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According to Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia, being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information, or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence.
Of course when we create scrapbook pages we are not spying on our viewers, but sometimes we do want to cover up things we don’t want our viewers to see. We may want to cover things that are distracting, or things that are not adding anything to the message of the layout.
Michelle covered a swing in the background of her photos, Jenn covered a snack bar and a person in her photo and Shae covered her husband’s arm in a photo and cropped the background. Cropping and covering often have the same result.
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Old pictures scanned in from years ago, before I started paying attention to light and background and where focus should be in my pictures. The swing in the background is distracting. I used the tape to cover certain unwanted items in the background, and the star cutouts to distract the eye from the baby swing in the background. You can still see the swing, but it's not a complete eye sore.
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Shining Star by Michelle Boeckermann. Supplies:
Digital Kit: "My Shining Star" by Traci Reed @ The Sweet Shoppe, Stitches: Ronna Penner, Text Path Border: Dora Phillips, Font: Ritalin ExtraBold, Heavy Chalk Action, Crinkled Action: Atomic Cupcake.
Journaling: David Francis Boeckermann playing in the sunlight. 1912 Dickens Drive Killeen Texas. Spring 1995 almost 2 years old. David, you were such an independent child, playing with anything and everything. You loved putting things into boxes and playing with
Playdoh. You talked to me all the time while playing too! I was always being told some most excellent stories. You were so cute my dear son, I loved every moment.
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Design
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Even though this is a close-up shot, there were other things (snack bar and a person) in the photo that were distracting. To cover them I placed a layer of paper over those sections, making it part of the design of the page. I then added my journaling on the left section so it didn't seem so obvious that I was covering something up, it just looks like part of the design.
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Intense by Jenn Keefer. Supplies:
Digital kit: Caught off Balance by Michelle 'Spink' Boeckermann.
Journaling:
Michael & Mikey watching DonDon's first soccer game of the season with such intensity.
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Design
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This is a photo I took of my husband. First I flipped the picture to have him facing toward the LO, then I covered up the front half of the photo to remove his arm reaching up toward the hat, then I cropped the open space of the photo behind him - all this to bring focus to his face and the hat. I always try to remove distracting items from my photos to help draw attention to my subject. Many times the simplest photos can turn out spectacular with proper cropping.
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My Man by Shae Jungkans. Supplies:
Digital Paper: Digi Treat, Scalloped Template: Digi Scrap, Leaves: "Nature" Kit by Monikab, Magical Alpha: MisScrap, Software: Photoshop Elements 6.
Journaling: At long last love has arrived, And I thank God I'm alive, You're just too good to be true, Can't take my eyes off of you! - Lyrics by Lauryn Hill.
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