I'm loving the rustic looking pages throughout the gallery, I am wondering how do you create scrached looking backgrounds in DIP??

__________________
Becky
I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To.

Hi Becky,

I still have not fugured out how to create scratched backgrounds in DIP. I use scratchy brushes in PS to create mine. I hope someone can jump in and help with instructions in DIP.

__________________

Hi becky
I can sort of get close but ist really a hit and miss thing and not really something thats easy to explain step by step. I keep trying to refine the process to make it more accessible but its difficult.
Basically you can use the art paint brush at varying widths and styles, transparency and colour to get a good look ..just experiment.
the other thought I had was to create the look in PS or PSE on a black background using a white brush or vice versa then pull that into DiP, delete the black and use teh white as an overlay, colouring as necessary. make sense?
I have also used photos and played with extracting parts. The attached screen shot is part of a paper I was working on. The base is a photo but to get it distressed I used a photo I took of bark, made it black and white, removed the black and was left with a scratch thing lol , ok that makes no sense. Here is a link to the full size paper
http://www.scrapbookbytes.com/galler...cat=500&page=1

If you are interested I can upload the scratch thing for you and whoever else to have a play with. Just vary the transparency or colour or size or whatever to suit.

Attached Images

ScreenHunter_001.jpg (36.3 KB, 93 views)

__________________
see my gallery here My Gallery!
Need help with your program? Check out the new Tutorials!

Sign Up for the FREE Newsletter!

So you created the scratchy, bark look or is that from a picture? I would love it if you could upload it. Thanks a bunch for sharing.....

__________________
Becky
I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To.

I know i promised this months ago ..sorry!
Here is the link for the pieces. there is a text file inside that explains how to use them. Hope you find them useful. they are in layered png format. Its a 20mb download so be prepared if you are on dial up.

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/team/...IPtextures.zip

Sorry! it was 3am when i posted the message

If you have anymore questions just ask

__________________
see my gallery here My Gallery!
Need help with your program? Check out the new Tutorials!

Sign Up for the FREE Newsletter!

Hi Shelleyrae. I have downloaded the file and it will not open. I do not think it has an extension on it. Is it a png or jpeg or zip file? Or is just me just being a dork and not being able to figure it out!!

Can't wait to play with this. I have been trying to get this look for a long time in DIP.

Angie

__________________
~the artist previously known as 'pharmangie' ~

Angie:

You just rename the file to add the extension ".zip" and then unzip it. It will have a total of 5 files.

Penny

Wow, this is great--thanks for sharing, Shelleyrae. I, too, was wondering how one goes about doing this.

Thanks.

__________________
Correen
My Gallery