Does anybody start their page in PL app?

I did exactly that with my pictures from vacation last year. I placed all the photos in pl on my iPad then uploaded to drop box and into photoshop on my laptop. Sounds awkward but basically I had pretty complete pages really fast and just had to embellish. I used the magic wand to capture the photo layout and copied it to a blank background then just treated it like any other layout. The only difference is all the photos are on one layer. Here is an example

 

I used my mom's phone and made an app page. I exported it, loaded it into Dropbox and then played with it in PSE. It seemed like a lot of work to me, so I don't think I would do it. But I can see how it would work for others really well!

(I'm on Android, no PL app)

 

On my iPad, I tried that over the 2015-16 holidays and found that it took some fiddling to make a page that was as simple as the app promised but with enough of my own additions. In the app, I left some of the spots with full white spaces - mainly square edge, not rounded - and then used an action later in PSE to modify the shadowing and add a background paper - white with texture. IN PSE also, I added the extra things I had for the 'white blank spots' and just eyeballed them onto the white area as the exported layouts are not layered so no clipping. I then I resized it to 11" or 11.5" and played with putting that over a patterned paper. That made it easy but with my touches. (full disclosure - I'm an action tester so I get to play with this kind of thing to see if it 1. works and 2. makes sense to me!)

As I'm on a Mac and my iPhone IS my only camera, it encouraged me to cull my photos more often ON my phone/iPad and also not have to use Photos in my iMac that much. (Oh I miss iPhoto!). I do have weekly albums set up so the photos go into those slots automatically. You can also see from my (few) PL layouts here, I'm not much on adding a lot of elements on top of the basics.

 

I am still testing out this app to see if it's really going to work for me. I also am using some actions post basic creation and really don't know if it's saving me time or not - app + later actions. Obviously, I don't have all my photos til Saturday night so in the end it's really Sunday that I'm making pages.

How is it working for you @Carri?

 

it's available for Android now...

I've played with it a bit... If I'm going to make it work for me, I need Journal cards I totally love enough to add text ahead of time, and then into the app. I'd still probably want to bring it in to PSE after to add shadows. So... all in all... I love the IDEA that it could help me get some things documented, but the actual work involved to making it useful is not something I'm keen to taking on right now. Probably need more time in a day to sit and prepare Journal cards, and organize them in a fashion that would make sense on my phone.

 

No... unfortunately there are no layering apps for Android that I've found. However, I did pull some of Jaimee's stacked journal cards over into Google photos. Unfortunately, I grabbed the non-trimmed ones, so if the elements goes over the edge, it causes problems. Also, if you use the PL cards IN the app, you can totally use their fonts and text alignment tools (which are FANTASTIC in my opinion ), I just don't love those kits. And I haven't been able to scrap without shadows or elements. It looks plain to me. I'm practicing!

 

You can save the pages from PL back to drop box and use another program like Rhonna or Letterglow to embellish further. I use Jamie's stacked frames in PL also.

 

Letter glow is not available for Android... and my Rhonna app doesn't allow me to layer. I can use it for text though. My avatar pic here in the forum is a Rhonna app design
Also, Over 3.0 for iOS is supposedly awesome for layering, but it doesn't work the same for android either.

There have been several blog posts and tutorials over the past year and I devour them all... buy all the apps and then they don't work. And my phone RAM and/or memory is too full so they run really slow. Argh. But i have hope!

I've also been wondering if I can just ask my family if they have any old iPhones. Lol

 

What about PicsArt, @klee73010 ?

 

I finally played with it in Android. I got annoyed at the text tools on a title card because it wouldn't put the text high enough for me! LOL. I do love Peppermint's collection, but I may just have to buy it in full digitally and enjoy it in Photoshop.

I really love the idea of it, and I could see using it for little things like a playday at the park. And I do love the idea above of using it for older photos.

 

Working with the iPhone app today, I too can see it working for a lot of items. Pages while traveling can get started and then add the other stuff via actions later. This is just some photos I took today. I don't want to end up paying for Dropbox storage so I'm not keeping a lot there. btw, about 10 min from start in the app to resizing for upload. Not bad for time.

 

I had that for awhile, but don't anymore and don't remember why. I will look at it again.

@bestcee there is a way, but I don't remember how!!! I fiddled with it on one of my cards, too. I was able to move the text left/center/right, but also up and down on the card, and the spacing between the lines.

 

I was so excited that they finally had it for Android. I love it because my laptop is a nightmare. It is dying. So anything I can do on my phone is great. Especially at those times where you have to wait prior to appointments or pickups or whatever. I just started my 2016 album with it because I loved the kit that Amber created and it was a much cheaper option (for my at-the-moment limited budget) than buying the digital PL kit... which seems so weird to me. (I know I just need to bite the bullet and buy the full digital version.) LOL. I was wondering about how to save/import the started pages to PSE though, so I guess I will do some playing around with things mentioned by you all.

 

So you export them as a jpeg and then add text over it and resave?

 

Thanks, @renee82. You are awesome. I'm going to give it a try!