Tutorials for Beginners to Digital Scrapbooking

If you're just getting started with Digital Scrapbooking these are the Tutorials for You!

Each of the Tutorials is designed to follow on from the next building your skills by demonstrating the creation of a digital scrapbook layout from start to finish, teaching you new techniques in each Tutorial and repeating some of the techniques from previous Tutorials so that you can lock them firmly in your mind.

You can also select specific Tutorials without following the sequence if you wish. Each Tutorial is designed to be stand alone with each technique explained in detail.

Here's what you get.

• Each Tutorial includes 2 videos totalling between 30-60 minutes.
• Clear step by step guidance through all the techniques in making the featured scrapbook layouts so you can clearly understand what you're doing and why.
• PLUS you get a complementary Digital Scrapbooking Kit with each Tutorial so you can jump right in and make your own version of the demonstrated layout.
• The kit comes with plenty of extra elements so you can make lots of different layouts as well as the one in the demonstration.

And at $4.50 you'd have to agree it's fantastic value!

Here’s feedback from some of the people who’ve become digital scrapbookers by using my video tutorials:

 

 

 

So now browse through the Beginners Section below and choose your Tutorials.

And when you're ready to add some more advanced tricks to your digital scrapbooking skills, why not take a look at the Step By Step Digital Scrapbooking Intermediate Tutorials.

All videos created using Adobe Photoshop Elements V5

You will need to have a Flash player installed on your computer to view the videos. You can download a free Flash player from the Adobe website here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

 

Beginners Tutorial 1

Key techniques in this tutorial

• Create a new scrapbook layout file
• Open digital elements and load them into your workspace
• Drag your elements onto your Scrapbook layout file
• Move, reposition and resize your scrapbook elements
• Add a shadow to give your scrapbook layout a more realistic look
• Understand how to use layers to build your scrapbook layout
• Save your scrapbook layout as a PSD file to keep all your layers
• Save your scrapbook layout in a ’save for the web’ format so you can load it into on-line galleries or email it to friends.

Scrapbook layout demonstrated in this 50 minute Tutorial	Complementary Digital Scrapbook Kit

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Beginners Tutorial 2

Key techniques in this tutorial

• Create a new scrapbook layout file
• Open multiple digital elements at the same time, and load them into your workspace
• Move, reposition and resize your scrapbook elements
• Rotate and flip your photos.
• Customize a shadow to give your scrapbook layout a more realistic look
• Crop photos to fit a frame using the Magic Wand Tool
• Crop papers to create a border using the Marquee Tool
• Duplicate digital scrapbooking elements easily
• Link elements together to move and resize them easily
• Coordinate the color of your font with colors from your photos.
• Add bevels to your elements for added dimension.
• Create an accent from scratch.
• Save your scrapbook layout as a PSD file to keep all your layers
• Bonus Video for users of Photoshop Elements 3 or 4 demonstrating how to customise drop shadows.

Scrapbook layout demonstrated in this 60 minute Tutorial	Complementary Digital Scrapbook Kit

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Beginners Tutorial 3

Key techniques in this tutorial

• Create a new scrapbook layout file
• Open multiple digital elements at the same time, and load them into your workspace
• Move, reposition and resize your scrapbook elements
• Duplicate digital scrapbooking elements easily
• Customize a shadow to give your scrapbook layout a more realistic look
• Create a split background from two papers using the Marquee Tool.
• Alter the colors of your elements using the Hue/Saturation Pallette.
• Change a colored photo to monochrome.
• Create a new layer.
• Create a matt for you photo from scratch.
• merge two layers together to create a single new element.
• Save time by copying and pasting layer styles.
• Add an image effect to your title for added interest.
• Layer flower elements to make a beautiful cluster.
• Save your scrapbook layout as a PSD file to keep all your layers
• Save your scrapbook layout in a ’save for the web’ format so you can load it into on-line galleries or email it to friends.

Scrapbook layout demonstrated in this 42 minute Tutorial	Complementary Digital Scrapbook Kit

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Beginners Tutorial 4

Key techniques in this tutorial

• Create a new scrapbook layout file
• Open multiple digital elements at the same time, and load them into your workspace
• Move, reposition and resize your scrapbook elements
• Poke a photo through a frame
• Make a vertical title
• ‘Clip’ two elements together with a paper clip.
• Duplicate digital scrapbooking elements easily
• Changing the color of an embellishment to coordinate with your photo.
• Use the Color Variations panel to lighten an element.
• Customize a shadow to give your scrapbook layout a more realistic look
• Save time by copying and pasting layer styles.
• Save your scrapbook layout as a PSD file to keep all your layers

Scrapbook layout demonstrated in this 37 minute Tutorial	Complementary Digital Scrapbook Kit

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Beginners Tutorial 5

Key techniques in this tutorial

• Create a new scrapbook layout file.
• Open multiple digital elements at the same time, and load them into your workspace
• Move, reposition and resize your scrapbook elements
• Introduction to time saving keyboard shortcut keys.
• Create a frame cluster element.
• Crop a single photo to fit into your frame cluster.
• Duplicate digital scrapbooking elements easily
• Merge different element layers to create a single new element.
• Link elements together to enable you to easily move multiple elements at the same time.
• Create a duplicate file to work on so you don’t accidentally ruin an original element file.
• Use a type mask to cut your title out of a patterned paper.
• Add dimension to your title with a bevel.
• Use the Color Variations panel to lighten an element.
• Customize a shadow to give your scrapbook layout a more realistic look
• Save your scrapbook layout as a PSD file to keep all your layers
• Save your scrapbook layout in a ’save for the web’ format so you can load it into on-line galleries or email it to friends.

Scrapbook layout demonstrated in this 37 minute Tutorial	Complementary Digital Scrapbook Kit

with PayPal for only $4.50

 

Ready to try some even more fun digital scrapbooking tricks?

Well now that you've mastered the beginner's techniques why not take a look at the Intermediate Tutorials?

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