Thursday, June 20, 2013

CoffeeShop Vintage Digital Papers 6!


I am so excited to let you know that Viki Reed mentioned my blog in a post! So amazing to be surrounded by such cool/talented people.  Thank you Viki!  And I couldn't do it without my readers, so thank you too!

I have a new set of vintage digital papers I wanted to share with you today.  I know I am releasing a lot of papers recently, and there is a good reason.

I love making textures/digital papers, but putting together the "ad" for my blog always takes so much time; and honestly, it is boring.  So I decided to take an hour of my day and finally write an action to do the work for me.  Now I can build the ad in just a minute or two, so now I can have fun creating the papers and not spend all of my time putting together the ad for my blog.  I love actions!

To design this set I used some of my own textures and brushes, and some design elements from The Graphics Fairy, a texture from Shadowhouse Creations and a texture from Chasing Dreams.

I have a few digital paper tutorials posted already, but I will put together a new one.  I basically use several layers of different textures (fabric, stone, scratches, painting, etc) in different blending modes (soft light, overlay, multiply, etc) and then use my cloning tool on the different layers to add/remove details.  It takes some work and each paper is never really finished because I keep on playing.

Then I use my Graphic Art action to make transparent pngs from different design elements and drag them on the design and either lower the opacity or change the blending modes.  Each paper might have 10-15 layers when I am finished with it.

If you decide to make your own digital paper, please check out some of my favorite texture designers like Shadowhouse, Chasing Dreams, and Flypaper.  You could also buy some beautiful digital papers from someone like Hazy Skies and add your own vintage spin by layering additional textures/design elements.  Have fun!

Download the free CoffeeShop Vintage Papers 6 set


Do you want to download thousands of professional CoffeeShop PSE/Photoshop actions (including exclusive ones not found anywhere for free), textures/overlays, scrapbooking papers, clip art/design elements, photo storyboards and frames, and Lightroom presets from this site in one convenient zipped file AND help support this one-woman blog?

Just click here for my CoffeeShop Mega Download Pack!

18 comments:

  1. Thank you Rita! You are SO talented and I SO appreciate your little freebies!

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  2. Thank you so much, I love your papers :)

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  3. Thank you so much for sharing these awesome papers I LOV´em

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  4. Thank you very much! Your newsletter is one of my favourites! I have learned so much from your tutorials as well. Thank you for sharing and God bless!
    Kindest regards
    Marie Antoinette Voges
    Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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  5. I love these. Can I use them in PSE7 or are the textures for PS only?

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  6. Thanks for sharing. I always look forward to when your link pops up in my email so I can come visit. Sorry it took a bit for me to leave a comment...I do like to comment on people's posts, but missed this one. You do such lovely work. And I also enjoy the ones where you share what your family has been up to..kind of lets me see life from another point of view and home place. ~smiles~

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  7. thank you so much for sharing - just what I needed for my son's birthday card!

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  8. Beautiful papers! Thanks so much!!!

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  9. Thank you so much for these Rita, i used one and that photo got so many views on flickr, your vintage paper helped too, i'm sure !! thanks again
    Lily

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  10. I was so excited to try out the textures I downloaded tonight but I can't unzip them with my Mac. I am a new Mac user and I'm having trouble finding the UnZip program that works. Does anyone know which program works and where I can find it? Thanks so much.
    Confused in the new world of Mac!

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  11. thanks you so much there beautiful.

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  12. Thank you. the paper is beautiful

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  13. Gorgeous papers but the link is broken :( Thanks for all the other freebies!

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    1. Thank you for catching that! Fixed. In the future, if you are having issues downloading my older freebies, copy the mediafire link to Notepad and change the http to https and it will work. The older mediafire site didn't have the "s". The link will still be directed to the secure site, but some browsers won't redirect so you have to change the address.

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