Jennifer Farley, of Laughing Lion Design, has been running a series of Photoshop-based interviews with various design people, and I'm totally flattered that she asked me some questions as well! Here's the interview: Photoshop Interview With Designer Heather T.
That actually makes me sound official or something, doesn't it? *lol*
Showing posts with label designing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label designing. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Sunday, December 21, 2008
New In The Shop: Ginkgos & Wordart
(I'm never sure whether wordart is word art or wordart. Ah, the things I stress over... ;)
But, I do have a nifty new kit out, full of beautiful ginkgo leaves based on one of my stamp designs:
And I think I'm going to do a series of "You Are My..." wordart pieces, the first of which is up:
So of course, I couldn't find anything better to do than think up a new one for the layout I made with the ginkgo kit:
Hope you find these new items tasty!
But, I do have a nifty new kit out, full of beautiful ginkgo leaves based on one of my stamp designs:
And I think I'm going to do a series of "You Are My..." wordart pieces, the first of which is up:
So of course, I couldn't find anything better to do than think up a new one for the layout I made with the ginkgo kit:
Hope you find these new items tasty!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Wibble. Wobble.
I've really been having fun playing with layer blending modes. Each of these photos (shot in dim conditions, so they turned out dark and orangey) has a base layer with the auto level adjustment, a copy of that turned to screen with the opacity around 50%, then a copy of that turned to vivid light. The text was rasterized, colored, then the base copy was set to color burn, and a top copy to vivid light. Fun to play around with, and gives it a funky grunge look too...
Click on the photo to read my own wibbling!
Also, I made it to round 3 of the apprenticeship contest, 19th out of 30. *sigh* This round is doodling, which should be way fun!
And, this is my 21-Day Challenge, Day 11 entry from yesterday...
Click on the photo to read my own wibbling!
Also, I made it to round 3 of the apprenticeship contest, 19th out of 30. *sigh* This round is doodling, which should be way fun!
And, this is my 21-Day Challenge, Day 11 entry from yesterday...
Thursday, January 31, 2008
MIA
Man, it's been a rough week, computer-wise. My old machine is gradually losing its fight with entropy, and is spiralling down towards complete electronic oblivion. *sigh*
I've also been working on a submission for The Little Dreamer Designs' Apprentice program. I've come up with a pack of 3 papers and 3 elements, and am pleased with most everything except one of the elements, which I have plenty of time to work on, as the final deadline isn't even until February 29th... I can't imagine how many submissions they'll have to wade through--seems like a lot of work to me! But it's wonderful practice, even if it takes me forever, and it's a terrific opportunity to break into the selling portion of digiscrapping. I mean, if I'm going to spend this kind of time on something, it really should have some revenue attached to it...
Also, the Year of the Ox (2009) and Year of the Tiger (2010) sheets will be out in February. I'm working on a floral/faunal sheet next. I've discovered some really cool tricks doing the digiscrapping that I can apply to the rubber stamp designing, even though designing for rubber stamps requires that you work in 600 dpi, and only 2 colors, black and white (no grayscale). Makes shading much more difficult, since also anything smaller than about 5 pixels wide tends to disappear, or merge with neighboring lines. But I think I've managed a workaround...
Couple of things about recent layouts that I learned or liked:
(Click for credits)
I like how those flowers in the background turned out--reminded me of Helena Jole's beautiful potato prints (heck, I tried to find the exact post where she explains how to do it, but I can't find it). I also used another of my crazy backgrounds--this one was black embossing powder over Versamark that I just randomly swiped over a piece of cardstock... btw, helps if you cut your cardstock to 8x8 before you get started (so it'll fit on a standard scanner bed). On the other hand, for textures, you can easily just stretch your 8.5 x 11" background to 12x12 -- nobody's going to know how it really started out!
I just finished this layout for both the White challenge at Little Dreamer Designs and the Just My Type challenge at Designer Digitals. I ended up using the freebie by Leora Sanford for the white and blue papers, but the rest is mine. I think I'm channeling Stefdesign over at 2Peas, though, with my little train...
(Click on photo for credits)
I've also cranked out a couple of clean nature designs, which I think I really do best, cuz there's nothing to them. Heh. On the other hand, that's not going to get me anywhere as a designer, because really, all I use pretty much is one background, a couple of photos, and some words... Recently I've done Rock, and Icicle...
I've also been working on a submission for The Little Dreamer Designs' Apprentice program. I've come up with a pack of 3 papers and 3 elements, and am pleased with most everything except one of the elements, which I have plenty of time to work on, as the final deadline isn't even until February 29th... I can't imagine how many submissions they'll have to wade through--seems like a lot of work to me! But it's wonderful practice, even if it takes me forever, and it's a terrific opportunity to break into the selling portion of digiscrapping. I mean, if I'm going to spend this kind of time on something, it really should have some revenue attached to it...
Also, the Year of the Ox (2009) and Year of the Tiger (2010) sheets will be out in February. I'm working on a floral/faunal sheet next. I've discovered some really cool tricks doing the digiscrapping that I can apply to the rubber stamp designing, even though designing for rubber stamps requires that you work in 600 dpi, and only 2 colors, black and white (no grayscale). Makes shading much more difficult, since also anything smaller than about 5 pixels wide tends to disappear, or merge with neighboring lines. But I think I've managed a workaround...
Couple of things about recent layouts that I learned or liked:
(Click for credits)
I like how those flowers in the background turned out--reminded me of Helena Jole's beautiful potato prints (heck, I tried to find the exact post where she explains how to do it, but I can't find it). I also used another of my crazy backgrounds--this one was black embossing powder over Versamark that I just randomly swiped over a piece of cardstock... btw, helps if you cut your cardstock to 8x8 before you get started (so it'll fit on a standard scanner bed). On the other hand, for textures, you can easily just stretch your 8.5 x 11" background to 12x12 -- nobody's going to know how it really started out!
I just finished this layout for both the White challenge at Little Dreamer Designs and the Just My Type challenge at Designer Digitals. I ended up using the freebie by Leora Sanford for the white and blue papers, but the rest is mine. I think I'm channeling Stefdesign over at 2Peas, though, with my little train...
(Click on photo for credits)
I've also cranked out a couple of clean nature designs, which I think I really do best, cuz there's nothing to them. Heh. On the other hand, that's not going to get me anywhere as a designer, because really, all I use pretty much is one background, a couple of photos, and some words... Recently I've done Rock, and Icicle...
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