Although you can buy all sorts of awesome digital scrapbook kits, there are also many free items available to download for your Photoshop program. All you have to do is:

1. Use your favorite search engine and type in “free photoshop brus.” One of my favorite site is Miss M’s site.
2. When you find the brush you want to download, you just click the download link and save the file to your hard drive.
3. Once downloaded, usually it’s a zip folder, extract the zip folder.
4. Open the folder and find the item that has a .abr extension.
5. Copy this item and paste it into your brushes folder. If you are using Photoshop Elements, usually the location is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 6\Presets\Brushes or if it’s CS2 or similar it would be C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Presets\Brushes.

This tutorial was done in Elements 4 but it’s the same concept for the most part. The important part of working with a digital scrapbooking in any Photoshop product is to understand the concept of layers and inserting new images, text, or brush on top of one another and rearranging these layers to your needs and liking. I have created a video on how to get started. Nothing fancy but hope it’ll help you understand the concept.

Once you insert your image or object you can resize and rotate by using the Free Transform tool. Select the layer/image, click on Edit and select Free Transform. Once your image is selected you can resize the image or rotate it to your liking. I have provided a video to help you understand this concept. The video was created in Photoshop CS but you will be able to use the information for any older or newer Photoshop application. The video is a bit small on screen, to get a bigger view, click “Download” on the bottom right of the video screen.

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