Scraptorial 4 - 10 Ways to Jazz Up Word Art Part 2

Hello again, my Scrappy Friends! I am so glad you are here and I hope you find something enjoyable to do in this week's Scraptorial--the second half of 10 Ways to Jazz Up Word Art. I've found you all some more totally free, commercial-use and very cool resources to use with these five new techniques and I will share links for them below. (Hey, if I am nothing else, I am a good scrap-supply hoarder, and I will do my best to make all of you one as well! Just one more service I cheerfully provide.) And I just want to take one moment to remind everyone that although I design these instructions in Photoshop CC (simply because that is all I own and all I know how to design in) you are absolutely welcome to use whatever design software you personally own and/or prefer. No worries. If you are having fun and you are getting things done, then you are doing it right. (As my daughter would say, "You, do YOU!")

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• Link for CU OK Free Seamless Pat Files by HG Designs on Deviant Art

• Link for FREE CU OK Inky Leaks Free Mini Sampler by Grut Brushes

• Zip - The zip file contains all the Scraptorial pages of instructions, my jazzed up word art, plus handy-dandy links to snag the free goodies I found for you this week. Download the zip and open each page in Photoshop as you work through the instructions. I made the font big so you can easily read it in PS at a reduced size. The pictures are on the smaller side, so increase the page to 100% or more if you want a better view of the pictures. I am hoping that arrangement makes it easy to follow along. The pages are also 8.5 by 11" if anyone would desire to print them out and work from a printed copy.

  These Scraptorials will remain open and active for you whenever you find time to do them, so there are no due dates to worry about. Please consider posting your results in the comments (or the Commons) when you are done so we all can admire your pretties and let you know what a fabulous job you did. And don't ever hesitate to ask any questions you may have, offer suggestions for new topics or how I can improve the way I am doing things, or just to check in and let us know you are still on the right side of the dirt. We all love to chat and offer help, if you ever have need of it.

  I was so impressed with the delightful word art you created last week, my creative friends, and I am looking forward to seeing much more beautiful typography from all of you!

  

  . . . if your Photoshop or Photoshop Elements is being super sloooooooooooow or getting bogged down when processing, there might be an easy way to make it just a bit faster? I make no guarantees, but I tried it and I think it helped. In the main menu, click Edit > Preferences > Performance. By default, Photoshop is set to use no more than 70% of your hard drive's memory. The suggestion I read was to change this amount by 5% increments . . . 75% . . . 80% . . . 85% . . . and see if it speeds things up without making other processes on your computer hang or slow down too much. I threw caution to the wind, as I usually do, and whooped mine up to 90% (although they absolutely do not recommend that--LOL) and since I rarely do much of anything else on the computer while I am in PS, it has been fine and seems to lessen the time I was spending waiting for PS to get around to it! You do need to restart PS to have the changes take effect. Okay, there it is, for what it might be worth to you! (And don't forget to weed out the brushes, patterns, fonts, gradients, contours, and style files you have uploaded into PS every now and then, too.)