Fun Online Digital Scrapbooking Community

If you wanna rock digital scrapbook design and get past the monkey-see-monkey-do stage with Photoshop.  Come join us at Hummie’s World. You’ll have a knowledgeable and patient teacher (Hummie) in your corner and digital scrapbooking resources to keep you busy for years.Hey, free internet tutorials are helpful but when you want to dig deeper into digital design and Photoshop; it’s sure helps to have an experienced teacher to ask questions and get feedback.

Shortly after starting this site, I enrolled in a scrapbook designer course at Hummie’s World.  Stumbled onto this fun online scrapbooking community and was amazed at the educational resources available for a low subscription rate of $5.50 each month.

After You Subscribe and Sign Up for a Class…

you’re placed in a credit thread and your progress is monitored. You earn icons after completing set goals. Through class forum threads; you’ll find assignments, videos and written tutorials. After uploading completed creations to the gallery, Hummie and her staff provide helpful feedback and encouragement. Your submissions are checked for overall quality (if requested) via your download links. Fellow students and community members provide additional encouragement and resource information. We help each other out!

I love that once you subscribe you have access to ALL class videos and lessons. Say you’ve signed up for the Design Class but are curious about Template Class...just click on the thread and you’ll have access to everything. (The Fun Extras class sure sounds tempting.)

Of course, you don’t have to subscribe to participate in many of the happenings at Hummie’s World. There are free sample lessons available, access to public forum threads, photo gallery upload/view, freebie Designer downloads and more.

I discover new cool resources every time I visit the site!

Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking Designing…

that’s the name of class I’m taking at Hummie’s World. Here’s a very brief summary of content from Set 1 lessons taken so far:

• Introduction:  Introduce yourself in the Forum Credit thread.
• 1 – Designer Name and Logo:  Select a designer name and logo and share with the class. Learn about branding and so much more.
• 2 - Terms of Use and Copyright:  Learn about copyright and write up your designer terms of use.
• 3  A through H – Blog: Create a blog…a ton of information here for the newbie blogger.
• 4  A – File Sharing: Learn about FTP (file transfer protocol) and other ways to share files. Create a zip file and upload it to share.
• 4B  - Creating Previews – observe previews in digital scrapbooking stores. Be prepared to make a preview for your shared files.
• 5 – Planning: Topic Theme, Color Theme and Final Product & Color Calibration – select a topic theme (birthday, seasonal or other), pick a kit name and color theme. Decide what your final product will be (Quick Page, mini-kit, specific elements, etc.) Create a color palette. Learn about monitor calibration.
• 6 – What are Jaggies? Create Brads: How to recognize overly jagged pixels and other flaws. Create your first class element – Brads.
• 7 – Simple Paper Using the Cloud Filter: create a simple scrapbook paper using Photoshop’s cloud filter. Learn about the “save for web” feature.
• 8 – Paperclip: make digital paperclips with style
• 9 – Textured Papers Using Seamless Tiles
• 10 – Messies, Making Extractions and Bows
• 11 – Buttons
• 12 – Polka Dot Papers: create polka dot papers and incorporate what you’ve learned about textures
• 13 – Staples: make digital staples 
• 14 – Patterned Papers: design patterned papers for scrapbooking
• 15 – Striped Papers
• 16 – Stock Photos: learn to create papers and elements using stock photos

Here are the scrapbook brads created during Lesson 6 to share for personal use…5 brads, 300 dpi, png format

I hope you enjoy using these brads in your personal design projects. As you can tell, I’ve incorporated information from many of the designer class lessons. I can honestly say the experience has been fun, challenging and addictive! I find it hard to stay away for very long!! That means I’ll have lots of other digital design goodies to share soon.

Please give me your opinion and I’d love to see what you create with them!