Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Fire and Ice - Club Scrap Blog Hop

For the blog hop this month I thought I would show you all how to make composite brushes from several elements.

Step 1:  Move all the elements you are going to be using onto a single transparent .png.

Step 2: Move all the elements close to or overlapping one another - you can rotate, resize etc at this point until you have something that pleases you.  Here is mine:

Step 3:  At this point you will apply a mask to every layer in your composition.  The default mask will be white and a little rule you may like to commit to memory is black conceals, white reveals.  So working on each mask with a black brush you can "hide" parts of each image that you do not wish to see in your finished stamp.

Here is a photo of my slightly changed composite.


I am sure you cannot see too much difference here.  If you want a more distressed look you can of course change the size and type of brush you use and change the opacity as well.

Step 4:  You are now ready to make all your layers into a single layer.  The best way to do that is highlight the topmost layer and hit shift+control+alt+e which will create a new layer with the merged image.  (you also need to turn off your base layer if it is not transparent).

Step 5:  Working on the merged image layer place your cursor in the layer in your layers palette and do control+left click and that should give you marching ants around your merged image.

Step 6:  To make the brush - with the marching ants visible go to edit>define brush preset and a new dialog box appears.    Give the new brush a name and hit OK or save and you are done.

Below is a layout I made with the brush I created.

Enjoy.


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14 comments:

  1. Looks great and love how you combined Lotus pond with Fire and Ice!

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  2. What a great page! I love the altered look of it. TFS!

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  3. What a pretty layout, like how you combined eyerything!

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  4. Lovely!!! I gotta get into using digital more to take more advantage of all the great information and digital wisdom you've shared here!

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  5. Looks like a great tutorial and the result is amazing.

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  6. Beautiful page, Annette. Thanks for the tutorial!!

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  7. Thank you for sharing Annette! You are always so generous with the tutorials and your end results is fantastic!

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  8. Thanks for another digi tutorial! I love how the layout turned out, too. Such a clever idea to blend the images!

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  9. I really love the way you composed your brush! I need to try it.

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  10. I still don't have a clue how you do this digi stuff - but it sure is pretty to look at!!

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  11. Haven't figured out the digi yet... your layout is beautiful!

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  12. Annette, finally got to the blog. Thanks for sharing such easy steps for us to follow. What a great layout with all the layers.

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