Free Photoshop Brushes : Borders
Posted by Jennifer Farley | September 7, 2007 | 11 Comments
Here’s three free Photoshop brushes that I made a while ago to help speed up the process of framing and masking images. They are high res and about 2500 pixels high each so you can use them on BIG pictures.
Here’s a preview of the brushes:
And here’s an image (oh, look it’s Brad!) that I masked and applied one of the brushes to.
You can download the photoshop brush set here. Let me know if you find them useful.
Adding An Elegant Title To An Image in Photoshop
Posted by Jennifer Farley | September 5, 2007 | 13 Comments
There are times when you need to put a title on an image, whether for print work or for the web. Sometimes you might put it above the image, often you might place it below the image, but one way to add a nice elegant title is to actually put it in the image. In this short tutorial I’m going to use Photoshop to do just that.
I’m going to start with a nice pic of a black swan – taken by “bradimarte” and available for free download from Stock.Xchng. I cropped this image a little bit tighter than the original.
1. Use the rectangular marquee to draw a fairly thin rectangle, the full width of the image.
2. Create a new layer and fill the marquee with white.
3. Reduce the opacity of the white line layer to 65%.
4. Click on the New Layer Style button at the bottom of the Layers Palette and choose Drop Shadow. Add a fairly faint drop shadow (I set opacity to 50% and Distance and Size to 5 px). Click OK.
5. Select the Type tool and pick a Serif style font. Add some text.
I picked the Trajan Pro font, which consists of all uppercase letters. I used #333333, which is a dark grey and a font size which sat comfortably in the middle of the white line with lots of breathing space above and below.
6. With the Type tool still selected, choose Window > Character to open up the Character palette.
7. In order to make your text spread widely across the white line, change the tracking to 200. This will put space in between each of the letters.
And that completes the image and title.
Monday Morning Photoshoppery
Posted by Jennifer Farley | September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment
I saw this on Freaking News, this morning and found myself saying, “Wow”, “Hmmmmmm” and “Oh Dear God, what is that thing?”
It’s a great collection of images constructed using two different faces. I was reading a book recently about couples, and apparently a lot of couples have similar facial features that aren’t always obvious until you see there faces stitched together - something like the images on this post.
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