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Weekend Reviews: Filter Tips for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

Blog Admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:44:00 +0000

It is the weekend again, and time to review some of the best blogs on certain topics!

This weekend we are going to review blogs that focus on Photoshop or Photoshop Elements Filter Tips!

Filters can take your photo editing or digital scrapbooking project to the next level. They are easy to use and work about the same in both Photoshop or Photoshop Elements!

Sometimes it is nice to have all the blogs on a certain topic pulled together in one place so you can more easily get the information that you have been looking for!

Here are some blogs you might want to check out and learn more about Filter tips for Photoshop or Elements to use for digital scrapbooking and photo editing projects:

Article 1: Quick Tip: Filter Tip 1 – Use a Filter on a photo or in a Digital Scrap Project using Photoshop Elements Or Photoshop

Article 2: Quick Tip: Filter Tip 2 – Reapplying a Filter in Photoshop Elements or Photoshop

Article 3: Quick Tip: Filter tip 3 reapplying a Filter with Different Settings in Photoshop or Elements

Article 4: Quick Tip: Filter Tip 4 Fading Filters in Photoshop Elements

Article 5: Quick Tip: Filter Tip 5 Previewing a Filter Effect in Photoshop and Elements

Article 6: Quick Tip: Filter Tip 6 Previewing Multiple Filters at Once in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

Article: 7: Save Your Active Kids’ Blurry Photos By Adding Artistic Filters!

Take some time and check out these Filter articles and see what creative things you can do with digital scrapbooking and photo editing!

Have a very nice day!

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This training, Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements 10 contains 4 downloadable video tutorials, and a Cheat Sheet for helpful tips and quick reference.

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* Duplicate
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* Straighten
* Crop
* Separate
* Fix — (Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fixed some damages!)

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Many scanned photos need to be rotated and straightened after the scanning learn how in this training! Sometime while scanning you pick up parts of extra photos or the album, so crop these unnecessary items out of your photo!

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Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 11: Fill a Selection Fast

Ms. Digi Know — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:10:00 +0000

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to fill a Selection Fast in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

Dear Blog Readers: You have been asking lots of questions this and that, but one of the biggest questions I get is to give you the best or hottest tips for using Photoshop or Elements in digital scrapbooking or photo editing projects!

So here over the next few weeks I will try to give you 50 of my super secret or best tips for using Photoshop Elements or Photoshop in Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing. So by the time you are done with this special blog series you will have many helpful tips to use when you are working in Photoshop Elements!

This time we will start with Tip 11: How to Fill a Selection Fast in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

First, let’s say that you are digitally scrapping, and then you wish you could put some color into an embellishment.

For example, look at the image to the right, see the white embellishment?

Let’s select it an color it quickly!

So we use the marquee tool, to select the white tag embellishment (but we can use any selection tool to make the selection)

Next, select a color in the foreground color chip area, to fill the selection with. See the example below:

Then use these shortcut keys to fill the selection quickly! To fill with the current foreground color, for example, press Alt + Backspace Key (Mac: Option + Delete Key).

Now the white tag embellishment, matches the colors in my digital scrapbooking project! To make my embellishment unselected use these shortcut keys: Ctrl + D for deselect (Mac: Cmd + D)

I can keep going to make this embellishment special, by selecting another area (but not the whole area) of the tag embellishment, selecting another color and using the Fill Selection shortcut keys: Alt + Backspace Key (Mac: Option + Delete Key).

So this example on the right we have made another selection, only just a small selection not the whole tag, like before, and when we pick another color like yellow and then use the shortcut trick, it can add a fun design to our tag in the colors of the scrap project! We can change the selection tool and use the Fill Selection shortcut keys: Alt + Backspace Key (Mac: Option + Delete Key) to add some extra shapes and designs too!

One more trick!

If you happen to have a color you want to use in the background color chip tool area, then you can use that color instead of the foreground color by using this other shortcut keys trick instead!

So now I want to Fill the Selection with the rust color instead of the yellow color.

Now use these shortcut keys to fill with the current background color, press Ctrl-Backspace (Mac: Command-Delete). Now you can get this!

Here is another trick! Make another selection, then to open the Fill Layer dialog and choose additional options, press Shift-Backspace (Mac: Shift-Delete).

Make your selections. In this example I want the selection to fill with a different color than the one in the foreground or background chips, so I select the color controls and make my selections

I picked another color in my digital scrapbooking project!

Now my selection is filled with the brown color. Wow, I have come a long way from having just a white tag embellishment! All by just using these handy shortcut keys!

Now I can just finish off my project by adding some text to my tag embellishment!

And Photoshop Users, all of these shortcuts work in Photoshop too!

Fill a Selection Fast in Photoshop use these shortcut keys: To fill with the current foreground color, for example, press Alt-Backspace (Mac: Option-Delete). To fill with the current background color, press Ctrl-Backspace (Mac: Command-Delete). And to open the Fill Layer dialog and choose additional options, press Shift-Backspace (Mac: Shift-Delete).

Now you have really make some nice changes with these shortcut keys:

Here is the example with the changes made with these shortcut keys, and the original embellishment with no changes and only the text!

You can see how these shortcut key tips can really be used to enhance your digital scrapbooking projects! Note: these tricks and shortcut key tips can also be used in photo editing task as well!

