{"id":5119,"date":"2011-04-06T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:30:26","slug":"boxed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/boxed-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Boxed In {how-to}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">marie di raimondo<\/a><\/span><a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=588\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scrapping digitally with boxes and clusters, when done with realistic shadowing, gives your pages an awesome effect as shown in Marie&#8217;s page above. Love how it looks like a picture taken of a real cluster of boxes.<\/p>\n<p>In doing some experimenting, below are some canned shadows you can apply to our boxes (they come with no outside shadows) on a 12&#215;12 layout. The size of your finished layout affects how large the settings should be (i.e an 8&#215;8 layout would have smaller settings). Because boxes are deep these settings are very large, blurry, and soft&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Adobe Photoshop Elements (Layer&gt;Layer Style&gt;Drop Shadow): Size 120, Distance 75, Opacity 50%ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/li>\n<li>In Adobe Photoshop: (Layer&gt;Layer Style Drop Shadow):\u00a0 Distance 75, Spread 0, Size 120, Opacity 50%<\/li>\n<li>In Corel Paint Shop Pro (Effects&gt;3D Effects&gt;Drop Shadow): Vertical 60, Horizontal 60, Opacity 30, Blur 60, Color Black, On a new layer (this way you can edit it later)ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/li>\n<li>In Microsoft Digital Image Pro (Effects&gt;Shadow&gt;Drop Down Right&gt;Customize Shadow): Move shadow with mouse to desired distance, Transparency 50, Edge Softness 75ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<\/li>\n<li>If you have another image editor simply play around with the drop shadow settings (opacity, depth, and blur) until it looks how you want. Use our shadows as a guide if you wish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some of our <a href=\"http:\/\/search.store.yahoo.net\/cottagearts-net\/cgi-bin\/nsearch?unique=cbe40&amp;catalog=cottagearts-net\">digital kits with boxes and shadow box frames<\/a>:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n<p>And more creations by the team. Details for layouts can be seen in our gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Happy creating! Michelle<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FYI&#8230;we don&#8217;t blog each of our team inspiration challenges, so to see all of them in our gallery click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=588\">here<\/a>. Click on the year to see the weekly challenges for that year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_5_placeholder<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=588\"><\/a><\/span><a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">beth ervin<\/span><br \/>\n <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_6_placeholder<a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">tonya regular<br \/>\n <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_7_placeholder<a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">michelle shefveland<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_8_placeholder<a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">michelle shefveland<br \/>\n <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ngg_shortcode_9_placeholder<a href=\"..\/..\/photopost\/showgallery.php?cat=759\">beth ervin<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>marie di raimondo Scrapping digitally with boxes and clusters, when done with realistic shadowing, gives your pages an awesome effect as shown in Marie&#8217;s page above. Love how it looks like a picture taken of a real cluster of boxes. In doing some experimenting, below are some canned shadows you can apply to our boxes (they come with no outside [&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":[7,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5119","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\/5119","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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}