How to make your scrapbooking photos look professional

Often photographs aren’t quite the right shape and size or the photographic image is improperly centered. Having oversized or off centered photographs creates an air of unprofessionalism.

Carefully cropped and sized photographs, on the other hand, enhances the overall look and feel of your scrapbook.

There are two ways to solve these problems. The low tech way to solve these problems are to manually crop and shape the photograph using a pair of scissors or an exacto knife.

If you are manually cropping and cutting pictures, make sure that you mark the outline you want with chalk (or eye shadow if you don’t have chalk) before you cut. Remember the old saying, measure twice and cut once.

To manually change a distracting or cluttered background simply cut out the background and replace it with a with a new paper background. This allows the eye to focus on the people instead of the clutter behind them.

The high tech solution to your photograph woes is to use modern computer programs such as Photo Editor.

Using these programs, photographs can be magically darkened, brightened, sharpened, enlarged, and cropped without ruining your original photograph.

Some programs even allow you to change the background of the photograph.

Of course, more tips and techniques are included in “How To Make Mo~ney Scrapbooking” – available for a limited time at:

http://www.scrapbookingprofits.com

Warmly
Brett McFall

Everything looks better in color

Color coordination and contrast will highlight and accent your scrapbook. A well thought out color scheme can help define the theme of a page, attract attention to specific items, or detract away from mistakes.

Poorly chosen color schemes, on the other hand, can cause your scrapbook page to look gaudy or mismatched.

Background colors can either be matched, coordinated, or contrasted with the colors in your photographs, mementos, or embellishments.

Matching colors add to the continuity of the color scheme. Coordinated colors add depth to scrapbook pages. Contrasted colors focus the eye. In this way, color can be used to create the effect you desire.

A great way to see how colors look together is to collect and compare color wheels from your local paint or hardware store. Paint wheels are usually available nearly any paint department.

Of course, more tips and techniques are included in “How To Make Mo~ney Scrapbooking” – available for a limited time at:

http://www.scrapbookingprofits.com

Warmly
Brett McFall

Scrapbooking for profit? You need marketing help

Here’s a real quick tip for marketing your scrapbooking business.

Word of mouth advertising is invaluable. Trouble is, HOW do you get it happening.

One really simple way is to approach your local scrapbooking store. Now, they’ve always got people coming through their doors who are exactly in your market.

So what you can do is set up a “voucher” system. The store simply has a big pile of your “vouchers” on their checkout counter.

This voucher offers a fr~ee report … fr~ee gift … fr~ee consultation (let your mind run free with ideas!), and then includes your contact info.

But each voucher also contains a code which is unique to the store.

When they present the voucher to you, you can see this code. Which means if the person presenting the voucher to you becomes a paying customer, you give the store an agreed percentage of the sale.

See, the great thing about this strategy is that you only pay AFTER you have a client. Which is better than paying up front for advertising when you don’t even know if it will work!

It’s called an “endorsement.” And could send a flood of potential customers your way in no time at all

Of course, more tips and techniques are included in “How To Make Mo~ney Scrapbooking” – available for a limited time at:

http://www.scrapbookingprofits.com

Warmly
Brett McFall