Features techniques for making blurry, off-center or poorly lit photos look great on layouts.

Includes step-by-step instructions for fixing common photo flaws using Photoshop Elements.

Over 120 layouts from the author and contributing artists show the "before" pictures, in addition to how the photos are used on the finished pages.

Everyone takes bad photos. Regardless of the number of photo classes a person takes or the quality of the camera, there are bound to be photo flaws. Because readers see so many idea books and magazines that feature great photographs on scrapbook pages, they often feel at a loss for inspiration for photos that are less than perfect. In When Life Gives You Lemons, readers will learn how to turn those imperfect photos into great scrapbook pages. Author Sherry Steveson shows readers how to fix flawed photos as well as how to use photos as they are to create attractive layouts. The original, flawed photo accompanies each scrapbook page so readers can see exactly how the author turned the sour photo into a sweet layout....

In The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook, author Sherry Steveson covers 17 popular types of embellishments and teaches you how to utilize them on your layouts. With beginner, intermediate and advanced techniques for each embellishment, you will get over 50 step-by-step demonstrations, plus 130+ layouts and projects that illustrate these techniques. A bonus Step It Up gallery shows you how adding embellishments can enhance a layout. In the gallery, you will see how a layout starts with a simple design, then is passed to a second scrapbooker who adds a few embellishments and finally it is passed to a third scrapper who adds even more embellishments, completing the look....