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Digital Scrapbooking Kits

June 7, 2012 by 20 Comments
Digital Scrapbooking Kits - a DVD for digital scrapbooking beginners

What are digital scrapbooking kits? Traditional Paper Scrapbooking supplies usually do not come in a kit - means usually you have to buy papers and elements separately. In digital scrapbooking this is different. You can get a huge set considered as a digital scrapbooking kit with elements and papers. Sometimes your digital scrapbooking kit contains even clusters, stacked papers and an alpha included, depending on the designer. A digital scrapbooking kit has several advantages towards a … [Read more...]

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What are digital rub ons?

January 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Digital rub ons are the digital equivalent of the traditional rub-ons from craft stores. Digital rub ons are black "shapes" you can drag and drop into your layout, add styles to, blend in and modify in any further ways. Often they have cut out edges to simulate traditional rub-ons. Here is a rub-on:   When you look close at the image you can see small cut-outs such as you'd find them when you use traditional stamps. … [Read more...]

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What are Photoshop brushes?

January 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Beside styles, gradients, and actions there are other possibilities to expand your graphic program, e.g. with brushes. In Photoshop you can create custom brushes from any image yourself or you can install a new package with just a double click on the brushes file. You find your brushes on the left in your toolbar - just click on "brush tool" in the drop down menu (open it when you click on the bottom right corner)   Then you find in the top menu your brush palette with all the … [Read more...]

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What are Photoshop styles and how are they used?

January 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Many graphic programs allow a custom expansion - means you can create or add (created from others) not just brushes, gradients, and actions but also styles. Styles can be added to shapes in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and some other graphic programs to simulate e.g. linen, steel and any other material you can think of. Styles are very easy to implement in Photoshop: you just double click on the .asl file and they are loaded into your styles palette. Here is my styles palette in Photoshop … [Read more...]

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What are Stacked Papers?

January 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
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Beside Clusters you can find also pre made papers in digital scrapbooking. Stacked papers are backgrounds for your layouts which already contain e.g. another paper and/or elements. A stacked paper usually consists of the elements and papers from one kit - created to make "life easier for you" so you can scrap faster. Here an example for a stacked paper from the kit "Eternity" by the Digidesignresort Designer Team   Are you looking for stacked papers? Check out our store! … [Read more...]

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What are Clusters in Digital Scrapbooking?

January 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Clustering in digital scrapbooking

If you create clusters you take elements and put them together into a new element. For example, this is a cluster created from a kit "Someone like You"   In the kit "Someone like You" you find a heart, a bird, different flowers, and leaves. You can put those together into a new element to create a cluster. Here is a video if you want to learn how to create a cluster. … [Read more...]

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What does it mean – PU/S4H/S4O/CU/CUforCU?

January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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When you buy a kit you often stumble over acronyms such as PU or CU - if you are a beginner or even advanced scrapper and not a designer yourself you might ask yourself what they mean. I describe here the general meaning but the problem in this industry is that some designers restrict the use of their designs further. Because of that we have created a forum where all designers list their Terms of Use. So if you are unsure have a look here. Here the meaning of the acronyms: Terms of Use (TOUS) … [Read more...]

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What are Templates?

January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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There are different templates available on the market - for elements and to create layouts. Basically - templates are shapes you can fill with your own papers and elements. Templates are usually available as PSD files - this is the Photoshop own format but other graphic programs such as Photoshop Elements and Gimp can open it as well. And this is how the template can turn out - decorated now with papers and elements.     … [Read more...]

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What are Quickpages?

January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Quickpages for a quick digital scrapbooking page or a photobook Quickpages are premade digital scrapbooking pages. They are saved in PNG and usually have a transparent area where you can put your pictures behind. If you, e.g., want to create a photobook or a quick scrapbooking page. At our store you find the quickpages here. Here a short step by step instruction on how to use a Quickpage. 1. Open the Quickpage in your image editing program 2. Open the pictures you want to use as … [Read more...]

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