Don’t worry! If you don’t those bars around the edge of the photo (they are default in some versons and not in others), click ctrl+t to make them appear. Your photo will probably be the wrong size or in the wrong place. Now paste (ctrl+v) so your photo is added right above that layer. That layer will be highlighted in the layer palette (see how it is blue over there at the right?). Click the layer you want to add to - for this photo, that layer is called ‘large photo’. It’s just personal preference.īy the way, if you’re following this tutorial on a Mac, use the cmd key instead of ctrl.
You can go ahead and close this photo (ctrl+w) if you want - I don’t like to keep too many files open at once, but sometimes it means I close something too quickly and have to open it again. Then select all (ctrl+a) and copy (ctrl+c) so you have this photo on your clipboard. If you have any editing you want to do to the photo, go ahead and do that now and make sure you flatten it back down to one layer when you’re done. Here’s the photo I’m going to use for the large picture on my page. They will open as a separate file while your template stays open in the same program. Go ahead and select the photos you’re going to use and open them in Photoshop. This template has room for four photos: one large and three small squares. I keep my photographs and my digital scrapbooking kits in two separate photo libraries, so I usually open my photos first so I can have just the pictures I need, then close that library and switch over to all my digital goodies. That’s the trick to making this magic trick work. You’ll see the page and the layers palette (on the right corner of my screen – you can move it wherever you like) shows you how all the elements of the page are on separate layers, so you can work with each one separately. When you open the template, it will look something like this: You can also use the templates with Gimp and later versions of Paint Shop Pro, but the commands may be slightly different that what you see in the steps that follow.
#Perfect layers scrapbooking tool software#
If you’ve never tried Photoshop Elements, you can download a free 30 day trial to try the software and see what you think.
PSD stands for Photoshop Document, and that means it is designed to be used with either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Start by opening the template: it will be a. Once you get the hang of it, it’s super fast and you’ll be hooked on the wide variety of page templates available.įor today’s step-by-step process, I’m using the Remember Page Template and other papers and elements are linked as they are shown.
#Perfect layers scrapbooking tool how to#
If the sketch has a circle, we have to figure out how to create that circle: use a punch, a die-cutter, trace around a plate, cut it out, paint it, embellish it - so many options! With a digital page template, you start with a sketch but with just a couple clicks you can make each part of the page ‘snap’ right to that part of the sketch. When paper scrappers use a sketch, we still have to do all the work. Half of that pacing comes from just learning what functions you’ll be using so you remember them and the quickest ways to make them happen (like when you start to type ctrl+c for copy instead of using your mouse to go up to the top, click on edit, pull down to copy and then hope for the best) and the other half comes from the coolest thing in digital scrapbooking: layered page templates. It took me hours and hours when I could make a paper page in under thirty minutes! After a little practice and some frustration, I found out my extreme timing was completely unnecessary: there are ways to make digital pages far more quickly than paper pages. When I first started to play with digital pages, that was definitely the case. One of the most common things I hear from scrappers adding digital pages to their albums is that digital takes so much longer to get to a completed page.
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