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Creation Station

  Katey Green

Stickers

 

Well, I thought we could do something fun this month with it being Halloween . We are going to make digital stickers. Thanks to Scrapstreet’s Jakey inspiring me with his word “pooky”, I am going to make some pooky stickers. You can use your stickers digitally or print them out and stick on anything you want, cards, layouts… make fridge magnets even.

 

Now these instructions are for Photoshop (PSE or PSCS2) so open up a transparent document at 900x900 pixels and 300 pixels per inch (this will give you the correct print quality). This document size will give you room to create your sticker, whilst allowing you to see it in more detail, but you can choose your size to suit.

 

Next, choose a shape, a brush or any free-to-use clipart to design your sticker. You can even doodle a design. Try to keep your design fairly simple in outline though, particularly if you are printing it out. I have some free to use clip art, so will make a pumpkin sticker.

  

 

 

 There are a couple of ways to make stickers, by matting or the stroke option. Where your design is irregular in shape, the easiest method is to stroke it. Tip: Use your eraser tools to remove any unwanted background bits or colors or extract your design using the lasso tool or magic wand. Try to get a smooth outline so your sticker isn’t lumpy looking as mine is!!

 

 

In PSE4 and PSCS2 you can select the Stoke option from the Edit Menu. This will allow you to choose your color (the default is your foreground color) and the size of the stroke and the position. For a sticker we want to stroke the outside with a value from about 20 pixels upwards.

 

 
In PSCS2 you can also choose stroke by selecting the layer and double clicking the little f in the circle at the bottom of the layer palette, to see the layer style palette and click on stroke. The default color may be changed by clicking on the color. However if you use this method, some of the other styles such as drop shadow may not show through the size of the stroke.

 

 

You can use the stroke again from the edit menu to add another outer stroke in a different color as I have done with my pumpkin, but you have to “undo” your editing if you make a mistake, whereas with the style stroke you can delete it. For adding drop shadows either save the sticker as a PNG and re-edit it for the drop shadow or change it in PSCS2 by turning the layer into a smart object, then add other styles such as drop shadow.

 
There are lots of ways to play with the stroke option. I added a slight bevel to my pumpkin stroke to give the green a little more definition use and as you can see I have created some cute stickers to use on layouts or print out. Extend the stroke to create a different shape as I did with the star. Try doing some yourself!!

 

 

 

 

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