Creative Photo Cropping for Scrapbooks

by Memory Makers

Steps for turning your photos into works of art Open up those shoe boxes of photos and discover the joy and excitement of cutting and cropping your pictures. This book will inspire you to move beyond... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892127113
• ISBN13: 9781892127112
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Memory Makers Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Best scrapbook I've ever bought!

I just received this book a couple days ago and it is absolutely worth the money! I don't have a lot of money to spend on scrapbooking stuff and this book gives so many ideas that dont require expensive tools! (you can use simple scissors for all of the ideas) Each page is full of easy, fun ways to make your pages look absolutely spectacular!! I am so glad that I bought this book and I recommend it to everyone.

scrapbooking is ultimately about the photos

Since scrapbooking is ultimately about the photos, this book hits the mark. Putting your photos on a page has never before been so intriguing! This book is not about what color mat to put under your photos or how to align them on a page- it's about how to transform your photos into works of art, even the shots that did not come out so well. From the whimsical to the elegant, there are techniques in this book to help you design the most interesting and unusual pages. And best of all, for most of the projects you don't really need a lot of fancy tools or purchased accessories- just scissors and glue. And, though I am a crafty type, I don't like to do projects that are too fancy and involved, and this book only has a few truly advanced projects ( like kaleidoscopes, which also require you to develop multiple and reversed copies of your prints). I would suggest this book to any scrapper out there who wants to add intriguing images to your pages.

A scrapbooking investment

I bought this book as a gift for my sister-in-law and fellow scrapbooker. Well, after browsing through it quickly, I could not resist looking deeper and studying the ideas presented. Now I had to break down and buy my own copy. The ideas shown here, are so much more than your typical scrapbook page embellishments such as stickers, papers, frames and mats. This is how to make your photos into works of art. The techniques shown here make the pictures the center of attention. I find that when I do these kinds of pages, I get great results with just a simple hand drawn border.You may need to buy a few new tools to do these kinds of techniques, but I find this to be such an investment over buying more stickers, papers, etc. These pages really wow people, and once I made the initial investment, they are actually cheaper to do.I especially love the sections on mosaic pages, slicing pictures and using a photo to frame itself. This book is my all time favorite right now...

The first scrapbooking how-to newbies should read

If you are still new to scrapbooking and have discovered this book, I envy you. There's no telling how much better my early pages would have been if I had read Creative Photo Cropping for Scrapbooks (CPCS) first. I probably would have saved a lot of money also, for example, by learning how to display my photographs in a way that kept them interesting but didn't rely on buying a lot of decorative accents and fancy papers. After a short section in the beginning about the tools and basics of cropping photographs, the techniques shown quickly lead to more creative ideas. Techniques covered include: cropping frames into the photo, silhouettes, innovative ways to integrate punches into the action, shapes from templates or freehand, twenty-six ways to make letters from photos, using other photographs as mats and borders, photo mosaics and quilts, weaving, and leaded glass effects. It should be emphasized that these are all things that do not take a lot of artistic talent or training; however, when you feel inspired to try for a certain look or two, you may find yourself changing the way you take your pictures from the start.One great thing about creative photo cropping, IMHO, is that you are not rushing to the scrapbook store every time you decide to try a different technique with your pictures. The most-used tools in your supply box will be scissors, adhesive, a xacto knife, a straightedge metal ruler and a cutting mat. True, some of these layouts ideas call for templates. The book provides three such templates for enlarging with a photocopier, and several cutting patterns as well. The reader may even be inspired to try some freehand pattern drafting. Scrapbooking with the methods in this book is very easy on the wallet.Basically, I love this book. My layouts are better and cleaner, and I am inspired by CPCS to focus on the real stars of the pages - the photos themselves. -Andrea, aka Merribelle

Before you throw out those not-so-good photos out....

This book is for those who like to try innovative cropping techniques. I'm a beginner in scrapbooking and it is not so difficult to try. The samples are excellent source for inspirations and by just looking at the color samples, I can say "wow." I like the idea of using leftover photo scraps and turn them into mosaic pieces. Bad photos can turn into a piece of art. The book gives a variety of ways of cropping not limited to using templates. Start with a sharp cutting tool (razor or scarpel), cutting/healing mat and a metal ruler and away you go. The book also asks you to send in your artwork - perhaps it maybe be featured in a Memory Makes issue. An excellent reference book.