Online Photography Classes

Have you ever wanted to improve your photography? Having a photo that pops can really make your digital and paper scrapbooking layouts shine. I am now running two monthly photography classes at Digital Scrapbook Place, ideal for improving your images.

First we have DSU151 – Taking Better Snapshots

DSU151 – Taking Better Snap Shots

Take your snapshots to the next level in this 4-week class. Topics and assignments will focus on avoiding common snapshot pitfalls, and learning techniques that will make your snapshots an even more meaningful centre of your scrapbook pages.

Prerequisites: This is a beginner-level class. Students must have a digital camera, or 35mm camera and scanner for this class.

Cost: $30 for 4 weekly sessions. Registering the 1st-5th for the current term incurs a $10 late fee.

Class starts again 1st of next month. It is not too late to sign up! Click here to find out more.

 

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For those of you who want something a little more advanced, DSU152 – Delving Into Exposure will be perfect for you!

DSU152 – Delving Into Exposure

Ever wanted to learn more about exposure and how to use your camera in Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual modes? This is the class for you!

Gain better control and creativity over your photography by learning the in depth essentials about shutter speed, aperture and ISO the three factors that affect your exposures. Learn how to discern well exposed images from bad, and how to make the most out of your camera to enable you to create truly beautiful images. Develop your eye for exposure and learn how to see your subject how your camera does.

Prerequisites: This is an intermediate-level class. Students must have a digital SLR, or 35mm SLR and scanner for this class.

Cost: $30 for 4 weekly sessions. Registering the 1st-5th for the current term incurs a $10 late fee.

Class starts again on the 1st. It is not too late to sign up! Click here to find out more!

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Feature Friday – Jan 20

Today is my very first Feature Friday! Every so often I will feature a Value Collection on my blog and feature some layouts created with the Value Collection as well as some products that co-ordinate well with the Featured Value Collection. I am hoping featuring some kits with some layouts will help inspire you to use the kit some more if you have it already, or maybe even buy it if you don’t already have it. ::innocent smile:: 

Today I am going to feature one of my long time favourites as a kit I keep coming back to over and over again, The Monodrama Value Collection.

Here are a few of my own layouts created with Monodrama. As you can see in this layout, the monochrome colour scheme works beautifully with high colour photos. The photos just POP from the black and white layout.

I love using Monodrama when I am not sure which kit will go with the photo best. In this case however, I also thought it was perfect because of the patterns on my daughters top!

Black and white kits are also perfect for an adorable black kitty! How sweet is our kitten Polly! Sadly she went missing at 11 months and we miss her still!

Here are some gorgeous layouts created with Monodrama that I have spotted in the DSP Gallery!

I love the simplicity of this layout by DSP member stitchmitch!

I love the wide angle black and white shot and use of negative space on this layout by just-pjz. It makes for a for a very striking layout! just-pjz also used my Floral Page Borders to make the floral accent to the left of the page.

How adorable is this layout by DSP member dagwood. This little man is so precious and she has shown him off to perfection with her layout.

I LOVE this layout by DSP Designer Jeanet. I love the simplicity, the subtle use of accents and the beautiful splash of colour in the photo. Just SIMPLY STUNNING!

Here is a gorgeous layout by DSP member renee s. I love the splash of colour in the photo and how she bordered her layout with the flowers and black paper. I also love the feint silhouette on the background paper. GORGEOUS!

I hope you have been inspired by this gorgeous selection of layouts by DSP members. I know they certainly inspire me! I have two instant albums created with the Monodrama Collection, and also have a selection of products which are designed to coordinate with Monodrama.

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Inspirational Layouts

Last month I had the pleasure of having DET (Digital Scrapbook Place’s Digital Elite Team) member mcbowersox as my dedicated DET member. On a rotational basis designers have a dedicated DET member to use solely that designers work for the month rather than rotating through all the designers as usual. I love having the closer contact with the DET member for a month and really enjoy seeing what one DET member comes up with using my products.

Last time I had a dedicated DET member I really enjoyed being able to feature her work on my blog and decided it might be nice to do again. Christy has a real knack making my designs work for her particular design style. I am sure you will agree her layouts have flare and are very inspiring! If you want to see her layouts up closer, you can click on them to go to her gallery and see them there.

This first layout is titled Friends Forever and is created with my Urban Teen Value Collection, Urban Edge Masks and Whimsical Words of Friendship Wordart. I love the fun and fresh feel to this layout! Gorgeous!

Christy has beautifully demonstrated the versatility of the Urban Teen Value Collection by making a masculine layout with it also. She also used one of my Stamp Cluster Frames (recoloured).

I love how she used my Scrap Comix Value collection to create some really fun layouts in an adorable comic book style. I have to say, how ADORABLE are her kids!!!

