I feel like my biggest issue lately is just starting a page. Sometimes just choosing what to scrap, picking out the photos, and finding a template is my biggest challenge. Once I get that done, I'm usually ok and can roll with it. That's my biggest frustration these days!

Yes! My clusters are just not as pretty to look at as some of the ladies in here

I totally agree!! I often don't use a title because I can't think of anything creative. I love when a kit has title word art!

And you know what I JUST figured out today.....you can use that polygonal lasso tool to make a work path for your journaling! :blink:

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/...9Yh1r08e3p.jpg

Before your comment, I would have done it the hard way. But today, I figured out how to do it in just a few clicks. I never knew that about that tool. It's a "new to me" tool! So thank you again!!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/d6...1bd5c03402.jpg

hmm HOW?? I can't figure it out.

Same here. Also journaling.

I don't use the polygon lasso tool but instead the pen tool.
Just trace your desired shape with it and "close" the path. Then select your text tool and hover over the shape you just made and the T symbol will appear with a circle around it. I use it when my clusters are too big. It works with any shape.


I just made a small vid in case lol https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhxeq8_gDF2/


I got the question right e_e right?

That's great you whipped up a video!

I have an old school tutorial from 2011.
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/t...ext-on-a-path/

The only difference with using the pen tool vs. the lasso tool when making a text path is the lasso tool requires you to convert the selection to a path before you add text. For simple-shaped text paths, I like using the shape tool because you can change the mode to directly make a path vs. a filled shape. There are so many ways to do the same thing in PS!

When I was starting to work on my clusters and get them to look better (it's still a work in progress), I would sometimes create them in a new canvas. I would create a little cluster adding things here and there. I would add shadows and flatten it. Than I would move it onto my layout and place it where I wanted my cluster, and resize it to make it look better. It was easier to work on a cluster off from my page, so I could play with it more. It's something you could try! Than you can also save it with the kit for future uses!

extractions. but I also have zero desire to get better at them as they just aren't my style.

I must be the only one who loves journaling and titles haha

Nope. Journaling and complicated titles are some of my favorite parts.

I find clustering the easiest and most pleasurable to do :)

I like journaling, just not big on titles! :)

For my it's shadowing. I think my shadows are pretty much random.
I don' t journal. I never know what to say.
... and I am so clueless about some of the terminology mentioned is previous posts... what is paper stacking and why would you use pen tool? What is blocking?

Journaling is my favorite part, Adi! I know I'm good at that!

I rarely make titles. I stick a piece of wordart on there and count that as a title though I agree with KCB that pages don't really need titles, anyways.

Me too! I could cluster the whole page if it were not too over the top ;P I’m sure I’ve been accused of going overboard a time or two lol

Thank you this is perfect!
And thank you Sheri for sharing your tutorial too!

I love journaling, just not titles!

Me too!! I have sooo many photos that are not organized well. That plus my disorganized stash of templates and kits makes it hard to find something that will work. LOL!

This x198123795872973. THIS IS SO ME. I just don't enjoy coming up with a page design.

OH! And add me to the journaling lovers. I also love doing titles but I don't do it nearly as often as I used to. I don't know why though.

Using feather elements. I can never place them realistically without them looking awkward! (and flags/penants a close second)

journaling I struggle with, yet I talk a lot. I have issues with getting the words on paper in organized thoughts I am random. . . .squirrel. . .and then it feels like I'm all over the place. . . squirrel. . .

mixing fonts, I love how some people can just do it and it looks amazing. I get lost in my gazillion fonts and then just use the same ones, lol.

not good at extractions, wanted to really learn but now I find I'm not that interested in doing well at it.

also not a big fan of titles, again not worried about being better at them

I need everything to be just right. I over fuss about a page and it usually takes me forever to finish.

Journaling. I either write heaps or very little