Shortcut for Resizing Out of Proportions
by Jen White
Discover a quick and savvy shortcut to resize pretty papers out of proportion for your next greeting card or portrait-sized scrapbook page.
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A 6×4 inch document
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A 12×12” background paper
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Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
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Card: Happy Birthday by Jen White
Kit: Life Captured by Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen Schulz
Fonts: Claudia, Broadwell
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22 Responses
Sherry
This is a wonderful tip! I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you!
Rose Corbin
This is a GREAT tip and I know it will come in handy!
Sherill Wells
This is wonderful. I only scrap in 8.5×11 and like Tina Wilson I spent much time readjusting 12×12 templates to my preferred size. This technique works perfectly using templates and save so much time. This will be one of the tips I will use the most going forward. Thanks Jen. Sometimes it’s the little things that make the most difference for me.
Barbara C Gandy
Jen, this is sooooo cool!! Been having so much fun playing around with different papers!!! Thx!!!!
Brenda Suplita
This is an awesome tip. I struggle with this all the time. You’re amazing.
Marsha Tennant
What a great tip. Thank you so much!
Maggie Adair
Brilliant! An absolutely MUST REMEMBER THIS tutorial. Wow! Thanks Jen, this is a really really great tip
Tina Wilson
Jen – You have no idea what a timesaver this will be for me! I decided to try this method with a scrapbook template that was oversized for my page to see if I could get the same results. I mostly use an 8×10 horizontal page format for making photo books. I’ve always had to manually adjust all the elements/frames on a typical 12 x 12 template to fit the 8 x 10 page format after dragging and dropping.
First I duplicated the 12 x 12 template as my source document and named it the original name plus 8 x 10 after it. Next, I selected all the layers of the template. I had an 8 x 10 target document open in another window. I followed your instructions and it resized the layered template without flattening it. From here I could save this document as an 8 x 10 template for future use and also drag and drop to the target document. If needed I could adjust the frame or element size on the target document. This tutorial made my year!!! I’ve been making a wedding book for my son and daughter-in-law and this will save me so much time. Thank you!!!
Jen White
YAY!! I’m so glad you tried it on templates!! 😀
Kathy Geddie
WOW – Tina – Great idea – I, too use landscape pages for my digital book pages and the resizing and adjusting of 12×12 templates is a pain. I can’t wait to apply this method to my books!
Sandi
Wonderful tip!
Jo Campbell
My first reaction? WOW! Just Wow. All these years fiddling with all those papers.
Will we ever learn it all? Thanks for this tip.
Julie
Thank you for this handy tip!! 🙂
RACHELLE GUIREMAND
This is a brilliant tutorial. Thank you so much Jen
Linda Schroeder
Wow! Thank you so much for this tip. I can see I will be using this many, many times. It will be a great help to me.
Margaret Wood
Great info, Jen. Thank you so much.
Dorrie
What a nice tip and very easy to do. I think it’s better than using Ctrl + T and quicker. You are so talented.
Rose
Thank you so much for the this tutorial. I will be using it a lot.
Lisa M
Great tip Jen! Thank you for your awesome knowledge!
Karen Schulz
Thanks for this great tutorial, Jen! What a quick and easy way to resize papers!!! (And thank you for the birthday wishes!!)
Cynthia
WOW awesome tip. Thanks Jen
Ruth Everson
I loved learning this shortcut! Too many times I’ve adjusted 12×12 background papers and lose some of the edges. Can’t wait to try it soon.