This layout, Super Girl, also uses my Blocks and Grids Layered Template

I absolutely adore the following layouts using my Doodle Spritz Value Collection. The soft pastel tones work so beautifully with Christy’s photos and I adore her element clustering. In the following layout Beautiful To Me, Christy also used my Floral Art Masks and Whimsical Words of Beauty.

In this layout, Christy has used my Recycled Paper Alpha as well as the Doodle Spritz Value Collection.

I had a lot of fun with colour creating the Fresh Funk Value Collection and Christy really shows those colours off to perfection in her layouts using Fresh Funk. Christy also uses my Whimsical Words of Fun Wordart with the following layout.

I really love how Christy has used the hanging frame in this layout using Whimsical Words of Beauty Word Art as well as the Doodle Spritz Value Collection.

I love how Christy takes advantage of the rich tones in the About a Boy Value Collection with these layouts. I love the sepia tones combined with the rich red on this layout. She also used the Grunge Flourish Layered Template in the first layout to give some extra grungy goodness! Love it and love the fabulous element clustering!

I love how Christy uses a ‘boy’ kit and proves you don’t have to just use it for boys!!! Check out this adorable layout. How cute are these girls!!

When I designed the Merry Wishes Value Collection I wanted the colours have a slightly different than traditional colour palette as well as something that would work with a wide variety of photos and styles. You can truly get a lot of looks from the Merry Wishes Value Collection to make the most out of it. I love the non traditional colours used as a base for this layout by Christy but the touches of closer to Christmas colour to give it a Christmas-y feel.

Now this one I absolutely ADORE! I love how she used the two patterned backgrounds with the Halftone Layered Template to have them blend diagonally on the page. I never would have thought to use Merry Wishes with the Halftone Layered Template but I am sure you will agree, Christy pulls it off beautifully!

This next layout Christy created using the Sea Biscuit Value Collection. I love her simple layout and the freshness of the photo. The simplicity of this layout works beautifully and makes it look simply striking!

I hope you have enjoyed Christy’s beautiful work and find it as inspiring as I do. I don’t get to do layouts as often as I would like so it is always a treat to see what other people create with my kits. If you want to see more of Christy’s (mcbowersox) beautiful layouts, why not check out her gallery.

Want to see some of my layouts? Check out my Layout Gallery. Want to see the kits used here, you can check out my Design Gallery or go direct to DSP and check out my products there. Who knows, you may just decide to buy one or two.. he he.

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TalyQ as Dedicated DET

I was very lucky to have Digital Scrapbook Place DET member TalyQ as my dedicated DET member last month. I would love to show some of her layouts done with my designs. Natalija has a knack for making my kits look fabulous! I love her work. She does a lot of fabulous blending and has a knack for knowing what works.

So, here are a few pages that she made this month so far with my products:  

Naturally Page Kit by Robyn Gough from Club Digital March 2010 by DSP Designers

Candyland Page Kit by Robyn Gough from CD Scraps of Style: Storybook Fantasies by DSP Designers

Watercolor Fun Page Kit by Robyn Gough

Urban Teen VC by Robyn Gough

Hippy Hemp Page Kit by Robyn Gough Tweet Chic Value Collection by Robyn Gough

Nature's Touch Kit by Robyn Gough

from Club Digital October 2011 by DSP Designers

Pet Capers Page Kit by Robyn Gough

Its Xmas Element Set by Robyn Gough

Doodle Spritz VC by Robyn Gough

Celebr8 Page Kit by Robyn Gough

Font: HaloHandletter

Credits:

About a Boy VC by Robyn Gough

Soft Grunge Overlays by Robyn Gough



Font: Adler

 

Credits:

About a Boy VC by Robyn Gough



Font: Adler

I absolutely love her work and just had to share this layout as well. This was her layout for the DET competition for round 1.

 

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Newsletter Alert

My August newsletter will be out in a couple of days, so make sure you are subscribed if you don't want to miss out! 

There is a FREEBIE in the August newsletter PLUS you get a FREEBIE just for subscribing, so if you aren't already a subscriber, now is a great time to sign up!

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Do you love Layered Digital Scrapbook Templates?

Why not check out my collection of Layered Templates at Digital Scrapbook Place. All my templates include layered PSD files as well as individual .png layers easily placed in order into a new document. Not sure how to use them? Instructions are included, but make sure you check out some of the software specific tutorials at DSP. Layered templates are also known as Quick Clicks at Digital Scrapbook Place.

Check out tutorials for your software here. Quick Clicks, Using [PSP] [PSE3] [PSE6 to PSE8]-pdf file  [PS] [DIP] [FotoFusion] [PI]

I also have several clipping masks available in store at Digital Scrapbook Place, for some awesome artsy touches to your layouts! There is an awesome Photoshop tutorial on using Masks here.

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