Saturday Special – Rule of 3rds
Stacy here with your next Saturday Special Challenge. You hear about the rule of thirds a lot in photography, but it also applies to your scrapbook pages as well. What is the rule of thirds exactly? It is a compositional rule of thumb which states that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections (Wikipedia).
I found some great examples in photography if you want to take a look and get an idea of what I am talking about. http://photoinf.com/General/KODAK/guidelines_for_better_photographic_composition_rule_of_thirds.html
How does this apply to our scrapbook pages? Well for some unknown reason our brains like the number three. This always makes me laugh because I don’t like odd numbers, but I do realize that things seem more appeasing (even to my strange odd number phobia brain) when they are placed in groups of three. If you look around you will see this rule in a lot of places, watch TV for example, the eyes are usually placed in the top third of the frame. The rule of thirds helps to bring more energy and interest to your photographs and also your LOs.
So for this challenge you need to scrap a LO using the rule of thirds. There is an easy way to do this and know where you lines should be. In PSE simply open up your new LO and hit edit, preferences, grid.
You can choose what color you want your grid lines to be, as well as what kind of lines you want them to be. In the grid line box put in 33.33 and change the drop down to percent. Change subdivisions to 1.
Then if you want to see your grid simply hit view and grid and easy as that your grid will show up to guide you.
Here is my example with the grid showing:
As you can see my picture is in the bottom two squares, the ribbons follow the first horizontal line and the journaling and title follow the second horizontal line. Remember this is a guideline – it doesn’t have to be exact.
Here is the LO without the grid:
I used JenLin Designs NEW kit A winter’s memory along with her date tags.
Here are some other examples.
Krista (Norton94) using Alma’s ScrapHabit Designs – Brighter Tomorrows:
Denise (neeceebee) using Home Sweet Home by GG Digital Designs and Jeni Hopewell:
Andrea (Chia) Ferntree Fairies–Scrap’ It Designs by Brianna Cox:
Monique (monsu) On the Playground Kit and Pokies Swirls and nature bits by Jeni Hopewell:
There you have it. Hope this helps you think of another way to scrap those LO. Can’t wait to see your magical creations!
Tags: Tutorials
December 7th, 2008 at 7:29 am
This was a fun challenge:)
December 7th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Fabulous design concept!