This week I’ve been playing with some textured backgrounds I purchased at The Shoppe Designs. They have some great elements that you can use when doing album designs or collages.
Last week we talked about Senior Album and we are looking at ramping up our senior albums for next year. I wanted to add some nice background elements, but didn’t want to do anything too busy.
At stage one, I did a simple layout, then placed the one of The Shoppe’s Attic Junk backgrounds in.
The background was too light for me. Also, it didn’t match well with the colors in the photos. So for stage two I did the following.
- I sampled the red from the brick.
- I made a new color block with the rectangle tool covering the background.
- I changed the color block to multiply and faded it to my liking.
While I liked this color, I wanted to make the images stand out more.
Using the marquee tool. I selected around the left image, then holding the shift key, selected around the right image. I duplicated that layer. Then I changed that layer to multiply and faded to my liking, and pow! I had a nice elegant page without much work.
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All design work done with the Fundy Album Builder, free trial available here.
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5 Comments at "Tweak Some Extra Life From Your Existing Textures"
Very nice… not so sure about the boots and shorts combo tho.
Allen, as for the boots and shorts – will anyone ever understand teenage girls
Not me definitely!
Excellent idea — thank you.
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