Try today’s tip and see if it adds more enchantment and charm to your projects!

Have a very nice day,

Ms. Digi Knows

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Did you miss a tip? If so check out these articles:

PS. Check back for Tip 10 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients

Tip 8: Helpful Brush-Tool Tricks

Tip 9: How to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

Tip 10: How to change a filter that was repeated in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! Or in other words, reapplying a Filter with Different Settings!

Tip 11: How to Fill a Selection Fast in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

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Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 9: Repeat that Filter!

Ms. Digi Know — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:21:00 +0000

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to repeat a filter in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

This time we will start with Tip 9: how to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

First, let’s talk about using a filter in Digital Scrapbooking before we tell the secret tips!

So, lets say that you are designing a great digital scrapbooking page, and you put an embellishment on your digital scrapbooking page.

You take the time to go through all the settings and apply a filter to one of your embellishments and now your scrap page is almost perfect! (#1)

But to finish the scrap page you want to add one more embellishment (#2) and you want it to have the same filter setting that you applied to the first embellishment.

You could try to go through and go to the menu and then make all the adjustments again, hoping you remembered the exact setting you used the first time!

Or you could just use a handy shortcut key that would apply the same filter with all the same setting to your second image!

You be the judge to which one you would use?…. We think you will like the shortcut key, and it is pretty simple use, and also a huge time saver!

Let’s say that you’ve applied a filter to your image, and you like it so much that you want to reapply it to the same image, or perhaps another image that you have open (#1). (This shortcut method works on digital scrapbooking supplies or photos!)

To use the shortcut keys all you have to do is press Ctrl + F (Mac: Command + F) to reapply the filter with the same exact settings you used before. (#2)

Special note: keep in mind that it always reapplies the last filter you used so if you used another one in between images it’s going to apply that one instead!

When you see how easy this is It will surely become one of your favorite shortcut keys!

Try this fun trick and see how it works on some of your digital scrapbooking or photo editing projects too!

Ps. This shortcut key works the same in Photoshop too! Below we are applying the same filter on different photos in Photoshop! Can do the same thing in Elements too!

As you can see you can also reapply filters to photos as well as digital scrapbooking supplies using the same shortcut key too!

Check back for future Filter Tips!

Do you want to know more tricks and tips about filters? Well then you are in luck! Because our next tip will have another filter tip!

Also, if you need a introduction to filters in general then read this article: Use a Filter on a photo or in a Digital Scrap Project using Photoshop Elements Or Photoshop

Take a moment in your next digital project or digital to try a filter, and try using this shortcut key too – just for the fun of it!

Have a nice day!

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PS. Check back for Tip 10 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients

Tip 8: Helpful Brush-Tool Tricks

Tip 9: How to repeat a filter effect in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

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Fun Halloween Photo Editing Tricks!

Jennifer Barlow — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Halloween is a great time to get photos for digital scrapbooking, here are 3 tips to get better Halloween Photos!

Three Tips For Better Halloween Photos

– By Jennifer Barlow

It won’t be long until Halloween is here, so start getting prepared! If you’re excited to get camera-happy with those adorable little ghouls of yours this Halloween, then try these three digital photography quick-tips for super-spooky pics of your precious trick-or-treaters:

1. Play Before the Full Moon Comes Out. To capture the true, vibrant colors of special costumes and makeup within your Halloween photos, you may want to take pictures of your little trick-or-treaters before it becomes dark outside. Taking photos while the sun’s still up will ensure great photos and will offer additional pictures of your kids in their costumes if your digital camera’s flash or other settings are less than ideal when it becomes dark outside.

2. Take a Random Photo or Set a Funny or Spooky Scene.

If you come across a funny or spooky scene in your Halloween adventures, make sure and get the shot!

Use carved pumpkins, Halloween decorations, and holiday candy as props in the background of your exciting Halloween photos.

Ask your children to pretend as though they were ringing the doorbell at your own doorstep or pose with a favorite black cat for additional “action” trick-or-treating photo shots.

3. Use a Camera with Fast Shutter Option on Your Little Super Heroes. Costumes and candy can make for excited trick-or-treaters and blurry photos.

Lose the blur by either using a faster-shutter digital camera, or setting aside some special time before the holiday activities begin to take photos with a slower-shutter camera.

Remember: With slower shutter cameras, the kids and the photographer need to stay completely still for three seconds after clicking the button.

Use Photo Editing to Enhance your Halloween Photos!

After your have your Halloween Photos then see if you can make then even scarier with Photo Editing tricks!

After Halloween is over, and you are ready to scrap all the Halloween photos, add some “spooky” Halloween effects to favorite photos using Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Photo Editing Tutorials! Convert a favorite photo to black and white and then add a touch of color, for an exciting Halloween photo-effect!

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In this particular tutorial, you’ll learn how to convert a photo into black and white and add back a touch of color! Use this creepy photo editing effect on your Halloween pics giving them a “dark-feel” by converting them to black and white, and then add back some color to make an object in the pic seem to “pop!”

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If there were some scary kids’ costumes, add even more dramatic effects by emphasizing “scary” eyes in the pics!

In this particular tutorial, you’ll learn how to create zombie-looking bags underneath the eyes, for an effect that can only be created by master makeup artists, or by a master at Photoshop Elements! Next, learn how to add an eerie tint over the eyes and even add super-scary effects to pupils in Halloween pics!

