Test Your Skills 1
Test Your Skills
Want to sharpen your design skills? Try taking our first quiz to see if you can spot common mistakes often seen in scrapbook galleries! Use the Design No-no’s checklist below to help in your search.
Quiz #1: Design No-no’s
Here’s a list of design mistakes you should avoid on your scrapbook pages:
- Misspelled words
- Type above 3D elements
- Journaling that’s too large
- Bevels on plain type
- Shadows on journaling
- Vertically oriented type (Instead rotate the type 90°)
- Type on an angle (unless it’s connected to an angled photo)
- Journaling with a decorative font - such as a lacy script
- Placing the title randomly (place it in proximity with another focal point)
- Using 2 spaces after an endpoint (a throwback to manual typewriter days and not appropriate for computer generated type)
- Title doesn’t match the remainder of the page design
Type
- Pattern or color of a paper overwhelms the page
- Papers or elements from different color families
- Bevels on papers or elements
Paper
- Photos are too dark
- The horizon line is crooked
- Photos are too saturated
- Photos don’t match in color
- Photos don’t fill a mask
- Photos that would look better cropped
- Lacking photo definition on overlapping or clustered photos
Photos
- Missing drop shadows on items that need a shadow
- Randomly placed elements
- Trapped space
- Too small shadows on bigger 3D elements
- Shadows that aren’t the right size for where they’re placed
- Shadowed elements below graphic elements
- 3D elements under a stroke outline
- Drop shadow on a complex mask
Clusters / Elements / Anchors
Take the Quiz
Using the above list, can you find 3 Design No-no’s in the page below? (Answers at bottom)
