MIxed Surfaces Journal: Part 2 Mini Workshop

This month is part 2 of a 3 part workshop about creating journals with mixed surfaces.  The ideas are presented in a 44 minute video using Photoshop CS5.

In this part of the workshop we will take a look at the digital element to combine with your papers and fabrics you painted in the part 1.  The video for this part of the workshop contains ideas to get you started thinking of the types of visuals you want for your journal.  I show some of the ways I create digital prints for my pages.  It is not a photoshop workshop, but a cursory view of manipulating some files for printing.  This information is intended to be food for thought, or you could use these actual ideas with your images.

Contact me with any questions about this workshop.

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Non members Part 2 of the Mixed Surfaces Journal mini workshop is $9.95

Playing with Images

This will give a cursory look at what can be done to one of the images on the Kathyanne Art site.  It's a before and after.  I got involved in changing this image to something else and didn't write the steps down, so in this situation, it will be food for thought instead of a straight how to.  I used Photoshop to manipulate the image.  Journalpage 127 is the image I started with.

This image is meant to be a journal page that can be printed and written on.  I wanted to see what changes I could make and add a quote.  Here is where it ended up.

I turned the image clockwise using the transform tool.
Rasterized the type and filled it with a pattern I made from the print used in the geometric design.
Type was stroked and embossed.
Using the paint bucket tool, I filled the background with a new color, chosen also from the print in the geometric design.
Once the design was done, the background (which is everything but the type) was textured with one of the patterns in the fill box.

This image will be posted to my kathyannewhite blog on November 28th. Everyday that blog has a new post containing a positive aspect.