Hi girls,

Miranda here from the sunny Netherlands. Today I am bringing you a simple photoshop trick but it is very useful…

When doing detail work on an image you may need to zoom in to take a closer look at the pixels. But to make sure that any changes you’re making in this magnified state will look realistic at a normal view you’ll have to zoom out for a quick look. Here’s a great tip – instead of zooming in and out you can have the same image open in two windows at the same time.
With an open image selected choose Window> Arrange> New Window (the original file name will be listed). The same image will now appear in a new second window.
Keep one window set at 100% to see your effects, and work in the second window – either zoomed in or zoomed out.

Hope this trick will bring you any help!!

Have a great day!

Hi sweets, Steph here with you to talk you about font and make a journaling.

My tutorial will be in french, because my english is unfortunatly too poor … I hope this tutorial will be useful anyway !

Pour terminer une page ou quand on veut faire un texte , un wordart , un journaling sur une page on n’a pas toujours la police d’écriture adéquate , il existe quantité de sites avec des polices d’écritures à télécharger.

Parmi mes sites favoris il y a ceux-ci :

1001freefonts

Dafont

Fontspace

Fontstock

Kevinandamanda

Scrapvillage

Simplythebest

Urban fonts

La première fois je me suis retrouvée bien embarrassée pour installer ma police d’écriture si c’est votre cas à vous aussi voilà la procédure :

Pour installer une police d’éciture rien de plus simple :

1)  la télécharger

2) dezipper le dossier ( avec winrar ou votre programme habituel)

3) *soit faites un clique droit sur la police et cliquez sur installer

*Soit : copiez votre police ensuite allez sur votre disque dur c -> windows-> font et la coller

et voilà votre police est installée

ensuite je voudrais vous parler des journaling

nous n’avons pas toujours l’inspiration pour trouver une jolie phrase ou un texte pourquoi ne pas utiliser un texte, un poème, une chanson trouvé sur internet, plutôt que de le recopier mot par mot vous pouvez le copier directement sur votre page , pour cela faites comme ceci :

- 1) Réalisez votre page

-2) Trouvez le texte qui vous plaît

-3) Faites un clique droit  afin de copier votre texte

-4) Retourner sur votre psd , prenez votre outil  “texte horizontal”

- cliquez sur votre page , une fois que le curseur “clignote” faites un clique droit et choisissez “coller” .

Vous pouvez ensuite modifier la police de caractère, modifier le paragraphe pour l’ajuster à votre page, pour cela faites ceci

- mettez votre texte en surbillance, (placez vous sur la première lettre du texte)

- une fois tout le texte ( ou une partie) sélectionné changez la police, la couleur , ect .

NB pour faire apparaître la fenêtre de texte et de paragraphe aller dans :

- barre de menu -> fenêtre->paragraphe

- barre de menu ->fenêtre ->caractère

J’espère que ce petit tutoriel vous aidera quelque peu …

à bientôt

Steph

Hi sweets, Véro here ! How are you today ? Spring is here, isn’t it totally awesome ?! Sun is shining and cold is getting away ! I love this season !

Today, I would like to talk you about Scrapcooking ® :

Like Scrapbooking, discover ScrapCooking ® : simple techniques to decorate your dishes ! Your kitchen becomes decorative and prettifies to add a key of fancy to cakes and elegance on your dishes.

To print cookies, to accomplish a.tout icing it becomes so fun and easy with ScrapCooking ® ! Behind this registered trademark, you find the Carambelle society which offers many accessories and smartness for your achievements. Unique recipes in moulds in silicone and other one takes rooms, find the ideal object !

To find cupcakes, scrapcooking paper, decorative sugars and recipes of small decorative cookies, run on the site scrapcooking

(All images from the site http://www.scrapcooking.fr)

I hope you enjoyed this article !

I wish you a wonderful and sunny Tuesday !

Hugs

Hi lovelies ! Véronique here to bring you your tuesday tips and tricks. Today I’ll make a tutorial. Unfortunatly my english is not good enough and I’ll do it in french but it’s very illustrated and I hope most of you will be able to understand what I am talking about ! So let’s go !

J’ai choisi de vous parler aujourd’hui de l’utilisation des textures sur vos photos afin d’en modifier le rendu. Pour ma démonstration, j’ai utilisé une photo personnelle ainsi que des textures de Martencja Designs : “Gold Vintage Professional Textures”

Première étape : Choisir et ouvrir votre photo :

2nde étape : Choisir votre ou vos textures. Pour ma part j’en ai choisi deux que j’appliquerai successivement :

3ème étape : L’importation de la texture, celle-ci doit être placée AU-DESSUS de votre photo :

Dans le menu déroulant, là où il est écrit “normal” juste en dessous de calque, choisissez le mode “incrustation”

Vous obtiendrez ce résultat :

Mouais … Je ne sais pas ce que vous en pensez, mais je ne trouve pas le résultat génial : Le visage de ma fille est jaune, je ne suis vraiment pas fan, il va falloir arranger ça ! Pour se faire, vous prenez l’outil gomme, choisissez un diamètre assez large de forme arrondie floue

Passez cette gomme sur toutes les parties que vous souhaitez effacer (en réglant l’opacité de la gomme vous pouvez estomper uniquement l’effet, tout est affaire de goût !). On obtient ça :

Pas mal pour un début, mais je trouve l’effet encore trop prononcé, je vais donc diminuer l’opacité de ma texture :

Afin de renforcer l’effet texturisé du fond j’ai utilisé une seconde texture :

Et j’ai répété les étapes précédentes … Je suis arrivée à ce résultat :

Pour mémoire, voici un petit avant-après :

N’hésitez pas à jouer avec les différents modes de fusion et l’opacité du calque de la texture !

