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How do you get great depth like this in a layout?

redplaid3

redplaid3

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Mummyd excels at this as you can see in this picture! How do you learn how to do it? Thanks in advance.

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sssshhhhhhhh its a secret............lol, I have replied to your PM..............lol, but you must not tell anyone how I do it............lol



this message wll self explode in.................5........................4..............................3..........................2..........................BOOM.......LOL
 
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lol, its all about the light effect I do on my papers, which make the lighter colour in the center and the darker around the edges

In most of my pages I do tend to use a plain background paper (personal preference) but what I do is duplicate the paper so I have 2 papers the same, on the one I just duplicated I go to Filter - render- lighting effect, my style is always soft Omni you can change the size of the circle too how ever big you like it, I tend to have mine quite big, then ok

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I then change the blend mode to screen, duplicate again and change blend mode to soft light

hence this gives you the faded effect to the papers

I then go about making my page as I would normally, but just before I finish I go to the background paper I duplicated the 3rd one, duplicate it again but this time, I drag this new paper on top of everything I have made and lower the opacity to 45%, gives you more of a real look to the page


Hope this helps, and if not it probally had confused you even more, I never do things easy in PS
 
and Nicole just for you here is a screen shot of my shadow settings just for you sweetie, what I do is the elements that lay directly on the background papers I move the distance less, to around about 50 and size to around 40, anything on top of these go with the higher settings, also if you use a darker paper, then the opacity will increase, I go up in 5's, hope it helps sweetie

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mummyd said:
sssshhhhhhhh its a secret............lol, I have replied to your PM..............lol, but you must not tell anyone how I do it............lol



this message wll self explode in.................5........................4..............................3..........................2..........................BOOM.......LOL
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you are a delight!!!:flirty
 
sorry I didn't catch any of that ... my ears are still ringing from the explosion :giggle!

:heartslub thanks for the tips Donna :goldstars
 
Wow - very interesting!! I'll have to try it sometime! Thanks for sharing your technique!
 
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and Nicole just for you here is a screen shot of my shadow settings just for you sweetie, what I do is the elements that lay directly on the background papers I move the distance less, to around about 50 and size to around 40, anything on top of these go with the higher settings, also if you use a darker paper, then the opacity will increase, I go up in 5's, hope it helps sweetie

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How did you know! I was reading top to bottom and thinking to myself - but how do I set them at! :giggle this is perfect. Thank you!
 
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sorry I didn't catch any of that ... my ears are still ringing from the explosion :giggle!
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Amanda!!! You made me
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I swear Gurt is going to kill me! That's the 5th time I got my keyboard stickie.


Great tips Donna! So cool of you to share!!!
 
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