{"id":10288,"date":"2013-11-03T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=10288"},"modified":"2013-11-04T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T00:06:15","slug":"blending-wphoto-art-blends-click-masks-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/blending-wphoto-art-blends-click-masks-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Blending w\/Photo Art Blends &#038; Click.Masks {how-to}"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s newsletter we announced our <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/phto.html\">6th set of Photo Art Blends<\/a>. These come with 7 different types of 12&#215;12 blends with Photo Transfer Edges (5 each for 35 total): Grunge, Wood, Folded, Concrete, Bokeh, Glass, Cardboard, plus 4 creative Click.Masks for added creativity. This set, like the other 5, comes with a PDF tutorial with step-by-steps plus many examples\/recipes using the set.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>Today I wanted to share a before and after of a piece I just made, in memory of my mom and her love of autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the photo started after it was cropped square. With the\u00a0breeze blowing and a slower shutter speed, the original image is almost painting-like. See the camera setting specs below. \u00a0FYI&#8230;for more information and ideas on creating abstract blur images right within your camera, see our blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=4309\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Canon 7D, Tamron 70-300 Macro, ISO 200, f\/5, 1\/60 second (some motion in breeze)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To create an even more realistic painting effect, I blended the image into 24 Grunge PhotoBlend6 for paper-like texture and softening of the image. To do this, I first clipped the photo to 04 Click.Mask {recolored to white} and set the Click.Mask to Hard Light blend mode at about 80% opacity. I added 3 layers of the word art, each set to Overlay blend mode. I wanted to keep it simple as the painterly photo is the focus.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Layers that make up the piece, showing the order of each layer and their settings (click to enlarge).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<p>And, our big <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/whatsnew.html\">iDSD Sale<\/a> ends Midnight CT, Monday, November 4. See the shop and Sunday&#8217;s newsletter for more details. Thank you for your support for the past 10 years of digital scrapbooking fun!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Creating!<\/p>\n<p>Michelle and Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s newsletter we announced our 6th set of Photo Art Blends. These come with 7 different types of 12&#215;12 blends with Photo Transfer Edges (5 each for 35 total): Grunge, Wood, Folded, Concrete, Bokeh, Glass, Cardboard, plus 4 creative Click.Masks for added creativity. This set, like the other 5, comes with a PDF tutorial with step-by-steps plus many examples\/recipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,8,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-and-after","category-photography","category-products","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288","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=10288"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}