January 15: Paper Blending (Technique Challenge)

Hello everyone! Welcome to day 15 of MOC 5! I hope you are having a fabulous time. The challenge today is a technique challenge. You must blend/merge two or more papers together to use as your background layer in your layout.

If you haven't blended papers before, let me warn you, it is addictive. Blend as many papers together as you wish, but please blend at least two together. Follow the instructions (listed below) but if you want to play further, try some of the other optional tweaks too. This is at your discretion. Have fun!

Your editing program may look slightly different than this layers palette but I believe that most have the opacity and blend mode menu at the top of their layers palette.


PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS:
Choose a paper for your first layer (I usually choose a solid color or lightly textured/patterned paper). This base layer remains untouched and the blending mode remains normal. Now choose a paper for your second layer. This second layer's blend mode will be changed, altering how the layer interacts with the layer below.

On your second (upper) layer, open the blend mode menu at the top of the layers panel by clicking on "normal" (the default mode), then you can scroll through all the blend modes or use your arrow keys to scroll through, and change the mode to something other than the "normal" mode. Changing the blend mode will affect how it interacts with the layer below.

If you are using Gimp, PSP or PSE, here are youtube links explaining blend modes:
Paint Shop Pro Blend Modes:

Gimp Blend Modes:

Photoshop Elements Blend Modes:


OPTIONAL TWEAKS (not required):
After changing the blend mode, you may wish to try some of these additional alterations:

• Reduce the opacity.
• Duplicate the blended layer and change the blend mode.
• Use a mask to brush away any unwanted areas or choose the eraser to remove any unwanted areas.
• Edit the colors in any way you choose i.e. replace color, hue/sat adjustment, channel mixer, curves adjustment, etc.

Requirements:
1. In your layout design, create a background of at least 2 papers.
2. Change the blend mode on at least one layer.

Your page must be a new page in order to count for the Month of Challenges. Your page should be uploaded to the TLP Gallery and not an outside hosting site. Please post your page in your page thread you created in the MOC Layouts Folder. You should have one post per completed challenge page. If you complete all 31 challenges, your thread should contain 31 posts. Please do not comment in the participants’ page threads so we can keep them clean. You should also post your page here in this thread, and people can comment here if they wish. Pages should contain at least 75% current Lilypad product (currently for sale in the store). All MOC pages must be posted in your main MOC page thread by 11:59 pm eastern time on February 2 in order to count!

 

Didn't realize you couldn't see my page. I'll get that fixed. Thx for the heads up about that.

Ta-da! The broken link should be fixed now and my sample page visible. Chalk that up to early morning and not enough coffee syndrome Happy scrapping everyone! Can't wait to see your pages!

 

Yes @MlleTerraMoka You got it! Gorgeous page!