1. Sales for Stella
2. Freebie Talk
3. Paint Shop Pro Tip #1
1. Sales for Stella
This week is a great week for Stellarific Creations, which I help with advertising. She has been chosen for the Designer Spotlight at TWO of her stores - Stone Accents Studio and ScrappinDigiKreations. To celebrate that, she is having 40% off sales at both stores.
I have the honor of making layouts for her. My second to last post shows a layout with her Petalicious kit, which is one of those on sale this week.
2. Freebie Talk
I want to give freebies, but I also want feedback. So here is what I will do. I will show 2 backgrounds at web resolution. If you like one, send me a comment saying what you like about it, and I will send you a 2400 x 2400 pixel version of it. (You may comment on this blog or e-mail me at jhodges18@gmail.com. I will need your email to send it to you). Next week, I will show how many people liked which things and I will do the same thing again with another pair of backgrounds. I am hoping to start posting at least once per week. This week's backgrounds are at the top of this post.
3. Paint Shop Pro tip #1: flower-like embellishments made easy
I hope to present tips every week that I have learned using Paint Shop Pro. I use X1 and I am about to install X2. One thing I love are 'reflection effects.' By going to the Effects menu, and selecting reflection effects, you can choose kaleidoscope, pattern, or rotating mirror. Today I am talking about kalaidoscope.
1. Take any photograph with pretty colors and apply the kaleidoscope effect.
2. Click on the little die (as in dice) for random settings. Do this multiple times to get an idea of what the program can do.
3. When you get something that contains a round shape with petals and you like it, press ok.
4. Select the shape using your choice of selection tools, copy and paste to a new document (control+c then control+v). There may be some clean up to do, but then you have an embellishment!
Happy Scrapping!
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