Digital Scrapbooking 101

Reblog: Flypaper Photo Textures in Photoshop and PSE

This was originally shared on my blog in June of 2010.  After a few emails from readers asking about photo textures, I hope there are many of you that will find it helpful.

The past few days I have been having so much fun playing with the Flypaper Photo Textures I thought I should write another post here and reference my previous tutorial post.  To my dismay, I learned that I hadn't yet moved it to this blog - so today you get both in one post.

My favorite photo transformation from yesterday - here is the before with just the basic edits in Lightroom:

 

And the after with aqua sparkles and leaky garret from the Tex Box One collection:

I love these textures - combine them with blending modes and opacity and you can take a photo to art rather quickly.  I don't want to leave you without the how-to so below is the original post with tutorial in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - enjoy!  

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I am so excited about today's tutorial! I found these textures a few months ago and I am so excited to show you all how to use them in photos for your layouts. I am sharing not only videos for both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements, I have also added a 4x6 Photo Overlay Freebie and written instructions that you can download for both CS and PSE!

Video Tutorial for PSE Users:

Download the photo overlay and handout for PSE Here:PSE Handouts

Video Tutorial for CS Users:

Download the photo overlay and handout for CS3 Here: CS3 Handouts

Review: Perfect Layers in Lightroom

by Kayla Lamoreaux

Layers in Lightroom?  OnOne's Perfect Layers plugin makes it possible to take your photo editing to a completely different level - without Photoshop.  Check it out in this video Review:

Some helpful links - 

• Perfect Layers Plugin
• Scrapbooking in Lightroom
• Creating Scrapbooking Templates in Lightroom

Creative Escape

After writing a recent guest post on my favorite scrapbooking business site, I was a little nervous about how it would all pan out.  I am grateful to say that the comments were so kind I was relieved to find out there are several other women in the industry who also have experienced burnout. :)

I have so many exciting things to share with you all but they are going to have to wait.  I am excitedly preparing for this event and you think Saturday afternoon when I had some time set aside to finalize some preparations for my presentation I would have worked away... I didn't.

Instead I took four of my favorite photos and blended them together with one texture each from Michelle Coleman's Photo Alchemy Textures Vol. 1 and Limelight Photo Textures.  I had been wanting to do something like this since I watched this video.  So I did...

Although technically my little creative escape put me behind in my preparations for my presentation and a few other things, it was just what I needed..

What is your latest Creative Escape?  Hopefully something fun that renews the senses and gives you joy. :) 

Video Tutorial Digital Scrapbooking Photo Textures

If you haven't seen Michelle's Limelight Photo Textures yet, I highly recommend that you pick them up!  Check out just two things you can do with them here -

 

If you want to learn more about how to use Limelight Textures in Photoshop Elements, check out this video.

The Creative Composite with Julianne Kost

I am a huge fan of Julianne Kost.  She is an amazing teacher and artist.  Her photography is breathtaking - she literally creates art with her photos. 

Julianne recently released this video on Adobe TV.  In this video she shares her personal workflow and process for creating her amazing composite images.  It is 25 minutes long - but so worth your time.  She goes over so many cool tips in Photoshop, it is a video you won't want to miss.  To view it full screen, click the TV icon in the lower right corner.

Video Tutorial: Flypaper Photo Textures in Photoshop and PSE

The past few days I have been having so much fun playing with the Flypaper Photo Textures I thought I should write another post here and reference my previous tutorial post.  To my dismay, I learned that I hadn't yet moved it to this blog - so today you get both in one post.

My favorite photo transformation from yesterday - here is the before with just the basic edits in Lightroom:

 

And the after with aqua sparkles and leaky garret from the Tex Box One collection:

I love these textures - combine them with blending modes and opacity and you can take a photo to art rather quickly.  I don't want to leave you without the how-to so below is the original post with tutorial in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - enjoy!  

**********************************************************************

I am so excited about today's tutorial! I found these textures a few months ago and I am so excited to show you all how to use them in photos for your layouts. I am sharing not only videos for both Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements, I have also added a 4x6 Photo Overlay Freebie and written instructions that you can download for both CS and PSE!

Video Tutorial for PSE Users:

Download the photo overlay and handout for PSE Here:PSE Handouts

Video Tutorial for CS Users:

Download the photo overlay and handout for CS3 Here: CS3 Handouts

Video Tutorial: Texture+Photo=ART

In this tutorial we dress up the image below by applying texture...You can thank Denise Clason for the push to do this tutorial... Here is the "before" -

Which brings us to the "After"....

And here's the video...

Here's the video that shows how to add a layer mask in Photoshop Elements...

Also, you can find Pink Ink Studios free texture Tuesdays here. You can also download the texture I used in this video for free here.