Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Grunge Rust Splats Freebie

ಗ್ರುನ್ಗೆ, Rust ಸ್ಪ್ಳತ್ಸ್, Freebie

I love splats on a layout. Duplicate, rub out parts & redirect to create great trails. Try reducing the transparency of the painted splats so that the object beneath shows through & use a single splat beneath a screw (soften edges with eraser) for a realistic look.

I'm off to watch Twilight. Ikea Goddess was raving about it & when I asked my kids what it was they said,' Have you been living under a rock mum?' Such respect!! Hubby has even agreed to snuggle up on the lounge with me (not sure if that's a good thing for such a chick flick) & we have yummy spaghetti my mum made for tea. That's just the sort of Saturday night I like!

Have a great weekend.

Download Grunge Rust Splats here.

Hugs Sue

PS Don't be sad Anne-Marie. Go to Ikea Goddess. In her side bar you'll find everything you need to know about unzipping rar files.

PPS My kits are for personal use only but if I get enough requests I just might make some cu metal bits.

Witchypoo Alpha Freebie

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Here's an alpha (just upper case & some punctuation) to top off what has turned out to be a mega kit. I'd love to see some layouts!

Download Witchypoo Alpha from here.

Hugs Sue

PS If you'd like to wish Witchypoo the best for her big op you'll find her blog here.

Lisette Leaf Lady Freebie

Lisette ,Leaf Lady , Freebie

Liseete is big on style. As a leaf lady she knows just how easy it is to blend in with the trees. Lisette wears petal eyes from a Kim B grab bag & petal eyelashes from a Kim B chrysanth. Her hair is Gunhild ivy, her buttons Scappin' Cop flower centres & her beautiful full skirt (trimmed to match her grunge leaf top) a gift from Angelique.

Download Lisette Leaf Lady from here.

PS Ethics aside, it's just as well we can't choose the features of our kids. It took me over an hour to decide on Lisette's eyes & lashes - all for a freebie doll. Someone (me) needs to get a life so no more designing for a while. Tomorrow I'll do something much more significant - washing!

Hugs
Sue

Grunge Rust Alpha Freebie

ಗ್ರುನ್ಗೆ, Rust ,Alpha ,Freebie

I love Gunhild's blog for her tips & tutorials as well as her great CU freebies. This week she featured an alpha called TRASH which was perfect for some photos I had taken of a rusty aviary base at the last council clean up. I love the way it turned out. Click preview to see detail.

Download Grunge Rust Alpha from here.

Hugs Sue

PS Alpha is upper case only with some punctuation.

PPS There will be more Blossom Babies but they take a long time & alas, being a wife & mum calls!

Grunge Rust Bits n Bolts Freebie

Here's the hardware, hooks, signs, bolts & plates - what a mega, mega kit this is turning out to be but at least my guilt about not doing much boy stuff will be appeased for a while. Click preview to see detail. The plates can be used as tags or to build depth into your layout (check out Mandy's layouts in the Scrapgirls gallery in the sidebar).

Special thanks to the Scrappin' Cop for much of the hardware & the buttons in this add-on. Deb does an amazing job & is so generous with her time & talent.

Download Grunge Rust Bits n Bolts here.

Hugs
Sue

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Adobe photoshop CS5 extended essentials DVD | 1.35 GB

Adobe photoshop CS5 extended essentials DVD | 1.35 GB

Description: Total Training for adobe photoshop CS5 Extended: essentials is learning the way it needs to be; informative and engaging with fast results. Follow along with real-world techniques, and time-saving tips presented in a clear, concise manner that put the power of the worlds leading image editing software in your hands.

Title: adobe photoshop CS5 Extended
Essentials
Category: Print Design & Publishing
Presenter: Amadou Diallo

Platform: Windows & MAC OS
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Running Time: 6.2 Hrs, 1 DVD
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included
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Highlights
Five New Features covered in this title:

1. The Refine Radius Tool
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Friday, April 16, 2010

There are so many ways to convert a color picture into black & white, and here I'll show you a few ways to do this.

