I have always been fascinated by the left-brain, right-brain theory - and, if asked to describe myself, I would always say that I'm thoroughly left-brain. I make lists for everything (my "Remember the Milk" task list has 20 categories, including one for each month of the year to store those repetitive tasks that principals must remember to do each year).
Over the last year or so, I've taught myself to use Photoshop to create digital scrapbooks, and I'm finding that I enjoy using the "other" half of my brain. It all started with my left brain - I wanted a better solution for organizing the thousands of digital photos I had taken (and scanned), and I came across Photoshop Elements. It has wonderful tools for tagging and organizing photos, and I was hooked.
I don't know how I found it (probably by wandering through Google), but I discovered the online digital scrapbooking community, and realized how much more I could do with my pictures. Not only that, many of the tools for digital scrapbooking are available as "freebies," and I didn't have to clutter up the house with all sorts of paper scrapbooking supplies.
Shown below are a couple of my favorite digital scrapbook layouts, from my girls' Regina High School graduation photos.
Over the last year or so, I've taught myself to use Photoshop to create digital scrapbooks, and I'm finding that I enjoy using the "other" half of my brain. It all started with my left brain - I wanted a better solution for organizing the thousands of digital photos I had taken (and scanned), and I came across Photoshop Elements. It has wonderful tools for tagging and organizing photos, and I was hooked.
I don't know how I found it (probably by wandering through Google), but I discovered the online digital scrapbooking community, and realized how much more I could do with my pictures. Not only that, many of the tools for digital scrapbooking are available as "freebies," and I didn't have to clutter up the house with all sorts of paper scrapbooking supplies.
Shown below are a couple of my favorite digital scrapbook layouts, from my girls' Regina High School graduation photos.
This summer, I created a recipe scrapbook for a wedding shower gift for Julie. Below is one of the pages from that scrapbook. I used digital scrapbooking elements (freebies) from a website called Imagine by Fran. Interesting how the Internet has shrunk the world - the site is hosted in France, and the posts are all written in French. There's just enough English on the site for me to figure out what I want to use!
Of course, now I have lots of wedding photographs to scrapbook, too! This one is my favorite, since I learned a new technique (how to blend photos). I guess I have more right brain skills than I ever realized!
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