How to make a Curled Film strip

[Woodmaker]

I am making filmstrips from the videos in the subscriber area. I see some of the gallery pictures have curled filmstrips. Is there a way to make your own curled filmstrips?

Tom

[Wendy]

Hi Tom ..

You can use the Sheer tool to bend film strips or Panos has some actions for curved ones .

... but I think that the ones in the gallery maybe downloaded templates :)

Wendy

[Woodmaker]

Thanks Wendy I will give it a try with the shear tool... Something to spend my afternoon on...

[Wendy]

Hi Tom ...

I did a tut on using The Shear Tool :)

Here it is:

Using the Shear Filter ( http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2682)

.. and here is an image I did back in 2005 that used the technique on the film strip :)

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1mr8YMlrxRWbKdQ9u6AjEZWYQeV980_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1mr8YMlrxRWbKdQ9u6AjEZWYQeV980)

Hope that it helps ...

Wendy

[Bayla]

Tom,

Whilst it's fun to make your own, they can be quite tricky unless you're going for something quite simple.

If you're interested in some amazing & FREE curled filmstrips in psd format take a look HERE (http://www.storeide.se/gunhild/index.htm) - don't be put off by the fact that it's all in Danish, just click on Scrapbooking on the lefthandside & there's a host of freebies including quite a few different filmstrips! (You need to scroll almost to the bottom to see them)

Bayla

[vawitt]

Bayla - thanks for the link! There's some cool stuff there!

(...and thanks for the quick trip to Denmark! :))

~Val in cloudy IL

[twoaussies]

Bayla: Just downloaded and used the curled film strips - what a fun effect. Jean