in Los
Angeles. We met on the shuttle to our hotel that afternoon. After it
was discovered that we were attending the same conference, we decided
to be taxi cab buddies.
“You should try it again,” she encouraged,
when I told her that my only ice skating episode had been disastrous.
As I recall, it involved a shopping mall, a burgundy sweater, rented
skates and a very wet bottom.
“You have to have your own skates,” Susan
confided. “It’s
no good without them. And, don’t worry about being too old. I
was 32 years old when I started to skate.”
“32?”
She nodded. “There’s an entire adult
ice skating competitive world out there... somewhat like your
digital scrapbooking world.”
I had no idea.
Susan told me all about her life as an ice skater. She
sneaks away from the office twice a week for her lessons. She takes
classes with little kids, their mothers looking at her like she is
a dope. “I’m
getting pretty good,” she said.
“I’d have to get over
my fear of falling down,” I
sighed.
“Oh, you have to fall down,” Susan answered seriously. “In
fact, my teacher tells me that I don’t fall down enough.”
As
soon as she said the words, they struck me. Susan doesn’t
fall down enough.
I realized that even if Susan’s teacher didn’t
realize it, her words have a broader life application than learning
increasingly difficult ice skating skills. If we never fall down, we
aren’t
taking risks. We are staying on the sidewalk because it is dangerous
to cross the street in traffic. We are avoiding burns by never trying
to bake cookies. We can’t swim because we are afraid to wade
into the water.
It seems that the requirement to fall down during our
journey is one of life’s ironies. We feel driven to succeed because
we want to feel happy. And yet, we must fall down (and thus, feel pain)
so that we can succeed.
So, here’s our challenge for today: Try
something new. Anything at all. And, if you fall down when you attempt
it, get back up and smile. You’ve just moved yourself one fall
closer to getting it right.
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Ro
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to hello@scrapgirls.com. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
Enjoy Ro's Muses? She now has a blog where she is posting some of our readers' favorites, along with blog-only topics. http://lifemuses-ro.typepad.com/life_muses_by_ro/
Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to print,
save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
Best of the Message Board
These questions and answers come
from the users on our messageboard. We thought you might find them
useful and interesting too. Enjoy!
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Question: I see a "details" button
on some people's posts in the gallery where the supplies are
listed. When I post, I can't see where I can do that. Sometimes,
it takes a lot of space for supplies and I'd like to add that
somewhere else like all of you other wonderful gals do!
Answer 1: The list of
details you mention are usually uploaded as meta data with
the layout. I use Adobe Photoshop CS3, and while I am working,
I keep entering the supplies via File> Info. When
the dialogue box opens, you can write in all of the supplies
used and any other information about the layout. This stays
with your file no matter where it is stored and uploads with
your file to the gallery. It's great because you can go back
to the layout in the future and read about everything you have
done and the supplies used.
Answer 2: It's the same
in Photoshop Elements!
Response: Thanks, ladies!
I'll be sure to do it that way. Sounds like a great idea to keep
track of supplies used; then I only have to document it once! |
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Question: How do you make
the letters go closer together in PSE 5? I can't remember the
term for it, so I can't look it up in the PSE Help (usually doesn't
help anyway!) or search on the message boards. I'm thinking that
changing the spacing between lines of text is leading? What I'd
like to do is change the spacing between the letters of the text.
Answer 1: I don't think
you can do kerning in PSE. At least I've never found a way
to do it.
Answer
2: I can't find this option in PSE 5. You can do this
text effect in a Word document (Format> Font> Character
Spacing). Character spacing is Normal, Expanded or Condensed.
If this is what you want to do, I'd do your journaling in
Word and then paste into your layout.
Response: Kerning
- that is the word that I was trying to remember. You've saved
me some sleep, because it would have driven me nuts until I
remembered that word! I looked at that thread, but I don't
have "show Asian text options" under
Preferences> General. Thanks for finding that though!
Response
Answer 1: Sure, you can do it. Type your text in CS3,
change the kerning and copy and paste it into PSE. Sorry,
bad joke.
You can cheat a little bit between words. Highlight
the space between words and change it to a smaller font size.
Not much of a help, but sometimes it makes things fit a bit
better.
Response
Answer 2: In PSE 6, the 'show Asian text options'
is under Edit> Preferences> Type. I don't have 5, but
maybe it is under that. Thanks for bringing this up. I wanted
to do this the other day and I knew that I had seen it somewhere,
but couldn't remember what it was and was too lazy to look.
Response 2: That's just
where it was in PSE 5 and it actually worked! Thanks everyone
for the advice. Probably no one else would notice the difference,
but I like the letters closer together and that's what matters!
