I'm new to digital, and I was wondering if someone could help me.....I would like to use digital clips/paperclips on my layouts, but I have no idea how to make them have that "3-D" look..where the bottom of the paperclip is under the digital page......HELP PLEASE!!! and thank you!!

Hey SP, welcome! Look at a real paperclip on a real piece of paper to determine which of the curves you want to be behind the digital paper. Hen erase that part on your digital clip! Another path to get the same result is to place the d. paperclip on your top layer, the highlight your d paper layer. Now using a marquee tool or whatever selection tool your proggy offers draw around the paper area you would like to have overlap the paperclip. Y will be left with little "marching ants surrounding your selection. Now hit CTRL D or Copy or Duplicate, and there you go!

When you feel like really playing and getting it even more realistic, you can use your dodge and burn tool to highlight on the paper where the clip is underneath it. HTH

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thank you so much! I'm going to play around with my PS Elements a bit more.....

Hi This tut may help you Its for PSP but the basic technique is the same http://scrapbook-bytes.com/cgi-scrip...icle_271.shtml

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One tip is to Ctrl-click on your paper layer thumbnail in the layers palette to get the marching ants/selection around the paper. then on the clip layer you can erase just the part on the paper that you don't want without getting any clip that's NOT on the paper. Zoom in, that'll help, and use an eraser with 100% Hardness

And yes, once you get the hang of it you can use a layer mask instead of erasing if you want, and you can distress the paper a bit to make it look warped where the clip is raising it.

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