Digital Scrappers - Post Pages Here II: Will be unstuck on 4/30.

[janette]

Wen I'd love any tips you can give. I tried to blend on these pages, my girls let me know I don't do it very well.

These are the photopass water park pics, I'm not a water park person but my girls and our friend is so they went on their own. If it wasn't for photo pass I'd have no pictures so works out pretty well, I even got to use Erica's new kit

Credits: http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37249/ppuser/952

Credits: http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37247/ppuser/952

 

[wenrob]

Janette, I think the eraser you're using may be too "hard."

What I personally think is the key to blending is "feathering," blend modes, layers, a big "soft" eraser and a mostly solid well textured paper similar in color to your pic. I'm just going to list what I do and then if you have any questions just fire away.

1)Choose the marquee tool and set the feather to 200. (that's as high as PSP goes) I usually just use the rectangle. I select almost all of my photo and then go to "selections" and select "invert." Then I hit delete, this will feather the outside of your pic. I usually hit delete at least twice, sometimes three times depending on the look I'm going for. Sometimes you will see a line on the outer edges (from where the original line of the pic was), you can take care of that with the eraser later but I usually select each outer edge with a feather of about 20 and hit delete (I don't invert these)

2)Now the fun part, playing with blend modes and opacity! There's no science to this really, you just play with it until you like it. On the Atlantis LO, I duplicated my feathered layer twice. I set the bottom to "hard light" opacity around 70%, the next layer "soft light" opacity around 30-40% and the third layer to "darken" at around 20%. (link your layers so if you want to move it around they all stay together)

3)Select a "big, fluffy" eraser. In PSP the one I use is called "fuzz soft." I forget what program you use but rather then looking solid it should look like a ball of cotton. I hope that makes sense. I make my eraser around 300. On the Atlantis LO, the blue of the sky was too bright and I wanted to soften it up. What I learned was not to drag and sweep the eraser but tap and click, overlapping as I go. The idea is not to erase it all but to "blend" it. On this particular LO I tapped and clicked on different spot on different layers so some was left on one layer and gone on the other. When I added my kids watching the ride I placed it over the ride pic and then just tapped around until they looked part of the pic. The Rapids LO was two pics as well, I just kept tapping until I liked it. Sometimes you have to hit undo a lot but that's the beauty of digital!

I hope this makes sense. It sounds like a lot but it really is easy once you get in a groove. Any help I can be let me know!

 

[janette]

Thanks! I'm working with PSE 7 but I think some of the functions are simliar. I'm going to play with it more and see if I can get better.

 

[wenrob]

Thanks! I'm working with PSE 7 but I think some of the functions are simliar. I'm going to play with it more and see if I can get better.

You should have all those functions in PSE. They may be named slightly different but they do the same things. Can't wait to see what you do!

 

[kswm30b]

Here are a couple from the last few days Click for credits







I finally got Erica's Sail Away kit. This was about 6 cameras ago.

 

[Yzerbear19]

Build-a-Bear at Disneyland



Remember the Magic



Just a few of my favorite pins - For the 4/28 Tuesday Template challenge



Mexico - EPCOT



The Pink Palace - For the 5-5 Tuesday Template Challenge

 

[sahlink]

Melissa... you've been busy!! My favorite is that Build a Bear LO!! SO SO CUTE!!

http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37382/ppuser/36
Here's one from me:

 

[janette]

I was working on this for the DIS challenge but have too many pictures. One more page done though

Journaling reads:
We had a late reservation at Liberty Tree Tavern; our table was close to the door where the characters entered so they came by multiple times. As the restaurant emptied they stayed in our area even longer. Dale started playing games with Abigail; sitting down with pencil & paper to play some kind of math game. The others hung out watching and goofing around; our sides all hurt from laughing so hard. The handlers decided it was time to go after about 15mins and our fun came to end as we said goodnight.

Credits: http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37723/ppuser/952

 

[sahlink]

http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37729

 

[Yzerbear19]

Here is the one I did for Britt's "Everyday Magic" challenge at SM about rituals. My sister and I watch at least one Star Trek Enterprise episode every night. I know . . . I know . . . we're TOTALLY insane!!! I've never been that big of a fan of the original series, but I really like Enterprise. I just wish I would have discovered it back when it originally aired.

 

[Carolc]

http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37829/ppuser/3864

 

[wenrob]

Here is the one I did for Britt's "Everyday Magic" challenge at SM about rituals. My sister and I watch at least one Star Trek Enterprise episode every night. I know . . . I know . . . we're TOTALLY insane!!! I've never been that big of a fan of the original series, but I really like Enterprise. I just wish I would have discovered it back when it originally aired.

Scott Bacula..... I was never a Trekkie but I loved Generations and for some reason I really want to see the new movie. Great colors for this and I love the stacked mats.

http://www.scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/37829/ppuser/3864

Carol! Check you out girlfriend, this is awesome!

 

[wenrob]

Working my way through our San Diego trip from last summer:
(click for credits)

 

[Yzerbear19]

The Cold War - For a word up challenge at SM. My sister and I were lucky to be at the "Cold War" hockey game between Michigan and Michigan State back in 2001. It was an AMAZING game! It was sooooo cold, but awesome. It set the world record for the largest crowd at a hockey game!!! It was so cool to be part of that! The photos aren't great because this was pre-digital photos. I used MSU colors!

 

[Yzerbear19]

Another one from me.

Play Ball! - For My Story Matters #7 challenge at SM

 

[Yzerbear19]

Here is another one I just finished. This one is from our trip to Detroit last week.

Holocaust Memorial Center - They don't allow photography inside so the only photos I have are of us outside and of the outside of the building. The outside though is really interesting and was controversial when they first opened up the new location. There were quite a few people who were disturbed with it. We enjoyed it, but I think the one in Washington DC definitely is better and makes more of an impact. We were a bit disappointed since we've been to the one in DC twice, we had really high expectations. Don't get me wrong, the one in Detroit is really good, it just wasn't as good as in DC.

 

[kswm30b]

Boma is one of our favorite restaurants at Disney, it's the only place we've eaten at every single trip, even during our short spring training trips. I still haven't scrapped it yet, but I finally scrapped what they did for my mom's bday. (Click images for credits):



This LO I kept wanting to do as a paper LO because I know I want to make Minnie's House (and her signature) on the Cricut. Then I figured, since I wanted to use a lot of pics, it might be easier to do it digitally, and just add the house after it printed. I originally was going to make the house first, scan it in, and use the scan on the digital page (and then add the paper piecing after printing), but my back has been bothering me the last few days, so I didn't feel like being all bent over putting the tiny pieces on the house. So I'll do that later. Instead I just copied the house (and sig) from the Cricut handbook as a placeholder.

page 1



page 2



2 page spread



Need to catch up responding for most of the LOs on this page! They are all so awesome! I'll try to catch up soon.

 

[boBQuincy]

From a Railfair in Roanoke VA last weekend:

 

[Carolc]

Heather - AWESOME Minnie layout!!!! Saved it in my faves.

 

[Pooh46]

Here's one I did for the color challenge at SM.



Click image for credits.