Masthead #14 – Christmas pickle
I’ve been so tapped out by work this week that the highlight of my day was searching for royalty-free cow udder images for use on an ad campaign. I wish I was joking.
Anyway, normally I post-date these masthead updates because I feel it’s totally boring to everyone but me. But then I realized those of you who subscribe to this site’s feed see these as new posts anyway, regardless if I post-date them, so here goes.
Man, I labored forever trying to put an image of a dime onto an ornament before I finally realized I could just make it the ornament.
I turned the pickle and dime into ornaments, threw them onto a pine branch, used the Quick Mask feature to make some of the pine needles go over the dime, and voila – done!
I found a font at Dafont.com called “Christmas Card,” and created my own snowflake to use for the background pattern here.
Disclaimer: As always, do not ask me for designing advice because I am self-taught. Seriously. SELF-TAUGHT. You are better off consulting with a true professional. (You do not even want to know how many Google searches I’ve done on Photoshop tutorials. It is probably in the thousands.)
I have kind of screwy resolution on my screen, and I read this thinking “what snow flakes?” But they are there, just kind of faint on my computer
Comment by My Buddy Mimi — December 14, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
I love it! Before I read the post, I was seriously going to ask you how to design a masthead but then I read your disclaimer. Dammit.
Can you just make me one for Christmas? You are good!
Comment by Stephanie — December 14, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
I am obsessed with snowflakes, so thanks for that link, it made my day
Comment by Gretchen — December 14, 2007 @ 5:05 pm
Ugh. Searching for royalty-free images for super specific campaigns can be so hard, long, and exhausting. Ugh.
Give yourself some kudos for being self-taught; you do a great job! And it is fun! I love it when folks dive into this stuff because THEY LIKE IT.
Yay for Christmas pickles!
Comment by Artemisia — December 14, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
I very much love the pickle and dime ornaments. It made my day when I saw them.
Comment by Penny — December 15, 2007 @ 10:35 am
I love this masthead. It might be my favorite one yet.
Comment by Jess — December 16, 2007 @ 6:24 pm