Hi everyone, it's Polly Rae, here to give you some tips and ideas on photographing fall foliage, although these tips can be applied to photographing any greenery, at any time of the year. Regardless of what camera you use or your skill level, it is possible to capture some interesting photos of foliage.Tourist spots, scenic routes, parks and wilderness areas are all popular spots for photographing the outdoors, capturing the beauty of the fall foliage, but there are a few other areas you might not think of. I don't generally carry my DSLR around with me but I almost always have my iPhone or my small mirrorless Sony camera in my pocket or purse. But if I am purposely going on a photo walk, the DSLR comes with me. Here are some additional ideas of where you might find some interesting fall foliage to photograph: Higher elevation areas offer stunning views, looking down over … [Read more...]
Warping and Shadowing Leaves
Hi everyone. It's Polly Rae here, aka bcgal00, and today I'm going to share with you some of the ways I like to warp and shadow leaves using Photoshop. Many of my pages include clusters and often that includes leaves. In my opinion, they are the perfect accent to a page, whether they are used singly or in a cluster.Here's a page I am creating with a kit by Amy Wolff Designs Cinnamon Toasted and Bella Gypsy Awesome Autumn. Five leaf/branch layers create the cluster and have been placed onto the right side of my photo mask. The colors and bulk of the cluster draw your eye to that area and down to the word art and bit of journaling (which I will place underneath later). To easily identify the cluster layers, I color coded them in the layers palette (highlight the layers, right click while hovering over the layers and choose a color from the drop-down menu box). I could finish my page … [Read more...]
Using Photo Templates in Hybrid Scrapbooking
It's Polly katrinahunt13 here on the blog today sharing another hybrid project with you! Yes, I want you to get excited about hybrid and at least try it!One of the things I envy with digital scrapbooking is the way you can get so many pictures on a page and they look good and not cluttered! As I was looking at the BYOC for October (psst....go now and look at it, it's AMAZING!) I saw some photo collage templates by Paislee Press. As soon as I saw them, I knew they would be great for a hybrid scrapbooking page!I just fell in love with the Addendum|Collage templates when I saw them and I knew they would get lots of use in my hybrid world. They are super easy to use for a beginner Photoshop girl like me, which I loved. If you know how to do clipping, you are set! Open the template in Photoshop, drag in your picture and clip to the photo area that you want it in. I wanted to use … [Read more...]
Digital Coloring Video Tutorial
Coloring is pretty trendy right now. Leave the crayons and markers in the art box! Follow along in this video tutorial to learn one of many ways to digitally color images in photo editing software. … [Read more...]
My Scrapping “Secret Recipe”
When I started digital scrapbooking, I spent a lot of time trying to find the “secret recipe” for creating great pages. I wanted to create pages that were meaningful to me, as well as pleasing to look at. After asking about other people’s processes and trying out different processes of my own, today I am excited to share with you my own “secret recipe” for digital scrapbooking pages.Always start with an idea.I always start with a general idea of where I want to go. Sometimes it’s a kit, other times it’s a photo or set of photos. Occasionally, it’s a kit that I am dying to use or a challenge for a TLP. Whichever it is, I always have some sort of idea as a starting point.Pick your tools.After I have an idea, I start searching my collection of templates to find one that matches with the photos I want to use and the style I want the page to have. Once I have a … [Read more...]
Double Page Layout Tips
Hello!!! Cynthia aka MrsPeel here! I hope everyone is well and having a great day! So, lets talk about double pagers! We have an amazing challenge this month for double page layouts, also called two page spreads. The challenge is hosted by someone who is more than a talent at it: HeatherB. Heather has been one of my main inspirations for scrapping since 2010. I also got the double page bug! When I posted one of my last spreads in the gallery, some people suggested I should write a post about how to get good results. Technically, I don't think we can call this a tutorial, but I can give you tips that will work in almost any style! I hope you find this useful! For the May Style Challenge, Heather made this wonderful double page layout.What is a double page spread?I would start by explaining my concept of a double page spread. It is scrapping two pages, side by side … [Read more...]