******************************************************************************** Alpha-Gems - Holiday Times Part 1 Copyright © November 2007 Ali Foxton (Lilybelles) Thank you for purchasing the 'Holiday Times' Decorative Alphabet Have fun :) ******************************************************************************** #### DESCRIPTION: An attractive and useful collection of decorative silk letters and co-ordinating gems. All items were created and saved at 300dpi on individual .psd layers, with transparent backgrounds and no drop shadows. Alphabet characters are between 635 - 900 pixels high and gems 235 pixels high. Due to file-size limitations, the collection has been split into two parts: "Alpha-Gems - Holiday Times Part 1" (this part) contains: Upper & lower case characters in plain silk Upper case characters in checked silk Gem decorations in gold settings "Alpha-Gems - Holiday Times Part 2" (NOT included but available separately) contains: Upper & lower case characters in sparkle silk Upper case characters in striped silk Gem decorations in silver settings ******************************************************************************** #### SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PC/MAC Paint Program which can open layered .psd (Photoshop) files ******************************************************************************** #### OWNERSHIP STATEMENT: All of the content in this package was created by Ali Foxton (Lilybelles), and may include derivatives of the following merchant resources: Artgrafx Gemstones 22 Fringewood Fabric Basics Kit Jaguarwoman Liquid Metal Presets 1 ******************************************************************************** #### REQUIRED PRODUCTS: None ******************************************************************************** #### INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Extract the zip files and place the uncompressed folder in your chosen location. It's a good idea to keep the original zip file as backup just in case you irreparably alter one of the original files! ******************************************************************************** ### USAGE INFO & TIPS: # INFO: There are five .psd files included in this set, each clearly labelled with their contents. Each .psd file was created and saved at 300dpi and contains letters or gems on individual layers, again clearly labelled. Alphabet characters are between 635 - 900 pixels high and gems 235 pixels high. A base 'guideline' layer is included to help with alignment & positioning when using more than one character. Plain black & white background layers are also included so you can gauge appearance against each extreme of the spectrum. # HOWTO: Open one of the .psd files in your favorite paint program. Select the layer containing your chosen character and copy and paste into a new document. You can now resize, recolor and decorate as you wish. # TIPS: When resizing, you will probably need to use a sharpening filter to regain any clarity lost during the process. Check out the product page's third promo image to see how quickly and easily I recolored the main promo pic, simply by adjusting the hue/saturation/lightness. The gems will take a little more work if you want to recolor the stones while leaving the base metal colors intact: Select individual gemstones and promote them to a new layer above the base gem you're using before recoloring. You can then merge the layers together again for your newly-hued jewel. If you're using more than one character at time (for instance to make a word,) you may find the "x_guidelines.psd" file useful. Each of the character files is correctly positioned on a replica grid so you can copy their alignment when making words etc. Adding drop shadows really makes the letters 'pop' and I suggest adding them to the gems separately to give more depth to your image. # XTRA: As a small 'bonus' item, the gem .psd file contains small metallic bead and chain links so you can create a jewelled border, similar to the one I used in the promo images. Alternatively, you could twist tiny gold beads around your letters - time consuming but impressive ! Metallic gem-set snowflakes are also included for use in your holiday images. The only limit to what you can do is your imagination :) PLEASE REMEMBER : ALWAYS WORK ON A COPY, AND 'SAVE' OFTEN :) **************************************************************************************************************************************************************** #### FILE LIST: Because of the large file size, the product is divided into two zip files. Listed below are the contents of each individual zip. Included Files - Zip 1: \AMF_Alpha-Gems_Holiday-Times1a\ AMF_AG_HT-1_lower_silk.psd AMF_AG_HT-1_upper_silk.psd \AMF_Alpha-Gems_Holiday-Times1a\info\ AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_license.txt AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_readme.txt AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_thumb.jpg Included Files - Zip 2: \AMF_Alpha-Gems_Holiday-Times1b\ AMF_AG_HT-1_gems_gold.psd AMF_AG_HT-1_upper_checks.psd AMF_AG_HT-1_x_guidelines.psd \AMF_Alpha-Gems_Holiday-Times1b\info\ AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_license.txt AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_readme.txt AMF_Alpha-Gems_HT-1_thumb.jpg ******************************************************************************** #### TERMS OF USE: All of this product's content is covered by the Renderosity License (see the included text file: AMF_AG_HT-1_license.txt) The product can be used for both your personal and commercial work with the following restrictions: If you use any of the product's content commercially to create further products, that content must be altered and integrated into other artwork so that the original content is not able to be extracted from the new item. None of this product's content may be resold, given away or redistributed in its original form, or as a standlone or competing product. None of this product's content may be redistributed in online groups as tubes, sig tags or gallery images. ******************************************************************************** Created with care and fun :) ********************************************************************************