So everything this week has been related to sweeping ... first I found out I can make brushes in GIMP and wow have I had fun. Now okay they are not to a shareable standard yet but I have had such a cool time making brushes to distress my photographs and clear overlays.
So then that get me started on digital scrapbooking - which I have always found tedious until I used GIMP ... so I went right ahead and swept everything else important to one side and concentrated on making layouts - that resulted in a brush to create a torn edge to the 12 x 12 pages.
That in turn got me to spend more time looking at mounting my photographs for the gallery, which took me full circle to look for GIMP brushes ... and I love these from Redheadstock
[link] [link][link]I used a couple of these for textures on mounts - using dodge or burn got fabulous results ... like a watermark effect. But that didn't satisfy me so I had to go make a brush of my logo ... created from one of my photographs and text added I am really quite pleased with that.
Finally all this creativity has given my poor computer a hammering and GIMP was starting to groan as I added mounts to photographs and wanted to add bevels and so on ... so I am just running software to do a clean sweep and tidy up of the PC.
... and all because I have had flu and had to rest - but my mind doesn't do resting so I had to keep it occupied ... actually getting this creative buzz has given my head a bit of a spring clean too
Sta.sh
