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How to Use a Quickpage

Quickpages are digital scrapbooking pages that are already completed, with space left for a picture. This is a quick and easy way to scrap fairly quickly (hence the name quickpage). Some designers will use free quickpages as a way to show off a sample of their newest work. Other places will sell single quickpages or an entire album of quickpages.

Quickpages are usually saved as a PNG file. If you remember back to what we learned about saving, PNG files keep the transparency. This is important so that the quickpage can have sections cut out of it, like windows, where the pictures are to go. All you need to do is open the quickpage, open the picture you want on the page, and move the picture onto the quickpage. Then, make use of those nifty layers to move your picture under the quickpage. You can resize the picture to fit in the “window” on the quickpage.

Some quickpages are saved as a JPEG file. If this is the case, instead of a window for the picture, there will be a mat on the page and you put the picture on top of that. The downside to these is that you will have to crop the picture to fit exactly as you want – you can’t hide any part behind the page. This also means that if you want anything over the picture, like photo holders of some kind, you will need to add them. Of course, the other option with a JPEG quickpage is to use the marquee tool to select and then cut out a section of the page, and then slide your picture behind it.

Here is a quickpage for you to download and use. If you download it, I would love for you to leave me a comment.

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