DIY WEDDING PHOTO ALBUM

Finally I'm working on my wedding photo album for our moms. It's been 3 months since our wedding (what have I been doin?!)
I totally forgot actually, and then my mom ask for it. Sorry mom, I've done it! I'm sending it tomorrow.

Here is what I made

Sorry for the blury image. I make up to you with how I made this lace photo album.

I made it with: Linen paper; carton; lace; foam lining; piece of plastic; thread; scissors; cutter; ruler; brush; glue.

1. prepare all the material, I already cut my linen paper into the size that I wanted 2. Fold it half 3. stack it and then binding it by gluing the side, clam it with clams or stack it between thick books 4. While waiting the glue to dry, cut the carton for back and front cover, a little less wide than the linen paper, my linen paper is 11.7 x 16.7 cm and my carton is 11.7 x 15.7 cm.

5. Cut a little rectangle where ever you want your cover photo to be, mine on the the right corner 6. Then get your foam lining and cut as same as the size of the carton 7. Glue the lining to the carton, and cut where the rectangle is with scissor 8. Cut the lace much bigger than the carton.

9. Glue the lace to the carton and a piece of plastic at the back covering the rectangle. Also glue your cover photo on the linen paper, dont forget to measure it first 10. Glue the lace carton to the linen paper, you are half done. for more durability I want to add stitch binding to it, I add two holes by punch it with nail and hammer 11. Then I stitch it with packing needle and thread, if You have embroidery thread then use it. I dont have it so I use lots of thread and stitch it over and over 12. All done! You can add embelishment or you could cover the binding area with lace or linen paper, up to your creativity.

Deni draw the inside with a fish and a lamb illustration because I'm a Pisces and He's an Aries. Cute! Now just add your pictures to it. Have fun

Photo Editing

Today I wanna show you how to edit your photo with Adobe Photoshop, I'm not sponsored by Adobe by the way just so you know.. Okay then just lets get to it.. This photo editing will make your photo have much softer look, and its not showing too complicated steps.

first open your photo that you want to edit. I use my own photo for this tutorial sake



Notice my lips.. It's chapped, that's my nightmare all these years! I've tried everything.. lip balm, honey, doctors cream.. nothing's work.. hehehe okay lets take a deep breath and just edit that lips with photoshop.. I press alt + click on the lips to take the color (on brush mode) and then I brush the lips using soft brush and less the opacity. Add a little burn (less the opacity) for the darker part so it looks more natural.



Much better.. Then I duplicate the layer by dragging the layer into the add layer icon (it's on the second bottom right corner)



Then on the blending option, choose the screen blend.



It's a little too bright, so less the opacity of the blend. Move the cursor until you reach the looks that you prefer



Then click the add layer icon



Fill the layer with soft skin color, I used pastel yellow orange from the color pallete. You could use another color so it would make your photo interesting



Now we are done!.............

Hehehe just kidding.. From the blending options choose Multiply



Now we are pratically done here, cause we have the softer look that we want. But i want to make me more stand out in the photo so I blur the background. This steps are optional.

Select the two photo layer by click shift + the layer. Then merge the layer by click ctrl + E



With Lasso tool draw around the background, left the center piece



refine the edge of the selection by click the select button on the toolbar, click modify, feather then fill the box with 2 or 3 pixels.



Then in the Filter tool select Blur, Lens blur.. move the radius cursor until it reach the look that you prefer



Now we are totally done!!.. Here is the before and after





Fiuuuhh.. So let me know when you use this tutorial.. Is it useful? :) Have fun