tutorials — Penny's Miscellany

An ever evolving list of digital scrapbooking tutorials hosted at my digital store, My Digital Stash. Let me know if you have any questions or would like to see specific tutorials added.

Beginning Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials:

Creating Your First layout using a Quick Page

Intermediate Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements:

Loading Brushes (digital stamps)

Using Blend Modes with Picture Play (video)

Clipping Masks: using Frame Masks and blending photographs

Layer Masks – Introduction (video)

Curves in Photoshop CS3

Bounding Text Box in PSE

Fast Vignette in PSE

Fill a layer with color in PSE

Paint Shop Pro Digital Scrapbooking Tutorials:

Drop Shadows in PSP

Hybrid Tutorials:

Paper Piecing the Digital Way

How I Did It – Picture Play Promo Images

2010

I wanted to share with you how I created the images on the Picture Play product packaging. I really enjoy playing around with layers, textures, and anything else I can use to adjust my photos, so here’s a peek at how I played with the ad images for Picture Play Lighting Effects and Picture Play Paper Textures.

First: Lighting Effects – Isn’t this picture gorgeous!? I wish I could take credit for it, but it comes from my sister. It’s a picture of my niece.

Here’s the original shot:

Here’s how I layered it up in Photoshop:

Layer 0 is the original photo

Layer 1: Black and white version of heart texture in Picture Play Lighting Effects set to Color Dodge at 76% opacity

Layer 0 copy: a duplicate of the original photo set to Soft Light at 100%

Layer 2: Color version of heart texture from Picture Play Lighting Effects set to Multiply at 62% Opacity…Then I used a layer mask with a soft round brush to erase the color from her face.

Layer 4: Lens Flare from Picture Play Lighting Effects set to Screen at 100%. I transformed the flare to fit the photograph and angled it so the flare comes into the photo.

That’s it!