artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Oct 1, 2022 16:01:50 GMT
Speaking of cutting photos…. Way back in the day people cut photos in shapes, which pretty much everyone regrets. Also at that time it was popular to cut the people out of the photo and just use them. Horrifying. And yet…. I will admit to occasionally doing this if the background is too distracting. My weird head rule is that I have to back it with a 4x6 piece of paper.  Here is an example of one of my favorite layouts. This is totally against modern scrapbooking sensibilities but the background was terrible. Anyone else admit to creatively cutting up photos? |
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Post by Linda on Oct 1, 2022 16:08:05 GMT
That's an awesome layout!
no, no fussy cutting photos here - I'm only just starting to fussy cut papers and I still need tons of practise with that so keeping the scissors away from my pics
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jediannie
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Post by jediannie on Oct 1, 2022 16:38:53 GMT
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.
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Oct 1, 2022 18:16:20 GMT
Your layout is hilarious! I fussy cut a few photos in my day. One is still a favourite - my two wee boys asked to borrow my oven mitts and disappeared to the basement. I found them shirtless and boxing in them! Great photos...basement background and lighting. So they worked way better cut out. I just spent 30 minutes looking for that layout as I wanted to share, and can't find it.  |
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Oct 1, 2022 22:12:03 GMT
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.  |
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Oct 1, 2022 22:53:29 GMT
I have done the odd photo where I cut people out, and when remaking some of those pages I've backed the photos onto a square or rectangular piece of paper to make them look less odd on my page.
That said, if you hadn't said you'd silhouetted your photo I wouldn't have immediately noticed. The background you've added works so well with the rest of your page, it's just a really cool page overall.
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Post by myboysnme on Oct 2, 2022 0:33:44 GMT
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.
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 2, 2022 12:43:35 GMT
I have fussy cut photos once or twice. The most memorable one was a cute picture of a grandchild with a creepy looking guy in the background. I've also painted on the background, but that was not terribly successful.
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Post by KikiPea on Oct 3, 2022 13:55:12 GMT
Great LO!
I no longer cut my photos into shapes, except for the super rare occasion that I will use a circle.
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blemon
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Post by blemon on Oct 3, 2022 18:47:34 GMT
Your layout makes me want to cut out some people in my layouts. I think it would be fun, like paper dolls almost.
My daughter tried on every Halloween costume in the bin yesterday and I snapped some pics with our very attractive cat tree behind her and all kinds of mess. If I hadn't already put them all in a template, I would be tempted.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Oct 3, 2022 20:49:50 GMT
No. I do not (& never have) detail/fussy cut photos. Rather, I typically scrap 4x6 photos SOOC/no editing or cropping!
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miascraps
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Post by miascraps on Oct 4, 2022 1:42:45 GMT
Rare, when it seems right to do so. I couldn’t tell you had fussy cut your photo! Great layout!
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Oct 4, 2022 3:30:01 GMT
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.
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Ryann
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Post by Ryann on Oct 4, 2022 3:40:45 GMT
The first time I was introduced to scrapbooking, I was told that fussy cutting people out of the photos was how it was done, so I did it. And promptly decided scrapbooking was NOT for me! Didn't touch anything paper crafting for another 5+ years (I eventually started stamping/making cards). 18 or so years later - I'm now a scrapbooker, but haven't fussy cut a photo since that first experience.  |
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Post by kmage on Oct 4, 2022 18:23:52 GMT
The other type of photo mutilation I did so often and will never recover from. 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. |
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Post by don on Oct 5, 2022 18:41:07 GMT
I fussy cut ... a lot. I can't use scissors so I use a craft knife. I like to layer images.
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Post by grammadee on Oct 5, 2022 19:07:25 GMT
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! |
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Post by don on Oct 6, 2022 17:10:07 GMT
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Post by grammadee on Oct 6, 2022 18:37:38 GMT
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. |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 6, 2022 18:46:46 GMT
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Post by AussieMeg on Oct 6, 2022 22:49:51 GMT
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:  |
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miascraps
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Post by miascraps on Oct 7, 2022 3:02:37 GMT
Sometimes fussy cutting photos is warranted. Can be quite artistic! Love all the examples.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 7, 2022 15:52:10 GMT
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...  |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 7, 2022 16:00:55 GMT
I think that, like any artistic technique, you can do it well or you can do it badly.
It’s like dividing a photo across a gap (another thread was discussing that). I’ve seen a lot of people do that very badly, or too much, but done well it can be really cool.
It’s a shame fussy cutting was popular in the pre-digital era and that most people didn’t protect and organize their negatives. But I would say that every era had its ways of destroying photos. I have old pictures where relatives labeled the people in the photo on the front in ball point pen -argh!
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samantha25
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Post by samantha25 on Oct 10, 2022 5:24:41 GMT
I despise the word fussy and why and whoever started the term fussy cutting.
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