Duplicate Posts: How to Not Display Your Community Posts on Your Google Plus "Posts" Tab

Hello everyone!
This is just a quick tip if you've wanted to remove and keep Community posts from taking over your Google+ Profile, but don't know how to.

I'm a blogger and like to share my content in Google+ communities. I also own a few communities that I post to. When I first had my Google+ account I quickly discovered that every time I posted a new project in a community my Google+ Profile "Posts" page would end up showing duplicate posts. I usually share in about 2 to 3 communities, but some people share in dozens of them and their profiles look like the photo below.   

Once in a while when I'm looking at peoples Google+ profiles to determine whether I want to follow them I will have to scroll past dozens of the same posts before getting to the next one and then the process begins all over again with the next project. I lose interest quickly and if I do, I know others do to.    If you post in a community and have a blog, YouTube channel, etc, all of your posts do not have to be displayed on your profile to have comments and Plus 1s show up. Your Community posts are not gone just because you choose not to display them.

As a community owner I get many posts per week that are blocked from the community for me to review because they were shared so much that Google marked them as spam. It actually doesn't take a lot of sharing to have this happen and most definitely happens when you share the same post to communities in a short amount of time.
  So that's another thing to consider when you mass post a project on Google+. 

 
How to hide your Community posts: Go to your drop down menu on the top left side of your profile and click on "Settings"

On the Settings page look for the "Profile" section and uncheck the box "Show your Google+ communities posts on the Posts tab of your Google+ profile".

 

That's it! :)
Your Profile "Posts" page will now look more appealing and it will be easier for others to navigate through all of your projects.

  Happy Googling! 

Make a Photo Appear Larger for a Scrapbook Layout Design

Hello! Just a quick tip that may help you out one day when you want to do a layout of which your photo peeks out in different spots or is just too small for your design.

Sometimes the design of a layout calls for a larger photo (one that encompasses a wider or taller background view). When I made my layout I was using an inspiration piece (below) to design it from. In the inspiration piece there are three cog-like decorations on the wall. I wanted to incorporate these somehow into my layout.

I decided to use them on the blind of my window.

The actual photo stops where I have drawn the red line.

This caused a problem. I had already cut three holes out of my blind. I wanted the cogs to surround them and since I had the blind partially covering what was suppose to be the continuance of a glass window there was nothing behind the holes but white paper. 

Sure I could have ignored it or filled the holes, but there was another choice that was as easy and would allow me to get the look I wanted. I printed the same photo again and then just cut three small portions from it that I felt would look realistic behind the holes. The trickiest one was the hole on the left that would still show the tree so I just cut a piece with smaller branches on it (since branches get smaller at the very top of a tree) and made sure the branches were faced in a realistic direction when I glued the piece into place. 

So if you decide to do a layout that will require your photo to "appear" larger, there is a way to do it.

Happy crafting!