Tennis

[April]

Create a scrapbook page with rounded corners.

Reply to this thread with a link to the layout in your album, or repost the layout here.

[April]

Here is my page.

[Alyson]

Here is my page for the Tennis event. First completed page for the Digi Olympics...woo hoo!!

[Kelli West]

Alyson I really like how you did the journaling around it! Cute pics, and fun lettering! Great job!

[digimad]

So cute Alyson! Love the brown for a root beer page-we love homemade rootbeer too!

[Kelli West]

Ok, so here is my Tennis page...

[RobRob]

Ok so guys I don't know how to do this! Is there a tutorial anyone or can someone give me quick instructions? I am thinking I may have seen this before...is it on one of April's videos? Man I can't remember! Help!

[RobRob]

BTW GREAT pages Kelli and Alyson!

[April]

Ok so guys I don't know how to do this! Is there a tutorial anyone or can someone give me quick instructions? I am thinking I may have seen this before...is it on one of April's videos? Man I can't remember! Help!

I'll help.

I'm going to post this while I'm typing the rest.

[April]

Oh duh! I started writing a tutorial for the pole vault challenge. Ok... I'm back on track.

It's easy to round corners. You just press select>modify>smooth after selecting the area you want to cut.

Here are more detailed instructions if you need more help. First, hold down the control key (what key is it for Mac?) while you click on the layer you want to round the corners of in the layers palette. This should be a layer that is not a background layer. When you do this you'll see you have selected all the way around the layer. Next click select>modify>smooth. Choose how round you want the corners and press ok. Then click select>select inverse and press delete.

Will someone verify this is the same in Elements? I use CS3

[RobRob]

Ah ha! Thanks April. I have elements 6 and the instuctions were perfect! I thought it was interesting it doesn't just change the layer to smmoth though, it just kind of cuts off the corners so it might be helpful for people to round the corners before putting on the page? Maybe? Unless you can select inverse and delete the little corner piece-y's. Hmm I'll have to play with that. I'll be posting my page soon! Thanks again for the instructions!

[kcaldwell50]

Here is mine for Tennis.

[Jill]

I love looking at all the fun pages!
Here is my tennis one.

[Kim Hansen]

Wow, I'm having a great day looking at all these creative layouts. Girls, you are so good, you should be published!

April, thanks for making our lives even sweeter on this forum.

[April]

Kim, you are the one that makes life sweeter. I love how you always have something nice to say.

Great pages girls!

[Robyn]

There are so many new layouts, and they all look amazing! April, what a great way to get us all scrappin' and learning some new skills.

My tennis layout is here.

[chryslergreen]

Here is mine.
I'm having a lot of fun working on these - I just wish I could scrap faster! It's so fun to see everyone cranking out so many great layouts!

[cjoy2day]

Here is my tennis layout

[kcaldwell50]

Lynnette, I love your layout...and that paper. I just order my OH Boy CD and can't wait to get it and start using those great papers.

[Amanda J.]

This is so much fun! I've done two layouts today, when I should be cleaning for my mom to come tomorrow, LOL! It won't take too long to straighten the house out .

Here's my layout for this challenge:



And here's the link: Silly

[Kelli West]

Amanda that is a fantastic layout! I love how onlyl parts of the picture have rounded corners. How do you make it so that only one is rounded?

[cjoy2day]

I love that idea too of only one rounded corner. I tried the instructions for the rounding but it doesn't work for me. I hold ctrl and then click the layer. Then go to select>Modify is not highlighted. I've tried it several times. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[Charm Lady]

Here is my tennis page.

[RobRob]

Click here to see my tennis page

[April]

I love that idea too of only one rounded corner. I tried the instructions for the rounding but it doesn't work for me. I hold ctrl and then click the layer. Then go to select>Modify is not highlighted. I've tried it several times. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I would guess it's because you are on a background layer. You could also try just selecting it yourself and then hitting select>modify>smooth.

[Amanda J.]

Thank you all for the nice comments .

I used a brush that I made to erase one corner. Here's the image I made the corner rounder from. It's a .psd file, so this should work for everyone.

Corner Rounding Image

I opened this image in PSE5.
I used the magic wand to select just the black portion of the image.
Click Edit>Define brush from selection.
I rotated the image 90 degrees and repeated the Edit>Define brush from selection.
(Because I couldn't figure out how to rotate a brush when using it as an eraser.)
I saved the brushes by clicking the Brush Tool>Down arrow next to the brush preview>The double arrow to the right of the top brush showing>Save Brushes.
I named the brush folder and then saved.

I'd share that folder, but it has a bunch of other junk in it, not just my four corner rounding brushes. More for me to figure out, LOL!

I hope that helps!

[Lizy Vidal]

Here is my Tennis LO....

[Kim Hansen]

Lizy--look at that cutie--is he yours? That smile of his makes me smile.

Amanda--THANK YOU for the download. I'm going to use it!

[Kelli West]

Amanda that is sooooooo very nice of you to share your work with us! Thank you so much!
Lizy, geesh woman!! I am loving all of your Lo's! I love the embellishment in this one! so cute!

[Kelli West]

Kim we posted at the same time!! Holla back girl!