Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements
Chapter One
Page Rules
Chapter Contents
The Rule of Balance
The Rule of Visual Center
The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Negative Space
Design is a visual language. With each scrapbook
page, you tell a story. You want to guide
your viewers' eyes to what you want them to see
and feel. Everything you put on that page, where
you place the items, and where you leave open
areas, all help evoke the memory of an event.
Furthermore, the design of one page can also
direct the reader to the following pages, which
may be a continuation of the story. In this chapter,
you'll explore the four basic page rules. Use
them as guidelines to help you create visually
pleasing and emotionally powerful pages. Just
remember, they all work together, and they work
with the elements and principles of design,
described in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.
The Rule of Balance
Balance is probably the most obvious rule of page design. The placement of the elements
on a page affects the emotions of the viewer. A lopsided page, or one in which
the elements and photos are placed in an unbalanced way, may make the viewer want
to turn the page quickly.
Balance doesn't mean tha ... read full excerpt from Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements: The Creative Cropping Cookbook ebook
