Day 2 led me off in a lot of different directions. I needed to rotate the mask to fit my photo – I tried using it in the original position, but I didn’t care for the result. So I started over, which meant I got to practice the mask creation twice 🙂 and I did it without consulting yesterday’s instructions both times! (Five more times, and I’ll consider it truly learned!)
I duplicated one of the brush layers and played around with rotating them to keep my photo clear. I deleted the circle brush layer as well.
Then it was time to try my hand at creating the plaid using colors from the photo. For some reason, the lines I pasted into the 200 X 10 image wouldn’t stay straight, so I re-watched the lesson, and noticed that Carole’s line size was longer than the size of the image. I made that change, and it did help a lot.
I didn’t want the whole page to be plaid, so I created the circle, and then had to figure out how to mask the plaid behind the photo so it didn’t show through. More practice! I think I’d like to add some texture to the background paper. The solid color flood-fill doesn’t please me, but that’s a project for another day.
