When it comes to digital scrapbooking, capturing and preserving our stories is a fundamental part of the process. We want to ensure that the journaling we include in our layouts is legible and easily readable — that’s the whole point, right? However, there are instances where our stories are deeply personal, and while we may want that text to be legible when we print our pages or photo books for our families, the opposite may be true if we post our pages to online galleries or social media. And, if you’re an art journaler, you may be expressing lots of feelings on your page which are not meant for the public to see.
That presents a dilemma because if we leave the journaling off the page, we’ve lost a key element of the page design, right? In this tutorial, I’ll show you my favorite technique for disguising personal journaling on your digital scrapbook layout or art journal page (using Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements®), while still keeping the text as a decorative element. It’s such a simple thing to do, it will leave you wondering why you didn’t think of it before!
Check out my previous blog post for a couple of other ways to add hidden journaling to your digital scrapbook or art journaling page and be sure to subscribe to my newsletter so you don’t miss out on new tutorials, exclusive subscriber coupons, and more!
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Vicki dear, could you please tell me the name of the kit that has the beautiful art journal pages as in your picture above with the beautiful birds and is it found at Oscraps? Thanks for your help, cheers Lucy
Hi Lucy! Yes, those birds are in the Artful Expressions 01 collection, which is here:
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/digital-scrapbook–artful-expressions-01-collection-vicki-robinson.html
I love to journal but struggle with this very thing. Thanks so much for these creative, useful, beautiful tips!
So happy you found the post helpful, Susan!
Thanks so much for these great tips, Vicki. I’m definitely going to use this on a layout! I didn’t know that you could preview that many fonts – great information!
So happy you liked the tutorial!
Great tips on disguising journaling Vicki! Also, thanks for the tips using DaFont!
Hope you find this useful, Jana! Thanks for stopping by!