A NOTE TO JANEE !!!

This blog is sort of a mess !!

When I was having all the trouble with Blogger last week, I was trying all kinds of solutions .... I deleted some stuff, thinking I might be over my limit.. so, I have re-uploadied all my images and work, but unfortunately, some are not in order with the comments .. (a couple I don't have the comments!

One of the greatest things about this Launchpad series is that I now know how to do a blog .. sort of !!

Please let me know if there is a problem with this and I will re-create the lessons in order .

Thanks
Paula

Lesson Six Blue Team

This was so much fun !!

In my collage , I used a "scrapbook" type of theme.. I started with a backdrop layer with a pattern overlay , then added noise.
the extra filter I then aded was a crosshatch .

I layered the map of The Baltic European countries from y trip. ( I scanned this to a jpg file) on my bottom layer, with a drop shadow and an inner glow, then added my photos, ( a few of which I adjusted the levels) scaling and rotating them, adding Janee's lesson of inner glow to make the borders, ( I love this .. I will use it a LOT) , and a drop shadow.

On my type, I used the vertical type tool for my "Scratched" font ( never used the vertical type tool before .. a little tricky) a drop shadow, bevel and contour. The type on the photos is Dakota Handwriting. There were so many things to use and try ... it's hard not to stop! I love my page !

One comment ... Seeing on the blog page... I see I could have brought the whole image down a little on the page.. I need to get used to my screen a little more when working in photoshop . I could have used the grids to better use.
A great lesson

Bizgraphic lesson five

Filter before

Levels before

Paint it

Filter

Shapes

Levels after

colorcast lesson

Lesson Five sample business card

Lesson Five Blue Team

This lesson was tough for me!! I It took me several attempts to understand the different elements of align and distribute, but I think I have the concept down .. I want to do more ASAP so I won't forget!
The biggest problem was I had my buttons and type on the same layers .. ( I thought this was what we were supposed to do) after many attempts and re-reading the lesson, I realized this was wrong!

I used the marquee to create the buttons, the layer styles for the drop shadow and bevel, paint bucket, align and distibute
(even with my non-button text at the bottom right) and the warp tool in text ... three quarters of the tools I have never used in Photoshop before .. As challenging as the align/distribute was for me, I am so glad I know the concepts now.
I need to get going on lesson six... a week later !