Welcome to our fifth amazing

Technique Feature of 2012:

Creative Uses of  the Clone Tool!

Preview of Finished Page

The Clone Tool in Photoshop is most popularly used for covering over un-wanted portions of an image, such as covering

by Julie Ann Shahin, Studio Tangie Social Media Team

an unwanted telephone wire by “cloning” the sky in the same image.  (See the Ultimate Guide to Cloning in Photoshop)

Today I’d like to introduce several tutorials I’ve found on the internet for digital scrapbooking that may interest you. I’ve used a few of these techniques to create my finished page you see above, and larger at the end of this post.

TUTORIALS

Creative PS & PSE Clone Tool Tutorials for Scrapbooking and Art Journaling

• Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial- Creating a Seamless Pattern at justmommies.com

• Advanced Digital Scrapbooking Techniques: Custom Brush with Clone Stamp by Pattie Knox

• Fitting Photos into Shapes (PDF) by Maddy Fernandez for digitalscrapbookpages.com

• Creating Full-Photo Backgrounds in Photoshop Using the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush at DSP

• How to Use the Clone Tool to Enhance Old Photographs by Cammy Plummer

Inspiration

Here’s how I used some of the tutorials on my page.

Image 1:

First, I started following the tutorial Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial- Creating a Seamless Pattern at justmommies.com.  I chose to open a yellow paper by Tangie, I transformed it to a smaller size square, then duplicated it six times to create the tile pattern you see in the above image.

Image 2:

I continued following the same tutorial, cloning the paper to cover the seams. I followed the tutorial through to the end. Then for added interest, I created the result into a pattern. I used the Pattern Stamp Tool set on Impressionist to add more interest to this background.

Image 3:

I added my art doll who had this great bird nest f or a hat. I decided to add birds into my background. I used the Clone Tool to do this. I was inspired by the tutorialAdvanced Digital Scrapbooking Techniques: Custom Brush with Clone Stamp by Pattie Knox

{First, select the layer that the Art Doll is on.  Using the Clone Stamp Tool, select the area of t he bird you wish to clone, hold down the Alt key, and and click with your mouse on that area. Then, create a new layer below the art doll, and above your background layer. On this new layer, position the mouse where you would like to stamp, and click the mouse, which will stamp the area of the bird that you selected to clone.}

Repeat the instructions within the { } for the other birds as many times as desired.

Image 4:

Next, I duplicated that layer and rotated it horizontally for symmetry several times.

In my final image, I did cover most of this with gesso for a collage look.

Image 5:

Finally, I wanted my word art to stand out so I decided to use the Clone Stamp Tool to duplicate the splattergraffiti strokes behind it. This was a matter of trial and error until I got just the look I wanted.

Image 6:

This image shows my result after I finished cloning the splattergraffiti. With a solid color behind it, the word art is easier to read.

Technique Focus: Creative Cloning by Julie Ann Shahin

Journaling: Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish that they are after. – Henry David Thoreau

Credits: all by Tangie unless noted

Word Art: Spark-Greatest Curiosity
Graffiti: Studio Mix 19 Glorious Vision Side B
Counter: Studio Box Workshop No. 3
Bingo,Scallop doodle: Studio Box Workshop No. 4
Black splat: AJC12 Parcel 07,
Borders: AJC12 Parcel 11, Wishing Waiting
Gesso: AJC12 Parcel 14
Fish: Red All Over ATC with SherrieJD
Arms: Seaside Art Dolls
Grass: Layla in La La Land with Rebecca McMeen
Stitching: AJC12 Parcel 11
Art Doll: She Journals
Fonts: Tangie AJFDuchess, Tangie AJFelephant, Tangie AJFdowntherabbithole, Tangie AJFchesire, Tangie AJFtweedledee, Tanige AJFRockingHorseFly, Tangie AJFtweedledeeALT, Tangie AJFbill

Now it’s your turn! Take a try at using the Clone Tool creatively.

Upload your page to the gallery and link the url to the comments on this post!!!

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Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com

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Welcome to our fourth exciting 

Technique Feature of 2012

CURVES!

