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Month: June 2023

Get Creative With Your Text

Get Creative With Your Text

I know that you are already familiar with how to change the color of journaling. You simply use the color picker in the text options. And of course, you already know to use light journaling when placing it on dark paper and dark journaling when placing it on light paper. It’s very easy to just change the color of the font, right? But have you ever considered clipping paper to your journaling? Variegated Text Here we have some generic text….

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It’s All About The Frame

It’s All About The Frame

Ever run into a lovely frame that just doesn’t fit the size of your photo? I run into this a lot. And It’s not always easy to resize a frame without messing up the proportions. Today, I want to help you with a few tips… Resizing Frames Correctly Sadly, I’ve seen this more than once. Someone will resize a photo or frame to make things “fit” and it’s so easy to see that the result isn’t quite right. If you…

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Trespassing Apostrophe

Trespassing Apostrophe

Last month my oldest grandson had a special occasion and I was making “favor” tags when I encountered a little challenge using a script font. I’ve run into this before but not very often and thought I’d share a quick little tip… Spacing Punctuation Correctly Whenever I add an apostrophe inside a script font, it looks unnatural to break the script with the apostrophe. See the image below. When we write something by hand, our script letters generally flow with…

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Make Your Image Sparkle & Glow

Make Your Image Sparkle & Glow

This post is all about using styles in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (PSE). If you don’t use either of these you likely have something similar in your graphics package. If not, this may not be a good topic for you. However, if you do have style effects available in your software, you might still find some useful tips about when & how to use them to spruce up your layout. A while back in my post about Fonts I mentioned…

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