Sepia Foto Action Pack now in the store at DSP!

Great photo effects to quickly and easily give your photos a professional look. Great for heritage layouts!

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Fabulous Photo Effects, nice and easy!

These actions are a must have item to make your photos look like the work of a professional. Create Urban Grunge, Dreamy Photo or Faux Lomo at the click of a button in Photoshop CS-CS4 or Photoshop Elements 7. The action pack includes instructions on how to load and run the action. Check the pack out in the DSP store to see further samples of just what you can do with these fabulous actions!

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Experimenting with Overlays

A lot of scrappers seem hesitant to buy effect overlays because they can’t see themselves using them or are unsure of what to do with them. In this tutorial I thought I would give some quick and simple sample ideas of just how much you can do with overlays. For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to be using my Water Color Arsenal Overlays available in the DSP store. Here is the pdf version of the tutorial.

Firstly the important thing to remember with overlays is that in order to get maximum use out of them you need to be experimenting with blend modes. In Photoshop, you will find the various blend modes available to you in the Layers Palette.

For our first example I am going to use a photo. I know I often forget the interesting effects you can produce by using overlays on photos.

Here is the original photo of tulips and the second version, with Water Color Arsenal Overlay number 1 from the set, laid over the top and using the Linear Light Blend Mode.

 

As you can see, using the Linear Light blend mode, lightens the colours of the photo underneath in conjunction with the lighter colours in the overlays, and darkens the darker colours in the overlay and colours underneath giving an interesting water colour wash effect. In the following sample, I have laid two different water colour overlays on a paper from my Sea Biscuit Page Kit available in the DSP store.

On this sample I used the Colour Burn blend mode on both Overlay layers. Colour burn tends to give a wet saturated look on lighter colours making the paper in this case almost look like wet fabric. Overlay Blend Mode will produce a softer effect to Linear Light. On the Paper below from my P365 Essentials Vol 2 Page Kit I have used the water colour overlay over the top of the paper using an Overlay Blend Mode.

The effect can be adjusted by reducing the opacity of the layer.

You can also experiment with blend modes to age your photos. The photo below is a monochrome image of my daughter taken a few years ago. Adding a water colour overlay with a Hard Light Blend Mode and 61% Opacity gives the photo an aged look. This effect works best on dark monochrome photos. You could get similar effects with different blend modes on lighter photos.

Here is the original photo and the photo with the Hard Light Blend Mode

You can enhance your special effects even further buy recolouring the overlays and using more than one overlay. There are so many possibilities available to you.

 

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Hard At Play Add On Pack & Inked Edges

The Hard At Play Add On Pack is now ready and the Be-Muse-Me Posting bonus challenge is underway. You can win this fabulous add on pack by posting a layout with the Hard At Play Page kit in the Be-Muse-Me Gallery at DSP. Don’t worry if you don’t have time to participate in the challenge, the add on pack is available in the DSP store! 

Have you ever wanted to add some ink to your layouts, well now is your chance! I have just added a set of Inked Edges Stamps to the store at DSP. The stamps come in both .png and .abr photoshop brush format within the set, for maximum usage options. The black .png images are easy to recolour or to create into brushes in your own program of choice, or if you have photoshop, just load the brush set and you are ready to go! A must have item for any die hard digiscrapper!

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Cross Processing Graphically Challenged

The March Graphically Challenged at DSP is to 'cross process' a photo and create a layout with that photo. Cross processing is a traditional still film photography technique that can produce some really striking results, however you can achieve similar effects in photoshop without messing with those stinky chemicals! I have done a tutorial to demonstrate how to achieve the effect in photoshop. The challenge is to create a layout using the cross processed photo and have it take up the entire page. I decided to scraplift a layout done by Klamb1111 because I loved the affect she created on her layout with the tutorial and had the perfect photo to use after Jasmine learnt how to ride her bike without training wheels over the weekend! Anyway, here is my layout using the technique, using the cross processed photo, blend modes and a background paper from my Altered Heart Page Kit.

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Are you a member of NAPP?

I am a member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) and there are some great benefits to being a member, support, online classes, tutorials and training, member discounts and a great community. It is worth checking out if you use Photoshop and want to learn more. Click on the graphic below to find out more.

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