SEF-AAD8208 - Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
Course Description
Learn to use digital editing techniques to show off your photos and memorabilia in Introduction to DigitalScrapbooking! Using Photoshop Elements, this course will teach you how to make the most of your
scrapbooking talents and artistic ideas when you combine traditional and digital scrapbooking. Starting
with simple projects, you'll quickly learn how to build pages, use artistic journaling, and produce
sophisticated illusions. Photoshop Elements lets you build your own clip art, create frames, and develop
multi-layer pages with an endless array of layouts and designs. You'll see how to draw and create your own
art, build collages and scrapbooks to share, and work with both color and black and white. If you need to
restore or age images—the tools are all available to you. Come take your scrapbooking to a new level!
Course Outline
WHAT IS DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING?
Digital editing gives scrapbooking a new level of creativity! In the first lesson, you'll have an opportunity to
become familiar with the online classroom, Photoshop Elements 11 (the digital editing software you'll be
using in this course), and a number of ways to integrate digital options with traditional scrapbooking. You'll
see how to keep your personal style intact while taking advantage of fun and easy techniques to enhance
your scrapbooks.
JOURNALING
In this lesson, you'll have an opportunity to experiment with and explore the many options for enhancing
text. You'll see how to add color, shape, and styles, along with more advanced techniques like warping text
to fit on objects, making circles with words, and transforming images into text. Journaling is an important
part of the storytelling process, so it's time to put the words to work!
LAYERING
Whether you're working with scissors and glue or digital images, one of the ways to embellish scrapbook
pages is to layer artistic elements. In this, you'll explore Adobe's layers so you can master the ability to build
pages with many different pieces to create the look that tells your story best! The lesson will discuss sizing,
background images, frames, and piecing together pages with multiple images, text, and clip art.
CLIP ART
Now that you're comfortable with backgrounds, cropping, text, and layers, it's time to add some pizzazz to
your pages! In this lesson, you'll see how to create and use clip art to add personal touches and dimension
to your scrapbook. You may be surprised at how many important details you have in your pictures, and with
Photoshop Elements, you'll be able to pick those out and use them just where you want them. Creating clip
art is fun and easy with the tools in Elements. You'll be a pro by the time you finish this lesson!
THEMED LAYOUTS
Continuity and strong story lines captivate readers—even in scrapbooks! This lesson focuses on defining
themes, using repetitive elements, and sizing enlargements for excellent quality. You'll see how to build two-
page layouts, create panoramic images, and use two different techniques for adding frames to your pages.
BEAUTY OF BLACK AND WHITE
Bold and beautiful, black-and-white photography leads to a lesson on how to take a classic look and make it
modern, timeless, or even old-fashioned. You'll see how to turn color photos into stunning black-and-white
images, or how to keep just a portion in color. You'll also explore using gradients to create black-and-white
backgrounds to set off color images.
CREATIVE ILLUSIONS
In this lesson, you'll work a little magic as you learn to create special effects to enhance your backgrounds
and pages. You'll even be able to create some of these from nothing! The illusion of texture and dimension
is important when building a sophisticated scrapbook, and you'll look at ways to build pages that might just
make you wonder if they're real. With the Effects panel, the Filter menu, and some new tricks with layers and
layer styles, you'll be amazed at what you can do.
BOUNTIFUL BRUSHES
Much like finger painting lets you release your artistic side, Photoshop Elements brushes are full of
possibilities for detailed strokes, colors, and patterns—some even paint pictures! You'll see how to use the
standard brushes, create and customize your own, and build pages and backgrounds with a variety of styles
and patterns.
DIGITAL NOSTALGIA
In this lesson, you'll see how to turn back the hands of time to create pages using restored images and
nostalgic pages. You'll also learn how to age a modern photo to match the look of older ones. With the
pattern tools in Photoshop Elements, you'll create fabric-like backgrounds and even see how to add a bit of
stitching. Digital editing merges the old and the new in surprising ways!
3D IMAGERY
Digital scrapbooking gives you lots of options for creating three-dimensional looks, and in this lesson, you'll
see how to use new shortcuts to make this quick and easy. With Photoshop Elements Guided Edit and
special filters, you'll be able to create reflections, spheres, and many more effects.
DIGITAL DRAWING
It's time to draw! You'll be surprised by how creative you can be with Photoshop Elements drawing tools,
even if you don't think of yourself as artistic. With the Pencil tool, the Undo option, and the Eraser tool,
changes and corrections are easy. You can even remove something and put it back. You'll see how to add
line graphics with Wingdings and turn color images into coloring pages, as well as some other drawing
techniques you can use to build backgrounds and art for your scrapbook pages.
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
In the last lesson, you'll explore a couple of automatic options in Photoshop Elements to help you finish
your scrapbooks quickly. You'll see how to build an automatic collage page from your images and how to
upload them to book formats you can print at home or send out to have professionally printed. You'll finish
this course with lots of great ideas to finish your scrapbooks and share them with your family and friends!
Learner Outcomes
Combine traditional and digital scrapbookingBuild sophisticated pages with multiple artistic elements
Examine the options for panoramic layouts, full-page layouts, and recurring themes
Explore the options for black-and-white scrapbooking
Use Photoshop Elements to create special effects for scrapbooks
Restore images or create nostalgic formats for scrapbooking
Use the automated features of Photoshop Elements that let you create quick pages and books.