Practical, step-by-step guides to help you grow as a digital or hybrid scrapbooker—from beginner basics to advanced techniques., step-by-step guides to help you grow as a digital or hybrid scrapbooker—from beginner basics to advanced techniques.
Hey there, fearsome filter explorers! All the new updates to the forum and gallery are beyond cool, aren’t they? I spent some time getting acquainted with all the new buttons and so forth and I’m liking it! It’s the same…
Have you ever been standing in line at a grocery story, just having a blah day,and a stranger walks up and says something like this, “I really like your shirt/earrings/purse.” It totally makes your moment. It causes you to look…
What is Cutout, and what does it do? I took this photograph, taken a few weeks ago at the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar, CA, and sicced Cutout on it. Here’s the original. Cool staircase, right? It floats, which means it’s…
If you’re like me, sometimes you just lose the motivation to take pictures. Maybe it’s after winter months when you’ve been stuck indoors taking low-light photos (and we know how well those *don’t* turn out); maybe you’re just feeling especially…
Let’s try out some filters! At the top of the list (literally: it’s at the top of the filter list on the menu!) is COLORED PENCIL. What can you do with this filter? First, let me show you the photograph…
Energy and CREATing are melded together in some completely wild pages in the ARt JournAliNG challenge this month! Polly Dalis (doesn’t that have a nice ring to it?), has reached into her bag of awesome and come up with the…
Depending on what type of digital camera you have, you might have noticed in the Flash Menu, a choice between “First Curtain” and “Second Curtain”. Also, “slow synchro”. What the heck do those mean? Well, okay. I had to read…
So how in the world am I going to use all of the awesome Journal Cards that show up each and every week! I just love them, you may say, but I can’t see where I’ll use them. Well, never…
Cooler weather, creamy soups in the crockpot, leaves crunching under your feet. Can you feel that fall is just around the corner? Unfortunately here in my part of Texas our fall doesn’t happen for a few more months. Even though…
HELLO! I’m Farrah Jobling, guest Pollywog for September. I can’t tell you how honored I am to write a blog post this month. I am a professional photographer and I have been posting a monthly photo challenge in the TLP…
What if your camera is a simple point and shoot, and you can’t get those neat panning shots? You can get that same look with a nonblurry photo in PSE (and PE) easily! First, let’s look at a neat variation…
Just a quick tip about clustering. If you look through the gallery at TLP you will see some beautifully clustery (yes, that is a word) pages. The best advice I can give you when creating your own clusters is to…