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{Tips & Tricks} Load Files into Stack

6. March 2010

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During the weekday workshop this past week, Aja shared a really neat trick which I did not know about. Unfortunately, this trick is only useful for PSCS3 and above. For CS2 users like me, I luckily found something similar so don’t you just leave yet. The script, Load Files into Stack, will automatically open your selected [...]

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Tips & Trick – Selecting color

20. February 2010

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The other day, as i was finalizing my grand pa’s album (an heritage book of pictures of his childhood and my ancestors !), i had some png images i needed to edit the background color so they would match my album background. Do you know that you can select a color from an image outside [...]

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Tips & Tricks:Custom String Shadows

13. February 2010

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Happy Saturday morning to everyone!  Karen here with a little tip to add a little extra depth to shadowing for string type elements.  Instead of just adding a regular drop shadow to a tied ribbon or bow, there is something relatively simple you can do to add another depth of dimension.  To start, drag a [...]

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{Tips & Tricks} Quickly Find Your Layer

6. February 2010

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I don’t know about you but when I scrap, I usually end up with a lot of layers. And I’m not very diligent in renaming them at all. So, most of the time I end up with Layer 1, Layer 2 all the way up to Layer 27, plus if I duplicate some elements I’ve [...]

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Tips & Tricks:January 23

23. January 2010

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Happy Saturday to everyone!    Do you all have your New Year’s resolutions in place?  How are you doing with sticking to them?  Did anyone resolve to get organized this year?  If so, I have a little tip for you to organize what pages you want to get scrapped, even if you don’t have time to [...]

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{Tips & Tricks} Blend your Photo to your Paper Using the Clone Tool

9. January 2010

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Hope you’re all having a beautiful weekend. I have a quick and easy trick for blending a picture to a background paper using the Clone Stamp Tool. 1. Click on the clone stamp tool and choose a brush. The key to this trick is finding the right brush to use. You want a brush that has some [...]

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Tips And Tricks- Dec 26th

26. December 2009

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I hope you all had a wonderful christmas with your families and friends. Have a wonderful, healthy and happy new year! I’m going to teach you a little photo shop brush trick. We all know how to use  brushes, but there is a little trick to make it easier and even more fun! If you go to windows [...]

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{Tips & Tricks} Smooth out Skin

19. December 2009

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Hi everyone! Hope you’re having a good weekend so far. My quick tip for you today is a way to soften and smooth out skin in pictures. It’s a way to get a facelift without the pain of surgery or Botox. Here is a picture I like of me and my husband, except that [...]

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Tips & Tricks:Create an Action

12. December 2009

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Happy Saturday to everyone!  It’s Karen here with another quick tip to make your scrapping life a little more efficient.  Today I’m going to show you how to record your own action.  If there are a set of steps that you frequently repeat, you can save a lot of time by recording an action to [...]

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Tips & Tricks + a small byte: Templates

28. November 2009

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So let’s talk templates this week – do you use them? Do you like them? What do you like about them? Do you know what they are? LOL! If you’re new to digital scrapbooking, let me introduce you to templates. If you come from the paper scrapping world, you are probably familiar with sketches. Well, layered [...]

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