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January 6: Shape cut out of element

Fun challenge and fun pages so far.
It is hard to see but column 2 the blue square has a star shape.

 
oh wow some amazing pages, girls!!!!!!!!!!!! love to see all this creativity !!!!

now, I am curious about this...I keep seeing many of you, some of you I know to be experienced scrappers, saying that this was a tough one but you loved learning something new (and you got some awesome pages!!!!)
n my program this can be done so very easily (maybe that is why I cried when I first tried to learn Photoshop years ago .. I am thinking if I cried in my 40 something.... how much will I cry and collpase now I am 60 !!!???!!! :overreact

:giggle
My question is: Does Photoshop or PSE not have an eraser tool?
in my program, if I want to do this without actually cutting, which wont be precisely hard but time consuming and I would have to group the text many times to be able to use the scissors tool.... I would go for grabbing an element of a cutout, say one of Scrapping with Liz's Cutouts, lay it in the page, and erase inside?
can you guys not do that in Photoshop? @cfile? @jenn mccabe @jk703 ?
Anne Mieke, I am looking forward to make this page!
in my program, Craft Artist Professional by Serif, if I don't want to cut (as I said, is time consuming), I can grab the eraser tool ad start erasing of what I don't want of the text....
@Angela Toucan @KarenB @Nemla have you made it already, this page? I ll check your galleries later, but I think for us is super easy, right?

anyway, will be back with a page, you have all inspired me to make this !!!!!!!
:heartslub
 
cfile said:
It was my pleasure to help Kitty.. it is was I love to do :) I like helping people learn new things. I love the way your page came out too!
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and you did it for years way before being Polly, you are amazing!!!!!!!!!! <3
I need some sleep, but will be back in a couple of hours
 
MrsPeel said:
oh wow some amazing pages, girls!!!!!!!!!!!! love to see all this creativity !!!!

now, I am curious about this...I keep seeing many of you, some of you I know to be experienced scrappers, saying that this was a tough one but you loved learning something new (and you got some awesome pages!!!!)
n my program this can be done so very easily (maybe that is why I cried when I first tried to learn Photoshop years ago .. I am thinking if I cried in my 40 something.... how much will I cry and collpase now I am 60 !!!???!!! :overreact

:giggle
My question is: Does Photoshop or PSE not have an eraser tool?
in my program, if I want to do this without actually cutting, which wont be precisely hard but time consuming and I would have to group the text many times to be able to use the scissors tool.... I would go for grabbing an element of a cutout, say one of Scrapping with Liz's Cutouts, lay it in the page, and erase inside?
can you guys not do that in Photoshop? @cfile? @jenn mccabe @jk703 ?
Anne Mieke, I am looking forward to make this page!
in my program, Craft Artist Professional by Serif, if I don't want to cut (as I said, is time consuming), I can grab the eraser tool ad start erasing of what I don't want of the text....
@Angela Toucan @KarenB @Nemla have you made it already, this page? I ll check your galleries later, but I think for us is super easy, right?

anyway, will be back with a page, you have all inspired me to make this !!!!!!!
:heartslub
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I've done it Cynthia, and It's very quick and easy in Craft Artist.
I used a ready made text overlay - drew a quick shape on top. Selected the overlay and the shape then clicked subtract in the cropping menu (in the bottom right-hand corner). If you are using real text, then select all the text and convert to bitmap first, then draw the shape
 
KarenB said:
@MrsPeel I typed my text, then converted it to a picture. Then punched out a shape - simples :)
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oh yeah!!!! I sometimes when I want to do text and cut around or inside like this, I make it in two or three texts, then group, then cut and group again, but that is a much better way, make it into a picture!!!!! <3 Karen, we need to make some time to catch up!!! Huggzzzz
 
MrsPeel said:
and you did it for years way before being Polly, you are amazing!!!!!!!!!! <3
I need some sleep, but will be back in a couple of hours
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So, I said that at 12:57 (almost 1pm my time) and is now 22:16... my time concept is rather stretched LOL
I slept but not quiet enough, but will get the page done soon Anne Mieke!!!!!!

Angela Toucan said:
I've done it Cynthia, and It's very quick and easy in Craft Artist.
I used a ready made text overlay - drew a quick shape on top. Selected the overlay and the shape then clicked subtract in the cropping menu (in the bottom right-hand corner). If you are using real text, then select all the text and convert to bitmap first, then draw the shape
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like I said to @KarenB , it makes sense!!! we have it very very easy I think!!!! I wish they didn't stop making Craft Artist!!!!

cfile said:
<blushing> Thank you Cynthia!
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truth needs to be said!! I remember saying to Laura you wsere a much better Polly than I even when you weren't a Polly!!!!! and @KittyY you are always in my heart , don't think I say it often enough!!!!!
 
MrsPeel said:
My question is: Does Photoshop or PSE not have an eraser tool?
in my program, if I want to do this without actually cutting, which wont be precisely hard but time consuming and I would have to group the text many times to be able to use the scissors tool.... I would go for grabbing an element of a cutout, say one of Scrapping with Liz's Cutouts, lay it in the page, and erase inside?
can you guys not do that in Photoshop? @cfile? @jenn mccabe @jk703 ?
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Yes it does have an eraser. But if you have your selection loaded and press delete - it wipes it out in one quick swoop. Or to be non destructive you use a mask. I admit I didn't read the instructions bc I can do this in my sleep. So not sure what the initial instructions say to do even.
Using an eraser is like using a brush - so you'd brush away what you don't want with the Eraser tool in PSCC. Takes a little longer in my opinion but you'll have the same results! Or you'd create a brush in the shape you want. Grab the eraser tool with that brush selected and erase in one swoop that way. Alwyas so many ways to do the same thing! :)
 


Text from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling -- a story about another weird little boy.
 
I redid my day 6 shape cut out of an element. The shape is a heart. All of the goodies I use are being posted in the thread with all of my pages.
MOC day 6.jpg
 
This one took me almost 2 days to complete. I accidentally got the Cut Out to work, but couldn't repeat it! I still don't know how I did it. My computer got a virus, and I had to buy a new computer with a new version of Photoshop CC. The changes in it are causing me a little more time and stress! Whew!

 
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MOC7 - Jan 6 - Shape Cut out
This is NOT my best work, but I need to move on.
Journaling reads: this sand heart marks the 9th state that we've visited a coast of the state a drew a heart on the beach. What started as a fluke has now become a staple for the coastal states.
Jan 6 - Shape Cutout.jpg
 
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