When I digital scrapbook, I create a whole layout on one document in Photoshop.  After I am finished with the page, I copy and paste each half of the layout onto separate "pages."  That way I can place them in my "books" that are later published.  You'll notice that I leave margins around the edges of each page to make room for "bleeding." Bleeding is where the picture is printed all the way to the edges, and some of the picture is lost in the printing.  

The most pages I have done in one week was about 160, which was a book I made of my family reunion in July 2006.  For the most part, the pages were very simple, and I used very few embellishments (not only because of time constraint, but also because I have five brothers who aren't really into "frills").  It was quite a task.  My mom came out to take care of my kids so I could finish the project before Christmas.  NOTE TO SELF: Don't attempt to do that many in a week again.

Monday, July 17, 2006

Rogers Family Reunion




These LO's are part of a 160-page book I made for my family.  One thing I like to do, especially if the background of a photo doesn't look well with the subject, is to "cut out" the subject, and just place them on the page.  Both of the above pictures of me and my nephew, Xander, were taken indoors.  I just cut us out of the photo, placed them on the page, and then added a large shadow to make it look like we were literally on the page.  The picture below of my nephew Mason popping out of the page is one of my favorites in this book.


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