Figaro

Figaro

First thing I did with this photo was to work on the levels... before I started it was just a sea of black with some eyes and the white markings. By adjusting the levels I was able to differentiate the black of the cat from the black background. Then I put a stroke around the blue frame and also around the font on the title. I pulled the colors for the title out of the pink flowers.

True Friends

True Friends

This is my first try at a Fandango layout. I put the dark green paper over the green grungy paper and made it slightly smaller to give the LO the ragged green border. Then I selected the inner color in the photo frame and hit Cntl + J on the photo layer to make it fit perfectly into the frame. I also added a stroke to the font layer for the journaling and then just added some word art to finish the layout.

That look...

That look...

This was a straight forward LO. The complicated part was weaving the various element through each other. I did this the way that I have described before... having two layers, adding drop shadow to the bottom one and erasing the part needed on the top layer with the object being interacted with inbetween. I also lowered the opacity greatly on a flower swirl that is underneath the journal tag...