Life Unfolding
Sometimes life unfolds slowly. It’s good to slow down and enjoy.
Exploring mixed media
The first month of this year has been crazy busy, but I finally found some time this week to catch up with some artful creativity. Exploring some photoshopping This image was manipulated in photoshop elements to enhance the figure of the statue and replace the background. I then printed it onto some paper and glued …
More mixed media and photoshop
This is another of the mixed media pieces that I’ve been working with this week. This one has a different texture to the previous mixed media piece I showed you which you can see here, and I used only one color to paint it. Again I’ve highlighted the texture so that it really stands out. …
Fun with mixed media and photoshop
Welcome to another week! I hope your weekend was as much fun as mine! This is how mine started – a table-top full of fun stuff just waiting to be played with. And this is one of the pieces that emerged – a beautiful textural mixed media collage background made using paper, gesso, molding paste, …
Photoshop Elements: Removing backgrounds just got easier
Remember this recent tutorial for removing backgrounds in Photoshop Elements when I showed you how to go from this to this Well that process just got a little easier. I don’t know what I was thinking when I took this photo using my old cutting board for a background instead of my new one. (sigh) …
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Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Cut Out Text Effect
I don’t know about you, but some photoshop elements techniques I only use once in a very long while. And of course you tend to forget how to do things after a while, memory being the way it is and all. I’ve found the best way to remember how to do things in photoshop elements, …
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Imagine – a Book Cover
I actually got some work done yesterday! Using the fabric paper that I made last week (you can see it here) I constructed a notebook cover/organizer for my journal and notes. The fabric paper makes a strong, tough cover fabric, and I collaged together an inkjet print on fabric and some silk fabric scraps that …
Photoshop Elements 9: Layer Masks
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 …
Photoshop Elements: Organizing Brushes
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 …
Photoshop Elements: Fabric Fold Textures
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. …
Photoshop Elements: Colored Vignette
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 …
Photoshop Elements: Faded Edge Vignette
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 …
