Saturday, March 10, 2012

Project Life Tutorial | Converting 8.5x11 to 6x12

For Project Life Week 9 (which I’ll be blogging about soon), I wanted to make an extra 6x12 insert about Todd’s Tough Mudder experience.  But I don’t have a wide-format printer that prints out 12x12.  So how did I go about making a 6x12 insert page?

First I created a 12x12 canvas in Photoshop and created my 6x12 layouts for the front and back of the insert right next to each other.
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The photos are just to gauge the spacing of the layout.  I printed the 4x6 photos out separately.  I copied Todd’s journaling in from his blog post about his Tough Mudder experience

Once I had this done, I created a 8.5x11 canvas in Photoshop and just copied in the “Tough Mudder” header and the journaling part into the 8.5x11 canvas.

This would be the front of the insert.
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I sent the front side to the printer and printed it out 8.5x11 borderless onto Bazzill white cardstock.  I wanted to print the back of the insert right onto the back of the same cardstock, so I copied the layout for the back into the RIGHT side of the 8.5x11 canvas in Photoshop.
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Then I flipped the cardstock over and put it into the rear tray of my printer and printed it out.  Now I have everything printed and ready to assemble.
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Using my paper trimmer, I trimmed off the excess 2.5 inches so that my width is now 6 inches.
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My printout is now 6x11 inches, printed front and back.  I want it to be 6x12 inches to fit into my Project Life 6x12 insert.  So I cut the printout apart, somewhere about 3 inches from the top.
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Then I lined the two pieces up using my gridded craft mat and a ruler, putting a 1” vertical space between the two pieces.  Then I just adhered my 4x6 photos into the middle part, covering the gap! 
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I did the same thing to the back.
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All done and slipped into the Project Life 6x12 page protector!  Here’s the front.
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And the back.
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I use Photoshop for digital scrapbooking and for making layouts like this to print out.  You can easily use this same tutorial for Photoshop Elements.


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