If you have been following our blog articles each day then you know we showed how to make a Fall Leaf Embellishment in Photoshop yesterday. Also, we showed you how to use the marquee tool too as part of the process. See that blog article for more information – How to Make a Fall Digital Scrapbooking Embellishment in Photoshop
Today we want to show how to make the same leaf embellishment but this time doing it in Photoshop Elements and using the Lasso Tool instead of the marquee tool.
How to Make a Fall Leaf Embellishment for Digital Scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements:
Step 1: Gather up some leaves from your yard or park. Gather ones with interesting shapes and colors.
Step 2: Put the leaves on the Scanner and scan into Photoshop Elements. Turn on your scanner and then turn on Photoshop Elements.
In this example we arranged several leaves on the scanning bed.
Make sure the leaves are not touching each other and that they are in the areas that can be scanned.
Close the lid and go to the Photoshop Elements controls.
Step 3: Select the scanner controls in Photoshop Elements.
Go to the top menu in Photoshop and select File > Import > (select your scanner from list)
After you have picked the scanner then set the scanner setting and scan your leaves
Here you can double check to see if the leaves are touching or are not in the scanner bed correctly. If all looks ok then push the scan button.
Step 4: Once Photoshop brings the scanned leaves in then start preparing it to turn into an embellishment.
First duplicate the background and hide the original scanned layer.
Select the Magic Wand Tool and click on the layer’s white background. This will select all the area surrounding the the leaves. Hit the Delete button to delete the white background. Deselect to turn off the selection controls.
Step 5: Put each leaf on it’s own layer. After the background is removed. And if you have multiple leaves you have scanned at one time, then you want to select them separately and put each of them on their own layer. One way to select them individually is to get the lasso tool and draw around the leaf (see example below). Make sure to only draw around one leaf!
Then put this leaf on it’s own layer by hitting Ctrl + J computer keys – (MAC Cmd +J) 
Repeat the step above for each leaf until each leaf is on it’s own layer.
Step 6: Hide other layers so you can work one leaf at a time.
When all the layers are hidden except the layer you want to work with you can save the leaf as a PNG Format so that it will be an embellishment and in a format that will save the transparent places. Turn on each leaf you have scanned and save that layer as a separate leaf embellishment.
Now you have a leaf embellishment or two for your digital scrapbooking projects.
Scrap Tip: Change your leaves colors with other Photoshop Elements controls and filters. For example I took the brown leaf and turned it yellow using color variation controls in Photoshop.
I repeated this step several times and got several color variations on the same leaf! Now using just this one leaf I have four different color leaf embellishments to use on my digital scrapbooking page!
Tip 7: Start digital scrapbooking with your leaf embellishments. Take your new leaf embellishments and get some digital scrapbooking papers and supplies and start making a great digital scrapbooking page with your new digital scrapbooking leaf embellishments.
I took the Autumn Days Digital Scrapbooking Kit and used it with my new digital scrapbooking leaves that I just made in Photoshop Elements. (You can get this kit in the Scrap Shop along with other great Fall digital scrapbooking supplies)
With this digital scrapbooking kit, a photo, and the new digital scrapbooking leaves that I just made– I designed a nice Fall digital scrapbooking page.
You can make great digital scrapbooking leaf embellishments too! It is easy and fun – try it!
Happy Scrapping,
Cheri
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