		Ok - here we go. Start with opening up your picture. I chose a picture of my daughter in a little wooden tree house we found one day we were out walking. Since her face is basically framed by wood with lots of great texture I wanted to get a rough appearance with great contrast. I'll start with showing you the 2 easiest ways of converting to b&w - and by some the most common methods: Grayscale and Desaturation. I rarely use these 2 methods though because they usually produce a flat image with low contrast. Let me show you:
		Grayscale Image - Mode - Grayscale Simple as that - but as you can see it loose some dept. Didn't turn out really bad on this particular image though...
		Desaturate Image - Adjustments - Desaturate Quick and easy - but the image has very low contrast, and it appears "pale" and flat. Not what I had in mind at all. What I really love about old fashion B&W photography is the great dept and contrast they can provide. Ok - it's time to get serious; I'll show you my 2 favorite ways of turning my pictures into b&w where you have total control of the end result.
		Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer The next method I'm gonna show is by simply using several Hue/saturation adjustment layers. This means that you can go back and alter the effect at anytime + you never make any change to the original image. At your original picture layer go to Layer - New Adjustment layer - Hue/Saturation. Then just click OK without altering any of the settings - and then change the layer mode from Normal to Color. Then add a new Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer - but this time turn down the Saturation to -100 before you click OK. You can see how my picture looked like so far in the picture to the left.
		Now the fun begins. Double click the first Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer you made (the color mode one) and then adjust the effect on the picture by sliding the Hue bar until you get an effect you're satisfied with. You can also then adjust the saturation bar to even adjust some more. Here's the settings I used to get the effect on the picture to the left. It's starting to look good - but I still think it lacks a little something...
		Here's what we'll do: Duplicate the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer (still the color mode one) by dragging it down to the Create New Layer tab . Now change the layer mode on this new adjustment layer from Color to Overlay, and then drag down the opacity a little. I took mine down to 64% opacity. Now we're getting somewhere! You see my end result here to the left. The contrast is great without loosing any detail - which again really adds depth to the picture. This is what I had in my mind when I started out. Note that different pictures will need different treatment to get the results you want - so be sure to play around with other settings and layer modes as well :)
		Channel Mixer The final method I'm gonna show you is by using Channel Mixer Adjustment layers. On the picture layer go to Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Channel mixer. Now be sure to check the Monochrome option like shown here. Now adjust the effect on your picture simply by sliding the red, green and blue channel sliders. Important: Try to keep the total sum around 100 to avoid washed out areas in your picture. I set the red and green channel to zero and the blue channel to 100. This gives a very drastic effect to the skin tones - but for this picture I think it fitted really well.
		Final step. Duplicate the Channel Mixer Adjustment layer by dragging it down to the Create a New Layer tab. Then change the Layer mode from Normal to Overlay and drag the opacity down quite a bit. I took it down to 49% on this particular image - but I often end up around 20-30. The picture on the left shows how my picture looks after adding the last Channel Mixer Adjustment layer. It's a bit dark and moody - but that really suits this particular picture. Ok - we're done! Hope this gave you some ideas to play with on your own :)

