How do Templates work? What are styles?

CristyK

CristyK

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As my title suggest, I'm trying to figure out how templates work. A lot of the kits I've been buying (like 15 in the last few days) come with templates. How do you use them?

ALso what are the styles? The Digi Land kit came with a few. What do you do with them?

Thanks in advance
 
Hi Cristy :)

A very basic answer...templates are used as a "map" for designing your scrapbook layout. They have layers for papers to go, and placement of elements, photos, titles, and journaling. Different from a quick page that is a flattened file that you just place your photos in...a template will allow you to use any kit to customize the template. You can "clip" papers to different shapes and build your page that way.

Styles are preset effects that can change the look of your shapes, text or images. For example, Glitter styles can make your basic font into a glittery title. Or shadow styles will automatically add a drop shadow to a layer with one click.

If you want to share what program you're using, we can help you with more specific questions :)
 
I"m using My Memories Suite 8. I love the idea of making fonts glittery. I also have Corel PaintShop Pro
 
I use Adobe Photoshop on a mac...I'm not sure I'll be able to navigate you through how these files work with your programs, but will see if I can find someone to help :)
 
DISCLAIMER: I stopped using Paint Shop Pro with X2. So I'm only answering as far as what I know from X2 and below. I started digiscrapping with PSP7. With that said, I am a former Paint Shop Pro user, but I do not believe that you can use Photoshop styles with PSP. If you can, it's new to me as that is one of the biggest reasons why I jumped ship and bought Photoshop! PSP is easy to learn, but you are very limited as far as what you can do with the program, styles being one of them.

Templates, they are like sketches. You should be able to open the .psd template in your PSP. The only thing you won't see are the shadows as they generally do not transfer over to PSP. Some .tiff templates you can open, however I've never been able to get the layers when opening .tiff files, so I always used the .psd. With opening the .psd you will see all the layers of the template and be able to clip your papers to the paper pieces and place your elements wherever. Templates are just guidelines. They aren't the Bible, meaning you don't have to place everything exactly where they creator of the template created. You can use it as a base and go from there, wherever your inspiration leads. But with PSP, you should try opening/using the .psd and know/remember you won't see the pretty shadows that were created using Photoshop.
 
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