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mlalberry
June 8th, 2006, 05:50 PM
In Wendy's tutorial on Christmas cards, she mentioned that everyone was making snowflakes in the forum. Since I'm new, I'm wondering where to find instructions for making these snowflakes. Thanks!:)
ktnoon60
June 8th, 2006, 05:54 PM
Here's the link to the site
http://snowflake.lookandfeel.com/
Be very careful its very addicting and you may be up all hours cutting away.

Terry
karen donnybrook
June 8th, 2006, 06:07 PM
Mlalbery, welcome to the forum :)
Wendy
June 8th, 2006, 06:17 PM
Hi Miaberry ...

.... and welcome to the forum :)

Oh once you start on those snowflakes its just so hard to stop ... but they are great fun to do ...

Wendy
Carbone
June 8th, 2006, 08:15 PM
Some time ago, I wrote a tutorial on making flakes using the aforementioned website.

http://homepage.mac.com/carbmac/FileSharing8.html

It's the first item, to the left.

Hope this helps!

Ray
Wendy
June 9th, 2006, 03:59 AM
Ray ...

Oh dear ... I have started making flakes again ...!!

and now I just can't stop :eek:

Wendy
SCRAPPYGIRL
June 9th, 2006, 06:21 AM
Oh my that is great fun. How do we get our snowflakes posted here.
Wendy
June 9th, 2006, 06:31 AM
Hi Carol ...

Just download then to your computer, resave them and them post to Pixentral :)

Hey we are making snowflakes in June :eek: ... guess that it is good practice for Christmas :)

Wendy
SCRAPPYGIRL
June 9th, 2006, 06:32 AM
Thanks Wendy. . . making snowflakes in June certainly keeps one cool!!!!
Wendy
June 9th, 2006, 07:49 AM
Carol ...

I could do with some cool today ... its just gone mid day and its hot !! Too hot for me :)

Wendy
mom to 4
June 9th, 2006, 09:28 AM
I just made 3, wow, they really are fun!
Carbone
June 9th, 2006, 12:20 PM
At the time I made this, I was hosting (via my Pbase account) the Snowflakes Museum. So much fun :)

It is so cold here, I had to put a jacket on today. Now, I'm not complaining, we, Canadians, are used to living in Winter, 17 months a year... but in June, wearing anything other than a t-shirt... it's a rare event... :D

Ray
apasskey
June 9th, 2006, 03:20 PM
Uh Oh - I think I'm going to be in trouble now....these are really fun.

I'd love to see a real snowflake today. It is HOT today - Last weekend was 112 F. It isn't quite that bad now but it will be mighty hot anyway.I don't think we'll see cool now until November. My pool is as warm as a bath.
Thanks for sharing the site. Anne
Carbone
June 9th, 2006, 05:00 PM
People, why don't you use Pixentral to host your best snowflakes? That would be fun to see!

Ray
NRiceDesigns
June 9th, 2006, 06:30 PM
Ohhhhhhh nooooo - I'm afraid to get started with this... where's the earlier posts from the past 24 hrs. regarding the forum being addicting? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Every day there's something new to keep you up nights.;) My dog is getting so lonely I'm fear her next step is to eat my computer - I'm already playing fetch with one hand on the keyboard & the other on the ball!!
NRiceDesigns
June 9th, 2006, 06:59 PM
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1L7f8taVRpdkZLPgXU9oEed1treJ7V0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1L7f8taVRpdkZLPgXU9oEed1treJ7V0)
Wendy
June 9th, 2006, 07:04 PM
Oh nice flakes :)

Wendy
ktnoon60
June 9th, 2006, 07:05 PM
Nita those are lovely. I did post a warning with the link, next time I guess I should make it a bit larger.

Terry
NRiceDesigns
June 9th, 2006, 09:35 PM
No kidding Terry! There should be blinking warning lights. After I posted those I went back & created a snowstorm! THX so much for posting the link (I think ;) )
Carbone
June 9th, 2006, 10:43 PM
Cute little flakes !!! :)

Ray
mlalberry
June 10th, 2006, 05:27 AM
Wow, thanks everyone. I was hoping to get as answer but this far exceeded my expectations. I can't wait to give this a try!
Wendy
June 10th, 2006, 09:44 AM
Hi ...

When you have made some flakes do let us see them :)

Wendy
Litespeed
June 18th, 2006, 12:14 PM
Here's a stupid question. I downloaded a bunch of the snowflakes, then I copied them into brushes and also into custom shapes, not knowing what exactly what they were, but they don't show up anywhere. I have tried opening PSE4 again, but they still are no where to be found. I looked in my Windows Explorer and I see them there under custom shapes. Why don't I find them here? :confused:
Wendy
June 18th, 2006, 12:28 PM
Hi Litespeed ...

The snowflakes you make then download are just images not brushes or custom shapes.

If you want to turn them into brushes then you need to open the image, select the snowflake, fill it with black and then do Edit>Define Brush from Selection ..

and there is you brush.

You will then need to save it ... if you go here Wendy's Mini Tutorials (http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3641) you will find a tutorial called "Using the Preset Manager to Save brushes"

Sadly you won't be able to make custom shapes from them as Elements doesn't have the ability to do that ...

Wendy
kayser
June 18th, 2006, 12:30 PM
Litespeed- Since you're working your way through the Christmas stuff now, you'll be sitting back drinking eggnog while the rest of us are scrambling to get our Christmas cards done!
Wendy
June 18th, 2006, 04:20 PM
Kay ...

I'm beginning to think that I had better do mine ... or at least write a tut or two :)

Wendy