How to Line Up Repeating Shapes
Lesson 5 from: Layering in Adobe Photoshop for Digital ScrapbookersTraci Reed
How to Line Up Repeating Shapes
Lesson 5 from: Layering in Adobe Photoshop for Digital ScrapbookersTraci Reed
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
How to Line Up Repeating Shapes
So let's talk about all of these repeating shapes how can we easily get these repeating shapes lined up because circles are going to be a little bit harder on the grid they don't have hard edges it works still but there's a better way in a fun way tio use different shapes besides besides squares and make sure that they're all lined up easily and perfectly every time so we have all these circles on this layout open it up and what I start off by doing is drawing one circle and I put it anywhere it doesn't have to be where I'm going toe end up with it I'm going to draw this to a one inch circle this is why I like to double click because it's so hard to get a perfectly one inch circle but one inch circle area by drawing nearly impossible for me so now we have this one in circle and I want eventually to have nine circles all together so I'm going to duplicate it three times first are twice for so that there's three altogether and I'm gonna drag one over here and then I'm going to select all...
three circles and I'm going to come up here tio the distribute he appear does anybody ever use these distributes yes they are amazing so if you distribute horizontal centers it will space them perfectly evenly from end end even if you have let's say you have but so you have seven of them or however many I just made, no matter how many you have as long as you select a mall it will distribute them all evenly pretty cool. So do you get that toba this is the tools settles his options options I like to have all of my tool bars on I lost my tools back ok, so let's go back to three so we can keep building what we're building so I'm gonna space them out totally arbitrarily if I decide down the line that they are let's say I decided to do it that far another to space out for me. All I have to do is go back and moving a little bit closer and repeat the process until I'm happy with the distance between them and now I have a set of three circles and so it's to finish um this grid style of circles I'm going to actually duplicate this whole set of circles together, so we're going to hold down command and option or halt and move him up now with the smart guys you can see if you have your smart guys on it'll tell you exactly how far away you put the new layer so you can have the smart guides on and do that and then replicated again and that was point three so we have point three it automatically snap to it or, if you don't enjoy the smart guys, sometimes it can be distracting for people. You can also just haphazardly draw them let's, say, we have him up here and then click like this, and you can also distribute vertical centers, so you could just go through and distribute the center's vertically as well. And now we really quickly have all nine circles, perfectly spaced that can go in this one. They can go right here, where they are on this layout, and I could start clipping papers. To them. The distribute vertical centers and horizontal centers is my favorite thing. I use it to design all the time and used it to scrap book all the time. Yes, any questions so far is that a new tool for you?
Class Materials
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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.