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Coastal  Scrapbooks

Same Photo - Different Effects

It's amazing how many different looks you can give to one photo. There's a slideshow at the bottom of this page but I'll tell you about just a few things I did with this photo of me at the beach. Most of them can be easily created in Memory Mixer or My Memories.

Use frames

You can use a frame from a kit or make your own with the shapes function in Memory Mixer or My Memories. This one uses a simple double frame. The "photo" in the frame is a background paper that looks like sand:

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Here I used the photo itself to make one of the frames and added a seagull! It covered the other guy swimming so it looks as though I have the sea to myself. There's a tutorial here on how to add a shadow box effect to frames.

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Use a quickpage

The easiest method of all! This QP is from the Seashells and Seashores kit by Raspberry Road Designs. I liked the water on it and the muted colours suitable for the British seaside. Note I kept my photo straight even though the frame in the design is at an angle. I often do that with quickpages anyway but in this case it meant my arms could stay in the picture.

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Change the photo to sepia or black and white

This is a quickpage too (by the Studio Girls at scrapbook Graphics) but I changed the photo to sepia in Picmonkey.

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Use the photo tiling feature in MMSv4

This page has its own tutorial HERE. You can also use special fonts in Memory Mixer to create a tiling effect.

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Use a mask

You can't use masks in MyMemories or Memory Mixer. I made this page in Paint Shop Pro X4. There's a tutorial HERE.

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Change the climate!

I used the same mask and the same British seaside photo but with a tropical kit, Aloha by Lliella.

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More examples for you ...



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