Project Life 2013 - I am learning as I go!

I have long wanted to learn how to use Photoshop for digital scrapbooking. I miss cutting & sticking but I am more productive when every one of my 56,334 digital photos is at my fingertips.

I have Cathy Zielske's blog on my Google reader & each week she posts her Project Life layout & I think "I really should do this!" I am already keeping a journal for my personal history class & I definitely take a lot of pictures. I have lots of free digital scrapbooking supplies on my computer (now on my external hard drive & organized). The only thing missing was the ability to efficiently use Photoshop. What's a girl to do?

I watched many free tutorials on cathyzielske.typepad.com and took notes. (Geek!)

Here's a tutorial on using layered templates: paisleepress.com/2009/01/layered-templates-101/

My plan is to print the pages in color on photo paper each week. Then, at the end of the year or maybe every six months, I will have them printed & bound in a photobook (Blurb or similar). Here are a few of the pages that I have made so far: