Techniques-Digital
Backgrounds/Paper - Page 3
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Time Paper
- Open a new image, as large as you need, 300 dpi if you will be printing this
- Add a layer, and fill with your chosen color
- "Stamp" paper randomly with brushes in a darker shade of the background color (I used PB Grunge brushes, but don't remember where I got them)
- Add a layer and draw random lines throughout the image
- Add a Gaussian blur and adjust the opacity if necessary to create the proper shading
- Save as a PSP file to preserve the layers, and as a .jpg file
Click here to see the card I made with this collage
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Christmas Diamond Paper
- Open Shabby Princess freebie pink diamond paper, duplicate, resize to 600x600 and colorize to olive green
- Add a layer, set color to a darker olive, click your Text tool, and add KR Christmas Dingbat font "r" in a small size - position in the center of one of the light-colored diamonds
- Repeat, filling in each light-colored diamond in one row with the dingbat
- Duplicate the dingbat layer 8 times and using the Move tool, move each layer down to position the dingbats in the right place
- On the Layer Pallette, click the "eye" to make the background layer invisible, and Merge Visible Layers. Turn the visibility of the background layer on (you will have two layers - one of the background, and one of all the dingbats)
- Add a layer
- Set color to dark red, and using the brush tool set on Round Brush, Size 3, click once at the point where two diamonds meet
- Repeat across the row, adding the red dot at each intersection
- Duplicate the dot layer 18 times, and using the Move tool, move each layer down to position the dots in the right place (each diamond needs a dot where it meets the next diamond right to left, and also where it meets the next diamond top to bottom - that's why you duplicated twice the number of layers as for the dingbat layer)
- Make the background and dingbat layers invisible, Merge Visible Layers, and turn the visibility of the two other layers back on. You will have three layers.
- Save as a PSP file, and then as a .jpg.
Font: KR Christmas Dings 2 (Kats Fun Fonts) - page 24;
Diamond Paper (Shabby Princess)
Published in SSReflections On-Line Ezine
Click here to see the card I made with this collage
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Lace Paper
This one is too easy!
- Lay a piece of lace on your scanner bed
- Lay a piece of cardstock, any color on top and close lid
- Scan and resize image
Scan using a different color cardstock for a different background.
Remember that many fabrics are copyright. This was an old piece of lace, about 30 years old.
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Black and White Paper
- Create a new image, any size, and fill with black
- Open the white clip art (image below left), and choose Image Menu, Negative Image, which will turn it to the image below right.
- Click the Magic Wand, tolerance 100, and click on the clip art negative image to select
- Add a layer to your plain black image and copy and paste the selection
- Repeat adding layers and clip art images, moving them until you are pleased with the layout
Credits: Clip Art Design (Dover)
Click here to see a card made with this paper.
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Diamond Nautical Paper
- Create a new image, any size, and fill with blue
- To get the diamond shape, I clicked on a diamond from another digital paper with the Magic Wand to select, and pasted as a new layer into the blue image
- Fill the diamond with white
- Use the Pick Tool to enlarge the diamond
- Copy and paste the diamond as many times as you need to fill a row, and use the Move tool to set them in place
- In the Layer Pallette, click the "eye" for the blue layer which will make it invisible
- Merge visible layers so all the diamonds are now on one layer
- Add a layer, and using the grunge brush, click on all the diamonds; lower the opacity of that layer
- Add a layer, and using the compass brush and the blue color, click several times on the diamonds in various places, making some of the images go off the diamonds
- Merge visible layers
- Uncheck the "eye" for the blue layer to make it visible
- Copy the diamond layer as many times as you need, and move it into place
Credits: Clip Art Design (Dover)
Click here to see a card made with this paper.
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