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Saturday, February 11, 2012

HOW TO: Use Templates

First, please take note that you can also increase the size of your templates. This helps to give the template more white space for your creative design. You can find this tutorial HERE.

There are two different types of templates that can be utilized in Paint.Net: scrapbooking and tagger. Tagger templates are much smaller than scrapbooking templates and take less time to use. However, scrapbooking templates can also be used in tagger designs after resizing.

For a Scrapbooking template:

Open your zip file, choose your template and you'll see how large scrapbooking templates are. Don't fret, however! These just take a little more time loading and requires that you save more often so that you do not lose your hard work.


To use as a tagger's template, resize by 25% and save. this lowers the size to 900 x 900 and makes it easier to delete layers, replace layers and to use tagger size elements and papers.


For a Tagger's template:

Open your zip file, choose your template and see how much different they can be from your scrapbooking templates.

These do not normally need a resize but may need to have more white space surrounding them to be able to complete a more perfect tagger's design. You can find the link on how to do that at the top of the page.

However, the ONE thing that matters for BOTH of these templates is how you replace the layers. And this does not change with each template.

So, I will show you how to do so with a few shots of EACH template so that you can see how this is accomplished.

For my scrapbooking template, I am using designer Prelestnaya (Emphasis on Boarders HERE) and my kit is by Benthai Creations (Celebrate HERE). 

I opened paper 9, resized by 25% and add above the background layer of your template. This particular layer needs nothing done to it. However, on your next paper layer, you will need to delete excess paper and this is how you do it.

I opened paper 7 and did the same resize. I went to the first paper border and added my paper above this layer. Grab your magic wand, click on the original paper border, then return to the newly added paper 7 and hit delete on your keyboard. It is at this point that you can delete the original paper layer.

Here's what your template will look like with the two new papers on it:


Continue with the other paper layers in the same manner and delete any layers that you do not wish to use.

For the photos, you can add actual photos or utilize tubes and papers. To do so, you will want to replace the original layer with a paper first and then add the tube after. Here's how you do this:

Add your new paper layer in the same way you did with the larger paper layers; delete the original layer.

Open your tube. I am using the wonderful art of VeryMany (Cute Bear HERE). Crop as close as you can to the close-up tube and resize by 40%. Add above the paper layer, grab your magic wand, go to the new paper layer and click, then go to the tube layer and use delete on your keyboard.

To speed this along, I also utilized the standing tube (without resize) and add in whatever manner you choose.

Now your design will look like this:


The rest is the same as a tagger's template; just change out the element layers with elements from your kit. Here's my design (after adding a border)! If you use a page template as a page template, just take your time. Depending on your computer, it may take a bit.


And this is what my design looks like when using a tagger's template. I used a tube by Elias Chatzoudis (HERE), template by Punky Butts (HERE) and kit by Dee called Barefoot (HERE):


The tagger's template only requires you to change out the actual paper layers and leaving the element layers to your imagination.

So try it out! Keep you imagination open when using any design template, whether page or tagger because exceptional designs can be created from both!

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