J’espère que ce petit tutorial vous a plu ! Très bonne journée et @ très vite !

Enjoy

Hi sweets, Véro here with your Tuesday Word on the Street. I’m here today to talk about Valentine handmade box !

With very few equipment and in a very few time you’re going to realize gorgeous boxes to slide there soft tickets for your darling ! Isn’t it a fun idea for Valentine’s day ?! I found this on an awesome blog : Instants papiers.

And I want to especially thanks Frederique who accorded me the possibility to talk you about those boxes !

So, here they are :

You’ll even find an explicative notice (You can load it on a bigger size on Intants Papiers Blog)

And a box model ! Isn’t it totally awesome ?!

Go on girls – get your hybrid on… you know you want to !

Hi there, Vero here to talk you about shadows ! But first of all I want to wish you a happy, funny and merry new year ! I hope you enjoyed christmas time and you had great holidays !

Good Morning Everyone!  It’s Patti here with my very first blog post as a member of the  A5D team.

The holidays are rapidly approaching and I’m sure like everyone else you have a little stress occuring over it all.  So much to do, so little time.  If you are anything like me, you likely wonder, why you can’t bottle all that time and energy up and use it somewhere else.  All those preparations that we do to make things ‘just perfect’ in our minds is over in a matter of minutes, with children and adults, ripping and tearing the gift wrap and eating up all those delicious treats.  Really though it is all about,  seeing smiling faces and the enjoyment others get from all of our hard work and efforts, isn’t it?  THE MEMORIES and photo opportunities:)

I did come across a neat blog the other day, “The Adventures of Bluegirlx0″ and Julie Collins, had an amazing and ‘super easy’ craft idea – Bottle Brush Wreath – Friday Dec 3/2010 post.  I thought it would be a great idea to add to our Christmas Decorating and give a little ‘fun’ moment during all the hustle and bustle of the upcoming holidays!

(All photos from The Adventures of Bluegirlxo blog)

supply list: gather together a little wreath (tacky and new is best), some tinsel, stamens, mica, narrow ribbon for a bow, and some tacky glue.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you have a great Tuesday and get a chance to try this cute little craft sometime during your busy holiday preparations.

Greetings!  Have you ever wanted to work with text paths, but just weren’t sure how?  I’ve created a quick and easy tutorial that will show you some basics.  This tutorial was created using PhotoShop CS5, but works in other versions too.

Text paths are a unique way to add journaling to your page, so let’s get started.  The first thing you will need to do, is decide what shape you want your text path to follow.  To do this, go to your custom shapes tool.  This can be found on your toolbar palette or by hitting the “U” key.  Once you’ve selected your shape, make sure you have the paths icon selected (vs. the shapes layers option) in the upper left hand corner. Now draw your path onto your canvas.

Now it’s time to choose a font, and type your text.  I always align my text to the left so that the text will start where I initiate my text path.  To start your path, click directly on the text path.  This will add a text to the outside of the path.

If you’d like to add text to the inside of your path, you can do this by transforming your path.  To do this, select your text layer from your layers palette and flip it vertically (or horizontally).

Lastly, if you want to create a shaped text both, you can put your cursor inside the path. Notice I’ve justified the text in my paragraph options so that it accentuates the shape of the text box.

Happy scrapping!

Sheri (SeattleSheri)

Greeting!  Have you ever wanted to use brushes, but just weren’t sure how?  I’d like to shed a little light on how to use brushes!  This tutorial was created using PhotoShop CS3, but works in other versions too.

Once you’ve decided to use a brush, make a new layer.  Adding a brush to an existing layer will limit you flexibility.

Once you have your layer open, you can add brushes to your design, one of two ways.  The first way I’m going to demonstrate is the quickest.  Navigate to your tool bar and select your brush too (shortcut key B).

Next select your brush.  I’ve selected one of Cinnamon Design’s fabulous Brush Circles!  You can adjust the size before you add it to your canvas, if you’d like.  You maintain better quality by adjust the size before you add it to your canvas.

Now “stamp” it onto your page, being careful to ensure it is completely captured within your canvas!  You should see an outline of the brush when you hover over you canvas.   Left click once to add your brush.    Feel free to move it around or apply different layer styles (colors, patterns, gradients, etc) or change the blending options and/or opacity.

If you want to do something advanced, you can add brushes using the brush palette.  To use your brush palette, you can either hit F5 or go to Window -> Brushes.

Once you have your brush palette up, select brush tip shape, you can flip or rotate your brush as desired.  You can also experiment with all of the other features within the palette.

Voile, here is the finished product with two brush layers!

Happy scrapping!
Sheri (SeattleSheri)