by Shawna on 07/29/10 | 4 comments

Besides the title, the main focus of our scrapbook layouts is our photos.  So why not make sure your photos are the best they can be? Here are a few techniques you can use to make your photos a bit more interesting. 1.       Take the time to learn your camera. Re...

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by jenn11089 on 02/05/09 | 2 comments

If you are like me you proabably take a lot of pictures. With the way technology is today, we are now able to take our pictures with very high resolution. This is great for editing, cropping, and manipulating our images before we print them, but unfortunately it doesn't do much for us when it comes ...

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by mindakms on 01/27/09 | 3 comments

Shopping for new camera Many tallygals got a new camera for Christmas, but probably just as many had a lousy Christmas and are out to drown their sorrows in a new camera. The camera is of course by far the most important piece of equipment a scrapbooker can own, because let’s face it: you ca...

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by TallyHo on 09/28/08 | 5 comments

A long time ago, Minda posted about how to take good photos of your layouts... with the idea that the better you can show off those pages in a photo, the better WE could see that tallent, and not be distracted by the little things. I thought I would revisit this, and give you a little tour of the d...

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by TallyHo on 04/21/08 | 9 comments

A while ago, I asked a question on the message boards... I needed to crop a photo to be a specific dimension, and I was having trouble figuring out HOW... I got it EVENUTALLY in photoshop, but it's still confusing to me, and I thought that I would show you what I found!! See, if you simply choose th...

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by TallyHo on 04/19/08 | 16 comments

Once in a while, I go visit a place on line called BIG HUGE LABS. BHL has all SORTS of fun tools to play with your photos... most if not all of them for free. Today, I wanted to show you a little bit of the goodness in a feature they call FRAMES. Think of all the fun things you could do with your sc...

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by TallyHo on 04/14/08 | 15 comments

My mom came over this weekend. She had found a BUNCH of slides that were of her as a child, and of my grandparents and other relatives. She and I both have a scanner that has the ability to scan slides, and she thought we might work on that while she was here. The scanner, as much as I LOVE LOVE LOV...

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by TallyHo on 03/15/08 | 5 comments

It's time!! (actually a bit overdue) for our weekly photoshoot challenge!! You can load your photos to THIS PAGE in the photogallery! This week has a few things going on, and so rather than CHOOSE between our 1 year anniversary, and St. Patrick's day, I chose both. You can see more on the challenge ...

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by TallyHo on 03/14/08 | 10 comments

Photography. It can be a little overwhelming... It can be REALLY intimidating... and we have the SOLUTION!! Katie, also known as Mama2gg, has made a video showing you a little bit about one of the BASICS, the RULE OF THIRDS. I'd like to add a little to her information. I personally, am not GOOD at ...

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by mindakms on 01/07/08 | 6 comments

Someone brought this up yesterday and today Dawn asked about it, and I thought it would make a great blog topic.  It is certainly a topic near and dear to my heart (and hey, its a blog post by Minda NOT about journaling!) If you use a digital camera, and download your photos on to your compute...

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by TallyHo on 11/11/07 | 7 comments

TallyHo here! Just bringing you a little project that Minda cooked up for the Design Team! A while back, you might remember that we did a photoswap as a design team. We also recently did one with the Designers from past and present teams as a prize. BUT those photos were scrapped FOR the people who ...

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