Wednesday, March 24, 2010

An Exercise in Photoshop Color and Texture

Given my new love of digi-coloring, I elected to try that with this new image, *Easter Egg Jena, from the Little Paper Shop. You can hardly tell here but after I colored the image in PS, I texturized her dress with the canvas texture (she is also re-sized at 80% of norm). However, I was pleased with the outcome especially since I was able to take my little kernels of PS knowledge and apply them. While I know Adobe Illustrator, I have never sat down with PS for any amount of time. I love figuring stuff out!



Positive note of the day: Gawd, I am tired today. T was home again today with his cold. Ave decided to get up every two hours last night which I pray is not signaling she will be sick soon too. Plus, I keep looking outside and dreading the spring cleanup that is oh so necessary. Positive note? Hmm...I had some super tasty pecan macaroon cookies. Yep, ate a dozen over a day and a half period!

15 comments:

Chantal said...

Lovely card! Very cute! Love the bunny ears and how the girl is actually sitting the egg. Great job! :)

Julia Aston said...

what a cute image - nice job on your digital coloring! I need to learn how to do all these things on Photoshop - all I know is how to edit photos at the moment! so much to learn - so little time!

Susie said...

Love the card - great design. It's hard to function when you're tired. Hope T gets well soon.

Cheryl said...

Your card is so cute! I have a book on PS ordered so I hope I can do fun stuff like this soon. (I have no experience with it or Illustrator so I am having a hard time figuring it out on my own.) I hope you have a good day and get some rest. Stay well!

Elena said...

Cute, cute card! Fantastic job in Photoshop, Allison!
Hope Tristan feels better soon...

Crystal said...

AWWW this is super cute, LOVE this sweet image and of course LOVE the purple!

Pretty-In-Ink said...

Super cute card Allison! loves the added bling too!
Hugs
Nicola

Pam Varnell said...

Well you did a good job with the coloring girl. Congrats. Card is very cute. Loving the purple, my fav color!!!! Hugs.

Craftypagan said...

Super pretty card Alison! Gorgeous colours! Wanted to say how helpful I find your blog-its great you listing all the sketches and your work is fab!

Silvia said...

This is awesome, Allison! Digi-coloring? Lavender is one of my favoritie colors. The image is very cute..

Sue from Oregon said...

I am so totally lost when techie stuff comes at me! Yikes...my tutor (my son) pulls his hair out teaching me and I love it LOL! Hope you are not looking at another round of sickies. Take care.

Kim Dellow said...

Oh lovely Lilacs Allison, Fabulous card. Kim

Deb Neerman said...

Another fabulous creation, Allison! Love it!

I'm sooooo jealous of your PS coloring skillz. I'm still having problems doing that but you've inspired me to keep pluggin' away!

Have a great day!

Dawn Easton said...

Great job using those extras in PS! I haven't used my PSP program like that in ages. I need to try this! Your card is adorable! Love the shades of purple!

Beth said...

Adorable Allison don't have Photoshop have Paintshop by Corel never thought of using it to color my digi's will have to check it out.