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Hi Everyone... kimi's Kreative homework #68 Show us your work!! Today we are going to go over making a clear watermark for your images. Not a brush but a PNG file saved to add to your images when ever you want to. =) Create a new document. Ctrl N Make it 5x7 inches with a resolution of 300. Fill your background layer with a medium red or light yellow color. You can use the paint bucket and click on your layer or use the keyboard shortcut Alt backspace. Pick a different color for you type. A font I like for this effect. Traveling Typewriter But you can use anything. Select your type tool and pick a font. Let's start with typing the copyright symbol. Hold down the Alt key and type 0169. Let go of the Alt key and magic, you have your symbol. If you find nothing happened, change to another font. Not all fonts have the copyright symbol. If you are working on a laptop; hold down the Function and the Alt key and type MJO9. (the letter O) Now continue by typing your name. Click on

OK.... let's see if I can explain what I have been doing lately. You will find as you get more and more familiar with the software that the way you process will change over and over as you go along. But this is where I am now and I am happy to share. I have posted the directions as kimi's Kreative homework #67 . If you get stuck and have questions, please go there and post them. Also please post your final image there for us to see. =) First you need to totally process your color image. I find removing blemishes extremely important. They just don't do well once you have changed to b&w. So let's assume you are happy with your color image and you are ready for the change. Make sure you have merged all of your changes into one image. I can't say this will look good on all images but I do find I like it on people. So try a person shot if you have one. Here we go.... I am going to use an image I have of Grace to follow along. Make a duplicate copy of your color i

Do you have a Goggle Reader? It is by far the best thing I have done lately. I get to follow all of the cool sites I like by going to my reader that has it's own tab when I open Firefox. So as I was going through the post I follow from today I came across this wonderful post from Dezignu s . It is called a floral brush mega set. It can also be used for commercial use. Yippee!! :) So go and check it out... click on the RSS button and set up your Goggle Reader. Add the reader as a tab when you open your browser. You won't be sorry!! And because I feel the need to post an image... here ya go. The Camera Club I am in has a theme each month. This month is was completely open to your best shot of the month. Now I was positive I was going to use one of my beach sunsets but I took this in my backyard a couple of days ago and I like it so much. This will be my image of the month. =) What do you think? Enjoy the brushes! It looks like they were supplied by Vector Lady . Leave her a than

I am just about done processing all of little Miss G's images. I fell in love with this one and had to share. Do you like the chocolate effect? If you do.... somewhere in here I actually gave out my recipe, but you will have to dig for it. =) Happy Thursday!! ~kimi~ Edit: Give me a few days and I will post my black and white process and repost the chocolate recipe. Hang tight!! :-)

I am trying to get back in my groove from vacation. We had such a great time!! One of the sunsets at the beach... Working on the brush class at JessicaSpraque.com . Lesson #4 was making a frame edge for your images. Here are the 3 frame edges I made. They are in a 5x7 format. They may be used for personal or commercial use but they may not be resold or claimed as your own. I hope you enjoy. Here is the download link, it will stay up for only 24 hours. kimi's frame edges have you become a subscriber? ~kimi~