08 Julho 2009

DigiDesignResort fabulous Newsletter Freebie + a Freebie!!

Natural Breeze is a FREE collaboration kit from the designers of Digidesignresort - just for you! - Sign up for our newsletter and you get this fabulous kit delivered immediately and absolutely free. Click the image to go to the DDR site!
Here is a layout that I did with my son using quick page from my new mini kit (coming soon):
Curves and white papers you can find in my stores!!
This super hiper cute layout below here was done by my dear CT Elaine, using Friendship Kit by Horsedream Designs and some of my CU products> clipping mask and curves (please leave her some love!):


Here are my new brushes, great to use with my Soft Art Action:
From 11th to 18th of July go to my shop at DDR and take advantage of my great Vacation Deal:
If you buy one of my actions at DDR you will receive a surprise soft art brush pack as bonus!
The surprise bonus pack is revealed here below:
And if you haven't seen my action yet, here is a small taste what you can do with this fabulous and easy handling Phtoshop tool:

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Thanks for visiting my blog and have a great weekend!! I'm going out -traveling - to our house in the mountains with a great rain forest!!!
Will be back on Sunday!
Silke

05 Julho 2009

How to make 3D Letters with Illustrator and 4th of July Action FREEBIE

Sobre o Blog Train
eu preciso compartilhar um comentário que recebi no meu blog com vcs:
a pessoa não se identificou, ela escreveu como Anonimo e comentou que chegou no meu blog através do blog train e que ficou entretida por duas horas lendo meu blog!! E ela voltou no dia seguinte pra agradecer as tantas dicas que ela adorou!

This comment on my blog I have to share with you:

I have to share a wonderful comment I received here at my blog. This "thank you" make me go ahead and share with you more tips in English/ Portuguese.
The girl wrote me as anonymous the following text:


Anônimo deixou um novo comentário sobre a sua postagem "Scrapbooking Tutorial: 3D Letters in Power Point":

Thank You very much for a great tutorial.
I came yesterday to get the blog train and got so into reading your blog and the tuts. All of a sudden it was 2 hours later and I had to rush to pick up my son. I don't think I even said Thank You yesterday. I owe you many many Thanks. I really appreciate you taking the time and offering us so much! Thank You!

Adorei a experiência!
This was the first time I've participated on a blog train and I love it!!

How to make 3D Letters with Illustrator:

Como fazer o efeito 3D em Letras, usando o Adobe Illustrator
And continuing the 3 D effects tutorial, now doing it with Illustrator:

Above is the sample for a word with one direct 3D effect and below, a sample where each letter became an individual and different 3D effect.
Acima tem um exemplo de uma palavra inteira com o efeito 3D e abaixo um exemplo onde cada letra recebe um efeito 3D individual e de direção diferente.


Adobe Illustrator:
You have to open a new document (web document - 300 dpi):
abra o Adobe Illustrator conf. abaixo:
And open the character set - ctrl + T - abra a caixa de texto (use a tecla CTRL + T)
Set the font to IMPACT - size 200 pt

And write the word you want to give the effect: I wrote July.
Change color (window > Swatches) of the font to an orange or other color (light colors - not dark!!)
Escreva a palavra JULY (ou qq palavra) e abra a caixa das cores (swatches) e clique na cor laranja. (window > Swatches)

Now go to Effect > 3D > Extrude and Bevel

And set the options like here below (you can click the image to see larger). Siga conf. abaixo
To create a messy letter block, you have to create only one letter at time and apply different 3 D effect for each. In the dialog box click on the 3D block icon and drag and rotate. Play with the settings.
Click and change the color as many times you wish! (or the font).
Para criar uma série de letras com efeitos 3D de diferentes direções vc tem que aplicar o efeito letra por letra. Escreva apenas uma letra e altere cada vez a direção do extrude clicando no ícone do cubo da caixa de diálogo e arraste e gire à vontade. Vá brincando com o efeito. Altere a cor e a fonte sempre que quiser aqui.

We are going to move all letters in order to mantain a distance between them, and to save as a PNG file (with transparent background) So you can later easily cut out each letter to work with individual files in Photoshop.
Antes de passar o arquivo para o Photoshop vc tem que separar um pouco as letras, facilitando para que possam ser recortadas individualmente! Clique na seta PRETA e arraste cada letra.
Se vc criou uma palavra inteira, faça espaços entre letras!
Now go to File - EXPORT - arquivo exportar
and set the file type option to PNG... como PNG com fundo transparente
...with transparent background, like image below:
Close Illustrator - saving the file. Important:
KEEP YOUR ILLUSTRATOR FILE AS A BASIC WORK FILE:
Remember to save your work in Illustrator, because this is an important vector file and allow font changes and resizing. You can go back any time and make new 3D work with other settings and other fonts.
Salve seu trabalho no Illustrator e sempre que quiser criar um novo bloco de texto em 3D esse arquivo vai servir como base. Altere cores e fonte e vc terá outro resultado!!

