Freebie Overlay & Tutorial: The Power of a Overlay
Happy Saturday Everyone!
I am off of work today so I had time to put together a tutorial on the power of just 1 or 2 overlays. I hope you find it useful and encouraging.
step 1:
Open a page and select any color, gradient or background you like. I am going to use a simple pre-set gradient. Here it is:
Step 2: Let's add a grunge overlay (this one that I used is included as a freebie today, but do have lots of fun making your own too.) Ths is what the plain overlay looks like before playing with any features:
Step 3: Let's change the layer mode now to say Difference, this is what you will now see:
Step 4: Let's change the layer mode again and choose Linear Light:
Step 5: Let's keep it at Linear Light but use the magic eraser and remove the white:
Step 6: Let's go back to the original overlay and choose Overlay this time:
Step 7: Now let's choose Darken:
Step 8: And now let's choose Screen:
Step 9: Now keep the screen feature on but change the opacity to 25%:
Step 10: Now duplicate the screen at 25% layer, rotate a 1/2 turn, change the feature on the 2nd layer to overlay and add a little dimension, like shadow, glow, etc. whatever you like:
Step 11: Now let's add a totally new overlay and change the layer feature to difference:
Step 12: Now change the layer feature to luminosity:
Step 13: And let's change the layer feature one more time to soft light:
As you can see you can go on and on, changing features, layers, bevel and emboss, patterns, textures, etc.
Most of all have fun, experiment, your styles and likes will come out of YOU!
I hope this tutorial was easy to follow and you will have fun and give it a try, the above was done in photoshop, but just look and see if your software has any of the same features, you would be surprized. I have some low cost packages and can do many unique things with them and things that I can do in illustrator and photoshop too.
Today's Freebie is the grunge overlay above to experiment with, use as it, add layers of leaves, flowers, swirls etc. to it, to make it your own.
Here is the link:
http://www.4shared.com/file/46292459/5f135679/annamaries_grunge_overlay.html
If you want some of the papers above and others, here they are too:
http://www.4shared.com/file/46294031/25f08ecd/annamaries_power_of_a_overlay.html
Happy Saturday, it's rainy here in my part of wisconsin but the birds are chirping, it's spring, so I'm off!