Sajestic Designs

Oh how time flies! Issue 5 has been released! If you haven’t had a chance to grab back issues of this tutorial packed magazine then your definately missing out. If your a vector artist or would like to dive into vectoring then this is the issue for you. This issue highlights include:

Dive into the world of Architecture

Complete guide to using the text tool

Learn to create photo art

Head on over to Imagine Publishing today to get your copy! While there I highly recommend visiting the user galleries from the magazine readers. There are definately some eye catching talent to be seen!

Also, you can view which tutorials I wrote for the magazine on my Portfolio page. You can view it here.

What’s new at IP?
IP has upgraded their main website which can now be seen on a widescreen. They’ve also added a fun and very addicting game called “Photo Face-Off”. The Photo Face-Off website shows photos added on officialpspp.com using a battle generator where two random photos are selected and you decide which photo is your favourite. There is a top 100 list and a bottom 100 list to show which photos are the viewers favorites while the bottom show the least favorite. Ready to battle it out? Give it try by following this link:

Photo Face-Off Website
http://www.officialpspp.com/photofaceoff/

This was a fun project to do and I was asked by request for a tutorial on it so here it is! You may have seen similar effects like this done in vector style graphics, this is a simple alternative. You can use this technique on any type of photo. They make really great card ideas!

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Have a request for a tutorial? Send it on in to admin[at]sajesticdesigns[dot]com!

Okay so enough with the tutorial talk already it’s Friday so let’s get to the goodies. I’ve had such an overwhelming response on my Harvest Flowers that I’m giving them to you! To everyone who sent in an email - this one is for you. These flowers were created by me from scratch at a high res so they are really big and can be used for many many projects small or large. I also created them without a drop shadow so you are able to rotate them anyway you like and of course add your own shadow once your satisfied with the placement. The above photo is a sample layout I created using the flowers as part of the embellishments to give you a good idea of how they will look in a project.

Have a great weekend!

If you do use my tubes I would love to see how! Please do send in a sample photo of your projects or a digital layout you created using the flowers to admin [at] sajesticdesigns [dot] com.

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I’ve always loved making backgrounds for my photos. In scrapbooking I could spend countless hours looking through all the papers that were available and over recent years backgrounds have become an artistic expression for completing a layout in Digital Scrapbooking. For this tutorial I show you the very basics for working with plain backgrounds and adding some depth and texture to them by using the texture presets in PSP and for an added bonus some examples for creating a popular look called the “Torn Edge”.

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One of the most common questions asked is “How do I create text on a path?”. This particular technique is used in Digital Scrapbooking and can be seen throughout many layouts. You may see it in creative type titles, circle text frames or to follow the path of an edge or curve of a layout. In this tutorial we cover the basics of how to get your text onto a path. Tho it may be rated as intermediate to advanced it doesn’t hurt to give it a try if your new to using vectors. Practice makes perfect!

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Need help? Have a question or a request for a tutorial? Drop me a line at admin [at] sajesticdesigns [dot] com.

If you ever had a doubt that learning the scopes of photography would be to overwhelming for a young teen or even a child then you better re-think those thoughts as children “nowadays” are teaching us! My kids teach me something new every single day it seems and when my daughter came to me with this look of accomplishment on her face I knew something was up. She had dived into PSPP Magazine and read the entire article on Macro Magic. Needless to say, she not only took it all in but she mastered it within a few hours. If you have a moment to spare head on over to Jecynda’s Gallery and get inspired by a young teen as she shows us the world through her eyes.

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Now this one made me think should it be a resource or should it be a digital scrap freebie? Well, the freebies are ready-to-use without the need to adjust the graphic at all. You just add it to your layouts and go show it off. A resource in my opinion is something you work with. You can adjust the color, warp it, take from it, add to it… etc. So, I decided to post this one as a resource.

The bow has been one of many many topics and one of the top asked questions in digital scrapbooking is - how do you make bows?! I decided to offer two ribbons I created in grey-scale. I’ve already taken you halfway there to creating your bow!

From the sample image, on the bow resource page, you will see two ways that I’ve used them to create a bow and a folded ribbon. Do to this in PSP simply make a rectangle selection from the ribbon and then paste it on a layer of it’s own. Use the warp tool to then mold it into the shape you want.

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Issue 04 has just been released! If you haven’t had a chance to grab back issues of this tutorial packed magazine then your definately missing out. As a tutorial writer for this magazine I -still- learn something new everyday. This issue highlights include:

Learning all about nature photography

In-depth feature on layers

Get creative with the text tool

Head on over to Imagine Publishing today to get your copy! While there I highly recommend visiting the user galleries from the magazine readers. There are definately some eye catching talent to be seen!

I’ve also added my Portfolio page. You can view it here.

What is Digital Scrapbooking?

If you have ever kept photos in an album and stuck stickers with a few written lines on it, then that is about as close to traditional scrapbooking as you can get. Scrapbooking has developed into a mainstream hobby for showing off photos in beautiful rich colors and breath-taking layouts. As computers have become more affordable and while digital cameras drop in price and their photo quality rises many of us have now become photographers as well. Graphic artists and creative hobbyists alike have combined both computer graphics and digital photographs to create what we now know as Digital Scrapbooking.

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Wow - Where does the time go? I am late getting this next set to you but as they say better late than never! This next set is one of my favorites. I created the brushes from my own swirly preset shape designs. I just love this look and it can be used for unlimited amounts of designing ideas. I have used them for borders and for background accents.

I do hope you can get some use out of them and if you do please do send me a sample of how you used them. I would love to see it! Send them to admin [at] sajesticdesigns [dot] com.

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