Photoshop Challenge Week #2

A special thanks to Geryrae for allowing me to use her son's announcement & to Summer/Summer Lyn Photography for the photos.

Your task this week is to copy the invitation below:


You can use the same or different fonts or colors but your goal is to make it look similar. If you are interested in using the same fonts, they are:

Century Schoolbook
BrushScriptMT

I can email you the fonts if you cannot find them. You should be using your brushs & the option to increase spacing (remember the shift key to keep your line of dots straight).

You will also need to create circular photos. I taught you one way in class, where you created a new layer over the photo, created a new shape on that layer , selected the shape using the magic wand, hid the layer with the shape, selected the layer with the photo & copy/pasted it on to your photo. It's the long way but if you wanted photos in stars, etc, it was the easier way to teach. Since this is just a circle, here is an alternate/quicker way:
http://tricks.onigo.net/2006/01/08/2-minute-tricks-22-circular-images/

When you get to step 5, you should be dragging the layer on to your new invite.

When you're done, post your invite & list the layers that you used. you should also name your layers as you make them to make remembering them easier.

Good luck! Any questions, let me know.

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Have no baby pix to work with so I scoured my folders for some. Since it's a girl, I desaturated so the pink didn't come through.

My hardest part with replicating these is the colors. I never can duplicate the same colors and the little ink blotter doesn't go to other windows to grab the color.

And looking back, I should have made the photos bigger.

Also, Barb, do you have an easier way of making dots? I basically use the ellipse tool, duplicate, change color, duplicate, change color, merge, duplicate, etc, etc, etc.

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Message edited 9/12/2009 11:51:15 AM.

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WOW...they turned out great!! Can't wait to get my computer back so I can give this challenge a try. One question, what do you print this out on? Cardstock? Photopaper? TIA

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how do i get the multi color dots. I get the line of dots but cant figure out how to get all the different shades.

Also when I hold shift and drag the dots all the lines connect.

I think we need a starbucks date.

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Posted by debsey75

how do i get the multi color dots. I get the line of dots but cant figure out how to get all the different shades.

Also when I hold shift and drag the dots all the lines connect.

I think we need a starbucks date.

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Are we scrapping the challenge? Should I bother with them?

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Oooh, I'm up for #3!

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Sorry I was so slow to do this one!

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Would love another lesson now that I am more familiar with Photoshop. When I came to the last one I had no clue what I was doing

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Cathering & Tracy - you guys are sisters? cousins? Anyway, set up a time next week or the following week & we can meet up again for some lessons.

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After Oct 4th I can't do a Tuesday or Thursday night (work til 8pm).

Let me know what everyone decides