Birthstone Bling!: March-Aquamarine The Ultimate Birthstone Designer Resource Copyright ©Roberta Dugan/fractalartist01 April 2012 Now you can celebrate and accentuate your commercial-use creative designs with this lovely March Birthstone resource package! This will be one more tool you will want to include in your digi-paint arsenal for creating sparkling and stunning silver and aquamarine adorned digital images that are also suitable for print designs. You will receive everything you need to be your creative self while coordinating within the birthstone theme! The result? Beautifully jeweled March 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 in this "ultimate birthstone package." 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: 10) New Jeweled Layer Styles For Photoshop 7 & Above 18) Unique Aquamarine & Silver Gems (average size: 600 pixels) 9) Jeweled Seamless Patterns (600x600pixels each) 1) Aquamarine/Silver Picture Frame (1800x1800 pixels) 1) Jeweled March Grunge Background (1800x1350 pixels) 1) Jeweled MARCH Header (1500x1000pixels) 1) Jeweled Fancy Pisces Header (1800x900) 1) Silver & Aquamarine Border (2400x250pixels) 1) Silver & Aquamarine Border (1300x225 pixels) 2) Jeweled Page Dividers 1) Fabulous & Coordinating Free Gift (includes 6 additional images: 3 seamless transparent overlays, 2 jewels, 1 Pisces Cameo) --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 March/Aquamarine Birthstones package is perfect for designing calendars, greeting cards, birthday scrapbooking pages or web pages, mugs for March babies, family and friends! The layer styles are for Photoshop 7 & Up. The coordinating Aquamarine/Pisces elements included will make creating new designs for the March baby in your life fun, fast and easy! ______________________________________________________________ This product was created for PC & MAC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] birthstonebling_March [File names] aqua_birthstone_freegift01.png aqua_birthstone_freegift02.png aqua_birthstone_freegift03.png aqua_birthstone_freegift04.png aqua_birthstone_freegift05.png aqua_birthstone_freegift06.png aqua_March_bar_02.png aqua_March_gem_01.png aqua_March_gem_02.png aqua_March_gem_03.png aqua_March_gem_04.png aqua_March_gem_05.png aqua_March_gem_06.png aqua_March_gem_07.png aqua_March_gem_08.png aqua_March_gem_09.png aqua_March_gem_10.png aqua_March_gem_11.png aqua_March_gem_12.png aqua_March_gem_13.png aqua_March_gem_14.png aqua_March_gem_15.png aqua_March_gem_16.png aqua_March_gem_17.png aqua_March_gem_18.png aqua_March_gem_border.png aqua_March_gem_border02.png aqua_March_gembar.png aqua_March_gemheader.png aqua_March_header_text.png aquamarine_bkgrd.png aquamarine_march_fractalartist01.pat Aquamarineframe_fractalartist01.png birthstone_march_fractalartist01.asl text_overlay_02.png text_overlay_03.png text_overlay_04.png text_overlay_05.png text_overlay_06.png text_overlay_07.png text_overlay_08.png text_overlay_09.png text_overlay_10.png Total number of folders =1 Total number of files = 43 [Folder name] Documantation [File names] aquamarine_kit_page_01_MAIN.jpg BirthstoneBling_March_Readme.txt License.txt Total number of folders = 1 Total number of files = 3 [Grand total folders=2] [Grand total files=46] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 are required to 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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