Make your scariest trick-or-treater even more intense with eye-tricks that don’t require additional (and expensive) makeup or eye-contacts!

Check out Digital Scrapbooks and More’s special seasonal tutorials for adorable Halloween photos for digital scrapbooking projects or “thank you” cards for all the kids that attended the party!

Save Your Family Halloween Memories

Don’t let your precious family memories fade into a distant past dream.

Get those photos out of your digital camera and onto digital scrapbooking pages so you can share and save your families special times!

Happy Halloween and Happy Scrapping!

Jennifer

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Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also, you can write down your Halloween recipes and make a digital scrapbooking Halloween recipe book too!

This adorable Pumpkin Patch Digital Scrapbooking Kit has the perfect look for all of your Fall or Halloween-festivities. Whether you want a project with images of you and your loved ones at the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins, or just celebrating the fun of Halloween or Fall Activities, this pumpkin filled kit, can helps set the mood!

This beautiful Pumpkin Digital Scrapbooking Kit can create gorgeous pumpkin themed digital projects. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and tags. Perfect Digital Scrapbooking Kit for any true- Halloween and Pumpkin Lover!

With a Pumpkin Fall-inspired Digital Scrapbooking Kit it is easy using a graphics program such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to create a gorgeously Fall or Halloween looking digital projects.

As you digitally scrap all of your Halloween traditions with the kids this year, use the Halloween Digital Embellishment Kit to add extra spooky fun to all your digital scrapbooking projects!

Use this ghoulish digital embellishment set and add adorable Halloween-detail to pages and projects! This kit is filled with Halloween-essentials that can add a little excitement to holiday projects, from scary spiders with sticky webs, to a haunted house filled with spooky ghosts, and even a few holiday pumpkins too!

The Halloween Spider Book Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 with 12×12″ paper is a digital scrapbooking kit that features 8 Halloween Spider-inspired digital papers, and lots of Halloween embellishments! Buy this super-spooky Halloween Spider Book Digi Scrapbooking kit for all your digi Halloween projects! This Kit is filled with digi-spiders and cobwebs, and is a Halloween kit that is great for journaling and scrapping holiday festivities! Paper size is 12×12″ – which is perfect for your large digi scrapbooking needs! Create your own web of digi-masterpieces with a spider-inspired Halloween kit! This kit was made especially for journaling all the excitement of Halloween! It’s filled with tons of places to add spooky stories and creepy captions! Also make a large digital scrapbooking Halloween photo album too!

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It so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky ghost from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Halloween Brush Set. Or choose the a bat, spider, cat or pumpkin!

One of the exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements are to use Custom Brushes! Custom Brushes are basically a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!

Other Halloween Custom Brushes:
The Spooky Halloween Words Brushes for Digital Scrapbooking are a super-fun set of digital brushes, perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Halloween-related themes!

Use these custom brushes to “stamp” Halloween themed words or phrases on your Halloween tags or Digital Scrapbooking pages!

Like the Next Custom Brush Set that we used to “stamp” on a tag

The Halloween Witch Brush Set, is so fun to use a custom brush to stamp a Spooky Witch Hat from the Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Witch Brush Set.

Or choose the Witch’s Broom or Shoes, a creepy tree, or even a Halloween set of a moon with stars!

A custom brush can add detail, personality and little bit of “spice” to your page digital stamp that really stand out.

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Fix Scanned Photos with 6 Easy Steps!

Cheri Barlow — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:50:00 +0000

If you are like me you have a box or two of old photos that you wish were digital.

So one day you get ambitious and pull out one of those boxes stored in the basement, attic or closet and start scanning some of those old photos.

It is so nice to have those precious photographs turned into digital images.

As for me, I just got a mobile scanner and this has made scanning so easy that I am scanning everything all the time.

So, I am not standing by my computer and scanner and putting one image in after another – BORING!

With my mobile scanner I scanning while I am watching TV! I can get a photo album completely scanned while I watch one of my favorite TV shows! This makes it easy! (See info at the end of this article on this type of mobile scanner)

Scanning photos to make them digital photos allow the photos to be enjoyed in many more ways than traditional printed photographs, and when they are turned into a digital photo then it is easy to preserve those memories forever!

Also, with photos in a digital format it is easy to organize them, share them, backup them, retouch them, digitally scrap them, and to reprint them too!

After scanning I want to save and share my old photos with family and I want to digitally scrap some of them to enjoy in new ways too!

However, sometimes after scanning photos and before I share, scrap, or organize my scanned photos I need to fix them up a bit.

Fix those Scanned Photos NOW!

One thing that is good to know about scanned photos is that if you have a graphics program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements it is easy to photo edit and fix my scanned photos before I use them in digital scrapbooking, genealogy, print them, or even before I make a final back-up copy for family.

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need. Here are 6 things you should do to your scanned photos before you start using or sharing them. So, after you scan a photo follow these steps in this order to go from a simple scanned image to a great scanned photo!

Step 1: Duplicate It! After all that scanning don’t ruin your original scanned photo by editing it and losing the original scan, make a duplicate copy to work on!

If you use the copy of the original scan then you can make all the edits you like and if you ever want to go back and start over you have the original!

