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Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials - Manipulating the Color in your Photos

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Here’s another short digital scrapbooking tutorial video I made for you.

This one looks at a couple of techniques you can use to alter the colour of your photos to suit the mood or style of the scrapbook layout you want to create.

I use Photoshop Elements to make the photo adjustments but the method is good for any of the photo editing software programs. Just remember the names of tools and their location maybe different in different programs.

If you have a reasonable Internet connection I recommend you

Click Here and view the larger sized, High Resolution version which is a much better viewing experience.

The elements used in this tutorial are out of the enormous Refresh Collection from Scrap Girls. This kit is a freebie when you register with the Scrap Girls site.

And if you like the style of this tutorial you might like to take a look at my longer, more detailed Scrapbooking Edge Video Tutorials at Digital Arts Cafe, which come with all the layout elements included with the tutorial.

By the way, you think this is useful, please share this digital scrapbooking tutorial with others by voting for it on Stumble and bookmarking it in Delicious.

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How to Make Word Art - Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial

Since I started the Scraps of Mind Weekly Word Art Newsletter I’ve had a number of people ask me how I make my Word Art.

So I’ve put together this video tutorial for you so you can have a go at making your own. Word Art is a lot of fun to make and can be as complicated or as simple as you choose your design to be.

I hope that you enjoy the video tutorial and try making your own. And please don’t let that prevent you from signing up to the Word Art Newsletter and getting 3 pieces of original Word Art Design delivered to your inbox each week. You can build a great Word Art Collection and you’ll never be lost for a Scrapbook Layout title, journaling accent or a message in a greeting card.

I recommend that rather than viewing the YouTube version, if you have a reasonably good Internet connection, you click on the High Resolution version which is much easier to watch than the YouTube one.

Click here to watch the High Resolution Version of this Tutorial.

If you like this tutorial, please give it a Stumble and maybe click over to YouTube and give it a rating.

And don’t forget to sign up to the Newsletter if you haven’t already done so.

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Curled Edges Video Scrapbooking Tutorial

I was originally inspired to make this digital scrapbooking video tutorial by a post at Scrapbook Ideas which I found through the Digital Scrapbooking Blog Carnival.

Rolled or curled edges look great on digital scrapbooking layouts where you get the effect that the top paper has been torn and rolled back to reveal another paper underneath. And they’re not that hard to make for yourself. When you’re done you’ll have an element you can use over again on many layouts and can customise it to blend with whatever paper you’re using.

I use Photoshop Elements to make my Curled Edge but the method is good for any of the photo editing software programs but the names of tools and their location maybe different in different programs.

Click here to download a larger, better quality version of this tutorial.

The papers used in this tutorial are out of Erica Hite’s magnificent Bookworm Collection from Scrap Girls

Please share this digital scrapbooking tutorial with others by voting for it on Stumble and bookmarking it in Delicious.

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Launching The Scrapbooking Edge Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials

I am so very very excited!!

A few weeks ago Melo from Digital Arts Cafe approached me with an idea to make some Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials for the boutique. I have to say, I really like where this on-line store is going. It’s a great looking site with a terrific vibe to it and Melo is a girl just bristling with great ideas.

So we started discussing what we would both like to see with these tutorials and we’ve come up with a concept that we’re both really thrilled about…and I hope you will be too.

Each Scrapbooking Edge Tutorial is an 18-25 minute video which takes you on a step by step journey to create a digital scrapbooking layout designed to add new skills to your digital scrapbooking creation. Each video demonstrates several techniques showing you how to use or modify your existing elements to achieve new and interesting looks. As well as many other tips which you can add to your digital scrapbooking skills as we create the layout. The aim is to teach you how to get more from the digital scrapbooking kits that you buy and keep your layouts looking fresh and interesting; even when using the same kit on different layouts.

And what makes the Scrapbooking Edge Tutorials even more special is that each tutorial comes with all the digital scrapbooking elements used to create the layout ALL INCLUDED!!

Melo and I wanted to make a great package for you so that you can jump in and start using your new techniques straight away.

The Scrapbooking Edge Tutorials are made using Photoshop Elements. And we wanted to do something really special to launch them…..so…..

As an opening special Digital Arts Cafe is offering a 30% discount on all Scrapbooking Edge tutorials sold until Christmas.

And for Scraps of Mind readers there’s an extra 10% discount valid until 30 November 2007.

Just quote this special coupon code when you get to the checkout.

For the frame cluster video: 753fr34h
For the cutout text video: 45n3ez

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You can hear how excited I am about this new venture in this podcast I made to introduce the Scrapbooking Edge Tutorials to Digital Arts Cafe members.

Click on the speaker to download the podcast.

So please hop over to Digital Arts Cafe and check them out. And if you think this sounds like a great idea please share it with your digital scrapbooking friends or those who would like to get into digital scrapbooking. And help me to spread the news by clicking on the StumbleUpon button below.

Blending Your Own Scrapbook Backgrounds - Video Tutorial

I’ve just spent the last day and a half learning how to make web videos so I thought I’d unleash my new skill on you all.

Some of you may recall a previous digital scrapbooking tutorial I did called Blend your own Backgrounds. Well I’ve redone the tutorial as a video, walking you through how I created the layout illustrated in the original tutorial. Plus a couple of other bonus tips. I hope you like it.

Click here for a high resolution version of this video
All the elements used in this tutorial are from the gorgeous Renew Collection by Shalae Tippett from Scrap Girls.

I made this video using Photoshop Elements but the ideas and techniques can be applied to most photo editing software packages.

If you think this digital scrapbooking tutorial is worthwhile, I’d really really appreciate it if you would click over to the YouTube version and give it a rating or share it with other Scrapbookers by clicking on the StumbleUpon button below.

And don’t forget to let me know what you think in the comments below. Constructive feedback is always welcome so I can improve, but please be gentle.

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