Kirsten from Denmark watched my tutorial last week on on how to create and use text paths and sent me a question via e-mail. She knows how to type on the outside of a closed circle and have text fill the inside of the circle but how can she create text that follows along the inside a closed circular path? This is not to be confused with filling the inside of a circle with text. … [Read more...]
Photoshop Video Tutorial – Creating and Using Text Paths
One of my favorite things about using Photoshop for digital scrapbooking is the ability to create custom text paths. Today, I am proud to present my first video tutorial. Creating this tutorial was hard work and I am so amazed at all the people out there who make it seem effortless! If you cannot see the embedded video, click here to watch it on YouTube. I hope you … [Read more...]
Photoshop Tutorial: History Panel
Adobe Photoshop CS5 saves all the steps done to an image as states in the History Panel. Basics Select Windows->History from the menu to display the History Panel. Each entry of the History Panel contains a state of the image. The oldest available state is at the top and the most recent state is at the bottom of the list. To undo the changes made with the type … [Read more...]
WILD: Photoshop Actions
This week's Why I Love Digi topic is Photoshop actions. As a digital scrapbooker and designer, I do many of the same things in Photoshop over and over again. One example of this is when I complete my layouts, I always save a full resolution version and smaller version for posting online. Here are the steps I use for saving a smaller version. change the image size of the … [Read more...]
WILD: Digital Templates Tutorial
This week's Why I Love Digi topic is templates! I love to design templates. I love to have templates. I love to use templates! Did I mention that I love templates?!? Right now I have 205 templates in my always growing stash. Before I get carried away, here is a little more background. Templates come in various formats but the kind I use are PSD files - layered files … [Read more...]