This tutorial is written by and copyrighted Faceless

	Open a new Document, whatever size you like. Give it a black background layer. Create a new layer and select the type tool.
	Now we'll get to work on creating that text with all the strange characters. How do we do it? Well, we could spend half the day typing strange keyboard combinations or call on the help of an every day text editor. Since I'm on a Mac the obvious choice is BBEdit. For PC's, I dunno, maybe word or something will work. What you do is open up a graphic file not supported by the text editor. I found opening a TIFF file worked quite nicely. Look at that! Just like Matrix text except horizontal and not so glowing. Woo, now we're cookin. Select a big ol' chunk of text out of the middle somewhere and copy it to the clipboard. Head back into Photoshop next.
	With the type tool selected click and drag over the entire document to create paragraph text. Next select vertical type by clicking the icon in the left corner of the tool options bar, then select top align. Then, open the Character and Paragraph Palettes. Choose a nice computer font. I used Courier New. Set the font size to 6 px. Choose a green color for the text. Now paste your text from the clipboard and accept it by clicking the checkmark in the tool options bar. Set the Tsume to 70%. This reduces the space around the characters by 70%, scrunching them together more like the matrix text.
	Set the spacing to 10 px and duplicate the layer. Change the font size to 8 px and the spacing to 15 px. Set the layers blend mode to Linear Dodge. Duplicate that layer. Change the font size to 10 px and the spacing to 30 px.
	OK. Getting kinda busy isn't it? Let's work towards a little randomness now. Click the layer mask icon at the bottom of the layers palette and set your foreground/background colors to default black and white (d). Choose Filter>Render>Clouds then Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. Slide the contrast all the way up to +100%. Give it gaussian blur of about 20 pixels. Do this with all three text layers and it should be looking better, but we're not done yet.
	More randomness is in order. More masking is in order too. Create a new layer set by licking the folder icon at the bottom of the layers palette then drop your 3 text layers in there. Make sure the layer set is selected and click on the layer mask icon. This time we'll be spending a little more time with our masking. Choose the brush tool and select a 6 pixel, hard, round brush. Make sure black is your foreground color and start painting away strips of text being sure to leave lone strips falling down by themselves. You'll want to take more from the bottom than the top and just kind of break it up some in the middle. Remeber if goof you can always paint stuff back in with white, your text isn't really being harmed. The beauty of layer masks.
	Now let's give the text a little glow. Duplicate each text layer. After you duplicate it right click on the layer and choose "rasterize layer", then right click on the layer mask thumbnail and choose "apply layer mask". After you've made a rasterized copy of all 3 text layers and applied their layer masks move them beneath the text layers and merge them together. Give them a gaussian blur of about 1.5 pixels. Click the layer mask button again and choose render clouds. I just thought it looked lonely down there all by itself without a mask to keep it company. Almost done.
	Create a new layer above the layer set. Select the transparency of all 3 text layers by command clicking on the first layer and then shift-command clicking on the last 2. Press command-h to hide the selection so you can see what your doing. Set white as your foreground color and paint in highlights for the text. Deselect and give it a gaussian blur of about 1.5 pixels, set the blending mode to Color Dodge and drop the opacity to about 80%.
	This one's optional. If your color seems a little bit off like mine did just add a hue/saturation adjustment layer and slide the hue around until you're happy.
	Now we'll do the big text. Create a new layer on top. Select the type tool and a font that looks good for the job in capitals. I used Palatino at 48 pixels. You could probably find a better Matrix font at one of the download sites if you wanted to. You should also reset your tsume and spacing back to normal in the character palette. Type your text in white and duplicate the layer twice. Rasterize all 3 layers. Go to the bottom text layer and tick the preserve transparency box in the layers palette. Fill the layer with the color you used for the background text and uncheck the preserve transparency box. Do this for the middle text layer as well. On the bottom text layer choose Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, set the angle to 0 and blur it until it looks about right. On the middle text layer make sure preserve transparency is off and choose Filter>Other>Minimum and enter a setting of 2 pixels or so depending on the size of your type. Now give it a small gaussian blur, maybe 2 or 3 pixels. On the top (white) text layer select the rectangular marquee tool and select a piece of text on one of your letters. Then select the move tool and nudge the selection any direction you want by 1 or 2 pixels. Repeat as necessary until you're done. Link the three text layers together and position them wherever you want. That's it, you're done. In hindsight I think this effect could probably be improved by using more text layers, especially the smaller ones, and varying the spacing more but at the moment I don't really care to go back and rewrite the tut for it. The best advice I can give for achieving any effect is to look at an example and try to recreate that. Just play around trying different things until you get it right.. you'll learn so much in the process and won't need tutorials for everything anymore. That's exactly what I did here, I just took the time to type it out as I fiddled. -ಪೆಅಚೆ http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/matrix/text_effect.ಹ್ತ್ಮ್ ದಿಸ್, ತುತೊರಯಾಲ್, is written ಬಿ, and ಕ,opyrighted, Faceless

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Glass Orbs with Adobe Photoshop

Glass ,Orbs ,with ,Adobe Photoshop

How Too Use The Pen Tool In Photoshop Part1

Healing brushes, Patch tool tricks: Photoshop retouching

American Plywood In Roof Construction – A Design Guide – RIBA

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Design First – Design-Based Planning for Communities

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

IDMAN5.18-Build8-25-01-2010

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