make black and white photos pop

Hello everyone!
CT Member Arisa here, to bring you all a new video and tutorial
I love black and white photos! I shoot all of my photos in color and edit it in photoshop later. Turning a photo into a good black and white is fairly simple. 

Lets take it step by step:

Convert your photo to black and white. 

Adjustments > Black & White

Next I increase the brightness. Here I increased it to +50 but it will vary depending on your photo.

Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

And finally, just increase your blacks. That will make your details and features pop. Here I increased the black to +30 but it will vary depending on your photo.

With these photo's i made a page process video as well.please enjoy!!

Here you can see the final result of my page using Wendy's Winter Woodland.

Winter Woodland

Winter is here in it's full glory... only here where i live still no snow, we do have a lot of ice but no snow. Now winter doens't always that there moest be snow to show it's natures beauty.

This collection is perfect to scrap those winter memories with or without snow. It even works perfect for any other christmas or fall memories.

Digital Project Life: Plan your book

Hello everyone! CT Member Arisa here
Before we can even begin to make our Project Life book, we need a plan!
It saves a lot of work if you already know what you want, from the beginning believe me

Think about what you want. Hybrid or 100% Digital? 12x12, 6x8, 6x12 or maybe a completely different size? Which layout you want to use?

My pages are 7x7 with design A. 100% digital.
For a photo book providers I have been already decided. It will be Blurb.

Each photo book provider offers different formats. It is important to know that each provider works with various page sizes. 12x12 is not equal to 12x12. Blurb offers a booksize calculator: http://tiny.cc/vhsn7x

As you can clearly see here the page size is not exactly 7x7. To save me a lot of work later I customize my layouts.

And now we can start with our design
I created this cover page with Wendy's Resolutions available @ The Digital Press...

And now enjoy the Video, it will show you how I made this Project Life Cover.

January Blog Challenge

Happy 2016!! CTM Robin here and I’m so excited to announce that I will be hosting monthly challenges on Wendy’s blog! Challenges are a great way to help us keep our creative juices flowing and get pages completed. Each 1st Sunday of the month I will post a new challenge and you have the entire month to complete your layout untill the next 1st Sunday. After a random draw of all the participants, one lucky person will win a $10 coupon to Wendy’s store. How easy is that!

For our first month, I wanted to challenge you to include 5 lines of journaling on your layout. Journaling is so important but it’s something most of us exclude on our pages. WE know the story behind our pictures, but will our families know years from now?? I have helped numerous people put together family albums and they are always so sad when they don’t know who the people are in the photographs or the circumstances depicted in them. Let’s start this new year making an effort to include some journaling to tell our stories. Our friends and families will thank us!
Here’s my layout to help you get started.

You just need 5 lines to complete this challenge, but I wanted to show you that more is okay too! I’m super excited to start this series and I can’t wait to see your layouts. Just follow the instructions in the Fine Print and get those pages done!!

The FINE PRINT:

 Complete your layout using 100%Wendy’s products (excluding templates).

 Upload your completed layout to a gallery or photo sharing site of your choice.

 Come back to this blog post and leave a comment with a link to your completed layout by Saturday February 6th, 2016. Winners must provide a layout link in the comments section. Only those entrants who leave a link to their eligible layout in the comments section will be included in the drawing. All other entries will be disqualified.

 Winner of the $10 coupon will be chosen via random.org and will be announced during the first weekend in February.

Have Fun!!