My latest digital scrapbook kit, Nana’s Kitchen is now available in my Etsy store & my Clikchic Designs store. Nana’s Kitchen features a vintage cooking theme fabulous for scrapbooking recipes or special memories, including memories of your Grandmother, Cooking or even just good times in the kitchen. Check out Nana’s Kitchen in my Etsy store or my Clikchic Designs store.
It has been a while that I have done a scrapbook layout. It seems since the kids got a bit older and are no longer interested in posing for photos I find myself not doing as many layouts either. Thankfully with how good phone cameras are getting at least I can still sneak the occasional one with my phone always being on hand. This one was at a recent holiday at the Gold Coast where we decided to stop at Max Brenner for a decadent lunch. I hadn’t done any layouts with my Chalkboard Papers yet and I thought this photo might be perfectly suited to it. I decided to keep this layout super simple and have kept it to bare bones of just a few elements.
Along with the Chalkboard Papers I have also used my Stamp Cluster Frames and Paisley Washi Tape available in my Etsy store. The Chalkboard Papers, Stamp Cluster Frames and Paisley Washi Tape are also available in my Clikchic Designs store & the Chalkboard Papers are also available in my Creative Market store.
If you are a cat lover you will love this set of Feline Friends Word Art. These gorgeous set of 8 word art images are fabulous for your photos and digital scrapbook layouts of your fur babies and will be sure to please. Check out the Feline Friends Word Art in my Etsy store and Clikchic Designs store.
This collection of storyboard templates will be sure to please making a showcase of beautiful photos easy to display on single pages or in the form of an album. Each layered template is 16×16 inches in size at 300dpi making them perfect for creating a piece for large format printing to show off on a wall or you can resize to smaller pages to include in an album, book or website. If you are a professional photographer, graphic designer or digital scrapbooking enthusiast, you will find this collection of layered psd templates a must have item for your digital stash. Check out the Storyboard Templates in my Etsy store, Clikchic Designs store or Creative Market store.
This gorgeous collection of ribbon embellishments is a must have item for every graphic designer & digital scrapbooking enthusiast. You will love having this stash of pretty curled ribbons to come back to over and over again. Check out this beautiful set in my Etsy store, my Clikchic Designs store or my Creative Market store.
Check out these gloriously grungy Vintage Grunge Overlays, created from the pages of old books and edited to make beautiful overlays for a wide range of projects. These gorgeous digital overlays are made perfect for standard photo dimensions and are large in size to suite a large variety of creative projects from art photography & graphic design to digital scrapbooking. Check out the Vintage Grunge Overlays in the following stores.
Have you seen this gorgeous Shabby Sherbet Quick Page Album? This chic album features fresh and pretty sherbet themed colours and is a must have album for your special photos. The album is made with the Shabby Sherbet Digital Scrapbook Kit also available in my Etsy store and Clikchic Designs store. Check out the Shabby Sherbet Quick Page Album in my Etsy store or Clikchic Designs store.
This gorgeous set of 5 Decorative Grunge Clipping Masks is fabulous for a variety of uses including art photography, wedding photography, graphic design and digital scrapbooking. Use these clipping masks in landscape or portrait to suit your photo or design format. Check out the Decorative Grunge Clipping Masks in my Etsy store, Clikchic Designs store and Creative Market store.
Check out these gorgeous Rolled Paint Clipping Masks fabulous for creating beautiful painted looks and gorgeous works of Art Photography, Digital Scrapbooking Layouts and a wide variety of design projects. The Rolled Paint Clipping Masks are available in my Etsy store, my Clikchic Designs store and my Creative Market store.
I had a question today about recoloring the png files I include with my Photoshop brushes, so I thought I would do a quick tutorial on how to recolor in Photoshop. I am using Photoshop CC for this tutorial but the instructions will work for any version of Photoshop. For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to use my Clean Watercolor Splodge Photoshop Brushes available in my Etsy store, Clikchic Designs store and Creative Market store.
For this tutorial I am going to use the .png of the brush named Clikchic_ABR_PaintSplodgeClean_03.png.
As you can see, all the .png’s of my brushes come in black as this is the best shade for making Photoshop brushes. It is also more easy to recolor sometimes than other colors.
I am going to recolor the brush stroke to pink, since that is my favorite color. As for most things in Photoshop there are multiple ways to do that. For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to do it using my foreground color picker. On the toolbar on the left side of the Photoshop screen there is a tool where you can select your foreground and background colors. I am going to change the foreground color to the color I want my brush stroke to be.
The foreground color is the black square and the background color is the white square. To change the foreground color, I need to click on the black square, which will bring up the color picker.
With the color picker, I can slide the rainbow scale to the color range I want to work in and then choose the color shade from the resulting screen.
As you can see I have moved the slider up to a reddish pink and clicked and moved the cursor to a mid range pink on the gradient. The color I have chosen appears in the new rectangle.
Once you have chosen the color, click OK and that color will become your foreground color.
Now we have to adjust the color of the brush stroke using the foreground color. To do so we need to go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation
In the Hue/Saturation screen you need to click on the Colorize check box which will change the color tone of the brush stroke to your foreground color. In my example this is a dark shade of pink. The black of the stroke is a much darker shade than the pink so we need to adjust this to get the correct shade.
To do this we need to adjust the saturation and lightness. To do that you move the sliders till you are happy with the shade of your chosen color.
As you can see I have increased the lightness by quite a bit, and have also increased the saturation to get a good depth of color.
This is the end result of the recolored paint stroke.
You now have a gorgeous colored stroke and can now save as a new file so that you preserve the original in black.