Now, I need to actually finish the layout. |
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Question: This is probably
covered somewhere and, if it is, I apologize for the question
yet again. Are the tutorials that appear in the newsletter stored
anywhere else on site? For example, do they automatically appear
in the Scrap Girls University section after a short period? I
ask because I've seen great tutorials that I'd like to keep for
future reference, but organized in such a way that I can find
the tutorial topic easily. Thanks in advance for your help!
Answer: I highlight the
tutorial in the newsletter and Copy> Paste it into my Word
program and then I save them in a special Scrap Girls TUT's
folder that I created. I also sometimes just save the whole
newsletter and rename it so that I remember what tutorial is
in it.
Response: That's a great
suggestion - wish I had posted this earlier.
Response Question: Oh!
This IS a great suggestion. I think I will be doing this today.
I have all of my newsletters in a folder, but it is not easily
searchable. Also, are newsletters archived at all? Is there
a way to look through older newsletters for more tutorials?
Response
Answer 1: Heidi (she puts the newsletter together) is
adding all of the tutorials to the University. So, keep checking
back because she's always adding new stuff.
Response Answer 2: I do
the cut and paste thing, too. On my Mac, in Pages, I can even
create a table of contents page and tell the program to automatically
use the headers (or titles of the tutorials) in the table of
contents. As I add to it, Pages automatically creates a new
table of contents entry for me. I would guess you can set this
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Online Classes Available
How
to Combine ScrapSimple Photo and Paper Templates for PS
April 24 and May 1 - 9:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
 Did
you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look
for this icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the message board
forum listing. We have two feeds:
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Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter
on the board.)- Scrap
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broadcast with tips and tricks, inside news and dirt, chat/crop
updates and more. Ro is your show host.)
New! Subscribe to
our Podcast through iTunes! Learn how on our forum.
You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows
Media Player, iTunes, or even your iPod - if you load the MP3 file
it on it. Just download the MP3 file to your computer and away you
go... or simply click on the podcast link and the podcast will start
right in your browser. You can also access the podcast through the
Scrap Girls Radio forum on the message board.
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New
Members Chat
Tuesday, April 22nd - 8:00PM
ET
Join Welcoming Committee Members Pat (PBarnes) & Patti
(ruralscrapper) for an evening
of chatting and fun, at the New Members Chat, Tuesday, April
22nd, at 8 pm ET! We will be there to answer any questions you
may have about digital scrapbooking or Scrap Girls in general.
This chat is a great way to meet other digi
scrappers and ask any questions that you may have. And, there
is bound to be lots of laughs and a few noises too! We welcome
our more experienced members also to join the party too.
To join, just come to the Scrap Girls Chat
Room by clicking on the “Live Chat” link from either
the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page. Click on the "Rooms" button,
and double click on "00_Room1".
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 23rd
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12:00Noon
ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and
themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun,
new challenge each week!
On April 23, we'll do a simple challenge! Create a layout using
the clean and simple style - straight lines, graphic looking,
one big photo, etc.
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
Signature
Challenge & Chat
Thursday, April 24th - 8:00PM
ET
Join me (DDecker)
for a fun challenge/chat. Time for new siggys! And this challenge
is going to be a doozie! LOL Want to know what it is? I will
post it mid-day on the 24th on the MB so stay tuned!
Art Inspiration Challenge/Chat
Thursday, April 24th - 9:00PM
ET
Join Scrappinjo and ruralscrapper,
for the Art Inspiration Crop on Thursday, April 24th at 9 pm
EST. We will provide a piece of art to be used as inspiration
for your layouts. You can use the color scheme, the composition,
or any part of the art as the starting point for your own layout
- the only rule is that you use your imagination!
To join, just
come to the Scrap Girls Chat Room by clicking on the “Live
Chat” link
from either the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page. Click
on the "Rooms" button, and double click on "00_Room1".
April
Swap Crop Chat - TBA
Friday, April 25th - 4:00PM
ET
It's time for the Swap Crop Chat! We've done
the swapping, and created the layouts, now it's time to chat
about all the gorgeous layouts! I don't know what it is, but
these swaps bring out the best in everyone. This is the time
to chat about the theme, the beautiful layouts and learn about
the swap crop if you haven't participated before. I'll even reveal
the theme for next month! Join me, Carla (crs)
for a fun chat.
ATC
Swap Crop
Sunday, April 27th - 7:00PM
ET
Please join me, Pat Bowman, in the chat room
for our monthly ATC Swap Crop and Chat at 7:00 PM. This month's
theme will be SONGS. You can interpret that theme in any way
you see fit! You can be serious or quirky - whatever you decide!!
If you are a beginner and don't think you can play because you
don't know how - think again. We welcome newcomers and will be
glad to show you the ropes. Remember, the only real rules for
ATCs are that they must be sized 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Let's have
some fun!
