I Heart Diamonds

 

My Newest Bachelorette Party Invitation, is for sale on Etsy! 

The Invitation features a cute Chevron Background (or plain if you like) and the theme I <3 Diamonds. Can be found here.  I figured that this would be a great theme for a lot of bachelorette parties because I have seen so many accessories that feature diamonds.  Just a few of the many things that I found included Gift Bags & White Boxes that you could put a ring pop in! Everywhere I looked I saw cute fake diamond rings, necklaces, etc. that could be used for this theme! Want a customized card, contact me and I will make it happen.

Tutorial - Editing Photos in Photoshop

Hello Everyone, Today I am going to show you how to take a photo and edit it in Photoshop to reach the desired effect. 

If you photo is too dark or too lite you can adjust that in Photoshop by going to Image -> Adjustment -> Brightness/Contrast

To make an color image, black and white, simply go to Image -> Adjustments -> Black & White.  This will bring up a menu that will allow you to adjust the black & white settings according to your specific photo.  Go ahead and adjust the photo to your liking and press ok.  You will now have a black and white photo!

As you can probably see at this point, the Image -> Adjustments drop down has a lot of different options to optimize the quality of your photos.  Lets now move our focus to another interesting section, Effects!

One of my favorite Special Effects is the Cutout effect.  To do this simply go to Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout. This will bring up a large menu with a ton of options that you can play around with.  Move the levels around until you reach your desired view.  

For this particular image, I selected Number of Levels - 8, Edge Simplicity - 1,  Edge Fidelity - 1  

Now go ahead and play around with some of the other features under that same menu.  You can get to it by clicking on Filter -> Artistic -> select any option. Notice that you now have more options than just what was featured under the Artistic Menu.  Play around with the Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch, Stylize, and Texture menus as well. 

(1st Image) Artistic -> Poster Edges       

(2nd Image) Brush Strokes -> Crosshatch

 

                                       

  

In Love With Teal, Stuff For The Home

OK, so I know this is a Graphic Design blog. But I have lots of other interests besides Graphic Design, and one of those interests, is shopping. Specify, shopping for my home. Here are four very very beautiful teal items for the home that I thought I would share with you. 




Pillow from Nena Von
Chair from O.co
Vase from Anthropologie
Rug from Rugs USA

My First Attempt at Blogging

Why Hello,

I am obviously brand new to the blogging world but I plan to be very active with it.  My name is Julie and I am a graphic designer.  Currently, I work full time creating websites, newsletters, flyers, logos, and working with social media for my employer.   I am also currently selling my graphic design work on etsy and I welcome you to take a look at it here: http://www.julesgraphicdesign.etsy.com  I am also happy to create custom work for anyone and would be happy to chat with you about your design needs! E-mail Me