Birthstone Bling!: February-Amethyst The Ultimate Birthstone Designer Resource Copyright ©Roberta Dugan/fractalartist01 February 2012 Now you can celebrate and accentuate your commercial-use creative designs with this lovely Amethyst Birthstone resource package! This will be one more tool you will want to include in your digi-paint arsenal for creating sparkling and stunning gold and amethyst-encrusted digital images that are also suitable for print designs. You will receive everything you need to be creative but stay within the birthstone theme! The result? Beautiful January birthstone greeting cards, scrapbook layouts, coffee mugs, web pages, invitations, ornate signature tags & calendars, etc. The ten added layer styles give you even more options for creating your own unique coordinating designs to match those I have already included. Please take a look at the product preview pages to get a better idea of what you will be getting and also what this package might inspire you to design on your own! Details of Package Contents: --18 Amethyst & Gold/Silver Birthstone Elements which range in size from 300x300pixels to 1800x800 pixels--png format--300dpi ----Includes many ornate and basic jewels/charms; 1 jeweled divider bar; fancy gold and February-Amethyst Word Art header element; ornate Gold & Amethyst February header element --1 Gold & Amethyst Picture Frame: 1800 x 1800 pixels-300dpi-png file format --12 Seamless Jeweled Textures/Patterns in Gold/Silver Amethyst-600 x 600 pixels-300dpi-png file format ----Includes one transparent jeweled seamless overlay; 2 seamless black & white transparent seamless overlays --1 .pat file format of the seamless patterns above to be used in Photoshop (install into Photoshop like you would normally install your patterns/textures) --1 Amethyst & Golden February/Aquarius Fancy Background-2400 x 1800 pixels-png-300dpi --10 Faceted Semi-Precious Amethyst Gem Layer styles created with seamless patterns at 200-300 dpi for Photoshop 7 & Above-to design your own matching text or other elements to match your new creations! --Create beautiful faceted precious gemstone elements, alphas, frames, charms, text, clothing trims and jewelry with just "one click" of these new semi-precious faceted layer styles and elements! This February/Amethyst Birthstones package is perfect for designing calendars, greeting cards, birthday scrapbooking pages or web pages, mugs for February babies, family and friends! The layer styles are for Photoshop 7 & Up. The coordinating amethyst elements included will make creating new designs for the February baby in your life fun, fast and easy! ______________________________________________________________ This product was created for PC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Files/Programs needed but not supplied in this archive: -Adobe Photoshop 7 or Above- for the .asl and .pat file The current version of Adobe Photoshop can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html NOTE: The layer styles have been tested in Photoshop 7, CS and CS2 only: patterns in CS & CS2 only ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation Instructions Into Photoshop: 1. Unzip and extract the styles (.asl file) into whereever you keep your Adobe/Photoshop 7, CS (or Photoshop CS2)/Presets/Styles directory. 2. Open Photoshop. 3. If you don't already have your Styles window visible, click on "Window" and then "Styles" 4. In your "Styles" Window, click on the little triangle in a circle, that's pointing to the right. (located in the upper right hand corner below the "open/close") of the styles box 5. Select "Load Styles" from the Drop Down Box 6. Locate and Choose/highlight/load the desired .asl file(s) (.asl file=layer styles extension) into your Photoshop Styles Tool Palette 7. Apply to your layer with one click! .pat file: Use the same instructions above but insert into your Photoshop patterns folder location. Use pattern to fill or stroke an image, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usage Tips/Special Instructions Quickie Re-Scaling Instructions: "How To Re-Scale/Adjust Layer Styles for Any Size Image in Photoshop" 1) To scale your layer effects go to (menu) Layer > Layer Style > Scale Effects. Or you can access this command from the Layers palette by right-clicking on the small layer effects symbol (looks like an f) on your layer, then choosing the Scale Effects command. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) When you choose Scale Effects, the dialog box "Scale Layer Effects" will appear. You can reduce the scale down as low as 1% to make the effects smaller, or increase the scale up to 1000% to make the effects larger. This re-scales every effect used in the Layer Style at once...OR you can just remove/add a shadow, add a stroke or inner bevel, change the pattern scale size, etc. *Checking the "Preview" box will allow you to see as you're adjusting.* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) So the next time you download some layer styles and find they don't look quite the same on your own images as they did in the examples, try scaling the effects and see if it makes a difference. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Folder Name] Bkgrd Frame gems LayerStyles Seamless [File name] amethyst_feb_fa0101.png amethyst_feb_fa0102.png amethyst_feb_fa0103.png amethyst_feb_fa0104.png amethyst_feb_fa0105.png amethyst_feb_fa0106.png amethyst_feb_fa0107.png amethyst_feb_fa0108.png amethyst_feb_fa0109.png amethyst_feb_fa0110.png amethyst_feb_fa0111.png amethyst_feb_fa0112.png amethyst_feb_fa0113.png amethyst_feb_fa0114.png amethyst_feb_fa0115.png amethyst_februaryfa01_BKGRD.png amethyst_Frame_fractalartist01.png amethyst_seamless_fa01.pat amethyst_seamless_fa01_01.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_02.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_03.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_04.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_05.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_06.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_07.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_08.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_09.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_10.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_11.png amethyst_seamless_fa01_12.png amethyst_special_fa01_01.png amethyst_special_fa01_02.png amethyst_special_fa01_03.png amethyst_special_fa01_04.png cpd_amethyst_birthstone.asl Total number of folders = 5 Total number of files = 35 [Folder name] Documentation [File name] Amethyst_Bling_readme.txt License.txt Total number of folders =1 Total number of files = 2 Grand Total Folders= 6 Grand Total Files= 37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright notice: You CAN use these styles to create/style any NEW personal or commercial works. You CAN NOT however re-distribute or sell them in their original raw form or in a modified form as an asl styles set. (.asl format or .pat) If your product will be in .psd format you need to rasterize/merge the layers that have the styles applied to them in order to make the original styles unavailable for re-use as they are-in their original form. PNG files must be merged or added as a derivative of your design before merging. Basically, your newly created end product may be used for personal or commercial work. The actual styles set or individual product itself-cannot be resold or given away for free. If 30% or more of your design contains anything from this package you must give credit either in your paperwork or on your website! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you so much for your purchase! Enjoy and Have Fun Creating! 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