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Hi this is Sage Kimble and I'm The Mad Stamper. I'm the creator of Stamping
Madly
where we provide creative coaching and training for paper crafters, card makers
and scrap bookers
as well as the finest paper crafting supplies available.
Today I have a digital technique to share with you. I'm going to show you how
to color that Tweet Leaves image with several different colors
in my digital studio.
I love this new feature in MDS 2 and think you'll have fun with it too.
You'll open up a whole new world of possibilities in your digital creations
with the stamp image coloring tool.
I've opened up
a four and a quarter by five and a half inch card
and added the Tweet Leaf stamp.
It starts out black but that's really easy to change.
One way to do that is first you have to select the stamp by clicking on it
and that will show you these four
squares around me
outside of the image.
Then you go over to the design center
and you can see that My Digital Studio has recognized that you're working with
a stamp,
and all of the buttons in this stamp section are active.
So to change the color of the entire stamp,
there's a
button here called Change Color.
You click on that
and click whatever color
you'd like the whole thing to be. I'll just choose More Mustard
for an example.
And then click OK,
and there it is in a totally new color.
But today we're going to try something different.
So i'm going to change this back
to basic black.
Then I'm going to double click on the image and that brings up this
stamp image coloring screen.
The first thing I like to do is make the
image larger so that it's easier to work with.
So I come down here to the bottom left
to the Zoom
and click on it until
I'm comfortable with the size of the images that I'm going to be working on.
And then there are sliders on the right
side
to move up and down on the image
and there's a slide at the bottom to
move from left to right.
The other tool that's really helpful is the Brush Size and that's on the left
in the middle here.
When I'm working on an image with a lot of detail
I like to make the brush size small
so when I am
trying to color something that's very small
and very close to another image,
I've got a small brush that I can do that with I have more control.
So I set it to ten when I'm going to do a lot of detail. The default is fifteen
and that works really well for most
images unless it's really large and then you can make it whatever size
you're comfortable working with.
Okay so let's get started.
I'm going to choose Midnight Muse
for coloring the bird and I'm going to center the bird in the center using my slider
and you can see over here on the left
it says Brush Color
and it will show you in this square
what color you're working with.
And I want the brash
fairly large for the bird because
I want to cover a lot of area at once.
In order to color
you put your brush over the part of the image you want to
color and use your left click button,
hold it down while you move the cursor
with your mouse.
And you don't have to be too careful to stay inside the lines, because if
you stray outside
into the white background
the background won't pick up any of your color.
But if u stray
down into another area of stamp you can see it gets colored
with whatever you're working with.
And that may not be what you want.
So I'm going to show you how to fix that
in just a minute.
Now that the bird is all blue, I'm going to color his beak.
So I'm going to change the color to More Mustard down here on my palette
and you can see it shows up as the Brush Color. Then because the beak is very
small, I'm going to change the Bresh Size to ten.
Then I can very carefully
color in
his beak.
Now I want to color his eye,
so I need to change back to Basic Black
and I'm going to set my brush size
so that it's about the same size as his eye.
Then I hold the cursor in place
click once,
and now his eye is black.
Now he's looking pretty good.
I see a little tiny area here where
More Mustard is showing.
So to change that I'm going to go to a really small brush size again
and see if I can zoom in a little more
and i'm going to clean up the edges just by adding Midnight Musa
right along these areas that
have a different color.
And
then i'll have to go back to More Mustard
and clean up the edge of his beak.
Now I'm going to work on this branch.
I'm going to color it with Early Espresso. So I select that from the pallette
and with a fairly large brush, I can
go in and do
most of the coloring.
When I get to the bird legs, I'm going to
make the brush smaller so I can get right up
next to his blue belly
and where there's
not a lot of room between the branch and
his
tail and the leaf
underneath, there
I'm going to use the small brush too.
So being able to
change; to adjust the brush size
really makes this
easier
and you can be a lot more accurate.
The next thing I'm going to do is select Always Artichoke
and I can use a pretty good size brush here
and color this.
You can see I just have to go over
the whole area.
I don't have to worry about much detail on a
part like this.
Then i'll take some Cherry Cobbler and I'll do the same thing
with this
leave image here.
Up here, I want to show you how I
colored this branch of berries.
I want to start with Early Espresso again and a pretty good
Brush Size
I'll go to fifteen
and I'm just going to color over the whole thing
with
Early Espresso.
If I get the berries, it's fine.
I'll go back and color them with Cherry Cobbler
just like I did with the bird's eye
and black.
so now that the branch is all Early Espresso,
I come down and choose
cherry cobbler from the pallette
and
them I'm going to
make my brush size
exactly the size of the berries.
That looks good
and then place
the brueh over the berry click once
and it turns it
to Cherry Cobbler.
I'm going to go through and color the rest of the leaves with various colors
and I'll show you what I've done when I've finished with that.
So here's the finished
image with all the coloring
and I'll just point out the colors that I've used.
The leaves that look like this
are
done with Summer Starfruit.
Gumball Green I used on these two leaves.
This is Bravo Burgundy as is this one over here.
I've used
Cajun Craze on
these leaves.
These two leaves
in this shape are done
with Poppy Parade and that's one of the things I love about My Digital Studio is
that I get to use the old retired colors that I no longer have in my
studio.
And I've
repeated the
Cajun Craze
on this large leaf here
and some more Cherry Cobbler up here.
I had wanted to use the automax and die to cut this image out once and
print it.
But
the die cut is the reverse of
the image that's on the screen.
So to fix that,
you just go over to
the design center again
and there's another
button that says Mirror and click on that
and magically
it's
the other direction.
So there you have it. Coloring stamped images with several colors is really a
simple process
and the results are well worth the effort.
Here are the hybrid cards I made after cutting out the printed image
and using it with
various card stock and embellishments.
I hope you'll be inspired to try it yourself
with Tweet Leaves or any other stamp in your My Digital Studio library.
For more inspiration and instruction,
be sure to visit me at w_w_w_.stampingmadly.com
and the Stamping Madly Face Book page.
If you need to order My Digital Studio software
or content you can do so through either of these pages.
Of course you can order traditional paper crafting supplies and tools
there as well.
This is Sage Kimble,
a_k_a_ the Mad Stamper
and I'll see you soon.