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First Day
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First Day

**NEW** Deciduous MiniPalette, **coming soon to celebrate iDSD**
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also
DeFacto Word Art No 1 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/De-Facto-WordART-Mix-No.-1.html
Spatters No 10 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Splatters-No.-10.html

Photoshop Elements 14

This layout was dictated by the backpack, which I wanted to keep out of the trim area of my grandson's scrapbook. When the photo was sized the way I liked, that backpack nudged my grandson almost to the center of the page. This made working in the second photo a bit of a challenge, and, additionally, I was left with a lot of brick wall on the right behind the backpack. I wound up clipping the second photo to a transfer and scaled it up so the images didn't look like two heads floating on the page, then added even more emphasis with the twig frame element. I filled up the brick wall with several repetitions of the leaf transfer in the minipalette, even sliding a leaf under my grandson's foot. Working in the red of the backback became easier after I applied a dusky hue/saturation layer to mute its color, and for further color unity, I repeated the orange in the facemask in the spatters. After flattening all the layers, I finished up with an orange gradient at 20% to warm up the bottom of the page.
Love reading your thought process. Great results for this cutie at an important milestone. Love the mask.
 
a beautiful page with this adorable little boy! I love working on the background with his autumn leaves
 
Look at that beautiful little boy and his adorable backpack! I just love the leafy background and the leaf under his foot! (not sure how you got this to look so realistic :)) The branch around the second photo is perfect! Love your design thoughts!
 
This is just soooo adorable! Your grandson is a real cutie, and I loved reading your process and working through the challenges of the photos.
 
Adorable! Love the mask and blending! Life is so different now. Bet you miss him.
 

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