(Note: This post is image-heavy, so  please be patient in case it takes a while to load. Thanks bunches!!!)

Let’s face it, curves and waves make for excitement and flow in a layout! Why wouldn’t you want to try them out? There are a number of ways to incorporate curves into your pages.

• Use pre-made shapes
• Use the pen tool in Photoshop
• Have text follow a curve on a path
• Warp your text in Photoshop Elements to make it wavy
• Use curved layout, paper, and shape templates
• Draw curves in Artrage (software)
• Make curved borders
• Use swirls and spirals

Let’s see inspiration from the Studio Tangie Creative Team, and then I also have found more inspiration from the Scrapbookgraphics Gallery. Plus, as a bonus, there are links to online tutorials for creating curves!

Inspiration for Technique: Curves – Studio Tangie Creative Team

Julie Ann

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” – Joseph Joubert

I chose this quotation because the theme of our “My Vision for 2012″ prompts in March is creativity, and this quote spoke to me on that subject. I can’t imagine going a week, or even a few days without creating something. My husband is a musician, and he works on his music every day as well.

Technique: I used a curved template, as well as a curved text path in Photoshop Elements. As a finishing touch, I added a border with curves in it, and stars with swirls.

Credits: all by Tangie Baxter unless noted otherwise

Key: Thoughts of Thee
Button: Gee That’s Swell, Mixed Media Cobalt
Splatter: Stacy Jane, Mixed Media Lime
Stars: DODDOS, Collage Fodder Stars, TCOI C16
Metal: TCOI C7
Tape: Wonderland, Mixed Media Lime
Circles: AJC12 Parcel 7
Butterfly: Mixed Media Buttercup
Eye: Unconventional Wisdom
Gear: Steampunk Lab
Eyepiece: Steampunk Band
Papers: QQuickety Split Vol. 5,Quickety Split Vol. 7, Painted Grunge, Art Stomp with Roben-Marie Smith, Asian Abundance with Amanda Sexton
Border: Quickety Split Borders 1

Other – Body: Divas by Tumblefish Studios, Get Funky by Crowabout StudioB; Textpath: Scrapsimple TypePath Curve 2101 by Valerie Randall

Carolyn aka cfalbro

Technique: I simply used a bunch of curved borders and circles.

Credits: all by Tangie Baxter
Papers and Elements from
As If By Magic
AJC 2011 Apprentice Art Box Parcel 48
Quickity Split Snippets 1
Quickity Split Borders 3

Inspiration for Technique: Curves – Scrapbookgraphics Gallery

Please click on the image to give the artist love in the gallery!

Karen Bowers – Technique: love the curve of the repeated photo where she used a rainbow gradient overlay with the style set to “radial”

I love this photo of me little, grinning my head off because I’m on my bike and my dad is watching me. Since my AJC 2012 trick is to make brushes out of favorite things, I turned little me into a brush. I put a rainbow gradient overlay with the style set to “radial”. I put a soft inner glow in the large image of me. I like how “little risk taker” can be read two ways.

Credits:
AJC 2012 Parcel 3 (rub ons) by Tangie Baxter
Phuong Ton’s August (paper)
Fonts: Jellyka’s Endless Voyage and Suzanne Walker’s Pollyanna

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php57 – Technique: love the swirls of opulent feathers on this whimsical page

Credits: Tangie AJC12 Parcel 8; RMcMeen Elle kit

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PatsFanGran - Technique: the curved text path is just utter perfection

Wordography #9 Serendipity

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Zuzu – Technique: love the curved text path, the text around the sun, and the fun curved border too!

Week #10 – The song in my head

SInce we’ve had a mild winter here in upstate NY, I’ve been humming this song a lot! Thanks to Tangie for the Type on a Path tutorial! (in the AJC Forum)

Credits:
Tangie – AJC 11 Parcel 42; Bountiful; Dot, Dot, Dot; Quote Borders; AJC 12 Vintage stamps; and Door Opens

Studio Miki – Luna
Tumblefish Studio – Freestyle
Wish Bliss Studio – Some Kind of Wonderful and Mermaids (both retired).

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chinaca – Technique: swirls, butterflies and text on a curve! love it!

