New Year's Day Freebie

Ok, so on New Year's Day I wanted to give you a freebie you could use all year 'round. What I have to offer today is PDP 2008 Brushes.

You can use these brushes on just about anything you scrap...you can put 2008 in a discrete corner of your layout so in years to come you will remember when you scrapped it.

Or you can use them as I did in the two examples below: on pictures (instead of those ugly date stamps the camera usues.)

And the beauty of using the brushes is that you can make them any color you want so they can blend in with your work or stand out completely. The examples in my preview show how the different colors look. There are 7 styles of brushes in this set. They can be resized as well as re-colored.

The only problem here is that these particular brushes are for Photoshop only (because I used some styles in Photoshop that aren't supported in Paint Shop Pro.)

However, you can be creative and make your own brushes in either PSD or PSP and use them for the same purposes. Making brushes is probably the easiest thing you can do in either program! If you can't follow the program's directions from the Help Menu (they usually don't include photo examples) then look on the web for some tutorials for brush making.

Remember (from another of my posts) that this is a new year...time to broaden your horizons! So go ahead and try something new! It won't bite you! LOL

The first picture has the 2008 stamped on the lower left corner and it is just an outline so that it doesn't take away from the beauty of the picture.

The other example shows the brush in a color I pulled from the photo. I wanted it to be a little more noticable.

Back for a second on making your own brushes for this purpose: maybe you could make a brush that says "scrapped with love by Nana" or something like that. Or each photo in your folder could have the trip date and place stamped on it (like we used to write on the backs of photos when we still had to print all of them out.)

And of course you can use the brushes as embellishments for scrapping your New Year's Eve photos. You can make background papers or tags or whatever you can think of.

I hope you enjoy being creative with this freebie!