What is your favorite new technique tried during MOC?

I loved the blending challenge too. but I think one technique I will use again is the cropped/hidden photo as title. I really enjoyed the result

 

Great topic and thread @kelley Kelley The techniques are always so much fun.. i am not sure which one is my favorite but I also want to try a page where I combine several together at the same time. I think that would be super cool.. I think I will put that on my to do list once things settle down for me abit

 

I loved more than one, the blending challenge is something that I can see me doing it again, the clipped photo to title also...but the thing that I think too cool is the duotone technique...I saw amazing pages on the gallery showcasing this one.

 

When you list it all like this, we did learn a lot in January didn't we! I couldn't say which I liked best though, the blending looked beautiful, the subway journalling was fun, the duotone created a whole new world, and the hidden photo made for great title work.
I will definitely be trying one of these again for one of the February challenges, where you have to revisit MOC7!

 

LOL I try to keep those creative gears sparking.. can't wait to see what you do my dear!!

 

Mine was Christa's Day 4 Blending Technique, too I struggled with that one, but when I finally got it, it was thrilling!

 

The subway art one - that was fun learning how to mix up the fonts

 

i have to go with duotone - it freaked me out a bit at first seeing my DS with green skin but then i scrolled thru the thread and saw so many cool examples and i ended up loving it - will definitely be using that one again instead of the regular B&W conversion

 

I had tried duotone before but didn't get it to look right. I didn't try a gradient map but instead just played with layer style and basically rooting around in PS lol! Anyway, I'm so happy to have found the correct way to do it.

So much fun and so many new things to try on my pages. I love MOC!

 

While none of these were new (thanks to scrapaneer's- I've learned LOTS of techy stuff there!) I did really love the duo tone- I forgot about that one, even tho I use Gradient Map for all my b/w photos- I just forgot about changing the colors!

 

Mine wasn't actually part of a technique challenge--I liked the challenge of turning the Traveler's Notebook size template from the last day into a realistic looking TN. I also used a lot more styles during MOC, and I plan to keep doing that. (Before MOC I used styles on maybe 1/5th of my layouts. During MOC it was probably more like 4/5ths.)

 

I really learned a lot this time around. I always do, but it just seemed like far more this time. Probably the best one is an offhand comment during a video tut for the duotone challenge - I never knew about adding an alpha channel, that it's a one click thing. That tip alone has saved me so much time and frustration already.

But! I also figured out the path part of text to path, that's a v cool thing. And! how to use layer groups, holy mother of pearl does that make 100+ layer pieces more manageable. And brushes, I thought I had a handle on those too but nope, more to learn.

Ok but back to the original question - fave technique is the fake dof. I find myself using that all the time now. It's an awesome way to fix a boring backdrop.

 

The blending photo technique was my favourite too.
the one MOC challenge that I will revisit for this months challenges is the large photo.
This was my favourite MOC, to date.

 

I ended up doing this on a later challenge too because I liked the look a lot!

 

I have a few to "revisit" this month. With family in town due to family emergency I didn't get to finish my MOC!!!!!