Using Digital Layout Templates to Make a Greeting Card
Note: Digital scrapbooking tutorial written with screenshots from Photohop CS2 on a Mac.
Open all of the PNGs of the digital layout template of your choice. (I'm using the 8.5x11 size of the ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates Layered: Drawn, layout number two.)
Holding down Shift, drag all of your PNGs on top of each other into the same window. Holding down Shift helps the layers to line up properly.
Create a new document at the size you want your card to be. I like to make my cards 4.25 x 5.5 so I can get two cards out of one 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. So, I created my new document at 11 x 4.25, 300 dpi.
I added a guideline to the center to show me where my fold would be. To do this, I went to View> New Guide and chose to add a new vertical guide at 5.5 inches.
Holding down Shift, I highlighted all of my layers in the Layers Palette. Then I chose "Link Layers" from the drop down menu of the Layers Palette.
I want my digital layout template to fit on the front of my card, so I'm going to resize it. To do this, I go to Image> Image Size and change the width to 5.25, making it just slightly smaller than my card size.
Then, using the Move Tool, drag the template into the blank document.
You can close your other document, but DON'T SAVE, or you'll overwrite one of your digital layout template PNGs.
Now you can follow the digital layout template instructions to create a custom card. Add different papers, embellishments and alphas. And feel free to delete any of the digital template layers you decide you don't need. Make it your own card.
Card by Mandy Steward
 |
||||
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
||||
Tutorial written by Mandy Steward
Scrap Girls has been awarded with the 2012 Gold Award from Top Ten Reviews for having the Best Digital Scrapbooking Elements Service Available.
Digital scrapbooking is...
- Fast.
- Creative.
- Fun.
- And it saves you money.*
Let Scrap Girls show you how surprisingly simple it can be to become a great digital scrapbooker!
* Digital supplies are less expensive to purchase and can be used over and over and over again...
NEW! Discover your hidden scrapbooking talent today! MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop will have you doing the same tricks and knowing the same tips as the professionals! With MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop, you will be creating your own digital elements and enjoying advanced techniques on your digital scrapbooking layouts in no time!
Have a blast doing the more advanced tricks that you see other people and professional digital scrapbookers doing. Learn how with MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements.
Learn how easy it is to create digital scrapbooking layouts in PSE 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 with these easy-to-understand, newly updated, tutorial movies in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0.
(Note: This version also works for PSE 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. See the product details page for more information.
Find out how easy it is to use Photoshop to create digital scrapbooking layouts and edit your photos with the newly updated Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop (CS4, CS3, CS2, and CS).
Learn how easy it is to create digital scrapbooking layouts with these easy-to-understand tutorial movies for Paint Shop Pro X. (Can be used for PSP XI, too!)
This ebook, Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements, was created from the popular online class Creative Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who want to go above and beyond 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 available here.
This great eBook will take digital scrapbookers photos to a new layer. Diane Miller's photographs are amazing and her Photography Simplified eBook shows you how you can get fabulous shots, too!
