Quick Pages the Easy Way with Photoshop
- At July 9, 2012
- By Cilenia Curtis
- In Blog, Intermediate, Photoshop, Tutorials
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Do you like to design quick pages? But hate how much of a pain it can be?
Have you ever wanted to make quick pages easily by masking out the area of your photo without having to go through the pain of erasing all the below objects that should be hidden or masking out each layer of an object below? Or maybe you want to create a PSD layered template to use like a quick page but being able to edit where you have your photos?
There is a little known tool in Photoshop called Knockout that is easy to use. It’s in your Layer Styles!
After creating the area you want the photo to be (using a marque tool, or maybe a brush like I did here in gray.
Double click your layer to bring up your layer styles menu pop up.
Notice under Advanced Blending there are some options there.
Take your Fill Opacity all the way to 0 (zero) to hide the layer.
Use the pulldown next to Knockout and select Deep.
Then click OK
Notice under Advanced Blending there are some options there.
Take your Fill Opacity all the way to 0 (zero) to hide the layer.
Use the pulldown next to Knockout and select Deep.
Then click OK
Now you can save as a PNG file for a Quick Page, OR you can change your mind about the location of your Knockout mask and move as you wish and save as a PNG file for a new quick page. Great for making fast two pager layouts!
Here is mine created with my Kit Sometimes. All the checkered background you see is where my photo will show up behind the page.
And here is the finished page I made last summer using this quickpage by easily placing the photos on the bottom layer.
Added my title and some journaling and was done.
Added my title and some journaling and was done.
Just want the Quick page and not have to do the work?
I put this one and a 2nd one in my shop at Digitals today for a great price of only $1.50 each.
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Valerie
as someone who is still playing with PS this is one of the best tips i have seen! Been wondering how i could do this. Especially now that i am working on a scrapbook of my late husband who just passed this year. Going to try this and it will likley make it sooo much easier!
Cilenia Curtis
Happy to help Valerie! It’s a kewl trick to say the least. But now that you know it, there are LOTS of things to use this for in PS.
Pam
Is there a workaround for this trick in PSE 10?
Cilenia Curtis
The Knockout is not available in PSE, but Vicky Day did a nice tutorial for PSE and Quick pages a couple weeks ago. Find it here: http://www.digitalscrapbookpages.com/tutorials/Creating_Quick_Pages_PSE.pdf