Welcome to my tutorial table of contents! Whether you are completely new to the world of digital scrapbooking and juts wanting to make your first layout, or if you are an experienced designer looking for some new tricks, you'll find something useful here!
Most of these tutorials are designed for Adobe Photoshop, the program I recommend for digital scrapbooking. You may be able to follow along with other programs, but you will likely have to adjust some things. Don't have Photoshop? You can try out a 7-day free trial here (the regular price of the program is $10/month). Click here to learn why I recommend Photoshop so strongly over other digital scrapbooking software options.
Using Pixel Scrapper
Using Graphics & Templates From Pixel Scrapper
- Recoloring gray scale items, video
- Easy recoloring of overlays and other layers, video
- Using clipping masks with shape & photo masks
- 3 ways to use texture overlays, video
- Making patterns in Photoshop & plaid paper
- Using Glitter: .PNG, .PAT, .ASL
- Making Sparkle, Fairy Dust and Stars, video
- Using a Brad Template
Beginner Photoshop
- Photoshop Workspace
- Photoshop Palettes
- Photoshop Tools
- Opening a New File in Photoshop
- Using Layers in Photoshop
- Using a Quick Page
- Making Rounded Corners
- Paint Can Tips
- Using the Character Palette (Typing)
- Evenly Spacing Elements, Using the Move Tool
- Using the Shape Tool
- Working with Double Layouts, video
Intermediate Photoshop
- Making ledger paper, using the line tool
- Making a Scalloped Edge in Photoshop, video
- Clustering Resources, outside link
- Making a Torn Edge
- Making An Element Appear On Top And Behind, video
- Add A Paper Background To An Alpha
- Using the Swatches Panel in Photoshop, video
- How to Make Basic Cardboard, any color
- Making a Banner Shape
- Using The Gradient Tool To Make A Gradient Paper
- Using The "Stroke Path" Method In Photoshop, video
Designer Secrets
- Making Glitter in Photoshop
- Changing saturation of gray scale items
- Using Photoshop actions
- Using batch edit in Photoshop
- Making Washi Tape, video
- Making realistic textures in Photoshop
- Intro To Alphas
- Making a Polka Dot Pattern, video
- Making a Coffee (or any) Stain
- Making A Paper Preview, video
- How to Make Corrugated Cardboard, Any Color
- Convert a layout to a template, video
- Making Chalkboard Sketches
- Distressing Digital Paper
- Making a Glitter Border
- Making Striped and Plaid Patterns, video
- Make a Folded Ribbon from a Flat Ribbon
- Adding Texture to a White Area
- Removing Outer Shadows
- Keeping Texture in White Areas
- Create a Tag Shape, video
Making Patterns & Papers in Photoshop
- Making a Simple Pattern, video
- Alternating Rows Pattern, video
- Polka Dot Pattern, video
- Stripes & Plaids, video
- Diagonal Stripes, video
- Ledger Paper
- Grid
- Chevron, video
- Checked/Gingham Pattern, video
- Random Tilt Pattern
- Cardboad Texture
- Corrugated Cardboard Texture
- Wood Texture
Quality Control
- Finding & Fixing Stray Pixels
- Finding and Fixing Missing Pixels
- Jagged Edges & How to Avoid Them
- Keeping Colors in Gamut
Photoshop Layer Styles
- Using styles in Photoshop
- Using Inner Shadow Style To Make A Cutout
- Make a 3D Plastic Bubble Effect
- Trimming an Element, video
- Making Puffy Paint Glitter Doodles
- Making A Simple Border Using "Stroke"
- Distressing Using the Underneath Texture
Working With Brushes
- Adding brushes to Photoshop, video
- Misting and Brush Techniques from JustJaimee.com, video
- Making A Brush Set in Photoshop
- Making Random Scatters
- Using a Random Brush Tilt for Pattern Making, video
- Cleaning Up An Image to Use As A Brush
Photo Editing
Make This Page
- Make this page 1, video
- Make this page 2, video
- Make this page #4, video
Other Software
Tech Tips
- Tagging on Pinterest, ctrl+f
- Making a Color Palette, online or Photoshop
Designer Behind the Scenes
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Wow... Many tutorials... Thank you so much for share them... I'll see all!!!
This tutorials are very motivating!
Thank you for these tutorials
This is great having the Table of Contents as a sticky, saves scrolling through all the posts.
thank you for thes tutorials,
I love that you have not shied away from the small/basic/easy things in PS. It is often those you don't find when you are self-taught.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make all these and thereby saving us a lot of time.
XOXO
Trine
Thanks for these tutorials. I can't wait to go through them.
I currently don't know how to do anything digitally, so I am hoping these tutorials will help me get started. I really like how organized this whole site is, and making an easy to follow table of contents is great. Thanks!
tutorial table of contents? awesome.
This is just fantastic. I'm new to the digital scrapbook world and I'm looking forward to sitting down and going step by step with many of these so I can become more proficient. I've been crafting and card making for years but I've been wanting to expand into the digital aspect of crafting for some time. I know my way around my computer and thought this would be a natural progression. It's one area of the craft world that has been eluding me and I decided to jump in with both feet. I know these tutorials will help me immensely. I knew I came to the right place to be inspired & learn all about digital scrapbookingl!! Thank you so much.
@Connie: Glad to help!
all of those tutorials are awesome! thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Wow Marisa, you are so generous to share your tutorials. i have found most digi designers share a lot of their knowledge but you go above and beyond! Thank you so very much!
Thank you so much for sharing these tutorials!
Thanks for the quick and easy guide, I will definitely be using this very soon!
Looking forward to learning some new stuff
Thanks for this Awesome list .. xx
Thanks for all the tutorials, I see a day in my future going thru them all
Thanks you for these tutorials
the tutorial table of contents sticky is a fantastic idea! What a time saver! I can't wait to have a go at your glitter tutorial
Thank you very much for the tutorials!
Thank You! These Are amazing.
Thanks for all the tutorials Marisa, so much learning to do and this will become a little bible to us me thinks.
I am so thrilled to find this table of tutorial contents. Thank you! I use gimp but can make sense of alot of these for photoshop.
Ahhh, this is where they are. I'll have to come back to take a closer look. In any case, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
So helpful to have a list of what is available. Thank you.
gracias por compartir estos conocimientos voy a tomarme el tiempo para verlos a todos , ya que no soy muy ducha en el uso del los programas , pero seguro podré aprender mucho en ellos
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I'm loving all the wonderful tutorials! There's always something new to learn or "remember" no matter how long you've used Photoshop. Thanks tons for all you do!
I would love to see a tutorial for realistic shadowing in a layout.
Thanks, that's helpful!
I feel like a kid in a toy store....where to begin first?!
I'm very new to PSE and still floundering around so this section is REALLY helpful. Thanks!
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