For this week’s Caturday Art, mom had an idea for a Valentine’s Day card and wanted to learn how to use the custom shape tool in Photoshop to do it. Photoshop Elements, which is on her sick computer and no longer works, has a cut out tool that makes what she wanted to do pretty easy. It seems, though, that Adobe thinks if you use regular Photoshop, doing the same job needs to be more complicated.
So, she hopped on Mr. Google to find a tutorial. Of course, like most things, once you know how to do it, it is quite easy.
While she was tinkering with her idea for the Valentine’s Day card, she wanted to see what she could do with the shape and came up with this.
You can skip this paragraph if you aren’t interested in the how stuff. The cat shape was created from a photograph using a clipping mask. The Fluorescent Chalk action (she thinks) was applied to the cat shape. The shape layer was duplicated and flipped. The background was created using the Texture action, Marbled Glass.
And guess what mom said I could do! The first person to comment below and guess correctly what the original photo is of will get a special surprise from me in the mail. I can’t wait to see who wins. I’ll announce the winner in my post on Tuesday.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Oh, yeah, mom’s real art project was our Valentine’s Day card. The cats were created from a piZap background.
The origin of Valentine’s Day is a little muddy but it appears it was first associated with what you humans call romantic love in the Middle Ages. Mom says that’s a long time ago. I don’t know about romantic love, but I do know I love all of my friends and followers and wish you a day full of happiness, love and friendship.
Christy Paws
We are joining the Caturday Art Blog Hop hosted by our friends Athena and Marie. Click on the badge to see more great art or to join in the hop.
We don’t unnerstand dat foto shop thing. We have a program we can’r figger out at all. And we don’t know anythin’ ’bout dat picassa eever. We see so many peeps duin’ things in these apps and we can never find those options. MOL As fur yous foto, we thought surely it was a foto of you maybe in yous harness of flower. But we also see sum colors from yous New Years foto, so we’s just not sure. Have a gweat day.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
That is fantastic art, Christy. We really love it. Don’t know if Granny will ever know how Photoshop works… Pawkisses 🙂 <3
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Those are beautiful!
Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
My human wants to know if the original photo was a Rorschach test. Don’t listen to her – she thinks she is funny, but she’s not! Nice art, and you did a great job with the cutout too!
Wow, both of your art creations are colorful and very pretty.
Beautiful!
Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Valentines Day…
Noodle and crew
Very nice. TW kinda knows how to cut out shapes in PS. I like Flynn’s Iris idea but I think it’s yarn.
Very artys and fancy! Happy Valentines Day everyone!!!
Beautiful! I think the original photo was of a vase of irises (the purple flowers)
Your artwork is always SO creative and unique!!! Not sure what the “fill” is but do I see a couple pairs of eyes???
We love your art this week. Very pretty. And your Valentine is great as well.
I loved hearing about your artistic process! As well as making a reply neat piece of art it looks like you had fun doing it!
That came out great, your Mom is very talented with the photo editing. I don’t know what the original photo was, but this is perfect just like your card. I hope you all have a love filled Valentine’s Day. XO~
Gorgeous my friend. The Valentine’s card is super.
Shoko
We love your artwork, and we love your card as well ! Purrs
This is the best and most creative art that Mom has seen since this hop started. Absolutely beautiful. Your Valentine card is great as well. You are very, very talented. We aren’t sure what you meant about guessing what the original photo was. It sure looks like a CAT to us. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
The “fill” in the cats is a photo of something.
Thanks for the clarification. We are going to guess kitchen countertop.
love both graphics. The first one reminds me of earrings I have that I think are from abalone shells? I have a few pairs and I love them, not cat-shaped but other shapes.