Hey everyone! I am Karen, of Snickerdoodle Designs, and I’m here today to talk about patterns. Subtle or bold, distressed or not, patterns add so much to a digital scrapbook page. With the use of Blend Modes and Opacity Levels you can convert a plain paper to a pretty paper. Here’s how: In Photoshop CC…
Getting your layouts to fit the gallery sizing requirements can be frustrating. We mostly create full size layouts for printing purposes, 12×12 inches and at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) which comes out to 3600×3600 pixels. For web purposes and galleries, you don’t need it that large in size. You can resize it to a…
Photoshop Layer Styles provide different effects to a layer’s content in a non-destructive manner. You can edit Styles, change them, or remove them. There are hundreds of different effects you can achieve using Styles. Here are just a few examples: shadows, metals, bevels, textures, acrylic, glitter, and paper. Here at Oscraps, we have a special…
Designer News, Freebies, Layout Technique, Tips & Techniques, Tutorials
Photo masks, coupons, challenges and a freebie! Oh boy! I’ve got lots of things to share with you today! Creative Photo Masks First up, one my Creative Team members, Anne Herbert (“Oldenmeade” in the galleries) made a wonderful page called “Precious” using Miss Ella. I just love it’s watery-painterly yummy-ness and her use of whitespace….
Cheery O, Madi (Diane), has created a video tutorial demonstrating how she used more traditional style papers combined with artsy masks to create a clean and simple, yet artsy journal card layout. Here’s Diane’s layout: And, the video tutorial here: You can find the products Diane used here: Angie Designs – Indivisible Petite…