Scrapping with scanned baby photos

When Daughter-one was born we only had a cheap (really cheap!) camera, no idea how to take a decent photo and a much more relaxed approach to memory keeping.

Which all adds up to a sad lack of decent newborn photos. In fact, there are only a handful and most of those I thought were pretty unusable. They would have been thrown out only they were all we had so luckily I kept them.

When I say poor quality, I mean POOR quality:

So I scrapped them anyway, and after a bit of cropping and fiddling about in Photoshop, I now love them:

This is a companion page to this week's Saturday Scraplift page, which was inspired by the very talented Denise. You can find the original page HERE.

I had a couple of photos of my mother holding newborn Daughter-One and while I was scrapping them I realised that I even had a cute "new baby feet" photo if I zoomed in on a section of one of those pics:

So, if you are asking yourself how you can scrap old film newborn baby photos which are poor quality, I say scan them and go digital. The photos may be blurry and poorly lit, but you have the satisfaction of making the most of what they are and ending up with more than you thought. I love that little foot shot.

Cleaning them up and improving the quality can be as simple as increasing the brightness and contast. (I duplicate the photo layer before I play with the brightness, or I put the duplicate layer on screen or multiply or soft light blend mode. Then I can use a soft brush to erase the parts that DON'T need to be lightened or darkened). Using Sharpen-Unsharp Mask is also a must.

(If you are looking for tutorials or advice on starting digital scrapbooking, look here - and you can aslo get help and advice in the forum at Designer Digitals where newbies are made very welcome).

 

New Photoshop Texture and Pattern Brushes and new collage template in store

New in store this week at Designer Digitals:

I used the collage style multi-photo digital scrapbooking template here:

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Comments

[Heather T.]

Aww, darling! I'm so glad you were able to salvage those!