Quote
Challenge Crop
Sunday, April 27th - TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for
the Quote Challenge Crop!
Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll post a thread on the
challenge board giving you the quote which you will use to make
your own word art. It's not hard, and I will even have a layout
with a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room to
have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout!
We'll post the time on Sunday, as the time changes around each
time to allow participation by our international folks. Everyone
can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the
chat. Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 30th -
12:00Noon
ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and
themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun,
new challenge each week!
On April 30, we'll do a "Push yourself" challenge! Create
a layout that really pushes your personal style - either something
you've never done before, or a layout that is very much your
style - just INTENSELY your style!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
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April
Events
April Board Game: Who Am I?
In honor of the month that starts the silliest
way possible... it's time to get our silliness on! This month
we'll be getting to know some silly and little known facts about
our Scrap Girls Team Members as we play a rousing game of "Who
Am I?" Every day, a member of the Welcoming Committee will
post a fact about one of the ScrapGirls Team Members and ask, "Who
Am I?" A new fact will be added daily until someone correctly
guesses which team member is being described. Once a team member
is correctly guessed, a new team member will be featured starting
the following day.
Team Members include anyone featured on the "About
Us" page of the ScrapGirls website including Product
Design Team, Layout Artist Team, Welcoming Committee, etc.
Answers to the “Who Am I?” puzzles can be found
anywhere on the ScrapGirls site... including Gallery Layouts,
team member bios, Boutique Layouts, etc.
If you are the first to guess one of the team
members correctly you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap
Girls Boutique! Remember you may only win ONCE during the monthly
message board game. We want as many people to win prizes as possible!
April Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: Say "Yes" to life! With
springtime arriving here in the northern hemisphere, now
is a good time to scrap the new life that is around you.
Your subject might be new plants, baby animals, new babies,
or even a new life in God. Post your layout about the new
life around you to the April Monthly contest gallery before
Midnight (EST) on April 30th and you could win $10 to the
Scrap Girls Boutique!
Mid-April Layout
Contest: Everybody’s life needs a little silliness
in it. For the mid-month contest, we want you to scrap something
silly. It could be photos of your kids, pets or yourself doing
something silly, a practical joke you played on someone, or
a silly story. Post your layout sharing something silly by
midnight on May 14th and you might win $10 to the Scrap Girls
boutique!
Ongoing Opportunities
Customer
Muses: It occurred to us recently that it
might be wonderful for our readers to share with each other
their own versions of Ro's Life Muses. To have your own essay
considered for publication as a muse in the column for our
special Saturday newsletter, send your essay to hello@scrapgirls.com.
If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift Certificate
to the Scrap Girls Boutique.
Way
Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to have
all of you meet some of the amazing people that have become
Scrap Girls! We'd love to introduce you to our readers, too!
If you would like to be spotlighted and win a $25 Gift Certificate
to the Scrap Girls Boutique, send the following items to hello@scrapgirls.com:
- 500-900 word essay about your
experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and specific
examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created that
uses Scrap Girls products.
- A complete list of any and all supplies used on the layout.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun to
see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.
Customer
Freebies: We get a lot of requests from you
asking if you could share a freebie with your Scrap Girls
friends, and we have come up with a way to do it. On Saturdays
we will be sharing freebies created by you, if they are available.
If you are interested in participating, download this
PDF with the specifications and you'll be on your way.Please
note that if you choose to use any Scrap Girls tools or templates
in your submission, commercial licenses for those products
are required. (Even our own designers must purchase commercial
licenses for any items they wish to use in a non-personal
manner!) If your freebie is chosen, you will receive a $10
Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Suggest
a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for
a gallery layout challenge? Submit it to challenges@scrapgirls.com.
If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize (such
as a brush set, paper set, embellishment set, etc.). The
prize will be a surprise, but you'll be sure to like it because
you will get to pick out the one you like best from your
category! Friday will be Customer Challenge Day, so keep
an eye out on the message board calendar. It will be fun
to see what YOU come up with for us to do!
 Note
from Ro: Scrap Girls is
giving away birthday gifts to our message board members! Of
course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday
presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure
because most people like money... Oops! Did I say that? No.
You did NOT hear me say that.
Anyway, make sure your message
board email address is current and that you have the correct
date entered into your profile or you'll miss out! (You will
only be entering the month and the date, so don't be shy. We
won't know how old you actually are!) |
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Check our message
board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as
the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater kit
section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the large
number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital scrapbooking
as much as we do, and we have thousands of products to feed
your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's so
addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all day
long, every day of the week, and each day of the year. You don't
have to wonder about important questions like how to back up
your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to scrapbook digitally
(and which one to buy), or what type of computer software is
required to create digital scrapbooking layouts. The answers
are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a little
bit of extra fun!