Also each year the technology to restore photos improves so if you have the original scan you can apply the newest technology at any time to the the original untouched scan! If you are using a graphics program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements then you can manually duplicate the photo or have Photoshop or Elements automatically copy all your scanned photos in a certain folder and then put the new copied ones in another separate folder too!

Step 2: Rotate It! After scanning a photo it may need to be rotated! Often scanned photos are saved in the wrong direction, this is not a big deal just use your graphic program to orientate the photo in the right direction.

Photos need to be rotated before using them in projects like genealogy.

Or rotated photo before you use them in a Digital Scrapbooking page.

Step 3: Straighten it!
Even after rotating a photo it might need to be straighten. Use the special tools in Photoshop or Elements to straighten the image.

Now the photo is straighter! Don’t worry about aligning it perfect in the scanner, just fix that afterward!

Step 4: Crop it!
After rotating and straightening the photo, next you might want to crop it. Sometime while scanning you pick up parts of extra photos or parts of the album, so to improve your scanned photo crop these unnecessary items out!

Now the photo is cropped you can use your precious photo in lots of ways! Digitally scrap it and even back it up and share it with other family members!

Step 5: Separate It! Save time and scan several photos together, now learn a quick way to separate them!

Go from this ….

To this….

When you scan more than one photo, have your graphic program automatically separate them into individual photos! Imagine how much time this will save you!!!

Step 6: Fix it!
The scanned photo needs to be fixed, make basic photo editing fixes like — take out Red Eye, get rid of dust, clean up blemishes, and fix damaged photos!

Why not look have your photos look good when you use them in genealogy projects, digitally scrapbook pages, or when you make backup copies, and add to Facebook, MySpace, Websites, or even just Email them! Make your scanned photos look good with easy and fast fixes that you can do Photoshop or Elements!

Not sure how to do these easy and fast fixes?

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This training, Photo Edit Training for fixing scanned photos using Elements 10 contains 4 downloadable video tutorials, and a Cheat Sheet for helpful tips and quick reference.

Scanned photos have special needs that other digital photos might not need so take this training to learn how to:

Duplicate
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After all that scanning don’t ruin your original photos, make a duplicate copy to work on!

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Or see this article: Get Rid of the Clutter and Scanning Photos and More!

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And because this kit has Quick Pages, almost all the work is done! Just add your photos and some text, it only takes a few seconds scrapping and you are ready!

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Has Something Gone Wrong with Your Photoshop Elements 9?

Cheri Barlow — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:50:00 +0000

One day you were digital scrapbooking, the next your time you opened Elements it is NOT was working correctly!

What do I mean? Well when I am digital scrapbooking I have set the preferences for floating windows. Which should look like this when I am digital scrapbooking.

As a digital scrapbooker this makes sense for me to have my workspace set up like this so I can have a better digital scrapbooking workflow. I have my scrap project on one side and my photos, embellishments, and WordArt on the other side so I can drag them to my digital scrap page

But one day I opened Photoshop Elements 9 and the floating windows were not working correctly, instead of floating so I can arrange them how I like, all the windows were tabbing together.

Each time I opened a new photo, digital embellishment or another digital scrapbooking supply in Photoshop Elements 9, everything combines into one window. Below are the same windows now all tabbed together, almost impossible for a digital scrapbooker to scrap!!

At first I thought something was just wrong with my Photoshop Elements 9, but later I discovered that after Photoshop Elements auto updated to 9.0.3 the new default setting was for my document windows was to open as a tabbed window instead of floating! No matter what I did I couldn’t get back my beloved floating windows whenever I opened a new item into the workspace!

Why?! Didn’t Adobe love digital scrapbookers anymore? Perhaps no-one there does digital scrapbooking? Are they all photo editors at Adobe? Is this why they changed the settings without telling me!!

So, I went online and found many other digital scrapbookers complaining about this too! I wasn’t alone but no-one at Adobe was changing their mind about this.

So if this has happened to your recently, no you are not crazy! Adobe changed the settings, it is not you – it is them!

While the photos can be separated again by window>image>float all in windows to minimize and clean up the workspace, this takes extra steps to undock those tabs now.

This is adding extra steps now, to get my windows apart from each other so I can start digital scrapbooking.

It never fails that just after I get everything separated and arranged to digital scrap that I remember I wanted one more embellishment and when I try to bring it into the workspace – it all snaps into each other and I have to pull out the images and arrange the workspace again!

Very frustrating! I know some people that have left Elements 9 for other software programs, or some that have switched back to Elements 7 that doesn’t have this problem. (Elements 8 has a variation of this problem too so you might have to go to Elements 7 to escape the tabbing windows!)

I can’t believe any digital scrapbooker being happy with this new feature!

So what does Adobe say about this problem?

Official Response from Photoshop Elements that I found:

While the 9.0.3 update is largely about dealing with some existing issues when using Wacom tablets with Photoshop Elements, a number of other small changes were introduced. Based on the feedback of some customers, the default behavior of opening new documents was changed so that they always open as tabbed, even when floating windows are enabled. We are not above reverting to the original behavior. Let us know your preferences on the subject.

It sounds like they want their customers to let them know what they think of this .. so if you can email Adobe and ask them to fix this problem do it! Maybe they will listen to us scrapbookers if we unite and let them know we don’t like this feature.

But, in the meantime what can we do to work around it.. if we can’t completely fix it?

