Photoshop Tutorial: Create a rubber stamp
Posted by Jennifer | July 17, 2007 | 21 Comments
I’ve just been working on a website where I wanted to have a few elements that looked a little old and worn. For one part of the design I created a rubber stamp in Photoshop and these are the steps I took to make it. Read more
Photoshop Quick Tip : Changing Ruler Units Fast
Posted by Jennifer | July 16, 2007 | Leave A Comment
Sometimes when you’re working on a project in Photoshop, you realise, after you’ve opened a new document, that your rulers are set to pixels rather than centimeters (or vice versa or one of the other units). Here’s a mega-quick way to change ruler measurement units:
Right-click (windows) or Control-click (Mac) directly on the ruler. A pop-up menu will appear and you can select your preference from here.
Portfolio In Da House
Posted by Jennifer | July 13, 2007 | 2 Comments
Inspired by Tara over at the Graphic Design blog, I finally got my act together and put up a small portfolio of some of my Photoshoppery. Some designs are for paid work and some were for my own amusement.
I’ll be leaving it as a permanent page in the site menu with some of my other design work.
Photoshop Action of the Week
Posted by Jennifer | July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment
There are a several ways to adjust an image in Photoshop so that is looks very old and it’s good fun working on those kind of pictures. However, if you’re in a bit of a rush, this Vintage action by Roy at Vindauga Gallery is great. It works on colour photographs by using several layer masks, clouds and fibers and produces a nice aged result. Unfortunately it only works for Photoshop CS2 at the moment.
Here’s an example below. The top picture is one I took last week at Heuston Station here in Dublin (Notice the fabulous Summer sky. Will it ever stop raining in this country?). The picture underneath is the one with the Vintage action applied.
The action works particularly well with pictures of objects that look a bit old or dilapidated to begin with and you will find that you get different results with different pictures, but I think it’s a wonderful action to have in your collection.
You can download the action here.
Photoshop : Tutorial - Changing the direction of brush strokes
Posted by Jennifer | July 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
If you’re working with brushes with irregular shapes in Photoshop, you may find that you want to rotate the Brush so that you can get the same brush stroke horizontally as vertically. But how do you do it? Well the good news is that you CAN do this AND it’s easy too.
1. Select the brush tool 
from the tool box .
2. Choose a brush preset on the tool options bar.
(I’ve picked a policeman brush from Magurno).
This is what the brush looks like in its normal state when I drag horizontally and vertically.
However, if I want to change the direction of the brush stroke, I need to make a change in the Brush Tip Shape.
3. Select Window > Brushes to display the Brushes palette, or click on the Brushes palette if it’s docked up in the right hand corner..
4. Click on the words “ Brush Tip Shape” to display the brush shape options.
5. In the Angle box, change the 0 to 90. (if it already says 90, change it to 0 or 180 degrees).
Now when I drag with the paintbrush, the brush stroke is rotated.
Rock On Blogger Chicks!
Posted by Jennifer | July 12, 2007 | Leave A Comment
I was delighted to be nominated by Randa as a “Rockin’ Chick Blogger”.
Continuing in the spirit of this, I’d like to nominate the following ladies, whose blogs I very much enjoy:
Veerle - a wonderful designer and illustrator.
Beth Ellen Nagle - who takes the most extraordinary macro photographs of insects.
Krishne De - provides excellent business blogging and podcasting advice.
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