Digital Scrapbooking: A Designer's Dream!  Posted
Oct-29-2006
Laboring the Layout: Pumpkiny Things
As you can see, this Pumpkinitis affliction
of mine just isn't going away. Thankfully, there are only three
more days left in October to where I will allow this incessant
condition to run its course, and then after that I'm meandering
onto a new motif. Hmmm.... I know of some wild turkeys in
the area... Thanksgiving is only a stone's throw away!
Pumpkins aside, this piece is really about digital
scrapbooking and some very cool things I've discovered while
creating my very first layout today using
my own photos and graphic elements you've been seeing around
here lately. The above picture ("Pumpkiny Things")
is the scaled-down result of a full 8 1/2" x 11" page
layout I designed using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Whoa — I
didn't know how flexible, fun, AND addictive this digital scrapbooking
stuff really is! No wonder why scrapper's are so scrap-happy.
I plan to write more about the creative process involved in
my above layout AND show you a little step-by-step diddy of
how I brought it all together. But for now, I just
have to say "Wow!" I've stumbled onto a new creative
art form that I can only describe as a designer's dream.
By the way, if you are the least bit interested in scrapbooking
but have never given it a try, you must read this article by
Kristi Kovalishyn titled Scrapbooking:
What's the Attraction? You'll soon realize that the art
and craft of scrapping and memory book making isn't
simply about cropping and pasting pretty pictures into perfect
layouts. Whether it's digital or traditional scrapbooking, there is a deeper
creative and spiritual reason why many scrapping enthusiasts enjoy the
practice. •
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