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Clusters vs. Big Pictures

rugbana

rugbana

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Hello Oscraps community! How fun is this forum. I am still trying to get everything figured out and I am still a bit confuzzed on how to get my profile picture to be above my messages. (anyone want to help me out?) I tried my signature but nope that wasn't it. hmmm...

Anyhoo - back to my subject.... I was browsing through the galleries and then I got to looking at my digi pages - and I understand everyone has their own creative jive and that is cool - but I am just feeling a bit lonely - Am I the only one who makes their pictures gi-huge-ic and fill up the page with them? I understand the clustering and I think it can be very cute and if done properly totally accent the picture - but so many times there is all this paper and design and a teeny little picture and you can barely see it. Like I said I think this can work and I don't want no one to think I am squishing their creative flair. I am fairly new to scrapping so I just would love some insight into this whole topic. Am I the only one who feels this way?

Anyhoo, just some thinker thoughts I needed to throw out there....
 
Hi rugbana! Glad you are having fun at the O!

To get your picture up with your username, go to your User CP and Edit your Avatar. That's where to upload your pic. =)

If you want pics that take up whole pages, check out Amanda Taylor (TaylorMade Designs) layouts. She's the queen of blending and uses lots of very large pictures.
 
I am definately a picture person and my layouts have as much to do with the picture as possible. On the other hand I also do lots of clusters and usually have at least 2-3 pictures on my pages. Everyone has their own things to do. I think the biggest reason why there are so many different styles (besides personal taste of course) is the purpose as to why people scrap. Some people scrap simply to make photo albums more enjoyable to look at. Some people like to scrap because it allows them an outlet for their creativity, some people use scrapping to tell a story and others mix these reasons up while even others do it for who knows why else. When we share our layouts, the general feeling is kinda showing off the things you are proud to have created and wanting others to see your pretty pictures.
 
I agree with the other ladies. I do all types of pages - some with huge photos, some with small, and a few with more than one. For me, it's all about what I feel like doing when I see the photo and kit I'm working with.

Another thing is trends. I think that the cluster-type page is very trendy right now - I think it looks cute and compliments the photo - so that is another reason I do that type of page. I prefer to see a little more white space on the page, so I like a cluster. But, again, that's just me.

When I started scrapping (paper scrapping, back in 2005) it was really, really all about 1 larger photo, still a sort of cluster thing, but the photo was much larger. I just got an issue of Creating Keepsakes in the mail and was surprised to see that most of the layouts in the issue were multi-photo!

Personally, I have a hard time making a multi-photo layout look good. But there are a lot of scrappers who can really pull it off!
 
Welcome to OScraps! So glad you have joined us.

I tend to be a one picture per page scrapper. I do like clustering a lot, and I really like a lot of white space too. But at the same time, it is fun to step outside of my comfort zone and try to change it up with multiple photos. I actually need to do more of that. KWIM?

Looking forward to seeing your LO's!
 
I tend to agree with what everyone else said. When I started paper scrapping, it was to document my son's life. I scrapped almost every single photo (goodness knows, I should have been more selective lol) And, I put them all on the page, full size. If I had continued at that rate, the scrapbooks would have forced us out of our house lol I started to notice that some pages, it was hard to see the picture for all the, well, pictures. So, now I *try* to be more selective, but its rare for me to do a page with only 1 picture on it.

Ok, I think I need to take that last statement back lol. I just looked at my gallery and it seems I'm doing exactly that - 1 photo layouts.

I guess it depends on what I'm scrapping and why - if I'm scrapping "events" then you're going to get a ton of pics on a page. If I'm scrapping an emotion, you're going to get one pic.
 
It just totally depends on my mood and my inspiration. I do a lot of scrapping with templates or scraplifting... probably 1/2 of my LOs fall into one of those 2 categories. I'm more likely to have my LOs be 1/3 journaling, 1/3 photos and 1/3 elements, when I do them all on my own... but even that varies.
 
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