This creative tutorial shows you how to create a handcrafted Halloween Scrapbook page with all the traditional elements like: Layered Photo Frames, Ripped Images, Fabric Embellishment, Halloween Stickers and Ripped Spooky Lettering.
If a printed invitation is desired, Rip Studio generates realistic High Resolution Rips, Curls, Texture and Shadows in full print resolution—all with control over every element create inside the app. We guarantee every creation you make will be unique and one of-a-kind!
Scrapbook Page Size: 6 x 6 in. (1596 x 1596 px.), or easily enlarge it to a 12 x 12 using the resolution box found inside the app on the top right corner of the document. Click on value and change the height to 3192 and width 3192 px.
In this tutorial you will learn about:
First download the Demo of Rip Studio (choose platform): 
Mac | 
Win
(This tutorial requires the latest version of Rip Studio)
Then download the Project Halloween Scrapbook Page (click link): Start Download
The folder contains: Black Polka Dot Ribbon, Halloween Stickers, Haunted House, Photo-1_FPO, Photo-2_FPO, Purple Photo Frame, Purple Polka Dots and Purple Ric Rac Ribbon. It also has an image of the finished example of the invitation and a Project. This project will help you understand how the invitation was set up inside Rip Studio that you can refer to it at the end of the tutorial and compare.
Download and install Font: Double Feature at http://www.dafont.com/doublefeature.font
Launch Rip Studio
Open the folder labeled Halloween Scrapbook Page. Keep it open to the side so you can grab the images easily.
You can create a photo frame using a Paper Layer the same way you made the purple paper background, or you can drag and drop in a pre-made photo frame. This example is to show you another way to create one.
In the Halloween Scrapbook Page folder locate Photo-2_FPO and drag and drop it into Rip Studio (In Step 7 we will show you how to update the layer with a different photo.)
To Replace the photo in a layer select the layer labeled Photo 2 FPO copy then drag in Photo 1 FPO (from the Halloween Scrapbook Page folder) and drop it on the thumbnail on the end of the Background Style.
NOTE: There are two ways to add your photo the the scrapbook. First is to drag and drop the photo on the open application. If you add them this way the settings will go back to the default ones and will require you to set them again. If you add the photo using the Background Style it will retain the settings, however you may need to resize the picture if it is a different size.
NOTE: These files have transparent backgrounds and were designed this way. If you want to make your own, use an editing app to remove background then save the file as a .png or .tif
Finish up the composition by adding text.
You have made a digital handmade scrapbook page with all the qualities of a traditional one.
Email it to your friends, or create an event and post it.
If you desire a printed version go ahead and do it! The file is a full 266 resolution image.
In this tutorial we use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, here is a list of the keyboard shortcuts included in Rip Studio:
