I love the flexibilty in size. You can go full width or height, what I mostly did with big photo pages in paper crafting. Digitally you can easily choose any size that fits your page right in the process, no need to plan everything out beforehand to order the right photo printing size. This gives me so much freedom in creating.
Let’s take a look at some ways to incorporate big photos into your digi layouts!
Classic Design
We can do the classic design with the photo in full width or height.
Full Screen
Or we can go full screen, skip papers altogether and add elements directly to the photo to make it the full focus.
As Patterned Background
We could also use a full screen photo for the background, instead of it being the main focus. This works particularly well with pictures showing structured surfaces and the like. For the second page I used a close-up of one of the photos for the background to get a close look on the tangible structure of the artwork.
Blending
There are some techniques and styles we can only do in digi scrapping. We talked about some of them in last month’ post about digital mixed media and in Misty’s post about the advantages of working digitally!
First of all, we can do blending. Either for a smooth transition between the photo and the background papers, or more subtly to create a background for the main photo. In the second example, I blended the photo and the background paper and reduced the opacity of the photo to create that subtle background with the exterior view of the café where the main photo is taken.
Masks
We also could use masks to incorporate our big photos. The blending can be more or less soft and subtle.
Building Little Landscapes
Another really fun thing to do with big photos is using them to create your own little landscapes! If you havn’t tried it yet, I really recommend it, it is very playful and a lot of fun.
To a certain extent, you can do this with paper, too, if you are handy with a cutter! The second page though, with the little creatures coming out of the fog, can only be done digitally, because I set the opacity quite low to get the impression of them being in the fog, not just sitting on the surface.
October’s Colour Palette
You might have seen already that we have a colour palette for this month of soft oranges, tans, and blues. Check out Lindsy’s take on this palette in her ATCs post.
You find my take below!
Seeing the colour palette and the accompanying picture I knew immediately I wanted a landscape photo with a lot of blue sky and a wide view. And the colours of the rocks work perfect with the earthy tones of the palette.
