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1 Art of the Apps Monthly Membership Page 1 of 10 at Scrapaneers.com NOVEMBER 2018 THE DECEMBER PROJECT

2 Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Welcome to Art of the Apps Monthly Membership November Lesson 1 (video 2): Holiday Supply Organization 4 Lesson 2 (video 3): December Calendar 5 Lesson 3 (video 4): Pages in Adobe Spark Post 7 Lesson 4 (video 5): Creating Numbered Cards in LetterGlow 8 Lesson 5 (video 6): and Affinity Photo 9 Page 2 of 10

3 Welcome to Art of the Apps Monthly Membership November 2018 Documenting the holiday season is a favorite amongst memory keepers all over the world. This month we are going to continue to put our app-scrapping skills to work by applying them to a whole new creative endeavor with the December Project! This time of year is a busy one and so many of us want to find the time to document everything from the everyday to all things holiday. The content this month will help you do just that! This month you will learn how to organize your digital supplies, refresh your memory downloading kits to your mobile device, be provided with daily photo-taking ideas, and there will also be ideas for creating pages that are super simple to a little more complex. We will explore the following: Ideas on how to organize digital products for this project Refresh your memory on how to download a kit to your mobile device Taking a look at your December Calendar Various photo prompts Three different levels of effort or creativity to allow you to create pages from the simple to more complex. As a reminder these handouts are a condensed version of what is in the videos. For more detailed instruction please refer to the videos and use the handouts as a complement to them. Time to begin! ~Kelly Page 3 of 10

4 Lesson 1 (video 2): Holiday Supply Organization Technology and memory keeping are so amazing together! As app scrappers we can take thousands of digital photos, cards, papers, embellishments, and templates anywhere we go. This is especially helpful if you are taking on a project such as this and you may be traveling for the holidays. Keeping your digital holiday supplies separate from your everyday supplies can be a big help when you begin to create your pages. In Video 2, you are able to view how Kelly organizes digital December Daily by Ali Edwards in icloud Drive. You may already have an organization process that works for you. But if you are looking for a way to move things around in icloud Drive and need a refresher on how to download a digital kit directly to your mobile device, this video is for you! Moving files around within icloud Drive: 1. Tap the file you wish to move to another area on icloud Drive (if you have multiple files in the same folder you want to move, tap select in the upper right corner, then tap the files you wish to move). 2. At the bottom of your screen select move. 3. From the next screen, tap the icloud Drive icon and then choose the folder in icloud Drive you wish to move it to and then tap move in the upper right corner of the window. Helpful hint: If you have a folder in icloud Drive you will access frequently and don t want to scroll through all of your folders each time you need to use it, rename it by adding an underscore to the front of the folder name and the folder will appear at the top of your folder list! Downloading a digital kit directly to your mobile device: We have gone over downloading a digital kit from your favorite designer in the past using the app File Manager Pro, but here is a quick refresher. 1. Wherever you purchased your digital kit from, tap download to download it to your device. 2. The next screen that will appear will prompt you to open the file in File Manager Pro, then tap done in the upper left corner. Page 4 of 10

5 3. You are then brought to the home screen of File Manager Pro. 4. The file is zipped and will appear towards the bottom half of the screen in File Manager Pro. There is also a blue dot to the right of it, designating it as a new download. 5. Unzip the the file by tapping on it. 6. To move the entire kit to another location, tap edit in the upper right corner, then check the circle that appears to the left of the folder. 7. At the bottom of the screen select open in and chose where you want to move it to. For a more detailed explanation, please be sure to watch Video 2! Lesson 2 (video 3): December Calendar Sitting down with a calendar for December and writing down activities you already have planned for the month is really helpful. By doing so, you already know what your story will be for that day and you can work ahead and work on creating that page if you d like! In the classroom, there is a December calendar for you to download and print. Use it to jot down any activities you may already have planned out for the month. The calendar also includes photo prompt ideas for each day. Do not feel you need to stick to these prompts for the day it is posted on, mix them up! The prompts are very generic and not necessarily holiday related. Although the photo prompts are on the calendar, the list is on the next page for reference. Page 5 of 10

6 DECEMBER PHOTO PROMPTS 1. The weather today 2. Looking up 3. Something blue 4. On the door 5. Something you made 6. Stars 7. Drink 8. Out and about 9. A tradition 10. Routine o clock 12. On the shelf 13. Tiny 14. Lights 15. Flame 17. Music 18. Mess 19. Lunchtime 20.Something sparkly 21. From where you stand 22. Soft 23. On the floor 24.Night 25. Something sweet 26.How you relax 27. Cold 28.Warmth 29.Someone you love 30.Self-portrait 31. Celebrate 16. Something red Page 6 of 10