Now open this new PNG file with Photoshop:
Abra o arquivo (PNG) recém-exportado no Photoshop

Set each letter in individual layers and apply shadow (with distort and wrap effect on each letter!).

Please comment if you like it, this motivates me to make new tutorials for you!
E RECORTE E COLE cada letra para que fiquem em camadas individuais. Aplique sombras a cada letra.
Next post I'm going to show you how to apply a scrapbook paper on the font face!
No próximo post eu vou mostrar como aplicar na face das letras um papel de scrapbooking!

Aqui abaixo um recado para as americanas que festejam o dia 4 de Julho! E no final do post tem uma action freebie para vcs!!
Comentem, por favor, porque são os comentários que nos impulsionam a oferecer novas dicas e freebies!

***** bom scrap!*****

4th of July
I hope that all my USA scrap friends had a great weekend with happy festivities and family fun!!

This was the first time I tried a blue - red - white kit, and I have to confess, it was hard for me to find the right harmony and to fit everything together. At the end I found that the result was a great kit, principally after this wonderful, eye catching layout from my dear CT Elaine (please leave her some love here):

And here are the Quick Pages I did with this kit:
here are the papers:
The whole kit:
my stores: SNT= DDR= CCreate = CIA= NDISB = HM Shop

And here is a small action ( FREE ) including a set of button templates:
download here

***** Happy Scrapping! *****

24 Junho 2009

Scrapbooking Tutorial: 3D Letters in Power Point

Hi, my friend Mari, asked me a tutorial on how to get these 3D letter effects to enhance our scrapbooking layouts!
A pedido de minha querida amiga Mari, mostro aqui um tutorial bem básico para criar letras 3D.

I'm a Corel Draw user, but if you are not an expert, and only want to know an easy way to do this, so follow me here with power point!
Eu uso o Corel Draw para fazer as minha letras com extrusão 3D, mas para quem quer "brincar" eu sugiro aqui o Power Point. Assim vc terá uma maior intimidade com essa arte e depois poderá se profissionalizar mais e criá-las em programas de acordo!

POWER POINT FILE ready to use and easy to change to your 3D letters!!
Word Art from Micorosft is perfect for this training! Download the Freebie and open my Power Point:
O WordArt do Microsoft Office é perfeito para adquirirmos essa noção básica!
Abra o Power Point (o meu arquivo já está semi-preparado) aqui:


Como trocar a letra: CHANGING THE FONT:
1- clique em uma letra – choose a letter
2- depois em editar texto – and than in edit text
3- aplique a fonte que desejar – apply the new font

Como trocar a face da letra pelo seu pattern paper:
CHANGING THE COLOR/EFFECT OF THE FONT FACE to your paper
1- clique em formatar word art FORMAT WORDART
2- clique em efeitos de preenchimento – more effects
3- clique em selecionar imagem e procure o seu papel – set your paperComo mudar a forma: CHANGING THE FORM
1- clique na letra – choose an letter
2- aplique um formato – apply new form

Como trocar a extrusão: HOW TO CHANGE THE 3D EFFECT
1- na barra de ferramentas DESENHO – on the drawing toolbox
2- clique em estilos 3D (ao lado da sombra) – choose 3D styles
3- aplique a opção de extrusão (3D) – apply the style of your choice

Save your power point as jpg file, or copy and paste each letter into Photoshop or any vector or photo editing programm.
Salve seu power point. Eu costumo copiar e colar no Illustrator cada letra individualmente, e depois copio e colo no Photoshop. Isso facilita, pois o arquivo fica separado do fundo e facilmente poderá ser salvo como png. Depois eu apliquei sombras a cada letra.

***** bom scrap ! *****

have fun with Scrapping!!

Silke

22 Junho 2009

Blog Train Freebie and New Soft Paper Action

My new products:Soft Paper Action by Silke
And here are my hand painted papers with a beautiful color palette:
BLOG TRAIN:
Some of HM's ScrapShop wonderful designers made a beautiful Friendship Collab kit for you to enjoy FREE.
Grab it and make sure to make a stop at all participants blog in order to get the full collab! My part:

Follow the links below to grab the others Freebies:

Lise-Lotte Sunesen - http://www.hmscrapshop.com


02 Junho 2009

Tutorial: how to create a flower doodle in illustrator and recolor in Photoshop

Hi, my dear readers!! Olá, leitoras queridas!

I love to draw swirls, doodles, frames and flowers with my Bamboo Pen Tablet.
Fiz uma série de DOODLES no Illustrator e passei para o Photoshop.
I made a quick page using my new product, the DOODLE PAGE BORDERS and the wonderful contribution from ScrapDesafios to DigiDesignResort collab kit at TDS.
This quick page is a newsletter freebie (for a limited time) and you can have it here at DigiDesignResort.
The DDR store is featured at TDS and the kit is free (in two parts) here at The Daily Scrapper
A nossa loja DigiDesignResort é destaque nesse mes de aniversário no site The Daily Scrapper e tem um kit collab como free lá! Veja abaixo que linda contribuição da ScrapDesafios com a qual eu fiz essa quick page freebie que está no site da DDR em Newsletter freebie!
E repare na minha Doodle Page Border!!!

