What are layers?
To scrap digitally, you need to know about layers. Have you ever seen those maps in encyclopedias where the bottom map drawn on the paper is, for example, the map of the Americas before the Europeans came over. Then you add a clear page over top that adds the American colonies. Then you could add another clear page that showed the Lousiana purchase or something. As you kept adding layers, you saw the United States growing until a present day map is the finished project. Each layer was mostly clear, but had some color to overlap or increase the size of the US. Well, layers on a scrapbook page are like that. Everything you add to the page is a new layer that is mostly clear except for where the paper, picture, or element is. Let me show you. Each scrapbooking program will look different, but most of them use layers and often show the layers in a layer's pallet. Here is a simple scrapbooking page and the corresponding layer's pallet in PSE:
You will see that each element on the layout is represented separately in the layers pallet. There are 7 layers. The bottom layer is the green background. Then comes two layers for the two strips of paper. Then the picture, the title, the flower, and the tag.
So why work with layers? The simplest reason is that it keeps each element on your layout separate so you can change the size, color, rotation, or anything else of any element without altering the rest of the page. You can also change the layering on the page. For example, I could move the numbered paper strip on top of the pokadot paper strip, by just moving Layer 1 above Layer 2 in the layer's pallet.
As you learn to scrap digitally, you will understand the use of layers better and will come to enjoy them as much as I do!
Credits for the layout: Gretchen Tripp's Inspiration Kit, font: Euphorigenic
To scrap digitally, you need to know about layers. Have you ever seen those maps in encyclopedias where the bottom map drawn on the paper is, for example, the map of the Americas before the Europeans came over. Then you add a clear page over top that adds the American colonies. Then you could add another clear page that showed the Lousiana purchase or something. As you kept adding layers, you saw the United States growing until a present day map is the finished project. Each layer was mostly clear, but had some color to overlap or increase the size of the US. Well, layers on a scrapbook page are like that. Everything you add to the page is a new layer that is mostly clear except for where the paper, picture, or element is. Let me show you. Each scrapbooking program will look different, but most of them use layers and often show the layers in a layer's pallet. Here is a simple scrapbooking page and the corresponding layer's pallet in PSE:
You will see that each element on the layout is represented separately in the layers pallet. There are 7 layers. The bottom layer is the green background. Then comes two layers for the two strips of paper. Then the picture, the title, the flower, and the tag.
So why work with layers? The simplest reason is that it keeps each element on your layout separate so you can change the size, color, rotation, or anything else of any element without altering the rest of the page. You can also change the layering on the page. For example, I could move the numbered paper strip on top of the pokadot paper strip, by just moving Layer 1 above Layer 2 in the layer's pallet.
As you learn to scrap digitally, you will understand the use of layers better and will come to enjoy them as much as I do!
Credits for the layout: Gretchen Tripp's Inspiration Kit, font: Euphorigenic
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