Create Your Own Digital Scrapbooking Embellishments or Backgrounds using Our Flag!
This 4th of July is a great opportunity to get great photos of flags because flags make great digital scrapbooking supplies for digital papers, backgrounds, or embellishments.
So don’t let this 4th of July pass you by when our flag can be seen just about anywhere! Take some photos of flags that are waving in the wind, or a flag that is draped on a porch, or MORE!
When you start looking for flags, it is interesting how many different ways flags are displayed! You might be surprised at the different angels you can capture a flad, an all countless ways that you can make wonderful digital scrapbooking layouts, backgrounds, and other supplies from your flag photos!
So where should you look for flags this holiday? You can fid them at a 4th of July parade, hanging outside houses, in front yards, at businesses, displayed at the park, or even as part of other holiday celebrations.
Take lots of photos, trying to get some photos of the flag blowing in the wind (ripples always make great flag pics!), and then use your photos your 4th of July digital scrapbooking projects as textured backgrounds or digital papers.
You may decide to snap dome pics that lay straight, that are not blowing in the wind, and are relatively flat as these flags are great to use for extracting and placing head shots of people in front of the flags for dramatic effect. Remember your favorite people don’t have to pose in front of the flag… you can add them later in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements!
One tip to remember when taking a photo of a flag is if you plan to separate the flag from the background (to use it in other creations) that getting a flag against a blue sky makes it much easier to extract the flag from the sky within Photoshop or Elements.
To remove a flag from a blue-sky pic, just use the Magic Wand Tool, click on the blue sky, and it magically is selected! Next, click delete and you are left with just your flag!
Not that you can’t extract the flag from more detailed and busy photos (ie, photos with more than just sky) but having a plain (non-busy) contrasting background from the flag can make removing the flag much easier to do.
Once the flag is removed from the background, you can apply filters, change the opacity, or apply other artistic effects. Also, you can use the flag as a backdrop for placing photos of family and friends in front of your flag background, even if the person wasn’t in the original flag photo! Next, arrange each flag and each person in a interesting way on your digital scrapbooking page.
For example, we took the flag that we extracted from our photo, and used it like a digital scrapbooking embellishment to give a stronger 4th of July-feel to our digital scrapbooking page!
So, this 4th of July be on the look out for photos of lots of flags and use them in your holiday projects!
Have a very wonderful 4th of July and get some photos for future digital scrapbooking projects and supplies!
Have a Happy Holiday!
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