I recently received an email where someone asked me how to take an old black and white photo and change it to color. Doing the opposite (changing color to black and white) is very easy, but adding color to a black and white photo takes a little bit more effort but is well worth it once you know how ...

When you’re creating a digital scrapbooking page, it doesn’t always have to be a typical layout with cute embellishments, picture frames, and 3D looking flowers. Sometimes the coolest layouts are completely different. In this case, I created a comic book layout from some of our vacation ...

Sometimes it’s nice to create your own embellishments for your layouts. And that’s one of the goals I have here at ScrappingGuy.com. I want to show you how you can really customize your designs by showing you how to create everything you need for your digital scrapbooking projects. Read ...

Halloween is my favorite holiday and even though I have quite a few Halloween type fonts, when I’m creating large word art for my layouts, I’d rather make them a little more personal. In this digital scrapbooking video tutorial, I’ll show you how you can take a normal font and chan...

Here’s a cool digital scrapbooking video tutorial which shows you how you can easily use the paint brush to create a straight line. I’ll also show you a couple of reasons on why you’d want to do this. With this tip and the examples, you can really get your creative juices flowing w...

Whether it’s the prospect of finding the popular pot of gold, or simply for the beautiful colors, a rainbow can really lift your spirits on an otherwise plain digital scrapbooking design. In this video tutorial, I’ll show you how you can create a rainbow in less than a minute in Photosho...

Sometimes creating a great looking digital scrapbooking embellishment is by taking an ordinary peice of clipart and adding some texture. In this video tutorial I’m going to show you how to do it quickly and easily using Photoshop Elements 7. Once you see how easy it is, you’ll be creatin...

One of the coolest features of Adobe Photoshop Elements is the ability to import and use brushes. You can do some amazingly creative things with just the brush tool. In this digital scrapbooking video tutorial, I’ll show you where you can get hundreds of brushes, how to install them, and IR...

If you’ve ever gone to a youth football, soccer, baseball or softball game, I’m sure you’ve seen at least one parent wearing a button that highlight’s their child. Well why not do the same thing with your digital scrapbooking layouts? In this video tutorial I’m going to...

Corkboards can be used as digital scrapbooking layouts or embellishments for your layouts. In this tutorial video I’m going to show you how you can create your own corkboard with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 that you can use in your designs. Read more… ...