Hi All! Welcome to all the new community members! I have seen some amazing scrapblogs from everyone in the last couple of days!
I wanted to highlight a tip on how to use patterns in the builder. As you can see in the photo below, some backgrounds appear square in the “Get Backgrounds” section of the builder and some are rectangle. The square backgrounds are patterns that can be dropped into any of the Scrapblog shapes.
Using patterns with the shapes in the Scrapblog Builder will result in amazing new combinations for layouts. It’s very simple to do, first you find the patterns that you want, select them and they will fly into your tray. Now that you have patterns, you can drag them into any shape! Play around with them, have fun!!! Isn’t that what scrapblogging is all about?!
Remember, if you ever have any theme suggestions, comments or just want to say “hi” you can send me an email to rebecca [at] scrapblog [dot] com
Yes! Now, you can flip stickers like pancakes on a Sunday morning. Does this mean that there’re four times the stickers? No, but your creative possibilities have increased exponentially.
We’d love to see how flipping sparks your creativity. If you use the flipping feature, tag your scrapblogs “flipped” so that we can find them and feature them here.
Karen (”little_m“) has been developing innovative techniques in Scrapblog (here’s one on changing eye color), and she has discovered a new one. On page 25 of “Oakland, Florida, USA“, you will notice silhouettes of children playing over a picture a playground:
This was a challenge to make, but Karen figured out how. In her own words,
“One of my other favorites and probably the most difficult page I’ve created in this scrapblog is the playground page! That page almost didn’t happen! I struggled with making those children ‘blend’! The problem was that the picture I found online had a blueish gradient ‘real sky’ background:
I used the color-picker to match the color of the sky in the photo, as closely as I could. I then used the opacity option to lighten the photo up a bit, just enough to make it all blend! If you look closely at it, you’ll see the ’seam’ just above the children on the left and right-hand sides of the center playground picture.
Also, I wanted the children to go all the way across the page, so I copy and pasted the photo one more time, then I cropped one of the photos. Again, if you look closely at the page, you’ll see seams between the 3rd and 4th child and the 6th and 7th child! My eye is automatically drawn to these imperfections everytime I view the page, but I still love it… just because I struggled with it for a fair amount of time! My goal was to somehow put some children on that deserted playground and I like the almost ghostly effect of the silhouettes!”
We think this looks great and the page is very creative. Thanks for sharing, Karen!
Check out this video of Scrapblog! It was produced by Michael Pick of Smashcut Media and we first showed it this past Friday at the Future of Web Apps party. Do you like it? We love the effects at the beginning and have added a whole bunch of scrapblogs made by you … I think this version has over a hundred pages. We’ll make a shorter one as well and perhaps include more effects. What do you think?
We just added new email notifications to Scrapblog. Now, it’s much easier to follow your friends on Scrapblog, to follow comments you’ve left on others’ scrapblogs and to follow activity on your own scrapblogs.
You may select which types of email notifications you would like to receive. After you login to Scrapblog, click on “Edit Profile” at the top right and then on “Email notifications”, as shown in the screenshot above. From there, feel free to select which notifications you would like to receive.
