I’m always looking for fun ways to make my photos pop off the page on the layouts I create.  That was part of the inspiration for our Fun with Photos class that is being taught this month.  I was browsing through the gallery at Elemental Scraps and found some fun layouts I wanted to share with you.  They have photos that pop out of frames on the page.  How do you do this?  Well, you extract part of the photo while leaving some.  Here is the way I like to do it.

1. Duplicate your photo layer and make only one visible.

2. Extract the part of the photo that you want to pop out of the frame.  Exrtact a little more of the photo than just the part you want to go off the frame.  So if you want to make a head stick out of the photo, extract the head and the top part of the body.

3. Hide that layer and make visible the other photo layer.

4. Crop that photo to the part you want still in the photo frame.  So if you are wanting the head to stick out of the photo, then crop the photo so that you cut away the head.

5. Now make both photo layers visible.  Link or merge them.  And there you have it!  Cool huh?!

And let me plug our class again.  lol  If you don’t know how to do extractions, you can learn in our Fun with Photos class this month.

Now here are the inspirational layouts I have for you:

Created by muffelchen79, kit landofdragon by chriscrap

Layout by Netty, cold Musik by Sev available at SCrapmalin

Layout by Callista, Kit - aufwolkesieben by JanaM Designs - TDC.com, Wordart - Playing with Wordart 04 by Natali Design - SBG.com

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