A Mom Creating Memories

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Hello

Just a quick hello today. We are on vacation in Michigan and having lots of fun! The weather here is great and my oldest went tubing for the first time today!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Quick Tip #3 - Removing an element from your picture

Lets say you have an element in your picture that you do not want. You can use the clone stamp to remove it.

All you do is select the clone stamp tool then hit alt and click what you want to stamp over your picture and then "erase" your image. So if your picture was taken outside and you want to stamp over your element with grass...do the alt click on the grass then erase your image.

Quick Tip #2 - List of PSE Shortcuts

I am starting a list of PSE Shortcut keys for quick reference...as sometimes I forget :-) This list will continue to grow as I learn more.

Cntrl N - Creates a New File
Cntrl O - Opens a Existing File
Cntrl Z - Undo
Cntrl Y - Redo
Cntrl D - Deselect (this is helpful to get rid of the selection or marching ants)

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N - Creates a new layer
Type D and it goes to your defaults (ie black and white color)

Cntrl-Shift-J when text box is selected justifies text

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tutorials

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on tutorials for PSE? I am trying to organize a good list of them to reference. I would love peoples comments about this.

Misty Cato's tutorials she gives really good instructions :-)

http://mistycatodesigns.blogspot.com/

My first post

Hi Everyone! This is my first post of my first blog ever! I am creating this blog because I have just started with digital scrapbooking a little bit ago. Before digital scrapbooking I was a paper scrapbooking and after discovering the world of digital I am totally converted. I love the portability of the whole thing. Along with digital scrapbooking I am a mom of two lovely girls an it is nice to pick up and put down the scrapbooking as needed.

Anyways as I ramble along I thought I would create a blog so I could put thing I learn and blogs that I have discovered in one spot for me and others. I would love to hear what others have learned of if they have recommendations on anything. I currently use PSE 5 for digital scrapbooking and have been printing out 12x12 layouts through Costco and I put them in my book :-)

Anyways Im on to setup the rest of my blog :-)