Build your very first digital scrapbook layout using Adobe Photoshop® or Adobe Elements®.
In this lesson, you'll become familiar with the Photoshop®/Elements® workspace, its basic tools and build your first layout. Our simple first page will introduce us to templates, layering, adding photos, a title, journaling and decorating our page with papers and embellishments.
We'll accomplish the following objectives:
- Tour the PS CC interface and customize the workspace (Photoshop version)
- Tour the PSE interface and customize the workspace (Elements version)
- Download and unzip digital files
- Recognize different file types for digital scrapbooking
- Open, duplicate and save a layered template
- Review the individual components of layered templates
- Add photos and papers to a layout using clipping masks
- Convert a color photo to black and white
- Decorate a layout with fonts and embellishments
- Save the layout and ready for web sharing
Includes:
- Felicity digital papers and elements an exclusive scrapbooking kit by Mye de Leon:
- 15 page PDF handbook with detailed, step-by-step instructions (Photoshop version)
- 14 page PDF handbook with detailed, step-by-step instructions (Elements version)
- Lesson video downloads and streaming links to watch videos online or offline
Important Notes:
- Photoshop version runtime: 64 minutes
- Elements version runtime: 72 minutes
- Recommended Photoshop® software: Adobe Photoshop® CS6 and versions above including CC (Creative Cloud) -- find a seven day trial here
- Recommended Elements® software: Adobe Elements® 2017 and versions above -- find a thirty day trial here