So this is what I did, I finally re-installed Photoshop Elements 9 on one of my computers to get rid of the 9.0.3 update. It was a relief to find that my documents are now opening in floating windows again, and not tabs! Yay! However, now I have to spend time to reinstall all my brushes, effects and styles or any other personalization’s I have already done to my program. Plus make a copy of your organizer files too! I am worried about one day, my computer will update automatically and the pesky update will be back and I will have to re-install and set up all over again!

So after I did this I was too tired to do fix it on my laptop computer too! So I tried experimenting ways of dealing with the tabs. (I will add that this is not a great solution but I can use it till I have time to re-install)

Here is what I am doing on my computer that I didn’t re-install Elements yet. (Before I start I set the preferences to floating windows, then go to the icon below and select Float All in Windows) I do this first before I get started in my scrapbooking project.

Now, I bring 2 digital scrapbooking items into my workspace, and then pull each of them out into floating windows.

Then I click on the embellishment or photo to activate it. Then when I open a new embellishment it tabs into the stack of embellishments. And I can leave my digital scrapbooking project un-tabbed.

This works until I forget to keep clicking on the embellishment tabbed stack before I open anything new. Because the new item now tabs into my digital scrapbooking project, resizing it too! I know it is pain, but I don’t have time to uninstall and reinstall Elements 9 yet.

Now, I can drag the new items from the stack tabbed to my digital scrapbooking project or I can drag it from the project bin to my scrap project. You can double click on the item in the Project Bin to make it come to the top of the stack, so you can drag it over to the scrap project if you want to use the drag and drop method.

I admit this isn’t the best solution, but it does work around the problem.. sort of.

So far these are really the only solutions I have found to work-around Adobe’s update. If you have any others I would love to hear from you!

Now it takes at least 3 times more time to finish a digital scrapbooking project with this update problem. I hope the next update fixes this problem.

Until Adobe fixes Elements 9, don’t get too frustrated!

Happy Scrapping!

Ps. Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 is out now, and it seems like this problem is fixed if you set floating windows in preferences! Yay!!!

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The Lavender Shades Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 1 is filled with gorgeous digital papers in beautiful lavender and lilac colors. Add a bit of feminine to your digital scrap booking projects with the beauty of lavender. Use this kit to add a touch of color and make elegant pages of your favorite photos and memories.

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Photoshop Elements 10 is Released, So Start Digital Scrapbooking Today!

Cheri Barlow — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:59:00 +0000

Have you heard the news? Adobe released Photoshop Elements 10!

So what does this mean to you! Well if you have been digital scrapbooking in Elements 9 then you are in luck most all the basics are the same so no new learning curve- at least on the basics! Hurray! I always hate when software programmers move all the familiar buttons and windows around in upgraded and then you have to learn the whole thing over again. This always seems like a waste of time. So great news, if you have learned Photoshop Elements for digital scrapbooking or photo editing basics then you should feel comfortable on the first day of using Elements 10!

So even thought Photoshop Elements 10 is Released (you can buy a copy at Adobe.com), so you can start Digital Scrapbooking Today!

If you know Elements 9 and where the basic tools are, then this leaves all the time learning about Elements 10 to learning all about the new things that Adobe added to the upgrade!

Here are some of the new things that you will probably want to learn about after you have the basics down or for advanced Elements users.

New in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

Paint Effects Onto Specific Photo Areas
Simply paint on 1 of 100 effects and patterns, including 30 new options, to enhance areas of your photos.

New effects include Snow, Pencil Sketch, Old Photo and Oil Pastel.

More Smart Brush Settings: The Smart Brush makes it easy to paint on effects and patterns to certain areas of your photos with simple brush strokes.

Easily Create Stunning Photo Effects
Use new Guided Edits for step-by-step assistance when you want to highlight your subject by simulating depth of field, add a diffuse glow to create a dreamlike Orton Effect, or break a photo up into a fun collage of snapshots.

Upload to YouTube
Now you can quickly import and share your video clips to YouTube, directly from the Organizer.

Add Curving, Flowing Text
Give photos or creations added flair with text that curves or flows any way you wish. See how it bends around my photo frame?!

Tag Faster Using Your Facebook Friends List
Use your Facebook Friends list to quickly tag faces in your photos and easily share them on Facebook.

Find Photos That Contain Specific Objects
Want to find shots that include your surfboard, your grandma’s house, or the Eiffel Tower? Let Object Search automatically find your photos based on what’s in them.

Get Better Composition With Crop Guides
Make any photo more interesting or energetic using new crop guides.

Choose either the Rule of Thirds or Golden Ratio option to create the best composition for your photo.

Easily Manage Even the Biggest Photo Library
Let Photoshop Elements automatically detect duplicate or near duplicate photos so you can quickly group them or delete the ones you don’t need. And count on improved search to find photos that have common content and color characteristics.

Get Fresh Looks With New Templates
Impress friends and family by sharing photos in eye-catching new templates for printed photo creations and Online Albums.

Save Photo Creations With Greater Flexibility
Enjoy the flexibility to print, upload, and share your photo creations just about anywhere thanks to the ability to save to JPEG and PDF file formats.

So all these features you probably probably tempted in going from Elements 9 to Elements 10.

And if you have never used Photoshop Elements, then for sure you would want to buy the latest version of Photoshop Elements.