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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You Have to Fall Down
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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In this issue:
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Best of the Message Board
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Contests
- Ongoing Opportunities
- Designer Freebie
- Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Educational Products |
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The Scrap Girls newsletter is
created for you by a virtual army of Scrap Girls team members.
Without them, we couldn't possibly share these resources with
you, and I'm very grateful for their ongoing help and support.
I hope you enjoy today's issue as
much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Ro
CEO - Scrap Girls, LLC
P.S. Your email address is
safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with
anyone!
P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance,
please email hello@scrapgirls.com or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!
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Scrap Girls Clubs
Scrap Girls Monthly Club |
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Join
the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with
the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking
looks while saving! (A $27.94 value for $9.99 or less!)
The Scrap Girls Club contents
are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business
day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you
will receive:
- 1 Collection Biggie
- 1 Paper Super Mini
- 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
- 1 Embellishment Set
- 1 Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
Layout by Keri Schueller
using April's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Keri Schueller
Remember, these items are available
separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would
rather not join a club.
(Note: The Scrap Girls
Club contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the
Boutique at their regular prices once the associated club month
is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never
seen before product releases for each month!) |
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ScrapSimple Monthly Club |
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Join
the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest
ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99
or less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club
contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest
business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you
will receive:
- 1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
- 1 Brush Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
Layout by Erica Hite
using April's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Erica Hite and Sarah Batdorf
If you prefer not to join a club,
the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices
in the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking
the What's
New? section of the Boutique.
(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents
are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices
once the associated club month is released. But all club contents
are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for
each month!) |
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Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets
Revealed! |
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*NEW!* MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop
(Versions 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements
versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0
It's time for you to stop playing
catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more
advanced tricks that you see other people and professional digital
scrapbookers doing.
- Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
- Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
- Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
- Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there waiting
in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing
pen, and more.
- See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make
things that are creative and unique.
- Learn advanced tricks for using tools that
you already know and love.
- Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That
is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you
do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers.
It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers.
Very private stuff.)
- See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do
that with, too...)
- Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating
you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder
why you haven't been using it all along.)
- Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
- Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
- And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop
before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software,
you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers,
where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills
that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Are you wishing you could learn
how to scrapbook digitally, but feeling kind of intimated by
it? These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook.
You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about
why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short,
one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down.
It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking
lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
- Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
- Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
- Understand how to save your files for
printing or sharing them with your friends and family over
the internet
- Make your own textured brush
- Learn how to install and use purchased
brushes
- Make your own simple backgrounds
- See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts
to look like they are "real"
- Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
- Learn about transparency and lighting
effects
- Make your own digital torn paper edges
- Be able to isolate a single item in an
embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit
your fancy
- Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
- Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
- Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
- Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
- Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
- Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
- Learn how to install and use purchased
textures
- Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
- Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
- And lots more!
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Mastering Brushes |
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Mastering Brushes for
Photoshop Elements
This ebook was created from the popular online class Creative
Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who wants
to go above and beyond the basic brushing techniques taught
in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
Elements. Make your layouts shine with the polish
that advanced brushwork can bring!
Photoshop
version also available! |
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The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins |
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If you're at all curious about
filters and plug-ins, then The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Windows) is
what you need! This 70 page ebook contains everything you need
to know to get started - what they are, what they do, how to
set up your computer, where to find them, how to get them into
your software, and more.
Paint
Shop Pro (PSP) version also available! |
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
eBook: This eBook (full of easy to understand information
and photographic examples) is tailored to the beginning digital
photographer who wants to take better photos. More advanced
photographers will also benefit from this eBook with the
sections that get you out of your comfort zone.
So get ready to turn that dial
away from AUTO and start taking extraordinary photos! |
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Ten Beginner Tips on Type |
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If you're creating a digital
scrapbooking layout, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be
using type on your pages somewhere. But did you know that type
can make or break your page? What typeface will you use? What
size font? Where will you place it on your page?
If you want to take some beginner
steps towards improving the type on your layouts, and thereby
improving the overall look of your layouts, then this eBook is
perfect for you. It's written in a very simple style, focusing
on one digitally scrapbooked layout while walking you through
ten tips that take type from mundane and awkward to eye-catching
and cohesive. |
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Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft
Word |
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Look here to see all
of the things that you will learn with Scrapbook Secrets
for Microsoft Word, as it has a different set of benefits. |
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Start to Finish eBooklets |
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Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook
Page
Nothing could be simpler than
learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish
eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots
will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included
with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create
a finished project!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to use ScrapSimple Tools: Custom
Shapes & Patterns also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Emboss & Texturize with
ScrapSimple Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using
ScrapSimple Card Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available! |
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