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That one Perfect Photo....that you can't scrap.

chickypow

chickypow

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Arg. I've only run across this a few times. I realize that I've captured a PERFECT photo of someone. Not cause it's a masterpiece of photography or anything, but because the photo captures your person so just right. Then I can't scrap it cause no matter how hard I try nothing is quite good enough. Am I crazy or has this happened to anyone else? I've started like 5 LO's with this picture of my daughter, Izzy, today and ditched them. They were not awful or anything just not.....right. grrrrrr! I really want to capture it perfect on a page. I am so stuck!

Here is my perfect photo. Everything about it is so deeply truly her.
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So adorable. and a perfect pic. Clean and simple? or have you tried having be a large pic with few embellishments? I saw several in the gallery that might work. And darn I'm starting to be able to spot your layouts. You've got style!
 
carilyne said:
So adorable. and a perfect pic. Clean and simple? or have you tried having be a large pic with few embellishments? I saw several in the gallery that might work. And darn I'm starting to be able to spot your layouts. You've got style!
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awe thank you!

I tried Clean and simple, embellished up, big photo, smaller photo.....it's just not working! ARG! I have been playing with Sara Gleason's Archtype kit as the word arts are perfect and I just love the kit but i just can't figure out what style.hahaha. Wow....this is my big problem of the day, how to scrap a photo of my kid. I guess we are all pretty lucky to be us.
 
What a sweet photo! I see so many possibilities.
 
Mylinn said:
Could you do a cutout around her and baby? Would that help any?
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I'm so bad at extraction hahaha. I think I want to keep it as is.....just can't seem to put my finger on it. Maybe I'll just do 10 Lo's of the same photo till I'm happy hahahaha
 
I get this! totally. I don't want to "ruin" the picture. I have found that once I do scrap a wonderful photo, I usually like it even more. LOL! It seems to end up exactly how it was supposed to be scrapped. If it doesn't, I pry would try again.

What about a wonderful blend, just of the edges? It's so adorable, and I see such delight in her eyes. "I will love it, kiss it, care for it, and be there for it" type of feeling too! :)
 
Actually, 10 LO might do the trick - keep em all :) I kinda view a LO as how I see the subject at that moment. Later, I may have diff feelings and make a completely diff LO. If that made any sense, lo..
 
Totally makes sense!
Mylinn said:
Actually, 10 LO might do the trick - keep em all :) I kinda view a LO as how I see the subject at that moment. Later, I may have diff feelings and make a completely diff LO. If that made any sense, lo..
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Totallu I've rescrapped photos before too :)
 
jk703 said:
I get this! totally. I don't want to "ruin" the picture. I have found that once I do scrap a wonderful photo, I usually like it even more. LOL! It seems to end up exactly how it was supposed to be scrapped. If it doesn't, I pry would try again.

What about a wonderful blend, just of the edges? It's so adorable, and I see such delight in her eyes. "I will love it, kiss it, care for it, and be there for it" type of feeling too! :)
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Oh I'll keep trying. A blend of the edges isn't a bad idea!
 
Play with backgrounds, especially colors (I think golden tints) and see what makes the photo pop or soften or whatever you like. I think that color is the answer for a special photo. Have fun!
 
Gorgeous photo. I get the same problem. The more I love the photo, the harder it is to scrap! I would def go Clean & Simple, but then that is my style ha! I would walk away from it for a while and don't put pressure on yourself to get it scrapped. Then hopefully, it will develop naturally :)
 
KarenB said:
Gorgeous photo. I get the same problem. The more I love the photo, the harder it is to scrap! I would def go Clean & Simple, but then that is my style ha! I would walk away from it for a while and don't put pressure on yourself to get it scrapped. Then hopefully, it will develop naturally :)
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I've walked away and left it haha. I spent all my scrap time yesterday trying to make it work and got nothing but frustrated. ;p
 
My first reaction to the photo was to do a B&W layout, letting the photo pop. Snoopy won't be as prominent as well, letting almost all of the focus be on your daughter.

Using something like this kit:

 
gonewiththewind said:
My first reaction to the photo was to do a B&W layout, letting the photo pop. Snoopy won't be as prominent as well, letting almost all of the focus be on your daughter.

Using something like this kit:

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AH! That is a great idea! I have that kit too......SO going to try that. I did one LO but as much as I like it, I think I colour coordinated too much so the photo blends in. Brilliant @gonewiththewind
 
yep this is a 'common' problem for me - it's half the reason i dont end up with single photo pages because the 'one' photo that i love from that day/series etc, i can rarely do justice (or if i do, they get rescrapped at some point cos i was never 100% happy with the page) - when in doubt i use a decent looking frame to make the photo look centre-stage and important and they usually end up on an album cover, doesn't always work and depends on what style u like to scrap (like if you don't like 'chunky' stuff) but that sometimes works for me - here's pinterest links to 2 of my pages that i had ur problem with but ended up loving (there in my gallery here somewhere in my unorganised collection of pages). Good luck and dont stress
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/75364993738439211/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/75364993740577783/
 
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