Itinerary 10 – Dearth

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Nevermore – Technique: what cool curved waves! also she posted a video of the curved journaling in the Art Journal Caravan 2012 forum for us…so awesome!

Week 10: A Maid that Sleeps in Love

Went to town on recolouring on this one. Example, the boat was deconstructed, overlaid with Flergs’ papers which were all hue adjusted. Waves were recoloured with Match colour readjustment and then merged with a Doris Castle paper. And so on. I have posted a video in showing how I did the hand journalling of the lyrics (ArtRage 102) if anyone has any interest.

Credits:
Background: CreateWings “Create”.
Border: Beth Rimmer “Border Insanity”.
Journal: Rosey Posey “Natural Abandon”.
Boat: Tangie Baxter “Keep Moving Forward” with various Flerg papers.
Waves: Ruth Davis “Sea Breeze” and “Wave” with recolouring and a Doris Castle “Sentimental Sophisticates” paper blended in.

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rabbit – Technique: what’s not to love? curved photo! curved element of dividing cells swirling through the page, curved title, and curved subtitle!

Week 9: Serendipity

Credits:

Photo: self
Sun: combination of two from Tangie: Musical Theatre
Dividing cells: It’s All Relative kit by Finecrafted Design @ Deviantscrap
Ovum & DNA from the web
Borders: Jolie Papier by Tumblefish Studio @ Deviantscrap
Backgrounds: own
Fonts: Starburst & Lucida Handwriting

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suslyn – Technique: I love the curves in the body on the silhouette in this ATC , and also the waves on the bottom border!

On Hope Street

From the Frameworthy Gallery: I was inspired by her Encaustics gallery. While she seems to use a lot of squares, with some curves, I’ve deviated from that considerably using mostly curves and a few squares.

We’re moving in July. We both have some trepidation at the idea, for different reasons. So here’s for hope.

Thx for the challenge.

Credits: Papers and elements from The Body Electric and Tell Your Story (Circle of Life Scraps) and The Livin’ is Easy collab bySugar Moon and Circle of Life Scraps.

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RucolaDesigns – Technique: very cool curvy arrow with curved text on it, and various  curved lines…very fun!

I tried to play with the fonts and curves.

Credits: Paula Kesselring – Spring Garden
Font: Mad Hatter by Tangie Baxter – AJC Parcel 04
Fonts: Jump Start, Myriad Pro, Stamp Act

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tam65 – Technique: this is a dreamy text path….talk about curvy!!! love!

Aplomb

The journaling says….i believe in dreams. Without dreams I would be lost. I guess that is because I am a planner and person who stores their dreams just waiting for the right moment to transpire so it can become a reality. I know too that dreams are fluid things and that is why this year I am tying to stop and smell the roses.

Credits

paper from Moonlight Hallow by Tangie
gessolace from AJC 12 parcel 4 by Tangie
paint from AJC11 parcel 1 by Tangie
swirls, eye, stitches and paint swirl from Art Journaling kit 2 by Holliwood Studios
hearts from AJC 12 parcel 6 by Tangie
sparkles from Dream Spilling by Tangie
water blooms by Rosey Posey
text path by Sahlin Studio

Related Tutorials: Technique – Curves

• Tutorial: Cutting Curves* in Paint Shop Pro 8.1by Valeri Brumfield

• Curving Text using the Pen Tool in Photoshop at Real Scrappy

• Creating Curves with the Pen Tool at Photoshop Tips by Khurrum

• TECHNIQUE: Fake a Text Path (to follow a curved border) in PhotoShopBy Shelleyrae Cusbert

• Computer Tricks: Type on a Curve in Photoshop Elements (with free text paths download) by Jessica Sprague

• How to Type Text on A Path in Photoshop Elements (Video Tutorial)

• How to Create Curved Borders in Photoshop Elements (Video Tutorial)

• Making Curves Using Premade Shapes by Angie Briggs

• Creating Custom Shapes with Photoshop at Photoshopessentials.com (adapt this tutorial to make curves and waves)

Join the conversation! Leave a comment below and tell us what you think about this post.

Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com

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