Next dill of the day

The next dill product for a "Deal of the day" category in the PBP shop with discount 50%! 

Buy today and save 50% on set "Your DVD Cover Vol.4"

Next "deal" of the day

Hi my friends! Here is my next product for a "Deal of the day" category in the PBP shop with discount 50%! 

Buy today and save 50% on set "Your classic photobook Vol.1"

New "deal" and new covers

Hi my friends! Today there is my next product in a "Deal of the day" category in the PBP shop with discount 50%! 

Buy today and save 50% on collection "Forest Walk - BUNDLE"

Don't forget about our challenges

And also see some beautiful DVD covers by me and my wonderful CT!

from Your DVD Cover Vol.1 by Skripka

from Your DVD Cover Vol.2 by me

 from Your DVD Cover Vol.6 by juliya

 from Your DVD Cover Vol.7 by Natalka

from Your DVD Cover Vol.8 by Nataliya Zima

Continuing PBP Birthdday celebrating

Our team have many sweet things for you to continue celebrate our 6th Birthday! See "Deal of the day" category in the shop to find daily "deals" from our designers during August 23-31 and save 50% on select products!  

Here is my "deal" product for today with 50% discount:

Your classic photobook Vol.14 - save 50%

And one more surprise!
Each day from 23th to 31nd August with awarding our customers!

Sale and new pages

Hi my dear friends! Today started the Big Summer Sale in CU for You, so you can find our fantastic commercial use products for funny price in the store ;)

Save 45% in CU4U during 17-19th August!

Also I want to show you our new pages from my templates. Do you know how they looks in a book? Let's see (click on image to see larger size):

From Your classic photobook Vol.5 or One style pack #2 by Juliya

From Your classic photobook Vol.18 or One style pack #1 by Nataliya Zima

 From Your classic photobook Vol.22 or One style pack #2 by Natalka

From Your classic photobook Vol.25 or One style pack #3 by Skripka

From Your classic photobook Vol.29 by Jasmin-Olya

Last day of store wild sale!

Today is the last day of

STORE WILD SALE! 

Save 40% during August 9-15!

PBP

Be sure that you grab all what you want during sale! 

Store WILD SALE 40%!

Our birthday celebration continues with a fantastic

STORE WILD SALE! 

Save 40% during August 9-15!

We also have some fun, new challenges for you in the forum! I hope you'll check them out for chances to win prizes and earn discounts to the PBP shop!

The shop also have some random prizes that it will continue to award through out the month - the admin team will contact you if you are one of the lucky winners! Some prizes will be given in our forum. Keep shopping and participating in the challenges and we'll keep giving out plenty of prizes! Enjoy!

Don't forget about our FWP collab! We have new part this week!

In my shop from now you can find unpacked parts of my Lolly Bags, so you can buy them separately if you still don't have it, now wish 40% discount! Click on preview to find product in the shop:

And here pages for inspiration from the set "Your classic photobook Vol.29". Click on image to see large.

Last chance to grab Lolly Bags!

Here are my Lolly Bags - one is for CU and one is for PU:

CU Lolly Bag by Jasmin-Olya Designs

Available at PBP

PU Lolly Bag by Jasmin-Olya Designs

Available at PBP

And also the shop have some sweet things for you to make this week most wonderful! 

And of course shop collab form all designers team!

Grab your Lolly Bags today!

they’re available at PBP August 2 – 8, 2012 only!

PBP Birthday and sweet LOLLY BAGS!

Hi my dear! I know that I didn't wrote anything for a long time. But... today I have something new for you! Today is my shop's Birthday and we celebrating this date with a yearly tradition – Lolly Bags! At only $4.00 USD each, our Lolly Bags are jam-packed with value and delicious digi goodies for you.

I have two Lolly Bags for you - one is for CU and one is for PU. Let's see:

CU Lolly Bag by Jasmin-Olya Designs

Available at PBP

This Lolly Bag includes 2 new CU products:
CU Autumn Mix. Vol.4 (10 PNG files inside)
CU Autumn Mix. Vol.5 (10 PNG files inside)

This set is for commercial and personal use. Not for freebies. Please read my TOU through carefully for more information. You can find it at store and inside the archive with elements. My Commercial TOU is available in English, French and Russian languages.

