Easy Text Effects

When you experiment with Photoshop enough, you can learn how to grundge or distress edges. You can even learn how to make torn paper. If you are a scrapbooker, just think, anything you can do with tangible scrapbook supplies, you can do with digital scrapbook supplies. The easiest way to get these effects is to purchase actions (.ATN files) which will do all the steps for you with one press of a button.

make your text look--- Make your text look

like a block------------- like it was stamped.


make your text look ---Add inked edges

like chipped paint------

Get the look of torn paper.

My favorites is the chipboard effect and inked edges. Go to Atomic Cupcake.com and you can purchase or download some of their free actions. They also have a section that gives great PS Tutorials for beginners. Check them out.

To learn how to install actions, see the below link.

http://saturn-rings.deviantart.com/art/Install-Photoshop-Actions-91683217

Photography into Art and Wallpaper

If you are an HGTV junkie like me, you see that a lot of designers will use photography as art for the wall. Check out http://www.betterwallpaper.co.uk/default.aspx. You can send them a photo and they will turn it into wallpaper. Since my house isn't huge, I had Ritz camera enlarge a photo into a 20 x 26, changed it to sepia and photoshopped a little border. Put it in a frame and hung it over my mantle.

Ryan takes great pics of flowers, and I hated having them just stuffed in an album, so I framed them and put them on shelves in Kennedee's room when she was born.

Spell with Flickr

This is so cool. Go to http://metaatem.net/words/ and you can type in any word and it will pull up photos of letters to spell the word you chose. If you have ever seen those really expensive framed pictures that take your last name with cool letter photos like these and then they matte it into a frame and sell it for like $50++++++++.

Now all you have to do is choose your word, right click on each letter and save it. Upload it to your favorite photo developer and frame it yourself. Tip: on the "spell with flickr" website if you left click on the letters, it will give you several different photos to choose from for each letter.