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4/26/11 Typeface Tuesday
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4/19/11 Typeface Tuesday
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A Personal Touch – Handwriting Fonts
April 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
I love playing with fonts. If you are anything like me, you have grungy fonts, whimsical fonts, typewriter fonts, block fonts, doodled and scribble fonts as well as novelty fonts for every possible theme. How about adding a font of your own handwriting? Scrapbook pages contain our stories, our photos why not our handwriting as well? Handwritten loving, letters from families members have long been cherished treasures. Bring a touch personal, heartfelt writing to your pages with your own handwriting (and still have the luxury of spell check).
There are several font developers around digiland that can transform your handwriting into a font, including Darcy Baldwin at Sweet Shoppe Designs. Darcy is fabulous to work with and always available to answer questions and help someone through the process (which is really quite easy – write out all the characters and scan them in).
Here are just a few pages from the Sweet Shoppe Designs gallery showcasing some fun, poignant and eye-catching ways to use personal handwriting to enhance a layout.
Splash by Sarah
Focus by Aly
Grow by Aggie Aviso
Geekazoid, My Hero by Krystal Hartley
2011 Goals by Lynnette
Why? by isaacsmom
4/12 Typeface Tuesday
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Tips for Increasing Journaling Visibility
April 7, 2011 By 13 Comments
SUBJECT: Creating layer styles to increase the visibility of journaling on a digital scrapbooking layout
PROGRAM: PSCS3 (can be adapted for other versions of Photoshop)
If you’ve been digital scrapbooking for very long, you’ve been there – trying to journal on a photograph, paint stroke or other inconsistent background and your text seems to ‘disappear’ in places or gets completely lost. Here are a couple of layers styles you can try to increase the visibility of your journaling. I’ve put the samples on solid kraft backgrounds so you can see the effect clearly, but I often use one of these methods when I am trying to journal on a photo or paper of varying shades.
TIP 1: Add a Stroke
Adding a stroke places a line around the perimeter of your object. When applied to text, this style thickens the letters.
To create this effect, make sure your text is the active layer by clicking on it in the Layers Palette.
Go to Layer>Layer Style>Stroke.
Use the following settings:
Size: 1 (you can increase this as desired)
Position: Center
Blend: Normal
Opacity: 100
Fill Type: Color
Color: Choose the same color as your text
Click ‘Ok’ to apply the layer style.
TIP 2: Add an Outer Glow
Adding an outer glow creates a ‘halo’ of light around your text. This is especially effective when your text is dark.
To create this effect, make sure your text is the active layer by clicking on it in the Layers Palette.
Go to Layer>Layer Style>Outer Glow.
Use the following settings:
Blend Mode: Screen
Opacity: 100
Noise: 0 (although you can play with this as desired)
Color: I usually stick with the default pale yellow, but you can play with white or other light, soft colors
Technique: Softer
Spread: 0
Size: 250
Contour: leave at the default
Range: 50
Jitter: 0
Click ‘Ok’ to apply the layer style. If you want to make this effect subtler, lower the opacity slider. If you want to create an even bolder effect, apply the style and then duplicate the layer (Layer>Duplicate Layer).
TIP 3: Add a Color Burn
Adding a color burn drop shadow creates a darker around your text. This is especially effective when your text is a light color.
To create this effect, make sure your text is the active layer by clicking on it in the Layers Palette.
Go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow.
Use the following settings:
Blend Mode: Color Burn
Opacity: 100
Angle: any
Distance: 0
Spread: 0
Size: 250
Contour: leave at the default setting
Noise: 0 (although you can play with this as desired)
Click ‘Ok’ to apply the layer style. If you want to make this effect subtler, lower the opacity slider. If you want to create an even bolder effect, apply the style and then duplicate the layer (Layer>Duplicate Layer).
Note: The font shown in the screen shots is DJB TweenyBopper by Darcy Baldwin, Sweet Shoppe Designs
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