Doodle Page Border - made with my product here below / feita com esse produto aqui abaixo:
Doodle Flowers - great for layouts and pattern papers
How to create a flower doodle in illustrator and recolor in Photoshop

I'll show you step by step, how to create a doodle in Illustrator and recolor in Photoshop with a Pen Tablet:


Some people, using Illustrator first time, reported that the pencil tool always was selected and mostly the lines disappeared once they draw second ones.
In order to avoid this, I've figured out that you have to set the pencil options different: if they don't keep the pencil lines selected, you can draw a new line without being afraid that they could disappear!!

Muitas pessoas tentam desenhar no illustrator e ficam estranhando que as linhas desenhadas logo somem ao desenharmos a linha seguinte. Para evitar isso, vamos mudar a configuração lápis, conforme abaixo.


Ok, let's do it:

Open a new document in Illustrator. The size depends of what you intend to do. I recommend the Scrapbooking size 3600px x 3600px with 300dpi new doc.
Novo Documento

Set the pencil options like here(double click on the pencil icon):
Clique duplo no LÁPIS - abre as opções dele e vc pode alterar como segue:
Take you pen tablet and draw! (see my video tutorial below)
E agora vc pode desenhar à vontade!

Than, select your doodle (with the black arrow). Copy it. Open Photoshop, make a new document, 3600 x 3600 pixels, and paste it. When asked, choose smart object and save this file. Make a copy of this document in Photoshop and rasterize the layer in order to recolor!

Now you can resize to 2500px the document in order to make brushes. (Edit > define brush preset).

Ao finalizar seu desenho, selecione tudo com a setinha preta. Editar> copiar. Abra o Photoshop e em File > New > crie um novo documento com 3600 x 3600 pixels. Depois clique em EDITAR > COLAR. Ao ser perguntado, opte por SMART OBJECT. Salve esse documento como PSD. Duplique, rasterize (clicando com o botão direito sobre o layer) o layer e colorize à vontade.

Você também pode criar brushes, mas para isso tem que redimensionar o documento para 2500 pixels.

See my Video Tutorial:


And below here is my froggy video, with more details. (Please, don't blame my english - I know, it is bad!!! But I speak german and portuguese fluently. What about you?!)

E outro video aqui, onde eu desenho um sapinho:

And here is a special freebie for you:

download here
3 original doodles and 3 decorated doodles.
Both for commercial use allowed!

*****Happy Scrapping *****

Silke

20 Maio 2009

My lil Critters - Garden Life!! Template with Color Fill Layers

Commercial Use allowed!
This lil critters are from my Garden Life product. A layered color template exclusive for designers with PHOTOSHOP. To recolor, very easy, see the video below!

Esses lindos habitantes de nosso jardim foram feitos a partir de um formato básico. Os olhos e as bocas são padrão e podem ser aproveitados para vc criar os seus próprios.
Esse é um produto para designers e é exclusivo para usuários do PHOTOSHOP.
Veja no filminho abaixo, como recolorir de modo fácil e rapidamente esses templates:



ou veja o video-tutorial aqui.

12 Maio 2009

Tutorial MASKS with sample included!

Todas nós estamos adorando trabalhar com photo masks, e podemos achar muitos layouts lindos espalhados pelas diversas galerias de scrap online!!

Veja como trabalhar com uma mask - por exemplo:
1- abra um papel no photoshop e a primeira mask - a PAPER MASK - que é a base da foto.
Coloque a MASK na camada exatamente em cima do papel.
2- E mude o blending para "overlay", veja na figura abaixo.

open a paper of your choice and my paper mask in Photoshop. The mask have to be in the layer above the paper! Change blending mode to "overlay".
Agora eu peguei outra mask, a PHOTO MASK - que combina com a anterior - e adicionei na camada por cima da anterior.
Now please open the Photo Mask (also from my sample) and put it above the first mask.


E agora vc abre a foto na camada de cima seguinte e com ctrl + alt + g faz a clipping mask da foto com a camada de baixo. Veja:
Open the Photo (in the upper layer) and with ctrl + alt + g clip the photo with the round mask!
Pronto! Capriche no layout!
Ready!

credits: Silke's layer masks and curved template :::: background paper from Rita Massela ::: elements from Flying Kytes by Kasia Designs
Here is my sample FREEBIE for you. Commercial Use is OK!
sorry! download expired! You can buy this in my shop!

***** happy Scrapping ***** Bom Scrap *****

Silke

Layouts da Julinha

Meninas,

o tempo passa tão rápido!!!

Antes de mais nada vim contar pra vcs que a lindinha Julinha teve seu primeiro dias das mães com a mamãe Tica!!!






Ah, ela também foi batizada!! E fizemos (minha irmã e eu) um marcador de página fofíssimo!!


e veja os lindo layouts que a minha amiga e CT Marisa fez pra nós:


Os créditos estão nas nossas galeria, veja a minha e a da Marisa.

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