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FREE: Binder Inserts and Bookmark
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Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 8: Helpful Brush-Tool Tricks

Ms. Digi Know — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:14:00 +0000

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to quickly Scroll Through Gradients in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

This time we will start with Tip 8: Helpful Brush Tool Tips in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

First, let’s talk about brush-based tools before we tell the secret tips.

Several of the tools in Photoshop or Elements use brush like tool, like the brush, pencil, eraser and more. The tips we going tell you work with more than just the official BRUSH TOOL, these tools we will call the brush-based tools.

For example, what if you where digitally scrapbooking and you decided want to save some time when using a brush-based tool, then try these 3 handy shortcuts!

3 Helpful Brush Base-Tool Tricks

Shortcut1: Change Paint Colors. Usually to get the eye dropper to change a color would be a multiple step process, go to the color picker, then the color picker menu pops up, then get eye dropper and select color – wow I am tired just thinking about this!!! How about streamlining this and changing the color quicker? Here is how…

Want to quickly pick up a new color when working with any of the painting or drawing tools? Simply hold down the Alt key (Mac: Option key) and the eyedropper icon will appear as your cursor. Now just click on an area that contains the color you want to use and release the Alt/Option key. This will set the selected color as your foreground color.

Remember Photoshop works the same way!

Shortcut 2: Switch Brushes.
Usually to switch brushes, you would select the brush tool then go to the option bar, get the drop down menu and select the set of brushes you would like to use. Next, we scroll down to this brush set and select the set of brushes.

In this case we have a custom brush set loaded in the brush picker menu.

Take a look at the these brushes in this set – see the image to the right ~ ( Back-to-School Brushes for Digital Scrapbooking ).

This set of brushes are images that you use to “stamp” on your digital scrapbooking project. Some brushes you paint with but these brushes you use as a “stamp” or using the eraser tool these brushes can act as punch to cut a shape out.

Next you would usually select the brush you wanted to use, if you change your mind just repeat the process and select another brush!See an example in the image below.

Now you can use the brush – wow, that was a lot of work!
Not really, but we can make it simpler –keep reading!

Here is the tip: To switch brushes without jumping to the top of the option bar, just right-click anywhere in the document. The Brush Picker menu will appear right where you right-clicked and you can pick a new brush without leaving the area you are working on!

Here we pick another brush and then use it on your digital scrapbooking project.

Other tools that are brush based can use this trick like the Easer Tool. In this example the Easer Tool when we select a brush and “Stamp on it” it cuts through the layer we are on, in this example you can see the items below the area that is cut out when we use this trick!

Special Note: However, the only brush-based tool this doesn’t work with is the Color Replacement tool.

Again, Photoshop works the same way on this brush tip!

Shortcut 3: Set Brush Size and Hardness.

If you have taken the Getting Started Series in Digital Scrapbooking for Elements or Photoshop then you probably know you can increase or decrease the size of your brush by using these shortcut keys.

Just pressing the right bracket ( ] ) key increases the size of the brush and left bracket ( [ ) key decreases the size of the brush.

This is a nice tip to know and use in either Elements or Photoshop!

But did you know you can also change the hardness of your current brush (we are using a round brush to illustrate this), we can change the hardness or softness of the brush without changing the brushes size too!

In the example above (1) is the original brush we picked a hard brush to show how this works. Next, we pressed the Shift and [ key (left bracket) on the computer keyboard to decrease the hardness of
the brush. Click the bracket key several times to make it even softer. You can see in example (2) the brush becomes softer.

Then just press Shift plus the ] (right bracket) to increase the hardness of the current brush without increasing the size – see (3) we clicked the bracket key several times and made it go back to the the original hardness!

These tips will help you really get around using tools that use the brush. Then you can streamline your digital scrapbooking projects!

Till the next blog … lots love and hugs,

Ms Digi Know

Custom Brushes have lots of exciting functions for the digital scrapbookers so check out the training in Custom Brushes for Photoshop Elements, or Photoshop and get more out of your custom brushes!

Also, if you need to buy brushes for “stamping” then please check out the Scrap Shop for Custom Brushes!

PS. Check back for Tip 9 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients

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Another good tip from Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Ms. Digi Know:

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The Back-to-School Brushes for Digital Scrapbooking are a super-fun set of digital brushes, perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to the start of a brand new school year, special classes or favorite school subjects, getting ready for school, and other school-related themes. Use special photos of back-to-school shopping, your child walking towards the bus on their first day of school, or your favorite classroom photos and combine them with school-inspired custom brushes to create fun, back-to-school digital scrapbooking projects!

Custom Brushes are just one of the many exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Custom Brushes can be used as a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Pages, for a more traditional scrapbook look! Not only can you use Brushes like you would with a stamp, but you can also use a Custom Brush for “cutting” or “punching” out the shapes too!

Another exciting thing to do with digital scrapbooking custom brushes is to colorize them and convert them into personalized Digital Scrapbooking Embellishments! First stamp them on your project, then take different colors and colorize them! Once you have adjusted the colors in areas of the brush, then you can use it as digital scrapbooking embellishment on digital scrapbooking projects! If you want to know how to do some of these special digital scrapbooking techniques with custom brushes, then take the basic brush training for either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to learn how!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 2 (12×12″ papers) is a lovely kit that is dedicated to Apples! Use for those apple picking adventures, or apple pie baking recipe scrapbooks! Use this kit for Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap pages! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with 2 Digital Recipe Cards Embellishment for using to scrap all of those yummy recipes using apples!

