Saturday Special: Try a 2-Pager
Happy Saturday everyone!! Are you recovering from Thanksgiving and Black Friday yet? We’re having a great time here at SM with our sale, grab bags, and now the Saturday Special! I hope you’re all having fun with us!!
Well - I decided that for this Saturday Special we’d try our hand at a DOUBLE PAGE LO.
You probably recall we recently had an AWESOME article from Cyndi all about how she creates her 2-pager and how to make them flow! You might want to re-read it and refresh your memory. You’ll find that article HERE.
Today I’ll walk you through step by step on how I create and divide my 2-pagers. I, like Cyndi, create my double page LOs as one big 12×24 document. I use a Guide at the center to help me keep in mind not to cut off any faces or journaling at the division of the 2 pages. (All of my tutorials here are in Photoshop CS3, but I’m pretty sure similar methods are available in other programs).
To add a guide to your document, make sure you can see your rulers around the edges. (View > Show Rulers or command+R will make your rulers appear). Then, with the move tool on the left side ruler, click and drag your cursor onto the page. You should be dragging a teal Guide line. You can place this line anywhere on the page. Its an invisible line that will not show up on your actual page (View > Show Guides or Control+; will hide or show the Guides). I place a Guide line at the dead center of my 12×24 page.
(click to enlarge)
After scrapping your page, you can “save for web” this full 12×24″ LO. I make a 600 pixel wide version of my full LO to add to my credits, just so people can see what it looks like all together (keep reading and I’ll explain how I do that). But I also want two separate 600×600 LOs to post in the gallery so people can see the pages better. Not to mention I, of course, want two high res 12×12 images to print! So . . . what to do?
This is what I do.
Go to Image > Duplicate Image to create a copy of your page. This way we won’t mess up our original 12×24 layered document.
After you create your duplicate, save and close your original.
With the copy, flatten all layers by going to Layers > Merge Visible (Shift+Control+E).
Make sure your flattened layer isn’t locked (no little padlock on the layer in the layer palette, if there is, drag the padlock into the trash). Next I go to Image > Canvas Size and change my Canvas Size to 12×12. Click ok on the next box that pops up. Then drag your image all the way to the right so that only the left side of your 2-pager is showing. Zoom in close and make sure your exact edge is flush with the left edge of the canvas.
Then go to File > Save As and save this as a high resolution jpg (highest quality level possible).
Then drag the image the opposite direction and save the right side. You can also create those 600×600 web size jpgs during these steps if you so choose.
And that’s it!! Now you’ve got your fabulous 2-pager divided up just right!!!
One last trick. When I want my 600 pixel wide full 2-pager to show up in my credits, I upload it to my photobucket account and then type this code above my list of credits:
This is how the full 2-pager looks:
[IMG]http://URL OF HOSTED PHOTO HERE[/IMG]
I’m happy to answer ANY questions you have about dividing or posting 2-pagers. Just PM me from the forum. My username is “britt”.
- Your challenge for the Saturday Special is to just try your hand at a 2-pager. Maybe you scrap these all the time, maybe you’re out of practice, maybe its your first 2-pager ever! No matter what the circumstances, just try a 2-pager.
- Post each one of the 2 separate 600×600 sides in the gallery so we can see all the details.
- After you post to the gallery, link us up to both sides of your 2-pager in this thread in the forum. That’s it!!
The technical stuff:
- You’ll receive 1 point for completing this challenge if you post it in the “Saturday Special” gallery, as well as linking it back up in this forum.
- This challenge can be counted for either November or December. If you post before the end of November, it will count towards November. Any posted during December will count towards your December points. But you can only do it once! Not one for each month.
- You can receive 1 bonus point for using a new release (within 1 week of release) from SM in your LO. If you use a new release, make sure to say so in your post and credits so we don’t miss your bonus point.
- And at the end of the December, I’ll be choosing my favorite entry and that scrapper will get 1 bonus point on their January tally!
- Your LO must be a NEW LO specifically created for this challenge. And you may not combine this challenge with any other SM challenge or speed scrap.
Here’s mine!!
(click here for credits)
And here is one from our awesome CTM Mary (littlehiccup) (click each side to enlarge):
(using an alpha from Designs by Tater’s Grab Bag, a kit from Mickey B’s Grab Bag, and “Hang in There” by Britt-ish Designs)
Have fun with this challenge! Can’t wait to see all the 2-pagers roll in!
