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Join us for the February Photo Challenge!

This month’s challenge is to capture something at an aperture of f/8. Why an aperture of f/8.0? F/8 is considered a story telling aperture. You are able to get much of your subject in focus, giving the viewer more to see. Many of us are addicted to shooting with “wide-open” apertures like f/1.4, blurring our background with only a small portion of our subject in focus. The f/8.0 challenge moves you out of that comfortable spot! Think creatively, interpret anyway you’d like, just use f/8! Since f/8.0 doesn’t let as much light in as wider apertures, watch your shutter speed, and you may need to bump your ISO up some!

Enter one photo with the tag, DesignerDigitals_February, in our DesignerDigitals POTD group at flickr. Your photo needs to be taken in the month of February and posted by midnight EST February 28, 2010.

The winner will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to B&H Photography and be featured on the DesignerDigitals blog.

Happy Shooting! Looking forward to seeing your story.

Welcome to the 21st Heritage Challenge!

This week’s challenge involves pets. Pets play a large role in our families - they become our family members and are a huge part of our lives. My current pet, Sawyer the crazy puppy, drives me up a wall but I wouldn’t trade him for anything. He’s an important part of our family.

So, let’s scrap heritage photos of pets this week!

Did you have a pet as a child that you’ll never forget? Photos of a pet you might have dressed up in funny clothes? Or maybe your parents or grandparents had a pet that has a special place in their heart.

Here are a few examples from our Creative Team.

Bonnie’s layout immediately caught my eye. The horse element is about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

Supplies: All You Need Overlays No. 7, Olde World Ornaments Brushes and Stamps No. 3, Paper Textures No. 2 BrushSet, Journal It! No. 1 Brushes and Stamps, Felt Board Friends: Barnyard Buddies, Mon Petit Ballon Bleu Solids Paper Pack, Botanical Fusion No. 01 Kit, Photo Wraps No. 01, Help Haiti Collaborative Collection, Collection Manuscrite Paper Pack, Farm Fresh Collection, Country Roads Kit, Vintage Photo Frames No. 12,  Jouets Collection, Worn Page Edges No. 03

Elena’s layout is just as adorable! Look at little Elena with the calf!

Supplies: MonoBlendz Winter Whites Paperie No. 01, Janine Solids, Countryside Clusters Brushes and Stamps, Hinge Pack, My Family Genealogy Definitions Brushes and Stamps, Pressed Flowers: Brights, Twisted Stitches, Vintage Photo Frames No. 17

My layout is about some swans that my grandparents took care of during my early childhood. They weren’t real family pets but they hold a lot of great memories for me.

Supplies: Cathy Zielske’s Layered Template No. 44, Collection Manuscrite Paper Pack, New Growth Brushes and Stamps No. 5, Brad Bonanza No. 1: Digital Fasteners

Post your layouts in the Heritage Gallery this week and we’ll all enjoy the memories together.

~Steph

Maybe it reminds me of the way I used to end up paper scrapping – run outa vowels anyone?- but I truly love to mix up my alpha and fonts. Anything altered art looking makes me happy!
You get something artistic and creative… and easy. You always have the ingredients needed!
This is my inspirational starting point-

Currently its very ‘in’ to be doing this, (tho heavens, I’ve definitely been doing it when it was probably ‘out’ too;) )And there are numerous ‘spell with photos’ websites about.
You can take both alphas or fonts for your letters, and mix them up. You can always rasterize and add a stroke to your font, to give it that sticker appeal too.
(Cassie has an excellent tutorial for that, ‘sticker art’ )

Or there are several fonts that mix it up for you, such as Laundromat 1967, Monbijoux, and Ransom Note Font, to name a few.

Plus, in store not only are there hundreds of alphas to choose from but we have Lynn’s Ransom alpha and, coming soon, Katies Found Alpha….

Want to see our example pages?
This is mine,

This is Sam’s,

And this is Linda’s

I hope we’re inspiring you! Be sure to try it out and post your pages to the JMT gallery!

Congratulations to echogirl. Her layout Sharp Dressed Man has been selected as the featured layout of the week where she won a $ 5 DesignerDigitals Gift Certificate for product of her choice!

This week’s Adobe Photoshop or Elements tip of the week is now available on video. This weeks tip is on How to Color Match Two Digital Images in Photoshop.