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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Graphic design help
I know some of you are pros with Photoshop & Illustrator. I know the basics and I did our wedding invitations and TY cards, but I wanna do our birth announcements and have no idea where to start. Can anyone tell me where to get vector images like the patterns on these:
Is that even what I need (vectors)? I searched istockphoto.com but so fra haven't found anything cute. If I could find the cute patterns, I think I could figure out the rest. TIA!
Re: Graphic design help
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I have never done this before, but I thought about what you were looking for and this is the best idea I could come up with, especially if you want to really customize the pattern base...
So in Windows, you can set (and tile) a small image to be the background for your desktop. If you find even a picture of what you'd like to repeat as the base image for your pattern, like the metrobabycards website's background pattern. Then if you hide your taskbar and don't show your desktop items, you can do Print Screen to capture your desktop as an image and you'll have a background pattern base that at least the size of your desktop, which is hopefully big enough for you to work with in Photoshop to add text/components/pictures to?
I dunno, this is just the best I could think of =P
Any of the things pp's have mentioned would work just fine - it really depends on what you're looking for. When I make a patterned background, I usually just draw a small version of whatever I'm wanting to do (like if it was dots, a square of 4 of them instead of drawing the entire background), then multiply the layer so I can get a pattern that tiles all the way across the background. If you want to do something simple like dots, it's even easier because you can just draw an entire line of dots across the screen.
I don't know if this exactly makes sense the way I'm explaining it lol. Do you have a particular background that you'd like to replicate? If so, I might be able to point you to some online tutorials that can show you how to do it.
Otherwise, you might have luck with scrapbooking images, as Lori mentioned - many you have to pay for, but some are free (I don't know what the print quality would be like for the freebies).