Photoshop
Elements 3 Tutorial Rivets - Digital
Scrapbooking
Creating your own graphics from scratch for your
scrapbook pages can be very rewarding. It means
that your stuff is different from everyone
else's stuff and over time, you can develop your
own look and style. But there's nothing wrong
with using clipart or scanning in your own
objects to create unique embellishments for your
projects either.
One of the easiest objects to create from
scratch is a rivet. Rivets bring a three
dimensional touch of the traditional
scrapbooking look to your digital photo pages as
much as wire art, jewelry, pressed flowers and
personal possessions of the person that will be
showcased in your scrapbook page does.
To start, open a new file 'File | New | Blank
File' at 40 x 40 pixels with a transparent
background. Select the Elipse tool, pick a color
and draw a circle in the middle of the
background leaving room around the edges for a
drop shadow. Select the Eliptical Marquee Tool
and draw another smaller circle inside the one
you just drew. Simplify the layer when prompted.
With the smaller circle, hit delete to cut out
your rivet. Turn visibility off of the shape
layer and deselect (ctrl + d). Next, use the
magic wand tool to select the color area. With
the rivet selected, you can paint, airbrush or
add special effects just on the rivet without
affecting the transparent layer. Select the
layer styles palette | inner glow | simple.
Duplicate the layer or drag the layer into the
'Create a new layer' icon on the layers palette.
Then select 'drop shadow | low' opacity at 50%.
Also, try 'drop shadow | soft edge' to see the
different effect. Adjust the opacity of the
rivet until it looks the way you want it to.
Save your rivet as a .gif or .png to preserve
the transparency so you can use it in your
scrapbooking projects. Create other color
variations using 'Enhance | Adjust Color | Color
Variations' from the drop down menu and save
each one with a unique file name.
Other
rivets and color variations (you can think of
lots more):
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