Fussy Cut Photos

I couldn't tell you fussy cut the photo! That is an awesome layout!

I haven't fussy cut photos since back in the day, but I have removed people from photos or distracting things from photos in Photoshop.

My very first scrapbook, has quite a few photos, that I cut around the person, a sign, object, etc... or the edges of the whole photo.....with deco scissors. 
Based on the evidence, the pinking shears pattern and the wave pattern, were my favorites. 

I did something a few times where I had double photos and I silouette cut one component and popped it on top of the same image on the double.  I liked it.  I don't have time for that kind of scrapping anymore.  I just want to get them scrapped with minimal cropping.

The other type of photo mutilation I did so often and will never recover from.

Great LO!

I no longer cut my photos into shapes, except for the super rare occasion that I will use a circle.

No. I do not (& never have) detail/fussy cut photos. Rather, I typically scrap 4x6 photos SOOC/no editing or cropping! 

I've done it a few times, usually to get rid of strangers making weird faces in the background. But I can remember one very silly birthday layout I made that I fussy cut a bunch of people just for fun. I was trying to get so many people photos onto the page and it seemed like a good solution. Sort of like the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover, but up close. 

For REAL. It honestly makes me sad to look at all those photos that only have negatives (and who knows where they are) that I hacked to pieces with the wave scissors, or the "bat wing" scissors.

Ryann you are truly lucky that did not appeal to you. I was like, "Oh yeah, this is how the pros scrapbook" and now 25 years later I'm like, "How did I not see that looked terrible??"

artbabe I think your LO looks great. I would never have even known, you did such a good job with it. 

I fussy cut photos if it fits my LO. Have punched them into circles and hearts, too. Like kitbop, I have a favourite but of course I can't find it. I had a group photo of my ds and his family with their dog on the steps to their home. Different people had their best facial expression in different takes of course. I fussy cut the kids from the lower step of one photo and popped it up over the parents and one brother behind them. I liked the 3-D look, so I ended up fussy cutting the DOG and popping her up in front of them all. Kind of like doing DIY paper tole!

Hey Peas! I just dropped a challenge in, #T-11 HERE to see what we can get when we turn people loose with "permission" to cut those photos !

BTW I love your page, artbabe. I would never have thought to back the cutout with a 4x6 piece to make it look like a photo on a blue screen.

I still haven't recovered from butchering so many of my photos in my early days. But I have to say, the examples shown here by artbabe , don , and grammadee all look really good!

I see the digital version of this in digital scrapping. I did a layout early this year, where I extracted (cropped) a photo of my dog to turn him into a bobble head. (The challenge was to turn someone in the layout into a bobble head. So much fun!) I also see layouts where people have partially extracted and then made the subject "out of the box" or "out of bounds". 

Here is my bobble head page:

Last night my son sent me a picture of my dog that the software "fussy cut." You just hold and then tap the subject in the picture. Seems like that would eliminate all of the hard parts of fussy cutting if you just printed the subject already with a white background.

So I sent him one with my pup in her donut after she'd been to the vet for a huge abscess.

He sends back this...