another how to question

[danagirl82]

okay i see tons of you with awesome threading work in your layouts and titles. I even see you have the robes and ribbons threaded through your names in your siggies..how do you do that? is there a tut?

[iJenny]

I just simply place the ribbon over whatever I want it to wrap around/through and erase what should be "under" it. Here's an example...



Ok, see how the blue ribbon on the upper-left corner is tucked under the top of the paper, but that torn piece is over the ribbon? I simply just erased that part of the ribbon (I zoomed in really close and used a tiny brush to erase). Same with the yellow string on the bottomight. I put it over the paper, but decided that I wanted only the bottom part to be over it and the rest to be under. So I erased the string to the edge of the paper and voila!

I don't know if anyone else does it an easier way, but my way goes pretty quick and there's lots of room for error and correction.

HTH!

[junebug]

i place the ribbon where i want it, then duplicate it and place that duplicated ribbon underneath the object i'm overlapping, and then erase the areas i want to be under. like in my name in my siggy, that was two ribbons; one over the top of the letters, and then another duplicated ribbon on the very bottom. then just picked random areas and erased so it looks like its threading through. hope that wasnt' hard to understand, lol.

[SeattleSheri]

Misty Cato has a few threading tutorials on her blog HERE.

[danagirl82]

Okay well that sounds simple enough. Here is was under the impression it was this massivly hard thing to do.
Thanks so much ladies, you both explained beautifully. I can't wait to try it!

[danagirl82]

I tried it on my siggie.
I think it was pretty easy. thanks again for the help.

[WalkersMommy]

It looks great!

[SeattleSheri]

I just wanted to add a tip. If you're using PS, you should either rasterize your layer or go into the blending options and check the "layer mask hides effects" and use a layer mask. Otherwise, you will get the drop shadow overlapping on top in the areas you've erased.

[lovely1m]

I usually just add my drop shadow before I erase so I can erase that, too. lol

[danagirl82]

Mari, thanks for that tip, that seems a little eaiser for me to remember to do.
Thanks again ALL off you for your help.

[junebug]

i use PSE 6. yes, Sherri, that shadow issue can get annoying. usually, once i am done i will just carefully go in and delete where the shadow is darker. its a pain, but i don't think i can rasterize in pse? i feel like i'm enough of a expert that i should by now have CS4 or whatever but i don't have the money, lol.

[Linz]

Originally Posted by junebug

...but i don't think i can rasterize in pse?

rasterize=simplify in PSE (or at least that's what it was called in versions 4 and 5). you should see it if you right click on the layer.