an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
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This seven minute video shares the different techniques I use to create monthly product collages in Photoshop Elements 9. The final board always comes together like a puzzle & is usually fun to make.
Below are some samples of these monthly pages :
They can all be seen (with product links) here.
Thank you for that vidoe tutorial. Photoshop intimidates me and I often feel like I can’t use it until I know what every single little button does. That was really clear and easy to follow and took the fear out of it 🙂
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in case you haven’t already figured this out, command shift 4 will let you take a screenshot of just a selected area (so you could draw a box around those earrings instead of fiddling with that later)
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exactly, i mean exactly what I wanted to know. thanks
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Hi Elise, thank you for sharing!
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Thanks so much for sharing! I always thought I needed the big photoshop program to do something like this.
(and in case a PC user doesn’t want to google it, PCs have a “print screen” button on the keyboard. just press the button and then paste into an open document to display the screenshot.)
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Hey Elise – thanks for the Mac shortcut to do a whole screen shot! Cool to know. I use the same but with 4 instead of 3. Then I can click and drag anywhere on the screen and get a shot of just part of the screen, any part I want.
I have CS4, not PSE, so does PSE have an eraser tool? On mine that is just hit E for Eraser. Then instead of having to create another layer and add color on top of an item, you can just erase color or sections from the actual item.
I need to remember the magnetic lasso tool. I am always hand selecting for precision and sometimes I don’t need to be so perfectionistic.
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Love the video, as I’m a total newbie to PSE! Thanks so much! 🙂
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Thank you ! The video is really great and very helpful !
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I love learning new stuff – but I LOVE when you show us cool stuff, too! With the links 😉
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Thank you for all that you do!
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Yay! I love this tutorial! I currently have aperture, but I’m leaning toward investing in photoshop. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this very helpful tutorial!
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This is so helpful! Would you happen to know why when I move something to my collage that I can’t adjust the size? It doesn’t have the dots to make it larger or smaller. Thank you so much!
Alison
http://heartofgoldandluxury.blogspot.com
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Make sure you have the arrow highlighted and then the boxes checked at the top that say show lines or show boundaries or something like that. I am pretty sure it is a setting you want to have turned on. Hope that helps! elise
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great tutorial, THANK YOU. I am still new to blogging, I just went through the Blog Design e-course and I’ve been a busy girl sprucing up my blog! I’ve still got a long way to go. THANK YOU so much for your expertise!! xoxo
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Elise, thank you SO much for this tut. I have been wanting to create a collage in PS for the longest time, but have been unsure as how to go about it. Today, after reading you, I DID IT! I am so excited. thank you thank you. And, I also printed out a 12×12 photo as per your instructions for my PL 2013.
You are an inspiration to us all.
And little Ellerie is just the most gorgeous little munchkin. Congratulations to you and P x
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enJOY it 
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