{"id":9333,"date":"2013-04-28T23:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T04:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2013-05-09T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:28:57","slug":"day-4-10th-birthday-celebration-freebie-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/day-4-10th-birthday-celebration-freebie-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 | 10th Birthday Celebration {freebie & more}!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderRikki Donovan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s the last day of our 10th Birthday celebration! Thanks for enjoying the freebies and for all of the kind words. Today, we have another fun how-to and useful set of art journal cards as our last freebie.<\/p>\n

First, Rikki here to show you how I created the blending effect on the layout above. It looks more complicated than it actually is!<\/p>\n

I started with this image of a magnolia which was taken with my iPhone 3GS and then run through Snapseed<\/a>, one of our favorite mobile device photo apps.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n

I then treated it with Photo Art Blend 10 from set 3<\/a> (at 79% opacity and Overlay blend mode).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n

My second image is this one:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n

I converted the photo to black and white (using PS or PSE’s Convert to Black and White function).<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n

I moved the photo on top of the flower photo, clipped it to the photo (see our clipping tutorial here<\/a>) and adjusted the size so the people in the photo sort of fit into the flower in the right spots. By lowering the opacity to about\u00a0 58% I could see the flower underneath and move the photo around and still see what I was doing.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\n

I settled on a position for my photo and created a layer mask for it. With a soft round brush in black I removed all the parts of the photo I didn\u2019t want, so that only the area around the boys and the people in the background remained. Without everything else my photo now looks like this.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\n

And like this with the flower:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\n

Now I started playing around with opacity and blend modes and ended up with an opacity of 75% and the Multiply blend mode. I especially love how the pattern in the pavement reflects the curve of the flower petal.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_8_placeholder\n

I added the word art to the photo and all the other little tidbits to round the page off nicely.<\/p>\n

This is what my Layers Panel looks like when completed:<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_9_placeholder\n

Enjoy using this technique in endless ways!<\/p>\n

Here’s our Sweet Silhouettes Pinboard<\/a> for more blended photo ideas!<\/p>\n

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More Blending Tools!<\/span><\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_10_placeholdermichelle shefveland<\/a>. marbled hues papers, by the sea aj cards, by the sea 2 brushes, organics 2<\/span><\/p>\n

For additional blending fun, we’ve released another beautiful set of By the Sea Brushes<\/a> in the shop.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_11_placeholder\n

And here’s our coordinating free download, perfect for Project Life or other Photo a Day projects.<\/p>\n

By the Sea Art Journal Cards FREEBIE <\/span><\/del>(9 jpg files – 3 MB zip file – expired Tuesday, 4\/30\/13 at 8:00 am CT)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you missed the freebie, it is now available in our shop here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_12_placeholder\n

Monday’s the last day to enter our random drawing for 5 great prizes (details in last Friday’s newsletter). We’ll be choosing the prize winners this coming Friday.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_13_placeholder\n

Happy Creating! Rikki and the team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rikki Donovan It’s the last day of our 10th Birthday celebration! Thanks for enjoying the freebies and for all of the kind words. Today, we have another fun how-to and useful set of art journal cards as our last freebie. First, Rikki here to show you how I created the blending effect on the layout above. It looks more complicated […]<\/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":[60,39,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-digital-freebies","category-sales","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","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=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}