My humble digital card beginning.
I love making my own greetings cards and thought that the card challenges would be a lot of fun. I own a Pazzle, Cuttlebug and a lot of paper and pens...and the things one would need to make great cards.
One day when I made a card for my sister the image on it got wet and the colors begin to run and it was ruined, so I started sending the images to Walmart to be printed. That solved that problem. That became costly so I got cheap, but good laser printer. Then I realize all the other stuff, the papers, glue, and stamps were getting costly as well.
That is when I decided to make the cards in
Paint Shop Pro aka PSP PSP is a software that I have been teaching myself since version 3 and not getting very far. What the program does is manipulate images...like photos. Here lately and now using version 12 I have learned that the program can also create images and paint them as well. Light bulb went off...why not use it to make my cards. And so digital card making began for me...and boy has it saved me money. I now make my cards in PSP, print them off and if I think the cards needs a little more I then add cut and paste to it, but not very often.
This blog now consist of my creations that I have made using nothing but PSP. I found the challenge for me is to teach myself how to meet the different card challenges within PSP.
I now store the cards on my computer in a psp format preserving the layers so later if I need to change something on one of the cards before printing it easy to do.
I also store all the papers, images, and embellishments that I add to my creations on the computer as well. I use to just scan them in. Boy does that save me space. I learned that these items have a friendly term, they are known as digital elements or digi papers and digi stamps. I just love them to pieces. They take up space on my hard drive and not the floor, basket, or box here and there.
I found that there are plenty of people out there that create these digi elements and share them for FREE. Needless to say I have tons of stuff now. Papers and embellishments that are made to match. No more hunting down the right this or that...it is all in the kits stored on my computer.
Well that is how all this digital stuff began...Just thought I share.
Hugs,
Jaggs
1 comments:
VERY nice! Thanks for playing with us on CCBJ!
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