See also another autumn sets:

CU Autumn Dreams
CU Autumn Mix. Vol.1
CU Autumn Mix. Vol.2
CU Autumn Mix. Vol.3

PU Lolly Bag by Jasmin-Olya Designs

Available at PBP

This Lolly Bag includes 2 new sets of photobook templates in one general style:

Your classic photobook Vol.28

Your classic photobook Vol.29

Do you want to create your own photobook easily and simply? Do it using photos only! No need for kits or other elements. Each template focuses on your photos and is not distracted by superfluous details.

Each set "Your classic photobook" includes 5 double templates and more additional variants (24x12 inches, 7200x3600 pix). So each page in your book will be harmonious and you will not have to think about how to pick a pair of your single layouts.

All templates include styles for each layer (not only sketch) and other properties which you can change how you need. Just add your photos!

All templates are in 3 versions: PSD, PNG & TIF. Use the format which is comfortable for you.  

This product is Personal and S4H Use.

Here are the samples from the bag:

And also the shop have some sweet things for you to make this week most wonderful! 

And of course shop collab form all designers team!

Grab your Lolly Bags today!

they’re available at PBP August 2 – 8, 2012 only!

Tutorial - how to use my photobook templates

I often get emails from customers asking how to use my templates. While working with them is no different from working with any other scrapbook-templates, I decided to write a little tutorial to answer your questions. Let's go.

Firstly, let's start with what program do you use to work with templates? Every my set of templates contains PSD, PNG and TIF format of files. Some of my sets have a additional (!!!) folder with PSD files especially for Photoshop - it gives you a little more opportunities for editing your layout. Choose format which is most comfortable for you and let's think about size of your page. 

By default, my templates are made for the size of 30x30 cm (12x12 inches). But you can use them for any other square layouts. You can resize your page in 2 ways: 

1) firstly resize original template to your size. In Photoshop it is possible, you just have to make sure that put a checkmark in the line "Scale Styles" when resizing. And after resize you can create design of your page

2) or you can firstly create your page in original size (30x30 cm) and resize it after saving in jpg. 

The next step is being sure that you set up guidelines visible. It will help you to not crop important parts of your photos when printing. Don't put any important parts of images near the center of double-page and near the edges.

By the way, will be better if you'll already know in what photo-lab you'll print your photo book. It is because every photo-lab ask different area to crop near the edges (it means that your page MAY BE have to be little larger than 30x30 cm). In lab where I print my books they ask the size 30,2 x 60,5 cm. So we need to add those some millimeters to template size, and better if it will be before start to create our LO. It is simple: just go Menu -> Size of canvas and add some millimeters how you need for your photo-lab. 

OK. We did all preparatory steps and finally can start to design our page.
1) Choose the main photo (it is also photo for background).

2) Put all little photos on their places. For it need to do the following:

- put your photo on the layer above the layer of form for it

- click the right button of the mouse staying on the layer of your photo (in the layers palette) 

- and choose the line "create clipping mask". Your photo will get the form of the layer below

Do it for every little photo. Styles of layers will saved for your photos too, but you can change them as you need. After it you'll have ready page:

Update:

I got a few questions from users, whether they use my templates to create photo books not with whole double-pages, and composed of 2 individual pages-halves. I decide to write what I think about it:

Yes, you can use my templates for creating books with separate pages but with some features:
- you should place your photo (main big photo on background) such that the face of person or other important parts of image are not located in the center of the page (it is important in any case, even if it will be whole double-page). My templates have guidelines which will help you see the center and cropping area around the page.
- You can crop template in 2 halves before creating your pages but I think will be simpler to make the double-layout and save it in jpg, and then cut it in half with the indentation for the binding in the center of the page such as on image below

Hope, this will help you to create your beautiful photobooks with your unique family stories.

Best regards, Jasmin-Olya Designs