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Interior Layout Tech: Marian Hartsough ISBN: 1-59200-503-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004106602 Cover Designer: Printed in the United States of America Mike Tanamachi 04 05 06 07 08 BU 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CD-ROM Producer: Brandon Penticuff Indexer: Katherine V. Stimson Proofreader: Sara Gullion Thomson Course Technology PTR, a division of Thomson Course Technology 25 Thomson Place Boston, MA 02210 http://www.courseptr.com TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! “Where Mother Is” PHYLLIS SUSAN RAND BRADBURY and BARBARA ANN RUST DAVIS July 10, 1924 – May 23, 2004 November 21, 1935 – December 6, 2002 This book is dedicated to memories of the hearts and spirits of our mothers TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! Acknowledgments As any good scrapbooker knows, photos provide the foundation for our memories, but words tell the story. We’d like to acknowledge the help, support, direc- tion, attention, affection, love, hot food, and cold beverages, as well as oceans of coffee, provided to us by our loved ones, friends, editors, and scrapbook lovers throughout the land. In particular, the Beacham-Lachance-Dunham clan and the Davis-Synal family—thank you John and Larry, the best in-house tech support anyone could ask for (heavy on the support, low on the tech!). To our assorted family members and friends who appear throughout this book—feel the love. Wade, Emilie and Brittanie—thanks for being accommodating as well as photogenic. Thanks to our editors Kevin Harreld and Kelli Crump. Great ideas, great “red pencil”. We’d like to thank our technical editor, Angela Cable, who also contributed CD resources, as well as our favorite supplier of fabulous photographs, Darth Vector him- self, Ron Lacey. The folks at Digital Scrapbook Place deserve special thanks, particularly owner/designers Margie Lundy and Amanda Behrmann, as well as designers Lauren Bavin, Kim Lid- diard, and Jenna Robertson. We’d also like to thank Janice “Maya” Dye-Szucs and Tracy Pori for their contributions to our CD resources. Special thanks to Ray Larabie, Ronna Penner, and House of Lime for some fabulous fonts—please visit the sites listed in the book’s Appendix A to see more work from these terrific designers. Many scrapbook designers, both paper and digital, contributed artwork for this book. We’d like to thank Jenny Bamford-Perkins, Kristin Cronin-Barrow, Pat Goettels, Jeri Ingalls, and Samuel Kordik. Very special thanks go to Cindi Bisson for guiding (and bearing with!) Sally through her head-long rush into paper scrapbooking, and to Sandi Ducote for dragging Sally kicking and screaming into digital scrapbooking. Without her, this book would never have come to be. vi TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! Acknowledgments ■ vii Thanks to all the software developers who contributed demos and other resources for our book’s CD: Harald Heim of The Plugin Site; Amedeo Rosa at Alien Skin Software; Edie McRee at Auto F/X; Alex Shalikashvili; Kohan Ikin; Ilya Razmanov; John Red- field; Joe Donnelly at Hemera; Michael Sheasby at LumaPix; Aaron Epstein at Color Schemer; Virtual Painter; and Dover Publications. We’d like to acknowledge, thank, and generally recognize their excellence as friends, pals, inspiration and/or partners in crime: Gary Barton, Patricia “Porter” Caldwell, Joe Fromm, Jeanmarie “JP” Kabala, Jackie Laderoute, Nancy Peterson, Kerry Pierce, Bill Schnakenberg, Tom Vallombroso, Beth Winter, and Kris Zaklika. Also, Vikki Brooks, Phyllis List, Jerry O’Brien, Sonja Shea, and Barbara Wallis, as well as Channen McGhee, Norene Malaney, Mei Liu, and the Knezevich clan. Sally would like to thank Lori for helping her do battle with Word . . . and Lori would like to thank Sally for enabling her to max out her credit card at the scrapbook store, if only Larry would let her. Last but not least, we’d like to acknowledge the contributions of our favorite non- human friends: kitties Little Max, Lucas, Einstein, and Moussie; the incomparable Bijou the Alaskan Husky; Bob the Bobcat; and the Chipmunks of Northern Ontario. TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! About the Authors SALLY BEACHAM is an author and teacher, specializing in Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop- compatible plug-in filters, and digital scrapbook design. She teaches a series of classes at www.lvsonline.com and develops tutorials and resources for plug-in filters at www.dizteq.com. Sally lives in southern Maine with her husband, John, and assorted children and cats. LORI J. DAVIS is a technical writer and author of several books on Paint Shop Pro. She is a computer graphics fanatic, with a love for exploring the ins and outs of image editors and plug-in filters. She has taught numerous online courses and has a popular graphics-related Web site, Lori’s Web Graphics, at loriweb.pair.com. She enjoys pho- tography, crafts, painting, gardening—all with “help” from her two cats—and walking on the beach with her husband, Larry. viii TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! Contents at a Glance Introduction xvi Chapter 1 Scrapbooking Why and How 3 Chapter 2 Digital Photo Fundamentals 23 Chapter 3 Basic Layout Guidelines 51 Chapter 4 Adding Graphic Elements 75 Chapter 5 Text Techniques 99 Chapter 6 Enhancing Your Pages with Filters 125 Chapter 7 Advanced Photo Techniques 145 Chapter 8 Sharing Your Work 171 Chapter 9 Creating Your Own Elements 191 Chapter 10 Further Fun with Photos 219 Appendix A Resources 245 Index 257 ix TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! Contents Introduction xvi 1 Scrapbooking Why and How 3 The Scrapbooking Concept 3 Traditional Paper Scrapbooks 5 Journals and Altered Books 6 Paper vs. Digital Scrapbooking 7 Pros and Cons 7 Tools of the Trade 10 What Does Scrapping Cost? 10 Digital Scrapbook Necessities and Niceties 12 Hardware and Peripherals 12 Scanners 12 Printer 14 Photo Printer 16 Digital Cameras 17 Graphics Tablet 19 Software 19 Useful Application Types 19 Software Used in This Book 21 And Away We Go! 21 2 Digital Photo Fundamentals 23 Digital Camera Basics 23 Resolution: Megapixels and You 23 Focus 24 Exposure 24 Lenses 25 Memory and Power Sources 26 Other Considerations 27 x TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine !