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Artisan Tip: Remove Tools
There are multiple places where the Remove Tools can be applied. Using the remove tool can be a time saver.
Showing posts with tag "Topic: Layouts".
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Bright Idea 262: Apple of My Eye
Using a shape, create a fun photo focal point to help tell the story of your photos.
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Enchanted Forest Crop Mystery Page 11
What will you create when you don't see a sample? Follow these instructions and be pleasantly surprised by your final creations.
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Video Tidbit: Flags and Strips - A Quick Page Technique
Don't you just love when a page comes together with simplicity, ease and speed. This page can be elegant, sassy, masculine or playful. Just fill with your favorite patterned papers and your story.
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Enchanted Forest Crop Challenge 182: Tilt It
The grid cutter with a twist makes for some quick and easy pages that you will love.
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Enchanted Forest Crop Challenge 166: Fragmented
Create a fun and unique design using the grid cutter and the rotate tool.
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Video Tidbit: Create Your Own Round Bezel
This is a fun and creative technique to create your own bezel. This video features using shapes to design a unique and custom embellishment.
Video Tidbit: Octa Dozen
This fun technique can be used to create a page with 12 years of school photos, 12 months of baby's first year photos, 12 months of a year. The possibilities are endless.
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Bright Idea 253: String It Along
Learn a fun new way to add to and use lines on your page.
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Start2Finish: Travel Cover
A fun way create a cover for your next book to remember your adventure!
Bright Idea 249: Four Generations Patchwork
Use a variety of tools to create a page that highlights four generations.
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Bright Idea 251: Masked Slices
Create masked collages that have uninterrupted mask detail quickly and easily using these techniques and a few tools.
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Start2Finish: The Replacement
The two page spread gives you a creative way to tell your story with a heart made from torn strips and clever titles with directional arrows.
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Bright Idea 243: Highlight the Detail
This Bright Idea shows some fun techniques to highlight just one portion of a photo.
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Bright Idea 241: National Parks Poster
Have fun turning your photo into a National Parks poster style layout.
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Bright Idea 220: Rainbow Quick Page
In just a few minutes you can have a fun page to tell the story behind a special photo. Shapes and the Grid cutter pull your page together with style.
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Artisan Tip: DPS to Seamless Layflat - The Basics
You undoubtedly have lots of Blueprints and templates in your digital art collection. While some of those Blueprints and Templates were designed for a Double Page Spread (DPS), they cannot be used in a Seamless Layflat project without some extra prep work.
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Bright Idea 215: Title Design On a Line
Create an interesting title design using a line and alpha sets.
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Pixie Power Minute: Quick Page Hip Squares
Let your photos take center stage using simple shape editing techniques. This highly repetitive technique makes it easy to add a little WOW impact without distracting from your photos. The Grid Cutter also comes in handy when creating this page. You can also start with any template in your content library.
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Pixie Power Minute: Quick Page Wave Photos and Paths
This quick page will look like a labor of love as you combine several techniques for a custom look.
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Bright Idea 203: Don't Rock the Boat
This Bright Idea features piecing shapes together to make a fun embellishment for your page. Using five shapes, create an abstract boat. Once the boat is created, group the elements together and resize to fit your page.
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Bright Idea 199: Magnified Photo
Have fun creating a row of photos with one photo that is larger than the rest creating a magnified photo effect. In the instructions you will create a straight line (see related video below) that will tie the row together.
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Bright Idea 195: Kaleidoscope
Create a unique background using your own photo! Find a photo with a detail that you would like to highlight. The kaleidoscope is created by using the rotate tools on the arrange ribbon.
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Video Tidbit: FOREVER Wall
This video will review a simple collage technique designed after a photo display that was in the FOREVER Home office.
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Bright Idea 192: Quick Page 6 By 4
This Bright Idea shows you how delightful the standard 6x4 photo print can look in your digital album. The Grid Cutter and a Mask Effect adds just the right amount of flair for a page that is as easy as done in minutes.
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Bright Idea 191: Framed Mask
Create a beautiful page worthy of wall art! With this Bright Idea, you will apply a mask effect along with frame effects. If you are new to using masks, take a look at the related video offering (found at the bottom of this post), Fundamentals of Masks.
