Post by cats4jan on Mar 26, 2016 14:57:25 GMT
Need some ideas to jumpstart your layout?
How about:
Quick Pages: flattened pngs with "holes" - openings for your photos. You open your png, and place your photo underneath the png - moving and resizing the photo until you get just what you want to show through the opening.
Quick Pages also come with more than one opening. The downside to multi-opening Quick Pages is the need to erase where the two photos intersect because you are not grouping your photos to a photo square.
Note - just because everything is on the Quick Page for you, doesn't mean you can't customize the layout. You can add things on top of the Quick Page - such as text or other embellishments - you just can't move or delete anything on the original Quick Page.
Sketches: A sketch is a drawing of a Template. It's used as an idea source. It comes as a jpg and it's value is merely as a diagram to give you an idea for a page. You cannot do a thing with a Sketch, except look at it.
Templates: A Template is a psd comprised of layers. Each layer can be moved, resized, deleted, recolored, replaced or something can be clipped to it. Usually, one clips a photo to the photo square, but scrapbook paper can be clipped to a photo square, too. You can also fill the photo square or any other item on the layout with a solid color.
Each embellishment on the layout can be used as is, or you can replace it with something from your scrapbook kit.
Note: When purchasing what you perceive as a Template, make sure you are not getting a Quick Page or a Sketch - what you are looking for is a psd file so each item on the Template is on it's own layer. If it is a png, it's flattened and you cannot move anything on the layout. If it's a jpg, it's a Sketch.
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My layout from a Template
Template and Kit from Gabi at Just Art Scrapbooking, photo by DS#2
How about:
Quick Pages: flattened pngs with "holes" - openings for your photos. You open your png, and place your photo underneath the png - moving and resizing the photo until you get just what you want to show through the opening.
Quick Pages also come with more than one opening. The downside to multi-opening Quick Pages is the need to erase where the two photos intersect because you are not grouping your photos to a photo square.
Note - just because everything is on the Quick Page for you, doesn't mean you can't customize the layout. You can add things on top of the Quick Page - such as text or other embellishments - you just can't move or delete anything on the original Quick Page.
Sketches: A sketch is a drawing of a Template. It's used as an idea source. It comes as a jpg and it's value is merely as a diagram to give you an idea for a page. You cannot do a thing with a Sketch, except look at it.
Templates: A Template is a psd comprised of layers. Each layer can be moved, resized, deleted, recolored, replaced or something can be clipped to it. Usually, one clips a photo to the photo square, but scrapbook paper can be clipped to a photo square, too. You can also fill the photo square or any other item on the layout with a solid color.
Each embellishment on the layout can be used as is, or you can replace it with something from your scrapbook kit.
Note: When purchasing what you perceive as a Template, make sure you are not getting a Quick Page or a Sketch - what you are looking for is a psd file so each item on the Template is on it's own layer. If it is a png, it's flattened and you cannot move anything on the layout. If it's a jpg, it's a Sketch.
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My layout from a Template
Template and Kit from Gabi at Just Art Scrapbooking, photo by DS#2