Titles and Blending Modes - Technique Tuesday

I will admit it...I have a "thing" for anything that involves the word "blending". This would include "Blending Modes". When I am working on a page, I spend most of my time playing with blending modes. When I place something on a page, I will often think to myself...I wonder what it would look like in this blending mode and then twenty minutes later, I find myself still flipping between them.

I just created this page and I had so much fun playing with blending modes not only on the photo itself but also on the title. Who says that blending is only for pictures? I wanted to show you how different the word "ENJOY" looks using the different modes.

This is the final page and I used "hard light" on it...."hard light" happens to be my favorite blending mode...I just love how it makes the item or photo stand out more.


Here is the page using "overlay". I like the transparent look but the title just didn't pop enough against the background.



Here is the title using "multiply". I think it would be safe to say that I "multiply" comes in second place to "hard light" in my book. I use it a lot.


When I began this page, this is what it looked like without a blending mode. I liked it but I wanted the title to become part of the actual photo.

Next time you are playing with titles, don't just keep switching the alpha that you are using. Try playing around with the blending modes to see if you can achieve the look that you desire. I promise you will have fun trying them all out..

I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Summer Vacation

I hope everybody had a great week. We had a wonderful vacation in northern Minnesota. We go to a resort every year with Jeff's family and it is such a special time for us. We've been at the same resort for the last four years and we just love it so much. The week was spent swimming in the lake, boating, fishing, golfing, racing ducks, biking, swimming in the pool, playing at the park, playing on the beach, doing crafts and just enjoying each other. Each year we have a theme and Jeff's mom announced that this year's theme would be "Week to Win It" based on the tv show "Minute to Win It". Every night we concluded the day with some "interesting games". It was a hoot. My favorite was watching everybody try to move an oreo cookie from their forehead to their mouth without any hands...I couldn't post any pictures because the rest of the family would not be happy but I got some winners. Here are some pictures from our week...

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Blending and Beyond

"Blending and Beyond" is the class I will be offering this fall at Getting It Scrapped. I am excited to be working with Debbie Hodge. I will have more details in the weeks ahead but the course will include: basic blending, my "spilling over technique", extractions, layering and blending modes. The course will consist of live webinars in which people will be able to ask questions as they watch my screen as I create pages. If you are interested in joining us, registration will begin at the beginning of September and the class will be starting late September. Once again, I will have more details in the weeks ahead but I am so excited to share my passion for blending photos with you. I hope you can join us this fall for "Blending and Beyond"

I thought I would share with you page that I recently did for the Saturday Scraplift. There is so much inspiration in the gallery at Designer Digitals. I always, always enjoy the work of one of our community members Nana Z. This is a lift of this beautiful page.

All products are from Designer Digitals.

We are headed on vacation and I will not be able to blog for a week. I hope you all have fantastic week and I will look forward to catching up with you when I return.

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