Intertwining Elements–The Saturday Special
I love the 3-D look of elements intertwined with other elements, alphas and photos on my digital scrapbook pages. It just adds a lot of dimension to a page AND it is so easy to do!!
I’m using PSE7 in this tutorial, but I’m sure this simple technique will also work in the other programs out there.
For this layout, I want to overlap some ribbon over my photo/text. I position the ribbon where I want it BEHIND my photo.
After I have the ribbon in the right spot, I duplicate it in the layers palette and then move this new copy to ABOVE my photo. Make sure to link your 2 ribbons together so they don’t accidentally get shifted from each other.
With your “ribbon copy” layer selected, begin to erase it. Erase the ribbon over the entire photo part, so when you’re finished it looks like the ribbon is underneath the photo and then weaves up over the “J”. I used the “block” eraser next to the edges so I can have a nice clean line when I go to add shadows.
How easy was that! Your challenge is to intertwine and overlap like crazy on your layout.
Here’s my LO using Paint Me a Picture by Denise Beatty Originals…
And I have a few examples for you from the ScrapMatters CT…
Linz has used All Things New by Tracie Stroud. I love how the red string goes through the alpha and wraps around the frame!
Because this challenge begins at the end of April, it will run until the end of May. You receive 1 point for completing the challenge, another point if you use a newly released ScrapMatters product and one lucky and talented gal will receive an additional point for knocking my socks off with their intertwining abilities!!
Have fun!
Tags: photoshop tutorial, Tutorials
April 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Wow – thanks so much for this! I see this in LO all the time, and I had no idea how to do it. So easy – thanks!!!