So my three hours of scanning old paper scrapbook pages
(which you can read about HERE) resulted in quite a few gems seeing the light
of day for the first time in over a decade.
This was one of those pages.
Not a bad looking page. The colors coordinate, there’s some matting
going on behind the photos, a little Deckle edge scissor action, and what I’m
sure was time-intensive sticker lettering. But…what year was it? What was the
occasion? Why the wizard outfit? No
journaling! Again! (I’m thinking that could been my theme song…anyone know a
lyricist and a composer?)
The main thing I was glad of when I looked at this page was there were nice big pictures that I could easily import into card slots in
the PL app. The tricky part would be for those pictures that overlapped each
other a little bit. When you are trying to just zoom in on a photo, you only
get either a square or a rectangle shape to work with, and photos that overlap
each other can leave you with weird pieces on your finished page.
So I selected a template in the PL app that had matching
orientations for the photos on my paper page.
Then I pulled the pictures in, and added the journaling that
had been absent for 17+ years! But there was still that pesky overlapped photo
bit that I didn’t really like.
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| It's so hard to find the "right" purple background! I must have looked at every card collection that had a shade of purple until I found this one that would work (Everyday Joy Themed Cards). |
I’ve talked about how I sometimes use the LetterGlow app to
add journaling on top of photos, and I knew that the free version of that app
also has shapes you can add to your photos, so I decided to give that a try.
I exported a 12 x 12 image of the page from the PL app and
saved in on my phone’s camera roll. Then I opened up the LetterGlow app and
imported the page.
From there I selected the Add Graphics option, and selected Banners/Frames and scrolled through them until I found the one I wanted.
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| There are a few basic shapes that come free with the LetterGlow app. |
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| I thought this banner looked "wizardy". |
Then I positioned the banner over that little bit of the overlapping
photos that I wanted to try and hide. Then I added some text to the banner
graphic, and had my finished page!
So at this point I still had (in the PL) app the “finished
page” without the banner. I exported an editable backup of this version and
saved it in Dropbox. Then I took the “really finished” version, with the banner
added, and exported that from LetterGlow as a 12 x 12 image and saved that along
with the editable PL backup. If I ever wanted to make changes to the page, I
can bring the editable version back in the PL app, but would have to go in and
redo the banner I added in LetterGlow again. Make sense?
Anyway, I liked how it turned out in the digital version a
LOT! What do you think? Feel free to disagree with me…I’ve got thick skin! :)
