{"id":1017,"date":"2009-05-08T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2009-05-13T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T16:06:32","slug":"day-3-tutorial-blending-papers-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/day-3-tutorial-blending-papers-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 Tutorial – Blending Papers & Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderLife by Beth Ervin. Supplies: Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 2, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2, Faint Whispers Page Pak, Scrap.Words – Inspiration , Magical Moments Pak, Simply Moments CD (frame, quote and ribbons and french script overlay), <\/a>Nature’s Sketchbook Sampler Pak 2 (Day 3 freebie) <\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s Beth’s layout again….creating the soft monochromatic blended effect just takes a lot of layers, two different papers, a layer of white fill, day 3 freebie ferns, some eraser brushes, experimentation, and the use of layer blend modes. Here’s a quick tutorial on how you can do the same.<\/p>\n

With Adobe Photoshop,<\/strong> Photoshop Elements, or Corel Paint Shop Pro <\/strong>follow these few steps (tutorial uses Photoshop Elements):<\/p>\n

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  1. Open image editor <\/li>\n
  2. Open papers of choice (sample used Botanical Paper Flourish and Botanical Paper Script from Simply Moments CD<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  3. Drag the flourish paper onto the script paper.<\/li>\n
  4. Click on the script paper layer to make active.<\/li>\n
  5. Add a white color fill layer (Edit>Fill Layer>White).<\/li>\n
  6. Add frame slide (from Simply Moments CD<\/a>) above white fill layer and torn paper\/lace (from Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 2<\/a>) below white fill layer.<\/li>\n
  7. Play with opacity of green flourish paper and white color fill layer until you like the effect. I set the green flourish to 27% and the white color fill layer to 47%. Here’s how the layer palette looks at this point.ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/li>\n
  8. Add the three different fern leaves above the white color fill layer (below or above the frame). Position and size as desired. Duplicate some. <\/li>\n
  9. Play with the layer blend mode on the fern layers while adjusting the opacity to get a subtle impression. I liked the Pin Light blend mode at about 25-40% opacity. ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/li>\n
  10. Erase any undesired or overlapping leaves. Here are most of the layers and results:ngg_shortcode_3_placeholderngg_shortcode_4_placeholder<\/li>\n
  11. Save layout in .psd format throughout process to not lose your work and to be able to edit in future.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My end result is different than Beth’s as we used different papers, she used a script overlay, and did a lot of erasing of the top paper. That’s the beauty of this process…you can make it your own!<\/p>\n

    FYI…our Day 4 freebie and team challenge will be posted sometime Saturday morning. We’ll leave the day 3 freebie up until that freebie is posted. Enjoy! Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Life by Beth Ervin. Supplies: Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 2, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2, Faint Whispers Page Pak, Scrap.Words – Inspiration , Magical Moments Pak, Simply Moments CD (frame, quote and ribbons and french script overlay), Nature’s Sketchbook Sampler Pak 2 (Day 3 freebie) Here’s Beth’s layout again….creating the soft monochromatic blended effect just takes a lot of layers, two different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8,10],"tags":[42,14],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-photography","category-tutorials","tag-adobe-photoshop-elements","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}