Design Blog
Surface pattern design tutorials, creative business tips, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into my studio.
You have spent all this time painting the cutest flowers. You scanned them and removed the paper background, and vectorized them. You start building a pattern and realize you don’t have enough motifs. So you paint some more… rinse and repeat, amiright? I have figured out a way to make those initial motifs go a long way and I am going to share it with you now.
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Do you ever feel uninspired? Look at the blank page and don’t know where to start? Me too! When that happens, these are the 5 places I go to for inspiration:
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This is my Spoonflower shop! My goal is to have 1000 patterns uploaded to their site by the end of 2022 so that I can get more exposure. I have been creating and recoloring patterns like crazy, but have been struggling with consistency. Creating motifs and patterns are not my challenge. What I struggle with […]
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I started my painting journey several years ago, when I lived in Seattle. I took some extensions classes at the University of Washington and I loved it. Then I moved to Austin and my painting took the back seat, until the pandemic. I needed a creative outlet and I wasn’t sewing as often as I […]
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This post contains affiliate links. I have been painting for about 3 years now, I have tried several different brands of paper and watercolors. Here is a list of my favorites. What is your favorite tool to paint with?
Read more →Tired of spending hours removing the background on your watercolor scans? Me too! That is why I created the Magic Watercolor Background Remover. This is an Adobe Photoshop script that will remove the background from your watercolor scans in seconds (It took 2 minutes to remove the background of 131 files).
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Toady we are going to use scripts to define a pattern from an image. This is going to be a little more complex, because we are going to use ActionDescriptors. What it means is that we are going to use objects called ActionDescriptors that emulate a Photoshop action. This action will take the current open […]
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In the second part of this series, I am going to walk you through creating a new document with a specific set of dimensions. While you can quickly create a new document in photoshop without a script, this will work as a building block for what we will do later. Here is what we are […]
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Have you ever wondered how to make your design process in photoshop more streamlined? There are a few tools Adobe offers to help you automate: actions and scripts. Actions are a series of steps that you can record and then replay. Here is how you can do it: In Photoshop, open the Actions panel You […]
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