Realized that yesterday after a busy, friend and family filled week. So, I spent pretty much the entire day sitting at my computer working on digital scrapbooking layouts for an online class I'm taking at Big Picture Scrapbooking and ignoring everyone around me.
I was hoping to be swayed toward doing some digital scrapbooking (and learn how to use Photoshop Elements correctly in the process...)
I've seen some absolutely gorgeous layouts in magazines that you'd never guess were done digitally. They're really quite inspiring and I keep thinking that digital scrapping would be a most logical thing for me to try. It's tidy, cheap and I can do it sitting right at my computer at any time of the day or night - even shopping for "supplies".
I have my spiffy slr camera, some serviceable software, a reasonably functional printer and the desire to try it...
But i'm just so tactile.
The feel of the paper and paint and ribbon and wire and...and... And the weight, even the smell (maybe not so much the taste, though) How can a flat piece of photo paper compete - no matter how amazing the subject printed upon it?
The class started a bit slow with basic color blocked layouts, but in the end, that worked out well since it gave me a chance to work on those PSE skills without being cognitively challenged. But clearly, we were not making those incredible pages from the magazines.
Once we started adding some embellishments and even better, making some embellishments, things definately picked up. At some point I started to have a lot of fun. Do you know how much I love drop shadows? (And yes, I do realize I've gone overboard with them, but I'll get over it eventually.)
There's only one week left of the class and at this point, I've done what I set out to do - learn about PSE and try digital scrapbooking.
I have to say, I don't think I've been converted...
but I may end up doing some hybrid scrapping - just so I can keep using those drop shadows and bevels. YEAH!
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