Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
Lesson 4 from: Layering in Adobe Photoshop for Digital ScrapbookersTraci Reed
Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
Lesson 4 from: Layering in Adobe Photoshop for Digital ScrapbookersTraci Reed
Lesson Info
4. Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
Lessons
Intro to Scrapbook Layering
04:15 2Paper: Your Layout Foundation
11:35 3Building Paper Strips & Blocks
12:04 4Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
05:24 5How to Line Up Repeating Shapes
04:10 6Custom Shapes with Polygon Tool
09:27 7Make Your Own Pennant & Banners
10:47 8How to Add Interest with Your Photos
05:10Creating the Perfect Cluster
11:52 10Embellishments with the Visual Triangle
12:57 11How to Use the Visual Triangle with Pictures
03:06 12The Rule of Three
02:18 13Using the Power of White Space
04:43 14Using the Rule of Thirds
08:42 15Learn the Importance of Shadowing
10:30 16What is the Brush Tool?
05:16 17Using Brushes in a Layout
06:04 18Using Paint in a Layout
03:23 19Understanding Blend Modes
07:21 20Creating Mixed Media Mash Ups
05:19 21Using Layer Masks
02:41 22How to Blend Photos
03:16 23How to Blend Papers
02:17 24How to Blend Text
01:13 25Lighting Effects: Learning Radial Gradient
05:17 26Lighting Effects: Learning Inner Shadows
01:51 27Dodging & Burning Washi Tape
07:58 28Creating Custom Journaling with Text Tool
05:41 29Journaling with the Pen Tool
06:46 30Incorporating Journaling in the Design
04:29 31Making Stamps from Fonts
06:49 32Different Ways to Cluster with Alphabets
07:54 33Adding Embellishments to Titles
04:24 34Drawing Banners to Title Cluster
03:20 35Creating a Stitch Brush
12:21 36Creating Other Types of Stitching
08:03Lesson Info
Create Chevrons with the Shape Tool
So who here is still into chevron's who likes him still they've been around awhile I still like him I use them all the time but who knows how to make them really easily no okay this is what the magic of shape tools now there's a few different ways to make them but I'm going to show you the easiest way first actually let's open this so with your grade on because it's easier you want to use your rectangle tool again in a draw um it depends on how long you want your papers are your chevron to be I don't want mine to be that long so let's make it a little bit shorter and then really simply if we were to rotate this tool so that it starts going diagonally her rotate the shape so that starts going to actually then when you had another one let's flip it around negative one hundred on the wit so it flips if you were to move these two together then you have this weird, awkward space in between so instead of doing that we're going to use our direct election tool and you click and drag just to se...
lect these two points on the end and then you move just those two points up if you hold shift will go up in a straight line and then it will always tell you this he can hit don't show again because it doesn't matter and then you duplicate this layer and just like on the shadowing class you dragged the center point to the edge and then you can come up here to negative one hundred to flip it and you have a perfect chevron now you can replicate it down the line by holding down command option and shift until you have as many zigzags as you want. Just make sure that you select them all so you don't lose in these eggs eggs you can make them smaller if you squish them vertically, you could make some sharper if you squish them this way, you could make them even sharper. You can edit your chevron's in so many different ways now. The problem is is that if you drag them this way they get taller and if you drag them this way they get whiter but they never get fatter. So if you want a fat chevron after you've drawn a really thin one, then when you have two dio is coming here and holding down shift. You want us like that all the points on one edge of your chevron's so it's like all of these bottom points and then once you have them all selected, you can click on any one of them and hold down shift while you drag and it will make the entire chevron beggar squish squash yeah, I like it danny is saying she thinks chevron's are very, very cute and cannick abroad says I'm still very fond of chevron's they go so well with boy layouts, she says with three sons I have a lot of those that I miss you means a lot of boys a little chef e when you have three three's a lot crazy but it feels like three hundred when you have more than one I think so we have this chevron now and it's actually a bunch of different shapes still so what we want to do is we want to merge them all together because if we were to keep them separate they would when we went to clip papers onto them it would just clipped a one of a little chevron pieces so I like to, um march him altogether but you can see if you go to your direct selection tool they still have the lines between cause they're still separate shapes so you have to make sure that you click and drag to select all of these points again and the key with things like chevron's and stripes on your layout is that it's super fun to have some variation in the size so I like to have a big old thick one and a little tiny skinny one in between and then I probably make this bottom one somewhere in between the two sides is just tio finish off job hazard just to make it somewhere between so that there's a good variation in the size, and then you can come in and you can clip your papers to all of the chevron's. Now. This obviously varies from the layout that I showed originally. It's, a little bit different. But I really wanted to show how all of these different tools work and how really easily you can use shaped tools to really add some variety or the layup to yearly out. You don't have to rely on things that are included in the kit. You, khun totally have at it, and create your own style with your layouts.
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Ratings and Reviews
Corrina
I have recently discovered digital scrapbooking and have been using a great scrapbooking software that I downloaded on-line. There are limitations with the software that prompted me to look deeper for ideas. Traci's course was fantastic! I learned so much from her not only in scrapbooking layouts and using different elements in a page but my level of understanding of photoshop has improved dramatically. The presentation was easy to follow and broken into perfect chunks to go back and review the techniques. Thank you so much Traci for presenting this awesome course. I will look for more of your courses. Your scrapbooking is beautiful and inspiring!
ChristyWhitehead
I'm a photographer. I do a lot of graphic design for my business. I feel like I'm fairly knowledgeable. I saw this class being shown for free on Creative Live one day and it wasn't my first choice to watch, but was the best out of the list... I was wrong. This is a great class. I didn't expect to learn that much and I've been learning a lot! Great info!
Lianne Kruger
Not only did she talk about how to do things in Photoshop [the computer steps] but she also explained art and design tips: what looks good and what doesn't on a page. That was a very nice touch.