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Companion Book Imagination Style: Traditionalist with Tiffany Tillman Emanuel

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IMAGINATION STYLE: TRADITIONALIST with TIFFANY TILLMAN-EMANUEL

COMPANION BOOK


Table of Contents

Table of Contents 2

Welcome to Imagination: Traditionalist 3

Introduction: Probing Questions 4

The Lesson: From Start to Finish 5

a. First Steps 6

b. Arrange the Photos to Create the Design Base 6

c. Strategize Placement for Title and Journaling 6

d. Decorate the Page 6

e. Complete with Title & Journaling 7



Welcome to Imagination: Traditionalist

Imagination Style shows how to pair imaginative, inspired design with a specific

digital scrapbook style and the techniques to make it happen.

For this Imagination Style lesson, we’re playing with the juggernaut style of

Traditionalist, what I like to call the “OG” of scrapbooking. Traditionalist pages rely on

superb photo arrangement, established themes, integrated layering and fun title work

to stand out.

We’ll explore the following techniques:

• Explore the main characteristics of traditionalist style design

• Review inspiring scrapbook art and pull out design elements to use on our

layout

• Choose one of the 4 main photo arrangement styles: grid, scattered, big

photo/little photo or storyboard as the base of our design

• Use patterns, colors and decorations that support the theme of the design

• Learn the difference between relaxed and elaborate traditionalist design

• Highlight tidbits shared from other traditionalist scrapbookers

Let’s get started!



Introduction: Probing Questions

Each month, before we jump into our photo-editors and create our project, I’ll share

the images and the reasoning for what sparked my imagination for the Imagination

Style lesson and our upcoming project lesson. Let’s take a look at the second board:

IS: Traditionalist on Pinterest.

As we dive into each image, think about how the image could inspire your scrapbook

design. Here are a couple of probing questions you can ask yourself whilst looking at

each image:

1. Design: What’s the base shape of the design? What can you identify as the

foundation of the design that moves your eye around the page?

2. Photos: How are the photos added to the design? Are the photos in black and

white or color? Are the photos shaped or manipulated in any way and if so how?

3. Color: How is color used on the page? Is there a color story? Neutrals? Accents?

4. Type: How is text used on the page? As information or as a design element?

5. Decoration: Is the image decorated in some way that could be interpreted as

embellishing and if so how?

Probing questions move you past viewing a cool image to evaluating an image. You

begin carefully considering all parts of an image and dissecting those parts so you

can pull out what you need to inspire some part of your own scrapbook page.


https://www.pinterest.com/digitiffy/is-traditional/


The Lesson: From Start to Finish

Traditionalist pages are, probably, the easiest scrapbook pages for us to build simply

because they capture the art of combining words with photos AND digital

scrapbooking was born from traditional page design.



a. First Steps

i. Create a new empty workspace. Go to File > New: 12 x 12 inches (or

your preferred size), 300 PPI, white background. Click OK.

b. Arrange the Photos to Create the Design Base

i. Add your photos. Open your photos and add them to the workspace.

Consider using one of the four Traditionalist placement strategies: grid,

big photo/little photo, scattered, or storyboard.

c. Strategize Placement for Title and Journaling

i. Leave room for an embellished title. Within the arrangement of the

photos, give yourself enough space to add an elaborate, decorated title

before developing the rest of the layout.

d. Decorate the Page

i. Add embellishments. Begin by using element clusters that fill empty

space within the layout or frame a nearby photo.

ii. Use a visual triangle. Consider using color and repetition to create a

visual triangle — three points around the page that help the eye jump

from point to point.

iii. Select the right tool. Select the Magic Wand tool in the Tools panel.

iv. Consider a relaxed or detailed embellishment style. Decorate your page

according to whats feels right to you. Don’t add elements because you

think it will look more traditional.

v. Fill-in gaps using layering. Try to add objects below your photos and

above your photos to imply the layout has depth.



vi. Use thematic pieces that visually support the photos.

e. Complete with Title & Journaling

i. Build an Outlined Title (PS Users).

1. Select the Horizontal Type tool. Choose a font and increase size to

over 100px. Type the title word.

2. Duplicate the word using shortcut keys CMD/CTRL J. Reduce the Fill

Opacity to 0%.

3. Double-click the layer to open the Layer Styles menu. Select Stroke.

Add a 7 px Stroke; Center. Click OK.

4. Right click the layer and select Rasterize Layer Style.

5. Navigate to Window > Styles and load the Champions Metal Styles.

6. Apply the Metal: Gold 6 style to the stroked text. Adjust the Drop

Shadow settings.

7. Return to the original text layer. Clip a patterned paper to the text.

ii. Build an Outlined Title (PSE Users).

1. Select the Horizontal Type tool. Choose a font and increase size to

over 100px. Type the title word.

2. Duplicate the word using shortcut keys CMD/CTRL J. Target the

duplicate in the Layers panel.

3. Navigate to the Styles panel and select Stroke. Apply a 10 px Black

Stroke.

4. Click on the fx icon on the stroked layer. Reduce the stroke to 7 px

and click OK.

5. Navigate to the Styles panel and select Visibility. Click on the Hide

visibility preset.



6. Right click the layer and select Simplify Layer.

7. Right click the layer, again, and select Simplify Layer.

8. Navigate to the Styles panel and load the Champions Metal Styles.

9. Apply the Metal: Gold 6 style to the stroked text. Adjust the Drop

Shadow settings.

10. Return to the original text layer. Clip a patterned paper to the text.


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