Last week I finished designing a new clutch purse using fabric beads in unusual ways – for handgrips and purse feet. You can see the finished design it here. Now the same clutch purse design takes on a whole new persona. Instead of using plain fabric, this one is being designed using using one of …
If you’ve been following along, I’m currently doing a review of all the cool new stuff in the latest version 9 of Photoshop Elements. If you haven’t yet tried Photoshop Elements, Adobe offers a free 30 day trial. You can download it here. In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate the layer mask tool. In …
As you know I use Photoshop Elements a lot these days and over the years I’ve also collected an enormous amount of Photoshop Brushes which I use particularly to create texture and shadows when making digital art. Recently however the need for law and order in my brushes folder finally overcame the fear of opening …
What’s better than fabric? Well, maybe not better, but certainly in the ball-park …. Fabric Textures of course! And high resolution fabric textures at that. The Thinkdesign Blog has kindly made available for free a fabulous high resolution “Fabric Fold” texture pack and you can download them here (sorry, this link is no longer valid. …
A couple of weeks ago I posted a tutorial for making a vignette with a faded edge. Today I’ll show you a way to make a colored vignette. A colored vignette can be used to highlight an area of your image to draw focus to it. This tutorial is presented using Photoshop Elements, but the …
There are a number of ways to make a vignette and there are a number of different types of vignettes. This tutorial shows how to make a vignette that fades the edges of an image. This tutorial is presented using Photoshop Elements, but the instructions should be similar in Photoshop. 1. Download the image. Download …