Gather your fall photos you and use with this extra fun apple-themed digital scrap kit! First add photos of picking apples in the apple orchard, then eating them out in the farmers field, not to mention scrapping all the baking activities too using the included recipe cards in this kit!

The Apple Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 (12×12″ digital paper) is a great kit that is perfect for Digital Scrapbooking Pages dedicated to Apple picking adventures, apple pie baking, Fall adventures, and even Back to School themed scrap projects! Start thinking today about all the photos you could get in with apples as the theme! First, picking apples in the apple orchard, not to mention all the baking activities too! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several apple-themed digital embellishments! Also, this kit comes with a Digital Recipe Card Embellishment for recipes using apples!

Use this kit for school themed scrapbooking projects too! With these apple supplies start scrapping the school year, or special classes, or favorite school subjects, great teachers, and other school-related themes that could use an apple!

Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients

Ms. Digi Know — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:32:00 +0000

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to quickly Scroll Through Gradients in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

This time we will start with Tip 7: Scroll Through Gradients in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

First, let’s talk about the default settings then talk about how to change that. For example, what if you where digitally scrapbooking and you decided to use a gradient to change your digital scrapbooking paper you would click on the Gradient tool (G).

Then you would go to the top Option Bar and to the Gradient Picker and select a gradient from the drop down menu.

Now when you are new to gradients you might want to look at all your choices and select one. Like the Transparent Rainbow Gradient.

This works the same way in Photoshop too!

However, once you have used a few gradients it is nice to quickly get to the gradient you would like to using quicker shortcut keys.

So here is how to Scroll Through Gradients with Key Board Shortcuts:

Here how you do it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop ……

After clicking on the Gradient tool (Shortcut Key G), you can scroll through the gradients in the Gradient picker without opening it and selecting one.

Just press > Key (greater than symbol) on your computer keyboard to go to the next gradient.

Keep clicking on the > Key to advance through the gradients

Go from this to this

Now you can also go back to earlier gradients by clicking on the < Key(less than symbol) to switch to the previous gradient.

This is how you can move back and forth through the gradients and more quickly so you can spend more time scrapping and less time with Elements or Photoshop.

So in our digital scrapbooking project we used the shortcut keys to select Transparent Rainbow Gradient, then set the Opacity to 40% and selected the area to apply the gradient.

Now my digital scrapbooking paper has a different look and I used a shortcut key to select the gradient I would use. This saves time and helps me scrap faster. Now I can finish scrapping my digital project.

Now remember even though we have illustrated this with Photoshop Elements, Photoshop works the same way!

Special Note: now here is an extra tip ~ If you want to go beginning of the gradient list then Press Shift-< to move to the first gradient in the Gradient picker or Shift-> to go to the last gradient.

Hope this tip helps you to quickly scroll through gradients to help you streamline your work for Digital Scrapbooking Pages or Photo editing too!

Till the next blog … lots love and hugs,

Ms Digi Know

PS. Check back for Tip 8 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

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Another good tip from Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Ms. Digi Know:

Get FREE Digital Scrapbooking Supplies:

Start Scrapbooking today with FREE Digital Scrapbooking Supplies!

Also buy training to start learning Digital Scrapbooking too!

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Add gorgeous feminine detail and add notes of calming detail to your favorite digital memories with the Lavender Shades Digital Scrapbook Papers Kit 2 (8.5×11″ or 11×8.5″). Lavender is most commonly used for its calming effects, so use this beautiful, lavender-filled digital kit to complete a “serene-feel” to special girly memories. A great kit to pair with tea party photos or recipes, the combination of lace and lavender makes for a perfectly pretty scrapbooking project! Use these soft colored papers and the FREE embellishments to scrap a birthday or love card for someone! Also, scrap digital scrapbooking pages, and make other items from your scrap pages, like albums, aprons, posters, and lots more with this Digital Paper kit!

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Ms Digi Know’s 50 Great Tips for Elements and Photoshop! Tip 6: Rid Your Border or Stroke of Rounded Corners

Ms. Digi Know — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:02:00 +0000

Readers Ask Ms. Digi Know Questions about Digital Scrapbooking, Photo Editing, Photoshop, Elements and MORE!

Ms. Digi Know will attempt to give you a great tip for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, one tip at a time till she reaches 50 tips!

Today’s tip will cover how to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop! In both programs they work almost the same, but we will list the differences below.

This time we will start with TIP 6: Get Rid of Your Stroke (Border) with Rounded Corners in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop

Remember when photos were developed and printed with a white bordered trim around the edges?

Whether or not you do, we now have the luxury of going back in time and recreating those cool, old fashion-looking photographs!

It is easy to add a border around your photos in either Photoshop or Elements. However, the border (or stroke) often has rounded corners instead of the nice square corners.

First, let’s talk about the default settings then talk about how to change that. For example, what if you where digitally scrapbooking and you loaded a photo into Photoshop Elements and added a border around the photo to give it that retro look. So you have probably done this by using a Stroke layer style (Layer>LayerStyle>Style Settings).

NEXT, you select the options for the border (Stroke) you want around the photo.

