Cleaning up means a Freebie for you!

I was cleaning out my hard drive, and found a page that I had meant to share with you all a long time ago- The kit used is not in the store, so swing on over and see what deals and steals are available.

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Did you know you can also snag a fan blinkie at the top of the page in the store? Now you do so even if you're not able to shop right now- you can pick up a cool blinkie! 

Have a great week- and a fun weekend!

A Little Tuesday Scraplift Tip

Last week, Angela featured a challenge at Scrapbook-bytes that used her layout as an inspiration for their first scraplift challenge of the month. To jog your memories a little bit, here is the layout she made using Mel's Dirt Don't Hurt Collab Kit with LauraMarie Scraps.



Have you had the chance to pick an idea from her layout yet? The large photo in her layout is placed simply perfectly. And have you noticed how she blended her son's name to it? Those are the best parts in her page that inspired me to do my layout below:


I used Mel's Zesty Spice Kit available at Scrapbook-bytes. I blended some swirls on the main photo just like how angela blended her son's name on the dirt :) Clever technique right? Just a few of the many ways you can recycle your stash in your pages.

Maybe you have been inspired by angela's layout too. Maybe you can share it with us here so we can leave you some love. We'd appreciate it a lot if you could share your layouts with us using Mel's kits. We'd love to see them and get inspired by them too.

So, that's it for now. We hope we gave you a little bit of inspiration to scrap today.

Have fun!

Noemi D.

Tuesday Tip: Coloring Selectively for Emphasis

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Have you ever wondered how others come up with a photo with a differently colored subject? I am not sure how experts call it but others refer to it as "selective coloring." It works in such a way that you color your main subject differently from the rest of the photo. Here is one I made:

I applied the technique to the middle photo leaving the subjects colored while the rest of the image was desaturated or turned to black and white. To give even more emphasis, I added a clustered frame.

In this kit, I used Mel's colorful Festive Euphony Kit and Zesty Spice Kit together. They are both available in her stores at Gotta Pixel and Scrapbook-Bytes.


So, how did I do it?

1. Open your photo in Photoshop. Using any selection tools (Marquee or Lasso Tools), select your main subject in the photo. Press CTRL-SHIFT-I so the selected area would be shifted to the rest of the image excluding the main subject.

2. Click on Image from the menu bar, click Adjustments, then choose Desaturate.

3. Voila! Now your main subject is left colored while the rest of the photo is not.

This technique is also used when you want to edit only some parts of a photo. You can apply filters or edit the selected image in any way you want. There are in fact hundreds of similar tutorials that you might want to check in the web. The good thing with Photoshop is, you can work your way in different steps and still be able to achieve the same effect. You only need to experiment and practice. This one so far has been the easiest way for me to achieve such effect.

Well, that's it for now. We hope you learned something from us today. We would appreciate any comments from you if you liked this tip and you can tell us if you need to learn anything more. We'd also love to see what you've come up with using this technique. Just leave us some love and a link to what you did.

Have fun! and don't forget, you can check Mel's designs at Gotta Pixel and Scrapbook-bytes :)

Until next time!

Noemi D.