Day 6
I’m using Ali Edwards’s 12×12 overlay for almost all of my pages. The only time I’m not is when want to keep a photo’s original 4×6 proportion. For this page I increased the width of the photo to 8 inches, had it printed onto 8×8 paper, and then added a piece of glitter XOXO paper to the bottom. Behind that is a cream patterned paper, but it looks white because of my poor quality photo (sorry!).
Day 7
Even though Ali has been putting her photos within the lined framework of her digital December Daily design, I’ve been using it as a photo overlay whenever I have a photo that I liked cropped as a square. It’s the easiest page ever.
In Photoshop…
- Crop the photo to 8×8
- Drag the 12×12 overlay onto the photo
- Click the Command (Control on a PC) +Apostrophe keys to show a grid for easy scaling of the overlay)
- Click Edit > Transform > Scale
- Click on a bounding box and drag it to size. I drag the corners to the first group of intersecting lines on the grid, which is a quarter inch into the page
- Click the Command + ‘ keys again to remove the grid.
- Rejoice in a page that took two minutes and move on!
Day 8
Early on in the process I figured out that with the overlay scaled down to fit my 8×8 pages (sides and corners are a quarter inch away from the edges), then my photo space inside the main box is 7×5.8 inches. If my photo doesn’t work as a square, but doesn’t have to keep the 4×6 proportions either, I can use the overlay as the framework the way Ali does.
I scale the overlay, add my photo, and then add my journaling, printing it as one piece on photo paper.
Easy peezy.
Tags: christmas, december daily, mini album, minibook, Scrapbooking
