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Febuary 2006 Newsletter and More

February 2006 Newsletter

Have you looked in the archives of our digital scrapbooking newsletter lately? I came across one recently which has wonderful information that can be used over two years later. It has tutorials on photo techniques concerning manual white balance and manual aperture setting. Even though digital cameras have came a long way since 2006 it is still helpful to see these tips and the examples of photos that demonstrate how effective the settings can be. Did you even know that these settings can be changed in your digital camera? Many prefer not to read their manuals which came with the camera, but this demonstrates how effective simple changes to the settings are.

We also have Melinda Staley’s tutorial on, “Making Elements and Templates From Basic Shapes” in Photoshop Elements. This can also be applied to many other software types that are used in digital scrapbooking. Most have some form of a cookie cutter or shapes that can be placed together to create very interesting tags or other elements.

You can also pick up three free kits by previous sponsors for Febuary 2006:

“Cozy” by Carrie Stephens, Fishscraps

“Love Is” by Pixel Expressions

“Birthday Z” by Kristy Mettler, Jen Reed, Melissa Goerke, and Digi Scrapz

Hot Links

On another note I would like our members to be reminded about the rule we have for “hot” (active) links. We can have a link to our personal blog, our gallery here at rakscraps, or our ScrapWow Albumn, but not anywhere else. You can put the following examples to give credit to who made the kit you are using by writing the link but not as an active one. Such as: Sunshine Kit by Bunchie at tbunchiedotblogspotdotcom but not http://tbunchie.blogspot.com (Not a real kit). I hope this helps you understand what an active link is-it leads to another site than rakscraps. It is permitted for your personal album as above or your blog.

Spammers

As always please help us by reporting spammers by clicking on the red triangle in the upper right corner of the post. It is so helpful for our members to do this for us. It allows us to go directly to the post and saves a lot of hunting down posts with that user. Thank you for your help in this matter.