Lately, I’ve been experimenting with some ideas for presenting family stories in a hybrid format – part family history and part scrapbook. While looking for inspiration, I stumbled on DesignerDigitals and Katie Pertiet’s wonderful compositions. Her use of brushes, layer modes and opacity settings – not to mention some of her delicious design elements – helped me turn some worse-for-wear slides into interesting art.

In the example below, the faded image of my father and brother at the bottom of the page is the slide that was in such bad shape. It looks like I “grunged” it, but no, it’s condition was that bad. Instead, I took a lop-sided brush and erased around the edges of the photo then reduced the opacity so it looks like it’s part of the background.

I used a similar technique in the banner to give the low resolution image of the beach houses a bit more importance. By the way, that’s me (left) and my sister enjoying ourselves in front of the camera.

If you’d like to learn more about these techniques, visit DesignerDigitals tutorials section for some great scrapbook training.

Resources:

• The shell image in the banner comes from the Beachy Cluster Brushes kit.
• Other elements came from the Letterbox Beachcomber Kit.
• The frame around the photo is from Katie’s Stacked Vintage Frames.
• The font used in the text is the Surfer (of course!) font.

Related posts:

• The Hybrid Family History
• Another Angle for a Hybrid Family History
• Color Palette Generator
• Digital Storytellers
• Electronic Publishing for Family Historians

Tags: DesignerDigitals, family history, Scrapbooking
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