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Post by cats4jan on Apr 18, 2021 17:55:25 GMT
Brush tool fun Don't get me started.... 
Hue jitter - pick two opposing colors and the hue jitter makes the color change as you drag your brush while holding down the shift key Spacing - allows you to have a complete straight line of separated items if you hold down the shift key - if you don't set spacing past 100, you don't get a whole item |
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Post by Tpgettys on Apr 18, 2021 18:04:30 GMT
cats4jan ......success at last! I realized after I posted my last one where my mistake was with the frame. I was selecting too wide of a chunk to create the frame. This time for the frame my little sliver was just 1 px. wide. When stretched, I now had the grain I wanted. I am good at thinking of things after I'm done. I think that if I flipped one of the bottom layers and one of the side layers the colors in the wood panels would match inner to outer if you follow what I mean. Regardless, I have finally gotten the look I was after. 
Next time I will try Frank's suggestion. Would love to see some other members give this a try. I also like to look of the larger mat Helen. The frame is further away and doesn’t cramp the image. Question: do you ever use bottom-weighting with you prints? |
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 18, 2021 18:20:14 GMT
Question: do you ever use bottom-weighting with you prints? Bottom weighting - I assume you mean a larger portion of mat at the bottom??? I do love that look. |
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Post by hmca on Apr 18, 2021 19:40:59 GMT
Tpgettys , I have never used bottom weighted matts. I usually go with whatever my framer recommends. I did find this article on bottom-weighted mats that might be of interest to both you and Janice. I think it is probably determined by personal preference. I think my favorite mat is a square that was done on a square image.....the mat was a little larger than I would normally go but I do like the look. 
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 18, 2021 19:50:13 GMT
In that article, the way they used bottom weighting looked more like an error - where the bottom is off by just a little. I would’ve liked to see more “weight” on the bottom, but it was very interesting info.
Your double matting is great. I do like the square look, too.
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Post by Tpgettys on Apr 18, 2021 22:05:22 GMT
Thanks for that article on bottom weighting Helen. Being a math guy I did really enjoy it, but the method given, to me, seems to result in a mat that is much too large in area.
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 18, 2021 23:16:16 GMT
I started looking at my stuff to see how often I used bottom weighting and this is the only one I could find - guess I don't use it much, but as you can see, I do like substantial difference from top. I also discovered that I seldom framed anything unless I was doing a specific project about framing. I mainly dropped things on top of background paper and added glow and shadow to make it stand out. Of course, digital scrapbooking does not really lend itself to framing much of anything. photos: cats4jan |
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Post by hmca on Apr 18, 2021 23:47:12 GMT
Great layout, Janice......not sure I would think of it as bottom weighted but I find the overall look very pleasing. The circle works well to unify the individual parts.
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 18, 2021 23:52:53 GMT
not sure I would think of it as bottom weighted Sorry Helen - I should've mentioned I was referring only to the one photo with the white frame around it. I do not have much of anything that is not part of a scrapbook page. I used to have some examples for tutorials, but they have become lost on old EHD's and not easily found. Everything else - scrapbook page items. |
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