Re: August Technique Challenge!! photomasks with a twist!

hello everyone! thanks for your patience. my original technique was not translating well so I went with plan B.

I have a teenaged son who will be a senior this year. I love scrapping my photos of him but they just don't seem to be complete without a bit of grunge. We just started taking his senior photos this past week and loved how this one turned out.

1. I cropped the original photo 8x12 and placed it to the right edge of my page. I then placed the photomask (after rotating and removing the flower portion of it) on top of my photo to resize it accordingly.



2. I then placed it below my photo and merged them and locked them together. I then duplicated my layers and moved them down just a bit. I then repeated this step to create the repeated image affect.



3. I decided I wanted to center the new image so I locked all 6 layers together and moved them to the center of my layout.



continued in the next post : )

4. I then added my border (after adjusting the color saturation) and rotated the entire image so I could easily place my title. I used the Digi Essentials Alpha No 5 and created brushes out of each letter. I then placed my title.



5. I then added the year to complete my layout





I hope you will play along this week and try this technique of using photomasks on your layout. If you play along make sure you post your layout in the Challenge gallery.

Thanks for the tutorial Mary! I love how you duplicated the image multiple times to create the repeating pattern.

This is a very cool layout Mary. I love masks, but have never tried that repeating technique. Will have to remedy that. Thanks so much.

Here's my attempt -

http://www.designhousedigital.com/galle ... crets.html

This was fun, here's mine

Here's mine
http://www.designhousedigital.com/galle ... nique.html



I tried

Here's mine:
http://www.designhousedigital.com/galle ... water.html