Anna Aspnes Designs, providing the most unique digital artistry resources to elevate your photos and celebrate your life.

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Inspiration from Graphic Design Posters
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Introduction

• Shapes help create a path for the eye to follow
  as it scans the poster.
• Shapes can also give emphasis to the most
  important information in the poster.
• You can put a large rectangle behind the title or
  use the triangle of a mountain to point the eye
  upwards toward the headline.
• Shapes can also alter the mood of a design.
  Softer shapes with curves, circles and organic
  lines can create a more fluid and relaxed mood.
• Triangles, squares and other geometric shapes
  with strong, sharp edges can create an entirely
  different mood.

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1. Choose Inspiration

• SELECT A POSTER DESIGN AS YOUR SOURCE OF
  INSPIRATION.
• Choose a poster with a design that appeals to
  you.
• I chose this one by Zeka_Design.

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2.Establish Foundation

• CREATE A SOLID COLOR BACKGROUND AND ADD 2
  RECTANGLE SHAPES.
• Open a new 12 x 12 document in Photoshop.
• Create a New Layer above your background layer.
• With the new layer selected, select
  the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M).
• Draw the first rectangle.
• Fill this layer using the Paint Bucket Tool (G).
• Any color will do at this point Later, when you
  are fine tuning your design, you can change the
  color or clip something, like a paper or
  transfer, to the shape.
• Create another new layer and repeat these steps
  for the second rectangle.

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3.Add Circles

• USE THE ELLIPTICAL MARQUEE TOOL TO CREATE 2
  CIRCLE SHAPES.
• Repeat the steps above this time adding 2 circle
  layers to the layout design.
• Note. Hold down the Shift key while using
  the Elliptical Marquee Tool will constrain the
  proportions of the shape so that it is a circle.

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4.Add Small Dots

• CREATE MULTIPLE SMALL DOTS AND SPACE EVENLY.
• Create another New Layer.
• Use a small round brush with the Paint Brush
  Tool.
• Stamp a small circle on this New Layer.
• Duplicate this layer (CTRL J) several times and
  arrange the dots in a row.
• Select all the dot layers and, with the Move
  Tool (V) selected, click on the Distribute
  Horizontally icon to evenly space the dot images.

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5. Add Photos

• USE THE FOUNDATION TO GUIDE PLACEMENT OF YOUR
  PHOTOS AND ELEMENTS.
• Add your photo(s) and elements using the shapes
  in your foundation to guide your design.
• Rather than use one large image, like the
  original poster, I chose to use 3 photos.
• Experiment with applying different Blending
  Modes to the shape layers to create interesting
  color and shape interactions.

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Note

• One of the rectangles was filled with dark blue
  and set the Blending Mode to Multiply.
• The other rectangle has a letter and a game card
  clipped to it.
• The Blending Mode on this rectangle is Hard
  Light.
• Both circle layers are set to Multiply.
• The dot layer has a Normal Blending Mode

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About Us
Anna Aspnes Designs, providing the most unique
digital artistry resources to elevate your photos
and celebrate your life. I design digital
products and classes so that you can tell stories
by blending YOUR photos with MY digital artistry.
With over 17 years of experience in visual
storytelling, aA DigitalART and education provide
you with everything you need to create effortless
and dynamic digital scrapbooking and photo
artistry pages, regardless of whether you are
motivated by photos from past generations or
present day. Every week, NEW DigitalART products
are released into the Anna Aspnes Designs store
at Oscraps, to include Templates (Individual and
Collections for albums and photo book
making), ArtPlay Palettes (Digital Artistry and
Scrapbooking Kits), Photoshop BrushSets, Embelli
shments, Transfers, Overlays and MORE. The
DigitalART elements in each of these collections
are carefully crafted to coordinate, and
thoughtfully curated for ease of use, so you can
create stunning artistry without feeling
overwhelmed.
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