Lessons
Intro to Scrapbook Layering
04:15 2Paper: Your Layout Foundation
11:35 3Building Paper Strips & Blocks
12:04 4Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
05:24 5How to Line Up Repeating Shapes
04:10 6Custom Shapes with Polygon Tool
09:27 7Make Your Own Pennant & Banners
10:47 8How to Add Interest with Your Photos
05:10Creating the Perfect Cluster
11:52 10Embellishments with the Visual Triangle
12:57 11How to Use the Visual Triangle with Pictures
03:06 12The Rule of Three
02:18 13Using the Power of White Space
04:43 14Using the Rule of Thirds
08:42 15Learn the Importance of Shadowing
10:30 16What is the Brush Tool?
05:16 17Using Brushes in a Layout
06:04 18Using Paint in a Layout
03:23 19Understanding Blend Modes
07:21 20Creating Mixed Media Mash Ups
05:19 21Using Layer Masks
02:41 22How to Blend Photos
03:16 23How to Blend Papers
02:17 24How to Blend Text
01:13 25Lighting Effects: Learning Radial Gradient
05:17 26Lighting Effects: Learning Inner Shadows
01:51 27Dodging & Burning Washi Tape
07:58 28Creating Custom Journaling with Text Tool
05:41 29Journaling with the Pen Tool
06:46 30Incorporating Journaling in the Design
04:29 31Making Stamps from Fonts
06:49 32Different Ways to Cluster with Alphabets
07:54 33Adding Embellishments to Titles
04:24 34Drawing Banners to Title Cluster
03:20 35Creating a Stitch Brush
12:21 36Creating Other Types of Stitching
08:03Lesson Info
How to Blend Photos
We're gonna talk about blending photos I have this really cool layout that I'm using is an example and I got a galaxy s five does anyone else have a galaxy s five? It can go underwater and so I got this phone and immediately it's in the pool because I'm crazy everyone's like no, but I watched a lot of youtube videos to make sure it's actually waterproof before I did it. So I have all these cool underwater photo photos but I really liked this one, but I didn't know it wasn't frame a ble the way that these other ones were to me, so I wanted to figure out a way to include it but not have it framed with the rest of the cluster, especially since it's of joe sia and just I has already up here at the top of the cluster, but I I did want to include it still, so what I did was I blended into the background of the paper and what happens is it becomes a part of this background paper. Now this is a really smooth blend because it's also a paper that has a water texture if you're going to have if yo...
u were going to blend it into a green background, it was it would have a totally different effect, so I chose a water paper so that it would look like it was part of the pool so the best way to blend this photo in is to create a grady in't mass, so I'm going to create a mask for this photo again and of course it creates a white mask and I what I want is I want for it to be solid down here. Oh, and then I wanted to fade away up here, so I'm going tio command are all to click the layer mask, which will bring up so you can just see the mask instead of the whole composition and then I'm going tio go to my grady in't tool and I'm going to choose a black and white grady in and then with my black and white radiant chosen, I'm going tio click at the bottom and I'm going to hold shift to keep it straight and I'm going to go right about to the edge where my photo starts to end and you can see that when I, um all click again it's perfectly blended the grady a mask makes it so that it fades perfectly into the background paper no erasing involved, no fuss, no muss super easy way to do it now, of course, because this background paper is so similar to the photo, it looks like one whole composition, but it also could be a really neat effect to dio to actually make it look different like if, um I'm gonna show it, show you what it looks like on let's. Say what? It would be a solid background so it's still needs. And probably not in this effect for this photo. Yes, you don't have the hard line of the photo and said, it's blended in, and it gives you that more that painterly sort of style.
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Ratings and Reviews
Corrina
I have recently discovered digital scrapbooking and have been using a great scrapbooking software that I downloaded on-line. There are limitations with the software that prompted me to look deeper for ideas. Traci's course was fantastic! I learned so much from her not only in scrapbooking layouts and using different elements in a page but my level of understanding of photoshop has improved dramatically. The presentation was easy to follow and broken into perfect chunks to go back and review the techniques. Thank you so much Traci for presenting this awesome course. I will look for more of your courses. Your scrapbooking is beautiful and inspiring!
ChristyWhitehead
I'm a photographer. I do a lot of graphic design for my business. I feel like I'm fairly knowledgeable. I saw this class being shown for free on Creative Live one day and it wasn't my first choice to watch, but was the best out of the list... I was wrong. This is a great class. I didn't expect to learn that much and I've been learning a lot! Great info!
Lianne Kruger
Not only did she talk about how to do things in Photoshop [the computer steps] but she also explained art and design tips: what looks good and what doesn't on a page. That was a very nice touch.