Teach Me Tuesday: Fringe Technique - Paper AND Digital!
For today’s Teach Me Tuesday post, Nicole and Trish are showing you how to get that fringe look on your layouts in both paper style AND digital - complete with a full tutorial by Trish! These girls are so talented and inspiring!
Nicole - Paper - All Is Calm
OMGoodness all, I was so excited when I saw the challenge about fringe I immediately thought about this layout and how it would come together and what pic I would use! To start this layout, I added a bunch of green and red splatters to the background. I then printed off a bunch of strips of the green papers in the All Is Calm collection. I started my tree at the bottom and worked my way up to the top.
I wanted to make this page with lots of traditional red and green Christmas colors so I went through the ellies and the stickers and choose the ones I loved and printed. I also had to have this wooden star for the top of my tree as well!
I have this sweet photo of my kitty sleeping under the tree with all the gifts which was perfect. I love how this layout turned out! I hope it inspires you to use your fringe or your All Is Calm collection!
Trish - Digital - Goldenrod
A while back, Trish made this gorgeous digital layout, complete with process video where she created fringe on her page and it inspired this whole post! Check out the layout below and the comprehensive tutorial!
Process Video
Tutorial: How to create digital fringe for your scrapbooking pages.
Setting up the fringe:
Create a new file at 1200x900 pixels (4x3 inches).
Once your window is open, create a guide by going to View>Guide>Guide Layout.
Set your column number to 24, and your row number to 2.
Click on your horizontal guide, and while still clicking it the whole time, move it up about a third of the way by dragging it.
Create 3 new layers with their own distinct colors and rename them. I use top, middle, and bottom, but you can really name them whatever.
Beginning to create the fringe:
Select the top layer, then using the rectangle marquee tool, skip the first section, and select the next two.
Cut the two sections that you selected by either going to Edit>Cut or using the keyboard command “command+X” on Mac or “control+X” on a PC.
Continue the pattern of skip one, and cut two across the top layer.
Select the middle layer, then still using the marquee tool, select and cut the first section, then skip the next section, and then cut two.
After that repeat the skip 1, cut two pattern across but ending with a cut one.
Select the bottom layer, select and cut the first two sections, then skip one and cut two for the rest of the layer.
Now you can turn off your guides by going to View>Guide>Clear Guides.
Picking and adding your papers:
This effect works best with striped, gradient, or plain paper, but striped is really where it shows the best because the stripes will help add to the illusion of movement. Busy or heavily patterned papers do not work too well with this
Once you have your paper opened, click on the paper and drag it to your window with your fringe. Duplicate the paper three times, arrange your layers so that it is paper, top, paper, middle, paper, bottom, and then begin clipping your paper into the layers. (To clip the papers left click the paper layers and select create clipping mask. You can also use the keyboard command “control+option+G” on a Mac, or “control+alt+G” on a PC.) After you have created the paper clipping masks, individually merge each paper into the layer under it, but do not merge all of the layers together. You still need those top, middle, and bottom layers. Next, select the three layers and then slightly resize them to give you a small amount of wiggle room.
Creating the fringe effect:
Shadow all of your paper layers.
Selecting your top layer, go to Edit>Transform>Warp. You will notice that this creates a box with evenly spaced dots around your layer. You will use the dots as guides to the different sections of your layer. Click on those different sections and pull your layer around.
You will just keep repeating that with the three layers until you are happy with how it looks. (A good tip is to make the different layers overlap some, and to also pull some parts down and some parts up.)
Next, put your mouse over where your style is on your layer, left click where it says “drop shadow” and select “create layer” for all of your paper layers.
Repeat the same steps with all of the shadow layers that you did with your paper layers.
And that’s it! I usually then just select all of the layers and then drag them to the layout that I am making and then, with all six layers selected, left click and select link layers to make moving and adjusting them easier. You can duplicate and stack them to create a row of fringe. You can save the file as a PSD to reuse. However, you can only reuse it with plain paper. Paper that isn’t plain needs to have a new fringe file created each time, because you need the movement the warp gives the pattern to make it look correct.
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