safety pin shadow

Rita Blue Flower Art — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:36:21 +0000

Picture this scenario… You’re making a layout, you want to add a safety pin that looks like it’s pinned to the paper or fabric that you’re using. So you cut out a section of the pin and then, to make it look real, you start to paint or burn and dodge some shadows so that the fabric looks raised. Half an hour later, your head is spinning from the number of times you’ve hit the undo keys and it’s nowhere near finished or looking like a pin through fabric.

I got sick of it and today I posted a message on the DST board that I was looking for a png file of the shadow. Wendyzine, kindly provided me with some tips on how to do it in photoshop using the emboss mode. From the tips Wendy gave me, I made the necessary png files to make the pin look like this:

I’ve included 4 files in the download – a shadow file and pinholes file for a lightly curved pin and a shadow file and pinholes file for a straight pin. There is also a text file with some simple instructions. The pin and paper are not included.

The shadows and pinholes for the safety pin look like this:

The TOU is simple, use it however you like, no credits required and use commercially if you want to. The only thing that I ask is that it’s not used for anything illegal.

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october 2008 freebie desktop calendar

Rita Blue Flower Art — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:54:42 +0000

Here is a desktop calendar for October 2008.

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