RLR Creations

Tips, Tricks, and Quick Fixes Thursday:

A go to guide to sprusing up your digital scrapbooking!

Today, RLR Creations will be giving away a freebie idea to trick out your digital scrapbooking pages. Using the download provided and by following the simple How-To Tutorial below, you can add dimension to your digital scrapbook pages.

The photo-frame will allow you to make your flat photos appear curved with a great photo border, which will make your scrapbook pages look more 3D and realistic. This trick can be applied to any photo and placed into any kind of template.

Click the image below to download the photo-frame:

Be sure to go through the steps provided by RLR Creations to get the best results from the photoframe!

Trick! How-To Tutorial:

How to add a photo to a curved photo frame.
(This process of fitting a photo into a curved photo frame was written for Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.)

1. Place curved photo frame into your layout.
2. Position Photo on a layer under frame layer.
3. Using the Magic Wand tool select interior of the curved photo frame.
4. Invert the selection by clicking Select > Inverse.
5. With selection layer still active, Click on photo layer in the Layers palette, press backspace to delete all areas of the photo that are not inside the frame.
6. Merge photo and photo frame layers.
7. Proceed with your layout design.

Check back in tomorrow for Freebie Friday to download a mini-kit of the newest digital kit by RLR Creations, "Watermelon" that was previewed on Monday.