How do I receive my products?
Most cards and templates are available for instant download for your use immediately after purchase. Woody's World and the Collections of backgrounds and Textures are too large for easy download and you will receive a DVD in the mail. Allow up to three weeks for the Backgrounds and Textures DVD's, and Woody's World will ship out during the following months January, March, May, July, September, and November.
Downloadable files are zipped, so they will require some sort of unzipping utility like WinZip.
Most Templates do include the text layers just for placement purposes only. If the font used in the design is not one installed on your computer, it will change it automatically to one on your machine, there will be an error message that spells it out for you.
How do I use my templates?
All files are PSD. You simply go to the file you want to insert. Ctrl + A to select and Ctrl + C to copy. Then swith over to your template files. Click on the correct layer you want to fill. Get the magic wand tool from the tool bar. Click anywhere on the box you want to fill and then Hold down SHIFT CTRL V to paste into. You can also axcess this function from the edit drop down menu. Then you just size the image using CTrl +T to transform until you like it and you're done.
After you are finished, you may need to copy the layer effect from the boxes you just filled and paste the layer effect to the images you used to fill them. Then delete the blank layers, change the type to customize to your event, and you are ready to send to the lab. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DELETE THE LAYERS WITH THE IMAGE BOXES THAT YOU PASTED INTO BEFORE YOU FLATTEN. THAT WAY THEY DON'T SHOW UP IN YOUR FINISHED PIECE.
How do I customize my templates?
All templates can be custom colored by using the airbrush tool in color mode or you can make an adjustment layer and cahnge the hue/saturation
for dramatically different results.
Amery
as it looks downloaded from the website.
Amery with an
adjustment layer. Hue and Saturation on top of the background layer.
Amery with the background layer painted in color mode with a brown swatch and a second layer in multiply mode to darken the background.
Our Files are Pixel Creator Pro Compatible. This innovative program automatically inserts and resizes your image to fit the image box. Click here to check out their website www.pixelcreatorpro.com
How do I load brushes?
We've gotten messages from many of you about how to install our brushes. So here is a tiny refresher course. First you need to download them from our site and save on your hard drive. I have a Digital Photo Candy folder on my computer and regularly burn a disk for back up. Then you need to unzip the file using Winzip or some other software. Winzip does have a free 30 day evaluation version available on their website, so that is a great way to try it out without the out lay of cash.
Installing 'abr' Files
To Adobe's credit, installing these 'abr' brush set files could not be much easier. You simply need to copy the file to the correct directory. If you downloaded the brush set in a zip file, you can just extract the 'abr' file straight to the right place.
That "right place" is in the 'Presets' directory of your main Photoshop program folder, under the subdirectory 'Brushes'. For example, using the default installation path for Photoshop CS2, my brushes reside here:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\Presets\Brushes\
Simply copy the file there, and the next time you start Photoshop Elements, the brushes will be available from your brush set menu.
