Old Friends... (hmmm...friends that are old?)

This week's challenge at JS.com was quite fun and very well timed. It was a multi-faceted challenge. 1. Take a fresh photo guided by the theme "I want to remember this" 2. Scrap said photo any way you would like. 3. Said photo could only be taken with available light, no flashes. It just so happened that Pauline was here for a visit. How could I beat that?

When I moved to Utah just over 3 years ago I don't think either one of realized just how dependent we'd become on each other. We did a lot of crying that first year. The one positive side to this move is that neither one of us shop nearly as much as we used to when we only lived 4 houses apart! ("Hey, you wanna make a Walmart run?" LOL)


The second part of this story is this...
I wanted to use a friends quote on the page so I went to the internet and did a search. There were so many good ones that I couldn't make up my mind which one I wanted to use. So I decided to use all of them!

I decided to combine them all into an overlay. I thought I could put them all together in a Word document using a different font for each quote then cut and paste them into the text box in PSE 6. Oh no... not so... I had all the words, but they were all in the same font! So I went through the process again! I then turned it into a screen mask to make the cool overlay effect.

So here's the cool part!... I turned them into my first FREEBIES! Everyone is always so good about sharing all the fun things they make so I thought it might be nice to do the same. After several tries and false starts (and some trauma!) I zipped and uploaded them to 4shared.com.

The trauma came when I uploaded them the first time with the name "Friends Overlay". One of the features of 4shared.com is to pull up what they think are some related files (I have no idea what criteria they use other than name). It pulled up some pornographic friends photo icons. ICK!!!

Now my files have the very unoriginal names of 10001 Overlay and 10001 Overlay_Mask.

If you are not familiar with using a Overlay mask here's what you do-

• Open the Overlay Mask
• Select the layer you want the overlay to be over in PSE
  
• Drag it to the thumbnail of your LO
• And as Jessica Sprague says... here's the magic part... choose Screen for the blending mode. Jessica has a great PSF at her blog on this technique. Thanks Jes!

... that is my fun for this day...