How to Digital Scrapbook With Photoshop 7
Many people love to keep their favorite pictures and print mementos in one place by scrapbooking. But in the computer age, we can move beyond the albums and paste, and create a digital scrapbook. Photoshop can help you turn your pictures into a media masterpiece.
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Instructions
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Gather the images such as birthday cards, announcements, and clippings, you want to place in your digital scrapbook. They can be in physical form, or they can be digital photos you have taken with your camera.
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Use the software that came with your scanner, and scan in the physical items your want to use, and then save the iamges to a folder on your computer as JPEGs. Import any digital images to the same folder using a USB cord or an SD card and the software that came with your camera.
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Open Photoshop. Go to "File", and click "New Document." In the dialog box that pops up, name the document "Scrapbook Page 1", and make the size whatever you need for your project. In this example, we will be making a scrapbook to be placed on a series of web pages, so the resolution will be set to 72, and the size will be 600x 400, which will fit on virtually any screen.
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Use the "Fill" tool to fill the background layer with any color or pattern you like. Open each of the images you want to use, and in turn go to "Select All", "Copy", and "Paste" them into "Scrapbook Page 1." Each image you paste in will be on its own layer.
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Go to "Edit", "Transform", and select "Scale." Adjust the size of each image to fit into your overall scheme for the page. Us the "Move" tool to position items in relation to each other. And you are done. Now just create more pages in the same way, and export them out as JPEGs.
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