However, doing this results in a border (Stroke) that has a rounded edge. The outline or border becomes rounded as you enlarge it—not usually what we wanted when we add a stroke to the photo in the digital scrapbooking project.

So how about getting rid of the border or (Stroke) Rounded Corners?

Here’s how you do that in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop….

Instead of using a layer style, arrange the Digital Photo on your digital scrapbooking paper. Then, click on the thumbnail of the layer you want to put the border (stroke) around.

Photoshop Elements Users: Go to: Edit > Stroke (Outline) Selection

Photoshop Users: Go to: Edit > Stroke

When the dialog opens, change your Stroke Width to something
larger, and then set the Location to Inside.

Click OK when you’re done and your results will look a lot cleaner!

That’s the trick to keeping the corners of the stroke (border) sharp and square instead of rounded!

This tip works in both Photoshop Elements and Photoshop too!

See how it looks in Photoshop!

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If you would like more info on doing this then see this article: How To Add a White Trim Border on a Photo! It give some extra details on how to do this.

If you have been working with an image, or a scrapbooking page that needs a border (stroke) around it then try this trick to to keeping the corners of the stroke sharp and square instead of rounded!

Hope this tip helps you streamline your work for Digital Scrapbooking Pages or Photo editing too!

Till the next blog … lots love and hugs,

Ms Digi Know

PS. Check back for Tip 7 of 50 good tips coming soon to this blog!

See the tips we have already covered:

TIP 1: Move Layers Without the Mouse

TIP 2: Make White Text Easier to See

TIP 3: How to stop those annoying tabbed windows in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

TIP 4: How to reset your filter instead of canceling it in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

Tip 5: How to quickly rotate images in Photoshop Elements and Photoshop!

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Another good tip from Digital Scrapbooks and More’s Ms. Digi Know:

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The World Travel Journaling Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is the ultimate traveler’s digital scrapbooking kit, because it is filled with travel pages, and lots of journaling designs and embellishments! This kit is designed with space specifically for special journal-entries! You can preserve travel memories whether you have gone across the globe or visited a location only a few miles away. Add travel and vacation photos to this super-cute travel kit and you can preserve special memories of your fabulous adventures! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several travel and journaling themed digital embellishments! The Digital Scrap Kit includes 9 different digital 12×12″ papers created at 300 dpi, nice for those large scrapbooking projects or and for making traditional scrapbooking albums,! Also included are lots of great embellishments and even 2 WordArt embellishments!

The World Traveler Journaling Digital Scrap Papers Kit 1 is a digital scrapbooking kit full great textured and colored digital papers for travel and journaling scrapbooking projects! It’s time to scrap those vacation days or traveling events! The digital Papers in this kit are about 12×12″ size which are perfect for the large traditional scrapbooking sized pages and projects. Mix and match these papers to create for a layered look, and included bonus embellishments for the perfect scrapbooking page!

The World Traveler Journaling Digital Scrap Papers Kit 2 is a digital scrapbooking kit full great digital papers for Travel, Vacation, or Journaling scrapbooking projects! Create Journaling Pages with this Digital Scrapbooking Kit and start creating your very own digital travel diary! This kit is also designed so that you can have the two digital scrap pages face each other for a more continuous feel, if you are going to turn the digital scrapbooking pages into an album or book this really looks great! 2 of the digital Papers in this kit are made to look like have a binding so you can scrap a book, album or journal! Comes with FREE Bonus Embellishments too! 7 Digital Embellishments and 1 WordArt are included in this Paper Kit!

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The World Traveler Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 is the ultimate traveler’s digital scrapbooking kit! Filled with a camera, a world globe, tickets, passports, luggage, and so much more. You can preserve travel memories whether you have gone across the globe or visited a location only a few miles away. Add travel and vacation photos to this super-cute travel kit and you can preserve special memories of your fabulous adventures! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers and several travel-themed digital embellishments!

This one-of-a-kind digital scrap kit has an “old-world- feel,” with vintage suitcases and old-fashion cameras… adding unique design to your vacation scrapbooking pages or albums. The World Traveler Digital Scrapbooking Kit 1 also has an “Indiana Jones” vibe about it, making it a perfect kit to get you excited for scrapping your favorite adventures near and far!

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This kit is filled with pages that have travel accessories like cameras, a world globe, tickets, passports, luggage, and so much more. You can preserve travel memories whether you have gone across the globe or visited a location only a few miles away. Add travel and vacation photos to this super-cute travel kit and you can preserve special memories of your fabulous adventures! This kit comes with 12×12″ digital papers size Quick Pages that are travel-themed all in a travel theme!

The World Traveler Digital Scrapbooking Quick Page Kit 2 is a great traveler’s digital scrapbooking Quick Page Kit! This kit is filled with Quick Pages that are designed with travel accessories like cameras, a world globe, tickets, passports, luggage, and so much more! And because this kit has Quick Pages, almost all the work is done! Just add your photos and some text, it only takes a few seconds scrapping and you are ready! These Quick Pages (11×8.5 size paper) are great for home printing projects, or to turn into a digital album to email to family and friends, or to use in calendar projects.

Digital Quick Pages are perfect for sliding digital photos underneath the pre-made layouts. It only makes sense to choose a Quick Page kit that lets you spend most of your time on adventures!

Also, if you want to learn more about Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing please check out our Scrap Shop for great video tutorials and wonderful digital scrapbooking supplies!