7 Lesson 3 (video 4): Pages in Adobe Spark Post You love the idea of creating a photo book to document your December, but you don t want to spend a whole lot of time picking out papers and embellishments. You just want to add a photo to a template, write a line or two of text and call it a page. Adobe Spark Post is the perfect app to use to create your daily pages for your December Project album. In the classroom there are two Spark Post templates for you to download. One is a 6x8 and the other is a 12x12 (remember a 12x12 can be printed at a 10x10 or 8x8). When you tap on one of them, it will open up in Spark Post. Remixing the Spark Post Template(s): 1. When the template appears in Spark Post, tap the remix button at the bottom of the screen. 2. To replace the photo, tap the picture and then select the one of the options from the menu from where you will chose your photo. 3. To change the date or the text in the main text box, tap the box then select the pencil icon at the top of your screen and type in your new text. 4. To change the icon, simply tap on it, and then tap the trash icon at the top of your screen. To add a new icon, select the add icon at the bottom of the screen and then choose icon from the menu. 5. In the search bar, type in a description of an icon you are looking for. 6. Once it appears on your page, resize and recolor to your liking. 7. Make sure you export and save your page to your camera roll. When it to comes making a new page, tap on that page you just created. At the bottom of the screen you have an option to edit or duplicate. If you select edit, you will be changing the page you just did. Which is fine. If you know you will not be changing anything later on, go right ahead and select this option. But if you want to keep your original page intact, select duplicate. This will create a copy of your page and you can edit it without disturbing anything from your original page. And you can just go through the same steps we just did to swap out your photo, change text and add a different icon. Page 7 of 10

8 Lesson 4 (video 5): Creating Numbered Cards in LetterGlow LetterGlow is the perfect app for you to use if you are wanting to spend a little more time on your December Project, but not so much that creating pages will take up your entire holiday season! If you are anxious to get started and want to do something to prep your pages before you take the photo, you want to consider how you are going to tackle numbering your days and get those prepped because some consider this the most time-consuming part when it comes to making these seasonal pages. And you may not use a number card for your days. You may look at the products you are using and ask yourself which days would you use a chipboard number on top of a photo? What are the days you want to make a filler card with a chipboard number and a cluster of embellishments? So that is what we are going to focus on this lesson. We ll create a numbered filler card in LetterGlow that you can drop in a Project Life template to help you get a start on your pages and in the process look at our supplies a little more closely with a creative eye. Creative hint: Before even beginning to build a numbered filler card, generate a color palette of your kit using Adobe Capture and import the new color swatches into LetterGlow. Refer to Video 5 on how to do this. Because you may not be using the same holiday kit as shown in the video, written instruction will not be provided for the card created in Video 5. Please refer to the video for inspiration and ideas of what you can do with similar elements you may have in your digital kit. More detailed instruction on how to use LetterGlow on your mobile device is provided in past month s Art of the Apps Monthly Membership content. Page 8 of 10

9 Lesson 5 (video 6): and Affinity Photo Affinity Photos users! If you are paying close attention to this lesson, you are planning on creating your book on your mobile device as if you were creating it in Photoshop on your computer. You want to work with templates, use seasonal products from your favorite designers, and add dimension to your digital embellishments. This lesson will provide you with some helpful hints that have helped Kelly create two December Daily albums on her mobile device. Modifying templates: IF you are planning on having your pages printed in a hard bound photo album, you may want to consider modifying your pages slightly by enlarging them a quarter-inch on each side. Most templates you work with do not account for a printer s bleed when printing in a hard or softbound book. Modifying your templates ahead, prior to when you will need them, will save you a lot of time and frustration when it comes time to print. Instruction in the video is given when working with 6x8 templates. If you are creating pages in a different size, you will have make any adjustments accordingly. It is best to refer to the video for more detailed instruction on how to do this. A demonstration of dropping an unmodified and modified template into the online photo book printer, ZNO is provided in Video 6. The company you choose to have your book printed may not have the same instruction as ZNO. Use the information provided in the video as a loose guideline. You may have to make adjustments depending on the online printer you are using. Creating a color palette from your kit: Before even beginning to build a numbered filler card in Affinity Photo, generate a color palette of your kit by opening a digital card or piece of paper from the kit you will be using. Follow the steps in Video 6 or refer back to the Art of the Apps 3.0 videos of how to go about creating a custom color palette from that card or paper. By creating a color palette based off of the kit you are using, you will have the colors readily available to select from when you want to alter the color of, for example, a digital stamp. Page 9 of 10

10 Numbered filler cards If you are anxious to get started and want to do something to prep your pages before you take the photo, you want to consider how you are going to tackle numbering your days and get those prepped. Many consider this the most time-consuming part when it comes to making these seasonal pages. You may not use a number card for every single one of your days. You may look at the products you are using and and ask yourself which days would you use a chipboard number on top of a photo? What are the days you want to make a filler card with a chipboard number and a cluster of embellishments? So that is what we are going to focus on this lesson. We ll create a numbered filler card in Affinity Photo, add dimension to any elements used and then export/save the card to your camera roll so that you can drop it into a Project Life template. In the process, we ll look at our supplies a little more closely with a creative eye. Because you may not be using the same holiday kit as shown in the video, written instruction will not be provided for the card created in Video 6. Any effects settings applied to digital elements are purely subjective. You may also want to pay close attention on how to save Styles you create so you can use them again and again on various embellishments. Please refer to Video 6 for inspiration and ideas of what you can do with similar elements you may have in the kit you are using. Page 10 of 10