Have you ever cut a photo in half for a two page layout?

I was looking at the new Jill Riner paperdoll book. There are at least a couple two page spreads in there that have a photo cut in half! My mouth fell open! I would never have thought to do that. Maybe part of the reason is because I put my pages in 3-ring binders. I have cut other embelishments in pieces, but a photo? I dunno if I can do it. Could you?
WendyH

i haven't seen the book but frankly this amounts to nothing more than heresy for me LOL!! i personally would never do it..i think it would be hard to appreciate the photo that way. just my 2 cents!

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renée
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albert einstein

WOW! I would have a really hard time doing that! I haven't seen the book either. I have taken a photo and cut two small strips on each end (something I would have cropped off anyway - nothing important) and when I matted them I left a little space between the strips and the main picture. (Do you have any idea what I am talking about? You might have seen it done before.)

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Tamra

Yes, I've done it, but that was when I was in my "younger and dumber" days in my scrapping career and I really hate how it turned out. I haven't seen the new Jill book, but bet the idea could be cute if it was done right!

Amy

i'm with Tamra-i've cut off the ends of pictures and placed them further apart, but i'm not sure i'd cut a picture in half unless i had an extra copy! here's what i'm talking about....

NO WAY!!! I can't imagine doing that to the pictures I'm working so hard to preserve! The strips on the ends, I can see, but I get upset looking at some of my old pages with the pictures cropped to death, I can't imagine cutting any in half!

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I have cut a photo in half for a two page layout and it turned out great! I did 5x7 albums for my bridesmaids and my female usher for my wedding as keepsakes. I had a panoramic picture of all of us displaying our nails on one of the tables at the reception. The picture was really fun and I wanted to include it, but being panoramic, it was too large for the page. I CAREFULLY cut the picture in half silhouetting those in the middle. Then I laid each half on each side of my two page layout at a downward angle towards the middle. I outlined the outer edge of the picture with a solid line and some dots and then embellished with some stickers. Then result was fantastic - a lot of the gals at the scrapbooking event I was at loved it.

This was the hot topic of discussion at the lss crop I went to last night! I particularly don't care for it, nor do I care for cutting a letter in half so that part of it is on one page and part on the other. In one of the recent CK issues, they even cut punch art in half to put on one side and the other. I just don't think it makes sense. The majority of the people at the crop agreed. JMO ... take it w/a grain of salt (and a large margarita!). Smiles, Susan

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Go To Your Destiny ...

I have cut die cuts. In my wedding album, I cut a butterfly in half and put my family's name on one half on the left page and DH's family name on the other half on the right page. I think it turned out cute. Haven't cut a picture in half, though. I might do it with a scenic picture, but I doubt that I'd do it with a people picture!

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~~**MAC**~~

I have cut a picture in ½. It was a pic of my daughter's birthday cake (no biggie on that).
I had pictures of her with her cake from start to finish (spotless to full of frosting). I put the picture of the cake in the middle (cut in ½), took the pics of her in "mess" order (all cut in a circle) and did a circle around the cake pic. It turned out nice and it's one layout that many people have commented on how nice it turned out.

I would NEVER cut a photo of a person in half - NO WAY!!!