Your 2019 AHA scrapbook moment

It's been a long time, but the first was discovering shadows . . . enough said. Discovering an action that would sharpen and resize . . . wow - that gave such a crisp, polished look to my layouts. It is still one of my most favorite moments of the layout process.

 

My aha moment is the delete button. It's okay to delete bad photos or extra photos. I don't have to keep or scrap them all.

 

Being new to digi scrapping I have a few aha moments... but my best was a few weeks ago I discovered in PixelLab (the app I use to scrap with) that I can apply a paper as a texture to another element and get a new look... opened a whole new realm of scrapping so that I can now use the png files from templates where as before I didn't know how. Yippee yay for me!

 

My aha moment was learning to use affinity phots on iPad after using PS for 10 years
Scrapping on my iPad is my aha biggest moment of this year

 

Either I had my aha moment of 2019 in December 2018, or I'm still waiting to have it. Because when I received my annual album last December -- a wonderful, huge 12x12 book from Blurb -- I realized I don't want to keep collecting these and have to lug them around. I'm sort of a minimalist. Right now my digital scrapbooks only fill half a shelf, but I have old paper albums that take up a few more shelves.

And then I found myself with less time to scrap this year (started a new job) so I haven't been able to evolve my scrapbooking routine to my liking yet. I'm kind of in scrapbooking limbo. I've dabbled in other sizes, but really seem to prefer 12x12. I created a different file folder structure, but didn't use it. Printing is on hold. I haven't printed an album this year for the first time in many years.

One thing I've figured out for sure (several months ago) is that the social aspect of scrapbooking with friends in an awesome forum like TLP is part of what I've loved about digital scrapbooking for the last decade+ and I definitely want to keep that up. Printing a little may always be important to me because I was born before the digital age and have a natural distrust of it but I don't need to print 250 pages every year.

 

I've had quite a few AHA moments. I've learned how to do so many things since I joined TLP - things that I never thought I could do. At first, I'd think "Oh, I don't think I can do that". Then, once I started watching a tutorial and breaking down the steps, one by one, I found out that I could do it.

I was really thinking about this question and started going through my files last night. My latest AHA moment was combining 4 different photographs into one. I was just thrilled with the final composite picture and so proud of myself for deciding to try it! This is one of my favorite layouts, using that picture.



CORRECTION: When I looked back at my post, I only used 4 different pictures to composite into a new picture.

 

I have all of them in the original thread. I’ll see if I can find it.


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@vinniepearce - here's my original post showing all of the pictures I used. It was for the November Monthly Muse. When I saw the challenge, I thought "there's no way I can do this".

Monthly Muse Challenge Nov 2019 - Week 4

 

ACTIONS, ACTIONS and ACTIONS!

 

I had and I still have a lot of AHA moments playing with the camera presets raw!

 

My best aha moment wasn't this year... but I still use it and have a great time with it: painting with styles. It is a great way to change things up and/or add a unique effect to an image or background. Here is an example of using several different brushes and styles to add interest to one of Lili Wee's faces. I usually edit the style to remove any shadow, glow or bevel. It is GREAT fun!

Here are the styles/brushes used with layer styles applied and edited.
Often I just use a basic soft brush, but shaped brushes can be really interesting.


Of course you can always then go one more step and play with blending modes to really be unique!