http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress Photoshop Tips, Tricks & Freebies for Digital Scrappers and Web Designers Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tricky Selections It's not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you one very effective way to use the highlights in an image to make a selection in order to alter an image. http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=325 This moves me so much, I have to share it. When we adults think of children there is a simple truth, which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life, childhood is life. A child isn't getting ready to live, a child is living. The child is constastantly confronted with ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=380 I found a Wii Fit in Costco a few weeks ago. They are scarce - I'm looking for another one for my mother. I love it! It's fun and engaging. I hate working out. I need to lose about 60 lbs. If you search my blog, you'll see where I ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=369 Getting organized is important. With digital cameras you can literally have thousands of photos lying around on CDs, memory sticks, in the camera and on various hard drives. Choose your project - what do you want to scrap? Do you want to do a whole year, a set of years ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=378 Summer is a time when family members get together and want to make heritage and anniversary books together. It can be a daunting task to figure out how to do that, especially with miles and miles between each other. I use a great tool called Basecamp with my customers. It ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=377 I found this site tonight, animoto.com. It's fun, it's free, you gotta try it! Here's my first little video. http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=371 I am so excited about all of the fabulous designers who now allow their designs to be used in projects to scrap for others. I have a renewed excitement for the custom side of my business, designing pages for my customers. I am scouring TOU files searching for permission! I'm ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=370 Grunge Borders In this Photoshop tutorial, Geoff will teach you how to create a very easy, but very effective, white grunge border around your photographs. http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=327 Creating A Grid With A Custom Pattern In this video tutorial, Geoff will show you how to create and define a custom pattern in Photoshop and then use that pattern to create a grid background for your Photoshop file. http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=328 Using Clipping Masks You've all seen postcards or advertisements with a picture of something inside a block of bold text. In this tutorial, you'll learn just how easy it can be to achieve this effect http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=329 I have finally put my designs up for sale. I'm slowly getting them uploaded and entered on a new site, Digital Scrap Designs. This site is dedicated to commercial use and S4O/S4H (scrap-for-others and scrap-for-hire) products. You can purchase my designs in the store. I would love to ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=355 I have worked out the printing issues and I'm back in business. I will now be printing on a newer machine and the prints are awesome. They are higher quality, the paper is much nicer for the books. The prices have been adjusted and are effective immediately. Thanks for your ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=349 I haven't posted a freebie in a long time, so here's one for you. We celebrated Vivi's birthday Sunday with a Tea Party at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver. It was fancy, fun and way too expensive. Here's my page, it took way too long to design this ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=346 I have started a conversation with a company who I think is a great fit for Photo Book Memories. They have a plan to launch a new business May 1. I just wanted to give you all a quick update so you aren't hanging in limbo wondering what will happen. ... http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=345 Casting Shadows In this video tutorial, Geoff Riggs will teach you how to create an elongated shadow cast in front of a block of backlit text. http://photobookmemories.com/blog/wordpress/?p=330