Daisy Freebie & Kit in the Shop!

Whee! A new mini-kit in the shop, and I love it! 5 fun papers in different colors, and a little daisy-shaped button with thread you can even color yourself to match the paper (just go to Image--> Adjustment-->Hue/Saturation, then check the "colorize" box and change the sliders to match whatever color you want). 4 epoxy stickers, and two shiny metal tags, both with and without their fasteners (thread and hook). Here's a preview of the new mini-kit:



And here's a layout I made with it:



And here, just to entice you, is the FREEBIE, with 4 epoxy stickers and the complete daisy button:



Please let me know what you think--but I hope you enjoy it!

Quickie: Colorizing Black and White Photos

Stefanie Eskander over at 2Peas just wrote an interesting method of colorizing a black and white photo using the "Tint" method featured in Photoshop CS3. Not having that available to me, I decided to see what variations I could come up with. Here are 3:



You should be able to click on the photo to read the text more legibly...

Five, and Digital Coloring

This template of Patti Knox's at Designer Digitals was the perfect excuse to use an element from my little Candle Wordart Kit...



I love doing digital coloring--it's about the only time I ever manage to color inside the lines. For this kind of thing, you use the magic wand set to 1 pixel tolerance, anti-aliased, and contiguous. On the layer where you have the black and transparent .png, highlight the areas you want to color the same color. Then, create a new layer, move it under the .png, and fill with the paint bucket. You can either fill with gradients, or a flat color, onto which you can then brush varying levels of shadow. Just remember to keep your selection till you're done coloring. You can create a different color layer for each section, too, and that lets you use your hue/color adjustment slider later on to fine-tweak the colors. It's a lot of fun!