My First Project - Kassandra's 1st Year Album

[davidcoty@tx.rr.com]

Hi Norma!
How is your project going? Any more amazing LOs to share with us?
I have been out of pocket the past few days...we were in Houston, New Orleans and Austin. We are now back in Dallas but we have family in town so I have not been able to digiscrap at all! I'm going through withdrawal!!!! LOL
Will catch up with my projects next week and will post them asap. I owe you my CT LOs for your site, as well as RubyLane's...

[SgD DESIGNS]

I got behind this week... life -- I tell you!!

But I have time to catch up this weekend... YEAH!! I do not have to work on my day-time job this weekend, so I will catch up on my project.

Today we reserve the park for Kassandra's 1st Year birthday... only one month away... so yes, the pages have to get done this weekend, and I am so ready for some scrapping time!!

[SgD DESIGNS]

Well, the web site upgrade too some of my time... but I still manage to create these pages:

Page 7: My Baby's 1st Month





Page 8: Me and my Big Sisters





Page 9: Every day is a good day - version 1




Every day is a good day - version 2.

I am not sure which one to use yet, that is why I am including both.





Page 10: A Baby can't never have too many toys






Page 10 and 11: My First Snow





Page 12: My mom has thought me well




That's all I got so far...

I have 8 more to go...

[davidcoty@tx.rr.com]

Beautiful Norma! All these layouts are so cute...and I don't know which one I would choose for the "Everyday is a good day" LO!!!! Well done!!!!

[SgD DESIGNS]

Thank you!!

[SgD DESIGNS]

I got three more pages done:


Page 13: My morning ritual




Page 14: I love showers






Page 15: Did I mention...?






... almost there.


Norma

[davidcoty@tx.rr.com]

Beautiful pages Norma!!!! Way to go!!!!!!

[SgD DESIGNS]

Page 16: My Viejito Face

[davidcoty@tx.rr.com]

This is such a funny picture! Great LO Norma!

[doramide7]

Originally Posted by SgD DESIGNS

Day 3 - Results

I was a little worry about today, since today was the day I was schedule to fix 33% of my images and I have more than 100 of them, scatter on 20 directories.

So, to save time, I loaded up all of the images under 1 directory into one big photoshop file. Photoshop has a very nice script that can load many files automatically on one single photoshop psd file. The script is under File->Scripts->load files into stack.

Once all of the files were loaded, I made the photo adjustments. I adjust the color, contrast and level. Then I moved to the next photo in my layer, but if the photo was not good enough or was too blurry or just plain bad, then I removed it from my layers and only kept the good ones.

Once all of the photo adjustments were done, I group the files on possible pages. Some directories had so many images, that I could make 3 layouts from them, so I decided to put the group files in order within the photoshop layered file and to also make notes as to whether the photos were going to make a one-page, two-page or a three-page layout(s).

As I did this, I started getting ideas about the journaling or title pages to use, so I created a text layer for each of those possible titles or journaling ideas, just so that do not forget them, because I know the minute I am ready to start writing titles, I am not going to remember any!

Here is how my photoshop layered file looks for one directory:





That's it!

Norma

This project just seems daunting to me! LOL
Although the reason I started scrapping was a similar project: years ago I wanted to create a scrapbook for my husband with all the Christmas cards we had sent over the years...simple enough, right? Well, that project got a life of its own and it turned into a year long project of scrapping (paper scrapping, mind you!) the last 10 years of our life! LOL But I did manage to finish that first huge book (actually, a set of two books) and I have been scrapping ever since. When I think back to that time I really don't know what possessed me to start!