Okay, one of my new year goals is taking more pictures. As I was working one of my many different jobs, I was looking out of the window and saw this sign. Ding, ding the idea to take an image of this sign once a week would be neat. Tracking the cost of fuel throughout 2014 would be interesting and make for a fun conversation with my grand-daughter in approximately 16 years!
This was taken in Lawrence, KS. For those of you viewing this post, what area are you from and what is the cost?
I went to one of my personal favorite stores- Office Depot. Nerdy right? Well that’s me! I can spend hours in there just looking and dreaming. On this one particular trip I was looking for a simple calendar. One that I could just place one page of one month into my purse. I like making notes on my sheet than later in the evening transfer notes to my tablet. Strange I know, but it works for me. After much wandering thru Office Depot discovering calendars are not cheap, I went home and made my own simple calendar.
Have you ever wanted to create your own Photoshop brush? I have many shapes that I like, but find it much easier to use the brush tool. I have converted some of my favorite shapes and even designed a few originals of my own. If you use particular word groupings, these can be made into a brush. Do you have a logo? It can be made into a brush. I have put together a tutorial for making these brushes.
Click File – New
Name your brush, set size 3X3 inch @ 150 dpi with a transparent background- Click ok.
Be sure your font/design color is black.
Create a new layer.
Create your design using as many new layers as necessary.
Merge all layers. Do NOT flatten the image!
Choose edit – define brush preset.
Name your new logo/design brush – click ok.
Click on the paintbrush tool on the left of screen.
Look in your brush pallete at the very bottom. You will see your new brush in the last position.
Be sure to save your brush!
Click to download a pdf version of the Photoshop Creating a Brush Tutorial.
