no limits in digi creativity

Really enjoying my weekly play for the colour challenge at Twinkle Twinkle – I like the constraint of using just one colour and I’m enjoying playing with different arty techniques within PhotoShop Elements.  And the added pleasure of knowing they will all be part of a mini album with some of my favourite Dr Seuss quotes.

This week I started by working on the extra challenge which was to add metal – I could have brought in some metal look embellishments but decided to create my own metal piece.  It was a lot of fun and I stumbled upon a method to make a copper metal look (use the wow chrome layer style effect and then add a copper gradient level). 

Then to the yellow and given how dimensional the metal looked I wanted the same in the background so used the bevel effects several times.

I’m really pleased with the result – it went through lots of permutations but I made extensive use of what I think is my favourite aspect of digital creating - the undo button!

And I love the challenge of this quote – don’t be constrained by rules and received wisdom – in this case the idea that the alphabet ends at z.  I love Dr Seuss’s zaniness.

If you would like to explore digiart techniques in Photoshop Elements have a look at my intro to digiart and one on one intro to digiart tutorial

Head over to Twinkle Twinkle to see other yellow creations – across a wonderful range of media.