August Progressive Challenge

[stmac88]

And my Step2.

[britnkaysmemaw2]

Step 2:

[criostirado]

Ok this is going to sound totally lame ...but how to you cut wavey strips? I have pse 9....anyone have a good tut they can recommend?

[MunchkinsMom]

Step two done and it still seems too easy. I'm getting more worried here.

[Bright Eyes]

Here is my step 2



Cut strips from Precious Orchid by Stefairy; background from Amethyst by Created by Jill

[Bright Eyes]

Originally Posted by criostirado

Ok this is going to sound totally lame ...but how to you cut wavey strips? I have pse 9....anyone have a good tut they can recommend?

I have PSE 10. I followed Scrapinsass' directions:

"To cut the waves... use your polygnol lasso tool to make a wavy line across the paper going off the edge at the far side. Then bring it down an inch or so and bring it back in a wavy line to off the page on the other side; bring it up again to met the start of your first line. That should select an area with a dotted line around it. Then choose *Inverse* (In Photoshop that's Ctrl+Sht+I .. not sure what it is in Elements.. Jump in with that info Element users! Please! and Thanks! ) and delete and that will get rid of everything except your wave. "

You don't actually have to do the 'inverse'.... just have another blank layer opened and click on the area surrounded by the blinking dotted lines and drag it onto the new open blank layer. I then used my eraser tool to smooth out some of my edges. If you want a similar wave, you can put it on another blank layer then place paper over it and do the clipping mask. Easy...

In my page above - the smaller curved piece was one that I used the eraser on to smooth it out. But I left the slightly rougher edges on the bottom two layers. I did a horizonal flip for the middle layer so those 2 layers were slightly different.

[PattyB]

Here's mine with step 2

[saskias]

Here is my step 2:

[criostirado]

Originally Posted by britnkaysmemaw2

Step 2:

Ok how did you get your waves so smooth and nice?? mine are all jagged like jack o lantern teeth! there has to be a better way!

[PattyB]

Christina, I used the shape in PSE that looks like three waves. I simplified the layer, then used the marquee tool to select them one at a time and layer via cut. Then I enlarged the shapes to go all the way across, and then clipped a paper to each of them. Maybe this will help.