Your marching ants should now be slightly smaller than your original shape: Step 8: We’re going to contract each shape by 10 pixels so enter a 10 into the dialog box and click ok. Once you have your shape selected, go up to your toolbar at the top of your screen and choose Select> Modify> Contract: A really easy way to do this is to hold down the Cmd/Ctrl key and click on the layer thumbnail for that layer in the Layer palette. (On my layout the mat is kraft, on Kelly’s layout the mat is white.) To do this we’re going to contract each shape down by the same exact amount.įirst you need to get the marching ants around your shape again. Step 7: Our next step is going to be to add space between the shapes so our mat layer will show through. Notice at this point there is no space between the shapes – they all fit together nice and tight. Here’s what your map should look like once you’ve completed all your shapes. For my original layout this meant the entire Western half of the US but for the sake of this tutorial, I’m going to just do four states. Step 6: Now you want to deselect your shape ( Cmd+D on a Mac, Ctrl+D on a PC) and repeat steps 1-5 for ALL of the states or countries on your map. Step 5: Select a color for your shape (I went with grey tones but it doesn’t really matter) and then click ok. The easiest way to do this is to hold down the Shift+F5 key which will bring up the Fill dialog box that looks like this: Step 4: Our next step is to fill the shape we’ve created. If you’ve done it correctly, you’ll end up with a shape surrounded by marching ants like this: To close off your shape, bring your arrow back to your starting point and move it around until you see a small circle. ![]() If you want to draw an exact straight line between two points, hold down the Shift key and it will give you either a 90 or 45 degree angled line. You just point and click where you want to add a corner on your shape. If you’ve never used the Polygonal Lasso Tool before, it’s really easy. Don’t worry about all the little detailed areas, we’re going for the angular look of the shapes in Kelly’s inspiration layout so we want to keep the shape simple. Step 3: Now we’re going to use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw a shape around each state using the lines on the map as a guide. You’ll find it under the normal Lasso tool – it’s the lasso with the weird angles on it. Step 2: Next, you want to grab your Polygonal Lasso Tool. Don’t worry if your map image ends up pixelated, it won’t show in your final layout. ![]() I made my map fill the majority of the page. Once you have your map, you need to drag it onto your scrapbooking canvas and resize it to the size you want your final map to be. I took a screenshot from Google Maps for my map but any map image will do as long as it has the outlines of the states/countries on it. Step 1: The first thing you need to is find a map of your desired location. As always, there are a million different ways to do the same thing in Photoshop so I’m just sharing what worked for me. Kelly has an awesome tutorial over on her blog showing how she designed her map using paper, but since my layout is 100% digital, I’ve whipped up a little tutorial to show you how you can get this same look using Photoshop.Ī little note: this tutorial was written based on Photoshop CS3 so it should work in other versions of Photoshop, but I haven’t tried it using Photoshop Elements. Since I posted this layout over in the Sweet Shoppe gallery earlier this month, I’ve gotten a some questions asking how I put this layout together. Here’s my finished layout featuring Zoe Pearn’s super adorable Sunshine & Lollipops kit: Since we have yet to live on the East Coast (it’s on our short list of places to go next since it’s the one US time zone we haven’t lived in yet, haha), I decided to simplify my layout and do a single page featuring the Western half of the United States. Now while I love to travel, I certainly don’t travel as much as she does, so I decided instead to theme my layout around all the places Adam and I have lived so far. I also loved all her little circle photos representing all the places she had visited. Specifically what inspired me about this layout was the graphic shapes she gave to the states and her bold use of patterned paper against the kraft background (no surprise there, haha). She’s a girl after my own paper-lovin’ heart with the way she rocks patterned paper! Since I have an love obsession with Pinterest, I turned to my scrapbooking pin board and selected this super awesome layout by one of my absolute favorite paper scrapbookers, Kelly Purkey. ![]() For the Sugarbabe September Portfolio challenge over at Sweet Shoppe Designs, I was tasked with creating a digital scrapbooking layout based on inspiration I had saved/favorited/pinned.
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