Digital Scrapbook Pro

Here we go - some more Manly Scrapbook Additions.

Free Metal Meshes Patterns by Axertion. These can be uses for many different things - From Backgrounds to Tags to Titles to even enhancing some Text. I love these metal meshes as these are all tileable allowing you to use them for any size you need.

Below is an example of a Metal Tag I made to add to a scrapbook page I was working on. But as I mentioned you can use these for more then just a tag.  You can use these to Frame a photo - As a background to add depth and interest to your page. The Ideas are only limited to what you can imagine.

And the Metal Tag I created is on the right - This took me about 10 minutes to create in Photoshop -A quick synopsis of what I did was to start with a blank Image of 400×400 pixels (I like giving myself room to work. Then I added a new Layer (Using Ctrl-Shift-N) then on this layer I used the Rounded-Rectangle Tool to create the Base - and used the following layer styles to create the metal bottom layer -

• Pattern Overlay - Chrome Overlay (From Mesh Pack)
  - Scale of 30% & 80% Opaciticy
• Stroke Overlay-
  - 9px Size - Outside - Normal Blend - Gradient Fill (Silver)
• Emboss -
  Smooth - 113% - 3px Size
• Drop Shadow -
  81% - 30 px Distance - 11% Spread - 18px Size (remember use your own eye)

Next I created another new Document of 245px x 90px (this will be the metal plate layer) to do this I filled to whole thing in with a gradient fill (Metal Bar) then added noise to the layer using the Noise Filter of 14% then added a filter - Motion Blur to give it the brushed metal effect. I then did a select all and then used Edit-Copy to copy it all.

Now back to the first image and added a new layer using Ctrl-Shift-N and then Edit-Paste to add the Metal Plate onto that image - I centered it onto the mesh where I wanted it and added the following layer styles:

• Stroke -
  Gradient Fill (Silver) - 3 px size

And the final layer was using the Text Tool with Dark Grey Text to add the Name DigitalAlan using the following layer Styles -

• Inner Shadow -
  Distance 1px - Choke 65% - Size 1px
• Bevel -
  Pillow Emboss - Chisel Soft - 11% Depth - 1 px size - 0 px Soften
• Pattern Overlay -
  Normal - 53% Opacity -Patter Chrome Mesh at 30% Size to match the bottom layer

And that was it That is how I created the Metal Badge for DigitalAlan
And Don’t forget to Visit the Mesh Pack’s Creators Blog @  http://www.axertion.com/ - Looks like this will be a great resource for all to use…

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