If you listened to last week’s Digi Show, you heard me talk about the Design Quality Guide. This is something the digital scrapbooking industry has needed for a long time. All of the industry standards and expectations in one place. If you have ever wondered what makes designs quality, save this to your computer and refer to it. If you are an established designer or just getting started, download it and take a look, I learned a thing or two and I’m sure you will too!
Supplies: template is Flight Plan #13 by One Little Bird; Flying High by Design by Dani; fonts are Smith, Century Gothic, and Fontologie Weathered.
When Jenn submitted the layout below for the May Playbook with a tip about angling the papers when working on a template, I thought it was pretty smart. I was sure there might be lots of new scrappers that don’t twist their papers a little to match up to the angle of a template shape. I remember a time when I was too new and hadn’t thought of it myself. I thought I would share today, how to twist your paper angle to match a template.
Supplies: Flight Plan #13 by One Little Bird; Love You More Than Ice Cream (included in May 2012 Digi Files); font is Just the Way You Are
Notice on the layout below how the stripes on the paper aren’t perpendicular with the edges of the paper strip:
By mousing over one of the corner handles and turning the paper until the box is perpendicular with the edges of the paper shape, that strip of paper looks more realistic:
I’ll do the same thing with the green paper strip behind the paper we just adjusted. Here is the before:
And after adjusing the green paper…
The changes are subtle, but make a big difference on the finished layout!
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Thanks for the kind comments ladies! I’m glad it’s been helpful.
Thank you for the quality guide. I now have a homemade action for trimming using the method recommended. It’s so easy to get stuck in a rut, and I never thought to use a style for my 3px stroke, instead I made that step much harder than it needs to be.
i’ve done or tried to do the straightening after clipping thing for a while now and it always makes me think ” gee i wish temp designers would put like -4deg or whatever the angle is in the layer palette title for layers where they’re obviously not perfectly straight ‘- would make getting the papers looking right so much easier! – the guide sure sounds like a handy resource
The design guide is awesome… I learned a lot! It’s very well written and easy to follow. I’m not a designer but I think it’s good info for any digital scrapbooker or designer.
Great tip.
Thank you for doing the quality guide… I thought it was just my computer when I started noticing papers showing up over 50″ at 72 PPI. I normally just resize them with the correct dimensions, but if I forget or don’t catch it it’s really just a pain to fix when I finally DO notice it!!
I love this tip! TY!!
I love this tip! TY!
Sorry for the double post!
Thank you for the quality guide! It has indeed been missing…
This is a great tip! I also like to resize some papers smaller to show repetitive patterns better…like polka dots or hearts.
Thanks for the quality document. Even for someone who isn’t interested in designing products its an important document to read so you can look at products from designers and decide which designer should earn your money and which shouldn’t. I recommend everyone reads it.
Great tip, thanks!