Creating Digital Photo Effects

The best thing about digital scrapbooking is the amazing effects that can be applied to photographs. The basic things that you can do of course, is remove red eye and adjust the lighting easily using the curves option in Photoshop Elements. But there is so much more…

Let’s start with photo effects. Most programs come with some effects installed, but many more are available for download on various sites. Just do a search for photo effects or filters for your graphics program. Try applying and playing around with some of the basic ones, Paint and watercolor effects, different color effects, or posterizing which gives a cartoony feel.

Hybrid Scrapping Mania!

Not quite ready to give up your paper scrapping completely…maybe doing all digital just isn’t your thing, but you like the freedom some digital allows? Hybrid Scrapping is the new craze and it’s all about mixing traditional and digital scrapbooking. The results can be quite stunning.

What Is Hybrid Scrapbooking?

Any use of a computer for a scrapbooking page or the combination of digital and traditional scrapbooking is considered hybrid scrapbooking. Hybrid scrapbooking has actually been around longer than some people may think.People were printing their journal entries for their scrapbooks long before they were doing
the things they are today. Today scrapbooking is done both digitally as well as traditionally though many people prefer one way to another some have been innovative enough to combine the two.

Digital scrapbooking is done completely on the computer though the pages can be printed out for preservation purposes. There is a variety

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