Never content to rest on their laurels, those delightful talented graphic designers at Scrap Girls have updated their free Refresh Collection. I loved the first Refresh Collection; and didn’t think it needed updating – until I saw the new fresher Refresh.The new kit is just jam-packed with gorgeous papers, cute little embellishments, word art, and alphas. I can’t wait to unzip the files and start scrapping. I said “delightful talented graphic designers” but neglected to add “generous”. Thank you Scrap Girls!
If you’ve never tried digital scrapbooking or card making, here’s your chance to try it and learn about it free! In addition to the free updated Refresh Collection, ScrapGirls.com offers a free e-book “15 Things You Need to Know to become a Great Digital Scrapbooker”.
Sign up for the free newsletter (Monday through Saturday) and you get a freebie with every issue. Did I mention how generous the Scrap Girls team is?
While researching this article on the Scrap Girls Home Page, I learned they now have three online videos for beginners. What better way to dip your digital toes in the water than to actually watch someone scrap digitally?!
P.S. The only other thing you need is a graphic software program like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
P.P.S. Some Scrap Girls news of a personal nature: while reading Saturday’s newsletter, I was quite pleasantly surprised to find my Great Adventure 1975 layout featured as a weekly winner.
Guess what I win. More free Scrap Girls goodies! Woohoo!!!
Tags: digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, freebies, Photoshop, scrapbooking
8 comments:
Congrats on your layout being featured.
Thanks Peggy. I'm still floating on a cloud.
HI Eileen
I need to update my photo editing programs. You've mentioned photoshop and photoshop elements.
This is greek to me! Can you explain what the pro's and cons of each are?
thanks a million!
Hi Noreen,
If you just want to edit and enhance your photos, e.g. crop, straighten, adjust colors, adjust lighting or remove red eye, you can get many free photo editing programs on the Internet. If you own a digital camera, it probably came with a decent photo editing software program.
The best freeware programs, in my opinion are Picasa and The GIMP. The GIMP has almost as much functionality as Photoshop Elements but it isn’t as intuitive as Elements and is cumbersome to install.
If you want to do more than simple photo corrections, e.g. create your own logo or design ads and brochures or scrapbook pages, you need more functionality. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are both made by Adobe and have similar interfaces. So if you start out using Elements and then want more power, the transition will not be difficult.
Elements is, by far, the best value. But if you’re really serious about getting into graphic design or digital scrapbooking/crafting, you may as well bite the bullet and get the Cadillac, Photoshop CS3.
I should also mention Corel Paint Shop Pro, which is in the same price range as Elements. Not as many people use it as use Photoshop so it may be more difficult finding support and tutorials.
Since you read my blog about Scrap Girls, you already know where you can get a lot of support and instruction on both Photoshop Elements and CS. Or you can always go to The Artful Crafter and click on the contact button. I would be happy to help you get up to speed :-)
Hey, very cool papers & stuff. Congrats on winning something for your creativity, too. ;-)
Thank you Heather!
Hi Eileen!
You're so sweet. Thanks for all of the nice things you said about us. It was a fun read! Made my day.
:-)
Hi Ro!
I'm beyond thrilled that you noticed this little post and took the time to comment.
You made my week!!
[Ro is CEO of Scrap Girls and an extremely talented and gracious woman - obviously!]
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