by Debbie Hodge | Jan 6, 2013 | Design Principles, Feature
The visual triangleWhen you have three spots on your page that have something in common and that stand out, they catch the viewer’s eye. The viewer’s mind looks for things that stand out. Check out these idea for making visual triangles: 4 ways to...
by Debbie Hodge | Sep 26, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
by Debbie Hodge In a symmetrically balanced visual design, elements on either side of a central axis balance one another. The act of riding a bike requires the balancing of physical weight on either side of a vertical axis. The act of creating a symmetrical visual...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 24, 2012 | Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design
A successful scrapbook page captures the viewer’s attention, controls the eye’s movement, conveys information, and evokes emotion. That first task–capturing the eye’s attention–is the work of making a focal point. Photos are most often the focal points on scrapbook...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 20, 2012 | Composition, Design Principles, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge See the making of this page by Debbie Hodge from start to finish in a video tutorial that includes photo edits, finding a magazine layout to guide element placement and putting everything together in a way that merges a graphic look with a love of...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 14, 2012 | Composition, Design Principles, Digital / Photoshop Techniques for Scrapbooking, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge The starting point for any scrapbook page for me is faith: faith that if I begin moving my photos around on the canvas, the story and the design will emerge. Watch me make At the Falls and see where my faith took me on this day. Resources: I...
by Debbie Hodge | Aug 7, 2012 | Composition, Design Principles, Feature, Ideas Spurred by Design, Time Lapse Video Tutorials, Videos
by Debbie Hodge The starting point for any scrapbook page for me is faith: faith that if I begin moving my photos around on the canvas, the story and the design will emerge. Watch me make The Fussy Ones and see where my faith took me on this day. See my starts and...
