{"id":3020,"date":"2010-02-26T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:08:18","slug":"a-different-clipping-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/a-different-clipping-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Clipping Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderbeth ervin.<\/span> photo credit: sxc.hu.layout details here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Using clipping\/photo masks in conjunction with photos is the common function of these artistic tools, but they can also provide a wide range of decorative effects using just a little imagination. See below for some different techniques using our new Creative Text Paths\/Masks 3<\/a> and Blessings & Love Photo Masks.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Enjoy our big Everything’s on Sale Sale<\/a>, too…thru Sunday!)<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderall layout details here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In King of My Heart I sandwiched a colorized mask between two layers. Using the King of Hearts card from the Game Night Pak<\/a>, I duplicated the card layer, selected\/copied\/pasted just the king, placed the mask on top of the full card and added the new king layer on top of this collage. To adjust the color, select Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue and Saturation and in dialog box, check the Colorize box, Hue to 18, Saturation to 86, Lightness to 30. In the Layer Palette I adjusted this layer’s opacity to 65%.<\/p>\n

In My Love the mask is framed with a red ribbony frame and softened using Gaussian blur. Add a light drop shadow to the mask (I used 25% opacity) then select mask layer in your layer palette, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur. Adjust the radius. The higher the number the larger the blur factor. My sample used 25.<\/p>\n

In Sage Sisters the mask is used a baseboard for my title on top of a mat. Again, I changed the hue and this time I intensified the mask by duplicating the layer, which allowed the white title to stand out on top of it. Again a slight drop shadow was added to the lower mask layer only.<\/p>\n

Clipping patterned paper to masks is one of the quickest ways to add a beautiful accent to your digital pages. In pink Baby Girl I clipped the pink flourish paper from Simply Lullaby Pak<\/a> to the mask by resizing the paper to fit over the mask, dragging paper on top and use <Ctrl>G to clip the paper into the mask shape.<\/p>\n

Michelle and Rachel framed their painted mask images with our new Creative Text Paths\/Masks 3. Adding a quote or journaling in a beautiful font around these painted images adds more focus to the piece.<\/p>\n

See more step-by-step tutorials on our blog for using Text Paths here <\/a>and Clipping Masks here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy mask creating! Beth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

beth ervin. photo credit: sxc.hu.layout details here Using clipping\/photo masks in conjunction with photos is the common function of these artistic tools, but they can also provide a wide range of decorative effects using just a little imagination. See below for some different techniques using our new Creative Text Paths\/Masks 3 and Blessings & Love Photo Masks. (Enjoy our big […]<\/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":[7,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-team-inspiration","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}