We are always working hard to keep adding great new digital scrapbooking tutorials to our website. Most of our tutorials are geared towards using Photoshop Elements – if you have another software program you would like to share tips for using we’d love if you posted them Digital Scrapbooking Forum!
Photoshop & Photoshop Elements Basics
Working With Clipping Masks in Photoshop: This tutorial will help you understand what a clipping mask is, and how to use it when working with your photographs and layers in Photoshop Elements.
How to Add Styles, Actions, Brushes, Patterns, and Custom Shapes Into Photoshop Elements: This is not really a tutorial per se, but a must-have time saving software on how you can quickly and easily with no grief add and install items like styles, actions, brushes, gradients, custom shapes and other presets into PSE.
How to Recolor Items in Photoshop Elements: Get the most out of your digital scrapbooking stash and supplies by learning to how easily change the color of an item in photoshop and make it so all items match the same color scheme.
How to Use the Clone Stamp Tool in Photoshop Elements: Are you afraid of the clone stamp tool? It’s actually quite easy to use – this tutorial also shows a shortcut I use to make sure that if I am clone stamping an item it retains its original shape using cliipping masks.
How to Extract Items in Photoshop Elements Easily With No Pen Tool: To extract something in Photoshop CS3 and above, the pen tool is the obvious choice – however in PSE there is no Pen Tool. This tutorial shows you an easy way to do it for items using the Magnetic Lasso Tool instead.
How to Blend a Photograph Into a Background Paper: This is a unique digital scrapbooking page technique that actually combines many of our tutorials into one where you make an extracted photograph blend into a background paper.
Photography & Photo Editing
Using Gradients for Black and White Effects: A different approach for experimenting with converting photographs to black and white using gradients.
Using an Eye-Fi Card for Uploading Photos: Do you forget to transfer photos from your camera to your computer? A wireless SD card might be the solution to do it automatically for you!
Printing Basics
Tips for Printing Digital Scrapbooking Pages: Want to ensure your printed pages and photobooks turn out great? Here are some tips to make sure your pages turn out the way they should!
Understanding Print & Screen Resolution in Digital Scrapbooking: Confused by terms like DPI and PPI? This article helps explain it all in better detail.
Want to request a tutorial for us to add to our site? Just head on over to the Scrapvine Community Forum (it’s free to register for a forum/gallery account if you don’t already have one!) and post it under our Suggestions section.
