The fun of yoghurt

Another Jessica Sprague tutorial that can be found here. She has used it as a hybrid technique but mine is all digital.

It's a simple effect but I quite like it. I am a bit annoyed though, i would have liked to muck around with it more and maybe lessen the gap between photos but my computer had PMS. This was just my first play around without papers and so on anyway, but I think I will do a proper page with these photos and this technique to follow it up.

Very excited!

Since I started dabbling in digiscrapping about a year ago, I have been managing to teach myself a fair bit using Photoshop Elements. I have come to love many things about this program and it's ability to not only edit photos easily, but also to create digiscrap pages that I can be proud of!

That said, the version I have been using up until now is version 2. To give this some sort of reference point, this program came free with our computer. Which we bought when we got married. Over six years ago now!!

Ideally I would absolutely love to buy a new computer and have something decent to be working with, but unfortunately with me working part time this isn't a huge priority right now. But I have been toying with the idea of seeing if I could at least upgrade our version of PSE so I can start doing more of the tricky things I would like to do in the world of digiscrapping.

I wasn't sure if our computer would even support the new version of PSE, but today I downloaded the free trial of PSE 7 with much hope and excitement. And many exciting things ensued:

1) It worked!!
2) So many things are in similar places, so I didn't freak out about not knowing what I was doing
3) The new format makes so much more sense! You can see previews of the effects you want to try, scroll through fonts with your chosen text to try them out on the page (this step alone used to take me forever on my stoneage version!), and they are only the first couple of things I noticed in the first few minutes.

I love that they haven't reinvented the wheel since version 2, just added so many features that make it much easier to use, as well as being able to customise things that you wouldn't dream of in the old version.

And yes, it's probably pathetic to be excited over this, but damn it I am! I love digiscrapping already but can only imagine the possibilities with the new improved version.

The other bonus is I was looking at possibly paying $150 plus for PSE 7 if I was going to purchase it, but I currently have a 30 day trial which will take me past my birthday, so guess what this little black duck is asking for! And I have noticed we can just class it as an upgrade because we have a stoneage version, and there is a redemption code as well, so we should be able to purchase the new shiny version for under $100!

Very happy :)

So the end of the month is here! I fared a little better in the end than I thought I would with my SP list, but still far from perfect. I will do a proper rundown and new list for July tomorrow, but for the moment here is another Jessica Sprague tutorial I have been playing with.

The aim of this one was to recolour a segment of a black and white photo, and I was surprised at just how easy this was! My examples are still really rough as a certain Monkey needed attention in the middle of playing around with it, but again I want to give this another go with a specific photo to see if I can improve on it.

Did I mention I love Jessice Sprague? ;)

Just another Manic Monday

Jessica Sprague is the most inspiring website I have come across in my few short months of interest in digital scrapbooking. I love her tutorials and products, and the second I get my hands on a decent version of PhotoShop I am going to sign up to one of her online courses which I hear are amazing!

The tutorials from here are so simple, which is what I need in particular when it comes to photo editing.

Here are a couple of edits I have done based on her focal point tutorial. I love the idea behind this but unfortunately I don’t think my photos do the technique justice. My aim is to now take a few photos with using this technique in mind and see if I can improve on what I have had a play with here.