I’m a bit obsessed with Cassel’s Slashes and Colors template at the moment. For this, I layered the “slashed” pic over an unedited copy of the pic. On the slashed layer, I added a bevel and a drop shadow. For the background, I used a brick texture on a solid color layer. Then I tried something I don’t think I’ve done before. For the frame, I opened a new raster layer, used the selection tool to create a long rectangular shape, added a cutout, then repeated for the various edges. Since the cutouts are transparent, I erased the ends of a couple of them where they were overlapping so it would look like the vertical ones were laying on top of the horizontal ones. Does that make sense? I made use of the Setting Fires font Carol posted on the blog for this month’s Book theme.
Any constructive criticism is always welcome. I sometimes go the long way around to get a desired effect. 🙂
~ Michele