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Video Tidbit: Mono Photo Border
Learn how to use diagonal cut monogram detail to enhance your photo and your story.
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Bright Idea 188: Newsworthy
Extra, extra, read all about it! This bright Idea perfectly highlights your photos and journaling in a creative way.
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Bright Idea 187: Stroke Border
Create a quick border for your page using a line with a pattern stroke applied. This Bright Idea uses a straight line. For the perfect line, refer to the video listed below.
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Bright Idea 184: Full Bleed Beauty
This double page spread has a simple elegance about it that requires little to no embellishment. An easily created mask effect created with the Grid Cutter provides the decorative detail.
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Bright Idea 183: Photo Tag
This Bright Idea will teach you how to create a cut out shape within a shape. You will create a cute photo holder that looks like a tag that could be hung.
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Bright Idea 182: Quick Page - It Takes Two
Two papers and two photos is all it takes for this quick page technique.
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Bright Idea 179: Heartbeat
What does your heart beat for? For this Bright Idea pick something you love and create a fun title using insert line. To make sure your line is perfect, watch the related video listed at the bottom “Inserting a Straight Line.”
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Bright Idea 176: Scattered Collage
This bright idea is great for chapter starters/title pages or just to highlight a few random photos from a trip or an event in a stylish way.
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Bright Idea 174: Blend and Frame
This Bright Idea features the Blended Edge cut and using it as a mask effect. This page is simple to create with great visual impact.
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Bright Idea 173: Triangles and Diamonds
This is a super easy technique that will let you use the grid cutter and properties to create decorative detail on your pages.
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Bright Idea 172: Wagon Wheel
Create this fun circle design using shapes, lines and the wand tool. Once the Wagon Wheel is created, just drag and drop your photos into place. Add a title and some journaling to tell the story. If desired, add some fun paper and embellishments and your page will be ready to share! In this Bright Idea you will create a straight line. To make sure your line is perfect, watch the related video listed at the bottom "Inserting a Straight Line."
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Video Tidbit: Title Divide Too
The title divide technique is a head turner for sure. A little imagination, the wand tool and paint tools go a long way to give you stunning photo effects. This video expands on the techniques taught in Challenge 328: Title Divider. Title Divide Too shows you ways to work with text that has gaps and also allows you to fill the text and the word independently.
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Bright Idea 170: Quick Page Shaped Strips
Here we give you detailed instructions for a quick dramatic page. The Blended edge and the Grid cutter combine to create the perfect decorative detail on your page.
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Bright Idea 169: Back Pocket
Create a fun design using basic shapes to create a belt and back pocket. In this creative design you will learn how to edit a shape to create a new shape. And, you will have fun decorating the back pocket to help tell your photo's story.
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Video Tidbit: Zig Zag Divide Quick Page
The Zig Zag Divide is an easy avenue to clean and classic style.
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Video Tidbit: Power of Three Quick Page
This quick page technique takes the power of three to the next level. Create a lovely classic design in little time.
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Bright Idea 167: Brackets and Bullets Border
This simple border technique uses text as an element of design allowing you to tell your story with style.
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Bright Idea 166: Star Rating
This Bright Idea will show you how to use a shape to create a rating list. The list can be activities, books that you have read, food that you have sampled or any thing that you want to rate. By changing the fill of the shape to transparent, you can reduce a rating on your list.
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Bright Idea 165: It Takes Two Shapes
This Bright Idea is a fun quick page design. Using two decorative shapes as the main design elements will make your page stand out!
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Bright Idea 163: Beautiful Brick Layers
The Grid and Corner Cutters combine to create a stunning brick effect for your pages.
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Bright Idea 162: Press Play
This Bright Idea uses shapes to create a digital media player. The layout creates a perceived media player to look at your photos.
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Start2Finish: Fly Me To The Moon (Subway Art)
Subway Art is all the rave and the look is easy to achieve in FOREVER Artisan software. The use of text shapes and guide lines along with the alignment tools remove all complication and help you achieve even spacing and uniformity while allowing you to experiment with different fonts, font types and even other shapes.
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Bright Idea 160: Quick Page Blends and Strips
This page will come together super fast. Two Straight Cutters (The Blended Edge and Shaped Edge) come together to create a lovely border detail while simple shape editing adds a bit of flair to the page.