Grosgrain ribbon

Making Grosgrain Ribbon
PhotoImpact 10
(Can be done with any version).

Description: Make gross Grain Ribbon
Author: Post on the Scrapbook Forum and responses. Brenda, Cindy, Birgit, Sharon.
Terms of Use: Please read
Skill Level: Beginner I assume you know where the tools are in PhotoImpact. I would suggest that you take the free Beginners Workshop to learn this program if you do not know how to use it very well.

Tools: Path Shapes, texture fill, special effects gallery, texture filter, line and arrow tool, think I have them all.
Additional Files: Greg's Factory Output Vol. 2 Pool Shadow filter if you wish is a 3rd party filter.

NOTE: Save your work often. I suggest you read the entire tutorial, before you start.

Instructions:
Brenda gave this way: Then you can merge the two layers, rotate it, add borders to it, add a drop shadow, etc. Oh, I like to add some noise to it as well. Makes it look a little more like fabric. _________________________________________________________________________________ Cindy: That works quite well that way, Brenda !! There is a different way I do it. Here's the way I do grosgrain ribbon. I don't know that it's any easier and making the ribbon wavy is only an option but if a person wants to do that, it needs to be done before putting the texture to it. _________________________________________________________________________________ Birgit: Here's a third method to do the ribbon. _________________________________________________________________________________ Brenda: Wonderful! Two more ways to do it! I'd tried Cindy's method but couldn't get it to work. I didn't play with the sliders enough. Thanks, Cindy, for the settings. Birgit, you way is simplicity itself. That works just great. I played with combining your method and Cindy's to make the wavy part and then applied Greg's Factory Output Vol 2 Pool Shadow (really love that filter) effect to come up with this: I'd want to get the waves more even and the border a little thinner, but just a quick test was easy to do. _________________________________________________________________________________ Sharon: I love the shadowed effect - Yet another version - My method for straight ribbon ( using PI XL) Make two long rectangles one slightly wider (about 5 pixels) than the other and place the narrower one on top of the other. Go to Effect Gallery and Texture. Apply Embossed 7 to the front narrower part of the ribbon, and Embossed 6 to the wider back part of the ribbon center both , then merge as a single object _________________________________________________________________________________p> Rosalie: Ladies and I want to put this on the SB Web Site in the tutorial section for others. Fabulous job on the instructions. We had someone ask about making this over a year ago at the board but I couldn't find that post. Do not want to lose these great instructions.> I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and try and make this type of ribbon.. If you wish to do so, post your results in the Scrapbook and Crafts forum of the PhotoImpact International Bulletin Board. Thank you!

Instructions:

Brenda gave this way:

Then you can merge the two layers, rotate it, add borders to it, add a drop shadow, etc. Oh, I like to add some noise to it as well. Makes it look a little more like fabric.

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Cindy: That works quite well that way, Brenda !! There is a different way I do it.

Here's the way I do grosgrain ribbon. I don't know that it's any easier and making the ribbon wavy is only an option but if a person wants to do that, it needs to be done before putting the texture to it.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Birgit: Here's a third method to do the ribbon.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Brenda: Wonderful! Two more ways to do it! I'd tried Cindy's method but couldn't get it to work. I didn't play with the sliders enough. Thanks, Cindy, for the settings.

Birgit, you way is simplicity itself. That works just great. I played with combining your method and Cindy's to make the wavy part and then applied Greg's Factory Output Vol 2 Pool Shadow (really love that filter) effect to come up with this:

I'd want to get the waves more even and the border a little thinner, but just a quick test was easy to do.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Sharon: I love the shadowed effect -

Yet another version -
My method for straight ribbon ( using PI XL)

Make two long rectangles one slightly wider (about 5 pixels) than the other and place the narrower one on top of the other.
Go to Effect Gallery and Texture.
Apply Embossed 7 to the front narrower part of the ribbon,
and Embossed 6 to the wider back part of the ribbon
center both , then merge as a single object

_________________________________________________________________________________p>
Rosalie: Ladies and I want to put this on the SB Web Site in the tutorial section for others. Fabulous job on the instructions.

We had someone ask about making this over a year ago at the board but I couldn't find that post. Do not want to lose these great instructions.>

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and try and make this type of ribbon..
If you wish to do so, post your results in the Scrapbook and Crafts forum of the
PhotoImpact International Bulletin Board. Thank you!