The last few blogs we have been talking about “Making your Yard a Photo Opportunity by Planting Flowers” and “4 Tips for Better Flower Photography.” Now we want to explore taking those flower photos and turning them into digital scrapbooking supplies!
See the article below for info on how to do this!
3 Photography Tips to Convert Flower Pics into Digital Scrapbooking Supplies!
(originally posted 8/14/09 by Cheri Barlow)
Everyone enjoys a beautiful flower, but digital scrapbookers see much more than just a pretty face! 
To an advanced digital scrapbookers, flower photos can be converted into digital embellishments or included in personalized design on digital scrapbooking paper!
But, first things first, of course: before you can begin playing with beautiful “home-made” digital supplies, you must first start with an incredible flower photo!
Here are three photography tips to help you capture great flower photos for your digital scrapbooking projects!
Tip 1: Get Close. In the flower photo example to the left, you can see that this shot was taken from a distance. Because of this, the flower’s details are hard to see.
So, to improve this shot, you would need to physically move closer to the flower. Step into the plant if you have to. Also, focus your lens in closer too!
It’s harder to create pretty flower supplies if you use a shot that has little close-up detail.
Tip 2: Shoot the Whole Thing! If you read any photography book, it will tell you it is good to zoom in and cut off portions of the object, like the first image at the top of this blog…. It is artistic! It is dramatic!
But if you plan to use your flower photo to make a digital scrapbooking embellishments, then missing certain parts of the flower can look like a mistake. You probably want to have the whole flower to work with and not just part of it! So, there is of course a balance: don’t get too close to the flower that you can’t capture the entire flower, but get close enough that you can capture important flower-detail.
Taking photos of flowers this way probably won’t win you any photography awards, but it will make better photos to use when making digital scrapbooking supplies!
You will need to keep several tips in your head while photographing flowers to make into digital scrapbooking supplies!
Tip 3: Get Contrast! The more the background contrasts with your flower, the easier it will be to convert your flower into a digital supply. Look for natural contrasting backgrounds- the green leafs or the blue sky- anything that will make it easier to separate the colors in your graphic program (like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements).
If you need to bend the flowers in to the greenery … do that if it provides a contrast!
Once you start taking the background away in your graphic program, you will soon know which backgrounds and situations are the best when you take future photos. You will develop an eye that will help you set up the photo so the backgrounds can easily be remove in Photoshop or Elements later when you edit your photos.
These are just a few helpful tips for taking good flower photos that you can use to turn them into digital scrapbooking supplies!
Once you have your perfect flower photo, then you can put it into Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, take out the background, and start changing your flower into an embellishment or digital scrapbooking paper.
Next, you can add your flower digital scrapbooking supply to your digital scrapbooking page as the final touch!
After you have made a few flower embellishments or flower digital scrapbooking papers from your flower photos, then you will always look for more flower photo ops!
Good luck in your flower photography adventures!
Cheri
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If you are interested in the digital scrapbooking kit that was used with our homemade flower embellishment then check out this kit at our Scrap Shop!
The Gardening 2 Digital Scrapbooking Kit is an adorable, country-style garden-themed kit, great for digitally scrapping another one of your favorite hobbies … gardening!
Use this fun, earth-tone kit to scrap your favorite photos of the kids planting flowers or your favorite fruit and veggies growing in your garden! This kit comes with 11×8.5″ digital papers and several digital embellishments!
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See these other Kits to use with your Flower Garden Scrapbooking Projects:
The Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″) is a gorgeous kit filled with flowers!The kit has pretty pastel papers that are decorated with colorful flowers. Use the Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit to create unforgettable Digital Scrapbooking Projects of an afternoon in your flower garden, a beautiful walk at the park, or for other special life moments! The large 12×12″ size is great for any traditional size digital scrapbooking project.
The Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″) is a gorgeous kit filled with lots of blooming flowers! Don’t wait to start scrapping your flower garden and writing notes about it too! The Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 is filled with soft-colored green, yellow, and 
pink backgrounds and sprinkled with beautiful roses, lilies, and more! Write notes and save special memories using the seriously pretty Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2; a kit sprinkled with beautiful blooming flowers and includes flower-designed notepad digi-paper to write down all your special memories!
Use the Flower Garden Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 to create unforgettable Digital Scrapbooking Projects of an afternoon in your flower garden, a beautiful walk at the park, or for other special life moments that could use some pretty pastel papers and flowers: a new baby, a new romance, spring and summer-fun, or the “Big Day.” However you decide to use this pretty little digi-kit; it’s always nice to remember special moments with a stunning Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Include text and add special memories using the digi notepad paper and pen embellishment!
Also if you need Digital Scrapbook Training please see our many wonderful tutorials in our Scrap Shop too!
