Cutting Edge Photo Cropping for Scrapbooks, Book 2

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Book Reviews of Cutting Edge Photo Cropping for Scrapbooks, Book 2

Book Review: Innovative designs for photos, plus recaps with a twist.
Summary: 5 Stars

CEPC will show you how to turn your photographs into works of art for your scrapbook page. Borrowing techniques and concepts from varied sources, the Memory Makers magazine folks have, to use another cliché, really pushed the envelope on what can be done to make your photos the focus of your layouts. Your tools are usually as basic as scissors, rulers, craft knife, paper trimmer and a cutting mat; now and then more specialized items are called for, such as punches and puzzle templates. The step-by-step illustrations will instruct you easily. And although the finished piece will appear to be anything but simple to the viewer, you will be able to complete most of these without any aggravation or special training. The look of your picture art will be clean, fresh and graphic.

Now a word to croppers who have already read the first photo cropping book by Memory Makers. This second offering does offer over one hundred new photo cropping ideas as the cover promises. However, many of them are redux of ideas from book #1 with variations and twists. For example, weaving strips of b&w and color copies together - that sounds familiar, doesn't it? But here we see it used in new silhouettes and layered with other cropped shapes. Other déjà vu techniques include mosaics, self-framing photos, photo letters and slicing lines and curves into the photos. Note again however that these are all-new examples and they are expanded upon from the original. There are also a lot of truly new techniques, such as making shadowboxes from photos and adding dimension by curling. You can still come away with fresh inspiration.

There are areas of CEPC devoted to using photos to make embellishments and page accents, such as tags, shaker boxes and hinged doors. While I did enjoy these charming techniques, I question that they really had a place in a book that is professing to make the photos the stars of the page, not sideshows. However, they still did involve photo cropping.

CEPC would be a great book for first-time scrappers who need inexpensive ways to make standout pages, or anybody looking for more fabulous layout ideas. Croppers who already own the first book however may want to pass on this one.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.

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