Top 20 Black Styles at Kristine’s Place

Top 20 Black Styles at Digiscrap Warehouse

Top 20 Black Styles at DigitalScrapDesigns

The Top 20 Black Styles counted down by yours truely! When my friend Kristine ( Yep! Owner of Kristine’s Place) said, " Hey how about making some black styles?"  She got me thinking. I looked through my style sets with new eyes. I had a few black styles I had made for myself but for the most part each time I wanted a tinted black solid color I had to digitally mix it up. If I was on the ball I save it as a swatch. Most often I didn’t save and I had to do it over and over. Not hard, but wouldn’t it be great to have a few to quickly click on right in my Styles Palette? So I made a dozen tinted black solid styles and used them for a few weeks to see how helpful they really were. Very! It was a snap to click a black style and get a tinted black fill, edge, line, whatever! Sure one can call up on Hex Black #000000 anytime that’s simple without a style, but clicking around in the color picker for a bit of red/black or purple black…well that’s just tedious and then one has to remember to save as a swatch. Something I often forget to do even after I have color picked my heart out and got the right color I get busy playing with it and forget to make a swatch.

So I found the ready made Tinted Black Solids a real timesaver.

Once I narrowed  the black solids down to the best ones Blackberry, Black Coffee, Blackboard, Black Smoke, BlackWalnut, Black Water, The ones I relied on again and again. I turned my attention some glossy styles and highlighted styles that look their best on black. I thought that would be pretty easy, but I found it to be quite a challenge since black can rob depth from a highlight or gloss. Re-working them again and again really paid off. I find myself using each of these quite a bit. BlackGloss, BlackMatte, BlackFlat, BlackIce.

With the Top 10 Solids all set, it was time to play with patterns. I used my thinker box to come up with some transparent patterns for everyday use. BlackLace, BlackStripes, BlackStripedFur, BlackStars, BlackChecks,  Each one is a happy surprise when used OVER a color layer. See demo. Really loved the versatility of these! Try the Black Lace over Red…VAVOOM!  Last in the show are the solid patterns. I focused on what entered my mind as black, Black Jeans, Fossils, Granite, Snake Skin, Tonal Black Checks, and Obsidian Stone. In the last week, alone, these solid patterns have been the basis of papers, a few frames and I printed out a photomat for a graduation certificate using the Granite Style. Piece of cake! So easy!!

To sum it up, Top 20 Black Styles are seamless, using large PNG images for high quality and low repeats. I just couldn’t narrow it down to 20 so there are 21 unique ones. 23 total. The 2 Stripe styles are counted as one, same with the Snake Skin style. Its just so much easier to use these with one horizontal and one vertical stripe. Saves a bunch of flipping. Who wants that when you Styling? HOOT!

Original Styles created by Jodiann Cates using Photoshop CS3. Using her own photos and Photoshop made PNGs as well as CU photos and PNGs of other artists, CU Custom Shapes of other artists.

PS7, PSCS, PSCS2, PSCS3, PSCS4 and PSE compatible.
Drop Shadow Free.
Quality Checked.
This purchase contains:
23 Top Quality Black Styles; Seamless and adjustable in .ASL format 300 ppi.

1 Text Document with Unpacking and Installing Instructions.
CU4CU  CU  PU  S4H  S4O Commercial License Included.
You may use these PS Styles to create your own products to sell. With the
exception of using them to build Styles Sets or Patterns Sets for resale

Top 20 Black Styles at Kristine’s Place

Top 20 Black Styles at Digiscrap Warehouse

Top 20 Black Styles at DigitalScrapDesigns

Check out this limited time freebie offer by Kristine of Kristine’s Place!

Freebie Alert!

Thanks ‘Stine!

Quick and Easy Floating Check Paper Tutorial with Top 20 Black Styles

This is so easy!

To Buy Styles…

Top 20 Black Styles at Kristine’s Place

Top 20 Black Styles at Digiscrap Warehouse

Top 20 Black Styles at DigitalScrapDesigns

1. Open a transparent image. I choose 300×300 image at 300ppi

2. Apply Style: Jodiann’sTop20BlackChecks17

3. Duplicate Layer. Apply Style: Jodiann’sTop20BlackChecks16

4. Add New Layer.  Keyboard Shortcuts: PC> Shift+Control+N  Mac> Shift+Command+N

5. Move Black Checks 16 Layer to Top.

6. Merge Down.

7.  Again. Apply Style: Jodiann’sTop20BlackChecks17.

No freaking out, it will look like nothing happened, roll with it, Sweetie!

8. Double Click Ctrl+Shift+N Layer. Apply DropShadow.

9. All Done! 

Here is a close up…

You can chose to recolor one or both of these layers.

10. Save as a  PSD layered image ( .PSD) for easy changes and recoloring.

11. Then Save as a JPG, reducing the Quality to 8 ( no less). Quality barely suffers, yet paper is now more compact for sharing. ( Thanks Kimmie!)

By playing with the opacity settings, adding an edge then blurring it for a softer look this is what I came up with.

Sinclair the un-affected cat gives us all much needed advice! WHOOT!

Happy Weekend Precious People!

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The Official Grand Opening Sale at Kristine’s Place Starts Today!! WHOO HOO!!

Sale Runs Through April 30th, enter code: HootinApril50 to enjoy  50% off EVERYTHING!! Adding new items throughout the month! Yippee!!

What’s Everything you ask? LOL! Here is a peek…

All previews link to store

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