You love templates but you want more!
You want to know how to design layered templates from your own scrapbook pages. You want to discover the secrets to altering your favorite template designs. And you simply desire to look at your template-inspired layouts and say, “Wow!”

Well, are you ready?
If you answered yes, then you're ready for Tiffany Tillman’s summer edition of 25 Days of Templates. Tiffany sincerely believes you can use templates to create more personalized, intuitive, eye-catching scrapbook layouts. You just have to know how. This guided workshop will teach you how to analyze the strengths of various digital templates, deconstruct them, and readapt the design to fit your creative style.

But don’t expect all template talk. Sprinkled between template topics are summer inspired photography and typography tips along with 25 days of motivating page ideas. Tiffany will also show you how to design digital scrapbook templates from a sketch and pre-existing layout. By the end, you will have crafted beautiful, template-based layouts that document your favorite summer memories and showcase your definitive, scrapbooking style. Simply put, you’ll fall in love with templates all over again.

How much do you need to know in advance?
This course is suitable for the beginner and intermediate digital crafter using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8 and Photoshop CS3 or CS4 on the Mac or PC. While we will begin with primers in the use of digital scrapbooking templates, familiarity with the concepts of layers and digital basics is recommended.

Questions? Send them to Tiffany at tiffany@reneepearson.com.

Key Concepts
Class Presentation
Class content is presented via daily video recordings, which you can access and watch at your leisure. You will also receive a colorful PDF reference guide with written strategies for success. Below is a syllabus outlining the general daily topics. Some topics will require a few extra days of discussion.

This four-week class will be taught using Photoshop CS4 and Elements 8.0. If you are using earlier versions of the program, tips will be given to help you throughout the class.
Although many of the basics of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements will be covered, we recommend that you have a basic working knowledge of one of these programs. You need to be able to open, close, and save a document as well as a basic understanding of the tools.

Tiffany’s Class Supplies Include
25 brand-new layered, PSD templates by Tiffany Tillman
Exclusive, collaboration mega-kit by Paislee Press and Taylormade Designs
Coordinating mini-kits by One Little Bird and Karla Dudley Designs

Software Requirements
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8 or
Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4