Digital Scrapbooking - the manual

Interested in archiving your life digitally?
Already digitally scrapbooking?
What I wished I knew in the beginning can be found here, a free 18 page manual from the Daily Digi.

Digital scrapbookers and designers from around the community reveal what they wished they would have known in the beginning in this free online manual!
Ali Edwards, CD Muckosky, Peppermint Granberg (One Little Bird), Katrina Kennedy, Kayla Lamoreaux, Debbie Hodge, Krista Sahlin, Jenn Barrette, SuzyQScraps, (and more) ...


>> It's Free from the Daily Digi

Getting that "Sketch" Look in Photoshop

I have been seeing this new "sketch" technique around digi-land and tried to accomplish it myself.
No luck with my current Photoshop filters.

Then, I saw Kami's layout that we printed for her on our metallic photographic paper at the Scrapbook USA Expo:

Kami's layouts just amaze me!

This Sketch Technique is awesome, and there are so many ways to use it!

Here Kami takes a photo of a brick wall, creates a sketch, and extracts it onto her background paper:

Kami is the genius behind the store, ScrapOrchard, and is well known as designer Ziggle Scraps.

She assured me that she would be working up a tutorial on how she acheived this layout.
And that she did: Click here for Kami's Tutorial using the Plugin Akvis.

I just got around to playing with this plugin myself:

 

Super Easy-
Thanks Kami!

Clipping Photo Masks in Photoshop

Our latest facebook exclusive free kit includes 3 photo masks. 

 If you are not sure how to use these- here is a quick tutorial using Photoshop CS5.

(It would be best for the image to overlap the mask completely. However, for demonstration purposes, the photo layer is smaller than the mask.)

Questions? Let us know!

Creating a Scrapbook Page with Google Picasa - Step 3

Whew! If you have made it through all of our Google Picasa Tutorials- well, done!
Step 3 is probably the most important! This is where you learn how to get that collage into your online Picasa Web Album (free)- and ordered directly from Persnickety Prints! You do not have to download and then upload- we have integrated with Picasa to make this so easy!

OK.. if you are confused and wondering what I am talking about- It's all about making life "simple" this year, Google Picasa can help and why everyone needs be using it!

Find previous tutorials: Step ONE and Step TWO

Step 3: Adding background paper to your collage and ordering your prints!

I made this layout in under 2 minutes.

Here is how you can do it too-

The video tutorial:






We have also included this basic black "Picasa Papers" Kit for you to get started! (at this time Picasa software is compatible with .jpgs only. However, it does read your font files- get creative with webdings and such!

 

Download these papers HERE via box.net 

MORE PICASA TUTORIALS (written)

 by Sarah at Clover Lane

• Using Digi Papers in Picasa
• Making a Photo Card with Picasa
• Caught up! 6 Years in 3 Weeks with Picasa
• Organizing Photo's

As always please email us with any questions- we are happy to help!
info@persnicketyprints.com *Persnickety Prints is not affiliated with Google or Picasa. Picasa support can be found here.