In last week’s post I talked about templates and how using them isn’t cheating. I’m sure you’ve seen layouts that have lovely curved border edges and wonder what template was used. Well, guess what? You actually don’t need a template. Today I’m going to show you how to quickly create a charming curvy border using a simple selection and a filter. That’s right, a filter. If you read my post about stripes back in June, you might be thinking I’m…
In my post about “Page Maps & Sketches” back in October of 2023 I kind of compared page maps to using digital templates. In that post I talked about how “back in the day”, a page map was an essential tool for most traditional scrapbookers. Today as a digital scrapbooker I use templates a lot. Mostly for efficiency but often times as a road map or recipe for a layout. Especially if I’m lean on creative inspiration. So, in the…
In my post about “Using Word Bits” earlier this year (June 2), I briefly showed you how to transform a selection. I recently ran into someone who kept getting the transform tool and Transform Selection mixed up. So, I thought I’d take a minute to give you a better explanation about the two different transform options. You definitely don’t want to make the mistake of mixing up Transform and Transform Selection. A lot of people think they’re the same but…
Over the last two weeks I’ve talked about fonts and used them in different ways. In the Drop Caps post from last week, I used two different kinds of type layers. And in my post about Dingbats I stuck with just one kind of type layer. Today I thought it might be a good idea to give you a good explanation of the different type layers and how best to use them. In Photoshop Elements (PSE), the terms “type” and…
Since we played with fonts in last week’s post about Dingbats, today I thought it might be fun to work on a fancy journaling technique using drop caps. And it’s funny how our brains work. As I began working on this post I had very vivid memories of a set of fairy tale books from my childhood. Those books all had drop caps. I clearly didn’t know what those were back then but I did know what they meant (at…