Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials
Learn the Techniques, Make the Pages
These tutorials are designed to help you create beautiful, meaningful pages with confidence — not perfection. You’ll find easy-to-follow techniques for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, from photo editing and masks to journaling, creative effects, and getting more out of the supplies you already own.
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Creative Techniques & Effects
Once the basics feel natural, these techniques add personality to a page — interlocking frames, torn edges, out-of-bounds effects, and more. Each one is a building block you can mix into any layout, with any kit.
An Easy Way to Create Digital Notebook Papers
Create custom digital notebook papers the easy way using layered templates in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Watch the tutorial or use ready-made notebook papers.
The Interlocking Frames Effect Creates a Wow Page
Learn how to create the Interlocking Frames Effect in Photoshop Elements for digital scrapbooking. Step-by-step tutorial with tips to highlight your photos and make layouts pop.
Cut Out Effect for Digital Scrapbooking
A cut out effect is easy! Learn how to create it using circle shapes and clipping masks in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements — step-by-step with video.
How to Disguise Digital Scrapbook Journaling
Learn how to discreetly disguise personal journaling on your digital scrapbook layout or art journaling page.
Editing Your Photos
A photo rarely goes straight from camera to page without a little help. These tutorials cover the editing techniques that get it ready — repairing, recoloring, and the clipping mask technique that shapes any photo to fit any frame.
Using Photo Masks in Photoshop + Photoshop Elements
Using photo mask sis an easy and creative way to change the look of photo!
Selectively Coloring Black + White Photos to Add Interest and Focus
Selectively Coloring Black + White Photos ga give o otherwise uninteresting photos can gain new life.
Selective Recoloring
There are lots of ways to to selectively recolor parts of a PNG element. In this video I’ll show you two of my favorites.
Using Spot Healing + Content Aware Fill
Two easy ways to make corrections to your photographs for use on your digital pages.
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Photoshop & Elements Basics
These aren’t scrapbooking techniques so much as software fluency — the workspace settings, brush installs, and file conversions that make Photoshop and Elements work the way you do. Once these feel natural, everything else gets easier.
Installing Layer Styles
Layer Styles are used to add fun or interesting effects to elements on your page. Installing Layer Styles into Photoshop Elements is easy
PSE Power Tip: Bypass PSE 2020 Home Screen
Learn How to bypass that annoying PS Home Screen and go directly to the Editor or the Organizer
Loading Brushes into Photoshop Elements
Load Brushes into Photoshop Elements temporarily, or install them for access whenever you need them.
Customizing the Photoshop Elements Workspace
How to customize the PSE workspace to better suit your personal preferences
Miscellaneous & Extras
Not every useful tip fits neatly into a category. Here are a few handy odds and ends — organization tricks, workflow shortcuts, and other extras worth knowing.
Two Simple Methods To Change Mac Finder Icons For Digital Scrapbooking
Customize your Mac’s Finder folders to help organize your digital scrapbooking stash!
Step-by-Step Instructions for Customizing YouTube Captions
It’s easy to turn on captions for YouTube videos and just as easy to have those captions translate
Facebook Custom Friends Lists
Vicki Robinson Designs shows you how to create custom lists of friends and pages within Facebook, so you can quickly the posts you care about
Cutting Planner Sheets with a Silhouette
Are you considering jumping on the planner train? It’s being talked about everywhere! Since I’m a digi girl and keep my schedule, tasks, lists, design ideas, etc. on my believed i-devices, I’m still on the fence … although I did buy an Avery mini-binder to play with … so I’ll see where that takes me.
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Ideas, gentle prompts, and new tutorials — sent to you a few times a month. No pressure, no perfection required.