November 9, 2009 – Day 313I’m designing a new kit for the store and I spent many hours working on it today. I took pictures of items that are going to be in the kit and this vintage salt shaker (part of a set I found at a garage sale years ago) is one of the items that I am going to include. The matching pepper shaker will be included as well – but that is a separate picture. The items I use have to be sharp when viewed at 100% in Photoshop, they must not be copyrighted and it’s time consuming to extract each item out of the photograph to include in my kits. I create items from scratch in Photoshop for each kit as well. A lot of work goes into the digital scrapbook kits I create but it’s something I am passionate about - and time disappears when I’m busy designing!
This sure is a nice crisp photo and your kits are the most amazing kits I've ever seen. I went to that site where your kits are for sale and browsed and the others are not nearly as nice as yours are. Wonderful work!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cute salt shaker!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like alot of work, good thing that you enjoy it! I am sure that the final product is going to be just georgous, just like your other kits.
Going around the edges sure is time consuming, I've tried to do it a few times and it didn't look nearly as clear as this. What is the theme of the kit?
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be a vintage kitchen kit Shayne. I've done one already (Baba's Kitchen) but I have so many vintage kitchen things that I've collected over the years that I easily have enough for another.
ReplyDeleteExtracting takes lots of practice - but even then, it's still time consuming.