I had an impossible time thinking about what to post this morning, not that I was absent of ideas, contraire, the problem was that the ideas were flooding in and which to choose? So much going on in my little head right now and feeling butterflies of excitement for the future (business wise), it’s a feeling I was afraid might have left once I gave birth as I have felt pretty inept these past 15 months. I will discuss more on that at a later date, but for today I want to talk about happy things! One of those happy things is we have made a huge dent (I hope) in out lettering Photoshop action set. I worked on it every spare 5 minutes here and there that I had this weekend. I get more done now in 30 minutes than I ever did when I worked my usual 10-12 hour day (amazing what you can accomplish if you are forced to get efficient + organized). The lettering set is going to help automate the process of cleaning up your lettering and line art (so difficult for a newbie to Photoshop!) making it a snap to get it web ready so you can show it off! I used both the Shopkeeper’s Helper set on this Iphone photo (to get the background a bit whiter of course) and the prototype Lettering set to clean up the lettering I did for a client, then I made it into a Photoshop brush to place over the photograph. The great thing about brushes are you can easily size the lettering and ‘stamp’ it in any color, you can even control how opaque you’d like it. I purposely made this very transparent since I wanted it to be just a hint of lettering and not really legible, but the option to make it lighter and darker will be at your fingertips. I honestly don’t know how fast we can get this new set out, these launches are a lot of work! We are going to be testing the set with some of your fave lettering artists such as Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls (a self proclaimed Photoshop Luddite) and trying to work out all the kinks before we release it to market. Speaking of market, we are going to be getting in depth in how to market a product on-line, what we know from experience with a successful brand, what we are learning with our new brand and some mistakes to avoid along the way. We believe there’s room for everyone to be a huge success and we truly want to see you succeed–you deserve it!
P.S. Of course this photo was inspired by Michelle’s always amazing Instagram feed, check it out!
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Miss Tristan B. is the co-creator of the world’s best + easiest product photography tool-Foto Rx | Shopkeeper’s Helper and one of the writer’s of this delightful blog. Her lofty goal here is to make this a creative resource repository and to inspire you to fall truly, madly, deeply in love with your life.
I just want to say how awesome all your recent launches have been. I don’t necessarily have a need for the photoshop actions but all of your promotional stuff has been so on point and I it’s lovely to watch you guys succeed at it! Lettering brushes sound amazing and I’ll be keeping my eye out!
Thank you so much Brittany, that means a lot to us!
dear tristan … so much prettiness and inspiration here on your site … you are pushing my learning curve because everything is so lovely i want to try it … all :) thank you for all your hard work :)
Dawn thank you for your visits and the kind, kind words, it really helps keep us motivated. It’s so hard when you feel like you are ‘talking’ into the ether!
I’m excited for a lettering brushes set! I am always messing around with digitizing lettering or other black and white doodles- mostly tracing in illustrator because that’s how I’m able to get the effects I want, but I am never happy with the vector-ness of it. This sounds like it will help! Looking forward to your next launch!
Heather, it will because it will be your actual drawing! We will be pairing this with a Skillshare class so it’ll be even more simple!