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Note: Tutorial written with screenshots
from PSCS2 on a Mac.
I have this wonderful old photo my mom sent to me of her
family.
I'd like the digital scrapbooking layout to consist
of browns and beiges, but I like the book cover spine from this violet
paper. With the Marquee Tool, I select the spine area of the paper.
I hold down the Shift key and drag the brown spine from
the violet paper onto the beige paper.
Now that I have my background starting to look good, I
need to go back and fix the photo border. Because the photo has rounded
corners, I'm going to crop the photo to make it neater. I select
the Shape Tool and scroll down to the Rounded Rectangle Tool option.
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I've dragged the Rectangular Shape Tool over my
photo.
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To get a selection from my new shape, I'll hold
down my Command key (Ctrl key on a PC) and click my cursor on the right-hand
box on the Shape layer.
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Marching ants now appear around the photo.
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While on the photo layer, I make a mask with my selection
by clicking on the Layer Mask Icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette.
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Now my photo is bound by the selection.
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I'd like to have a brown decorative frame behind
the photo. I've dragged another paper from the Bookworm
Collection to be behind the photo layer.
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To make a decorative frame, I select the Custom Shape
Tool and load a frame from Valerie Randall's ScrapSimple
Tools - Shapes: Frames 2101.
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After creating my frame, I make a selection from the shape.
With the selection, I make a Layer Mask on the dark brown paper by again
clicking on the Layer Mask Button at the bottom of the Layers Palette.
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After hiding the white shape layer, I can now see my nice
new brown paper frame.
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Now I'm going to add a title to my layout. I've
opened a couple of PNGs from the ScrapSimple Alpha Templates:
Enchanted.
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I dragged the letter PNG onto the letter decoration PNG.
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With my Marquee Tool, I select the "F" letter
and jump the selection onto a new layer by typing Command+J
(Ctrl+J on a PC). Next I select the "F" embellishment
and jump that selection onto a new layer as well. I've hidden
the letters and embellishment layers so that only the F and embellishment
are visible.
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I've dragged the F and its decoration onto my layout
and positioned the layers where I'd like them.
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To color my F initial cap, I lock the layer's transparent
pixels by clicking the "Lock Transparent Pixels" option at the top of
the Layers Palette.
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I selected brown colors from my layout using the Eyedropper
Tool and have filled my F and its decoration by typing Option+Delete
while the layers were individually selected.
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I've added "amily" in a nice script
typeface to complete the word "Family."
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The layout is looking nice, but I'd like to add
some interest to the background by working in another paper. I've
opened another paper from the Bookworm Collection.
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To blend the lettering paper into my background paper,
I'll add a Layer Mask to my new paper. I click on the right-hand
box on my paper layer. I'm selecting the Layer Mask to edit, and
not the paper itself.
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I make sure my foreground color is black and now I select
my Gradation Tool from the Tools Palette and drag down from the top
left to the middle of my layout.
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My gradation has been applied to my Layer Mask. Where
the Layer Mask is dark, or black, the lettering paper will not be visible
in my layout.
The simple beige paper is now blended perfectly into the
lettering paper. I can read the word Family, but have some nice texture
at the bottom right of the layout. I'll add some more embellishments
to the layout, as well as drop shadows, and I'll be done!
Layout by Erica Hite
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Tutorial written by Erica Hite
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