Digital Scrapbooking and Graphic Tutorial Links

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Just followed this neat tutorial on making a sketch, gee it was fun and Logan loved it, Caleb's here helping him colour in the family sketches.
This was a really quick page cos I just had to show you the tutorial link and how well it works. It really is 3 easy steps
http://fototiller.com/blog/2006/06/26/coloring-pages-from-your-photos-3-easy-photoshop-steps/

If your a PSP user I have done this in PSP before and heres a quick tutorial link for that.
Turning Photos into sketches in PSP
http://psp7tutorials.homestead.com/PencilSketch.html

A close up of my PSP sketch

I decided it was time to start and in time finish Rohan's book, I'm giving www.blurb.com a go for publishing the book as they are widely used by alot of proffessional photographers and smaller book publishers, very reasonably priced to. I hope you enjoy following along with the process of my making this .


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At first I thought I'm going to do all four of my boys at once but have since decided that it would be good for me to do one at a time and set myself smaller more achievable goals as that method helps me to overcome procrastination
This is a small preview of the dust jacket for my book of Rohan, yes blurb have dust jackets on the hardcover books- woohoo!
Well I better get back to filling up my pages and going through my large collection of photos to try and work out which ones I must have in his book, no easy task I must say.

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Rohan on an extracted swing hanging from pinned wool, back cover of book

I had a great deal of fun making this layout, I've been wanting to make a hanging swing using some kind of string for ages, so I thought it might be really nice on the back cover of Rohans book, that I'm making him.
Oh and of course I just had to try that photo extraction method I saw on a tutorial site, I might have to go and hunt down that link, it was a while ago now. Deb Mommens inspired the faded image in the background , because her pages always look wonderful using that technique

Photo popping out or photo frame tutorial links or out of bounds tutorials:

http://www.acherryontop.com/article?a=1178

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalscrapbooking/ss/extractions.htm

All these next links are care of Kori Dorn and her research:

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161043

For more on the shadows of OOB:
http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161135

Also highly recommended:

http://www.freakingnews.com/hosted/tutorials/OOB_Tutorial_Serrator.pdf and it's companion on frames:
http://www.freakingnews.com/hosted/tutorials/OOB_Tutorial_Frame_Warping_Serrator.pdf

A few more:

http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/184/en/

http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com/wordpress/?p=975

http://www.empiredezign.com/version2/portfolio/pages/tutorials/3dphoto.htm
( I love this it has a whale jumping out of the photo frame! a must see!)

For ideas on your own (or just to oh and ah at what other's have come up with)
http://www.worth1000.com/galleries.asp?rel=Out+of+Bounds&display=photoshop&id=14161
http://www.freakingnews.com/Out-Of-Bounds-Pictures--1395-0.asp
thank-you Kori, all these techniques really helped me to do what i wanted to do with my book cover

I have been making some Folded card books out of my scrapbooking papers and having a really enjoyable time doing so. After I saw a complex tutorial on how to make folded books, I couldn't work it out so I went in search of help from my crafty friends(thank-you April xo My Hubby ended up helping me as well to finess the folding too. I hope this inspires you to give them a try, they are alot of fun to make! I used my blushbutter printed scrapbooking paper from the Fairy things and Butterfly Wings kit and the card from the Printable Fae's cut n prints.
I think my scrap paper is just a little too thick but gee it feels nice and it looks really pretty when you open up the folds. I recycled an old gift card and covered it with my faes so the cover would be thicker to hold the little book. I then punched holes in it and tied ribbons for it to close.

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thank-you for looking

I've also included links to the popular programs I use and the video tutorial links found at lynda.com on the digi forum, you can view these free tutorials and please comment on the forum as to your experience with using these tutorials for your program wants and needs. I believe by turning around to help the people behind us can we only move forward. Also I've started topics for great tutorials and links to them found on the web for using graphic programs, please leave a link to your favourite tutorials that may not have been mentioned yet.

For digital tutorials to get you started this is the place definetely to go!! Woohoo!! Love it, kinda makes you wonder what's on that cd?!

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