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Tip: Installing styles in Photoshop Elements

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

In Photoshop you can simply drag styles into the workspace and then they are installed. But in Photoshop Elements, you have to do it in a different way. It’s not difficult, just follow the steps below. As a sample I am using a glitter style by Laitha. She has many style sets in her shop. Some…

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Oscraps Weekend get-O-way Blog Hop

DianeSpecial Events

Welcome to the Oscraps Weekend get-O-way Blog Hop! Visit all our participating designers and collect pieces to the beautiful Because I’m Me collab: We’ll get this party started with the first piece from Vicki Stegall: Here are links to the rest of the designers: LJS Digital Designs Crafty Button Design Tracy Martin Designs Val C…

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Tip: Installing and using actions

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

One thing I really like in Photoshop is the fact you can install actions. Actions are fun tools for playing with your photos. There are many different actions available and to show how to install and use them, I grabbed a fun freebie from the Oscraps shop: Color Cast Photoshop Action by Taylormade Designs. To…

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Welcome Guest Designer – Vicki Robinson

scriblerDesigner News

We’re excited to be welcoming Vicki Robinson to OScraps as a guest designer.  To help welcome Vicki, let’s get to know her a little better. What famous location would you like to visit? The Tower of London. I know that it sounds odd, but I am fascinated by female monarchs and many of the British…

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Tip: Warping shadows in Photoshop CS

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

One thing I really love about Photoshop CS is the possibility to warp things. It’s a function I really miss in Photoshop Elements. For the ones of you who are working with CS I want to show how you can warp a shadow. I will show it on a smaller piece of paper behind my…

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Tip: how to change the size of a selection

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

I love to play with a stroke around things, but sometimes you need it in another size than the standard selection. I will show you in combination with a frame on my layout that was the basic for my selection. I always create a stroke on a new layer, so first thing I do is…

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Tip: Using a filter to create a drawing

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

I love to play with different blending modes and filters and I want to show you how you can achieve something like a drawing with these techniques. I started with creating a layout with the fun kit Kickn’t It Socker Style by one of our guest designers, Clever Monkey Graphics: I already loved it this…

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Tip: Creating a new blank canvas to work on

Scrappie IreneTips & Techniques

For the starters in digital scrapbooking it can be difficult to find out how to start a blank canvas to work on. To be honest, when I started with digital scrapbooking I often worked on a paper and I sometimes forgot to rename it when I was saving my layout. Oops, I overwrote my paper!…

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