that layout looks great! I've even got some of my very first layouts still residing in my gallery - we all start somewhere and with practice you will learn so much!!!! Keep at it!!!

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Welcome Lisa! Great first LO! More involved than my first LO.

It is best to start with 300dpi and 12x12, 8x8, 8x10, 8.5x11, etc. as you can downsize easily but bumping up from a smaller size to a larger size causes distortions. I started with 8x8 but just recently switched to 8x10 as my family likes to print my LO's and frame them and square frames are very difficult to find.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

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Welcome Lisa! You've come to the right place to learn and you'll love it here. Great first layout too.

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Hi again!! Here is what I thought was going to happen to you you are not thinking large enough! LOL
At 500x500 200 ppi your printable image is only going to be 2.5x2.5 inches!! Now I don't know if you are thinking of ever printing these out for yourself, but if that is what you plan on doing.
Like Rae said you need to work on a larger image to start with. All of the items for digital scrapbooking are created 300ppi and the papers are 12x12 or (3600x3600 pixels) Then you can always make them smaller, but it is very tough to make them larger because the pixel image information is just not in your 500x500 image. Does that make sense?
What you will being to notice by working on small image dimensions is that you will have to severely deform (shrink) all of the elements you have downloaded for scrapbooking.
I did a screen shot for you so you can see the difference, HERE
Another thing that helps a lot is to turn on your rulers in PSP and set them to inches or if more comfortable with pixels you can use that setting also. This gives you a quick visual of how big your elements and photo's really are going to be when printed.
You should have seen me trying to understand all this when I started as I also was used to just working on web graphics! Keep up the good work and keep playing it will all make sense in a little while!

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