OVERLAYS 3 Examples of designs used in the Overlays 3 custom shapes and font sets from www.graphicxtras.com All the designs included in this document are from the custom shapes pack 101 and fonts pack 89 from graphicxtras.com (c) 2009 Andrew Buckle Photoshop and Adobe and Illustrator are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated
The set has many dierent line designs. In some cases a single line or multiple thickness of lines
Simply apply the design but at 90 decrees.
You can always oset two sets, re-color one red and one black.
Squares can always be colored in
Half and half - background of yellow
Complex lattice
Or a frame, add a single rectangle to the image
Interlinked grid
Three color grid
Circular designs
Lightning strike
Diamonds
Repeat applies of the designs, rough background
Frame
Crackled frame
Color bands
Jagged
Scattered lines
Overlay of yellow
Transformed
Combination and mirrored and transformed
Combined and shift
Tile four corners
Filled elements
Top level
Gradient
Diamond background
Green and blue
Purple angular
Curtains
Blocks
Red grid
More
Green and red dots
Red Dot
Diamond back
Oset
Grid
Mountain side
Red strokes
Embossed grid
Shadow jagged lines
Collage
Raised
Weave
U turn
Prison
Rings 3D
Frame of rings
Lattice
Red lattice
Shadow fracture
Red lines
Tree trunk
Criss
Triangled
Circled
Mesh
Slash
Custom shapes are stored in CSH format for use in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Fonts designs are stored in TTF for use in virtually all applications. Both sets of the overlays set 3 includes EPS designs. In the case of the font set, the EPS designs are the equivalent of the TTF designs. The CSH set is the core set of designs, the EPS include the core and variant designs such as bevelled and shadow designs. The custom shapes and the font set are all vectors and are resolution-free so they can be used in a document 100 x 100 or a document 5000 x 5000 without any loss of quality. All the designs in the shapes and fonts pack are for commercial and personal use. The designs included in this PDF are all based on the designs included in the set, as is or modified in some way or combined with a background or itself or another design. The custom shapes are easy to load into Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as they can be opened as a JPG or GIF file and the resulting designs are added to the custom shapes palette as long as the shapes palette is not close to the maximum allowed shapes. Once added to the shapes palette, the shapes can be used via the custom shapes tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements as well as the cookie cutter tool in Photoshop Elements, though it would be great if that was included in Photoshop, as well as the shape blur effect in Photoshop, which is sadly lacking in Photoshop Elements. Once the shapes have been added to Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and accessed via the shapes tools, the shapes palette will appear allowing access to the overlay designs. The designs included in the core set is 80 for the overlays 3 set. Select the shape and then apply as either a shape layer or path or fill design and this depends on the selected button along the top bar of Photoshop. The design can be added freely or constrained or applied as a nozzle by a simple click of the Photoshop document. The designs can be colored via the foreground color in the toolbox or if applied as a layer, the color can be applied also via the color overlay in layer effects as well as by other means. Warp, transform, tweak the shapes in a variety of ways, the effectiveness depending on being a shape layer or fill, as well as combine with other designs via the pathfinder controls of intersect, exclude, subtract etc. The shapes can also have effects applied such as stained glass, distortions, texturizer and other native plugin effects as well as third party plug-ins such as KPT, Cybia plug-ins, Alien Skin plugins and others. Custom shapes are a useful set of tools for millions of different design projects. Oh, they can also be quickly converted into brushes, saved as PNG files for use in other applications, exported to other applications such as Illustrator, used in After Effects and much more. Now to fonts. Ok, fonts are part of the OS and need to be installed via the control panel on the PC or you can just select them and right click the TTF to install; if you are on a MAC then you will need to install them via applications folder, Font Book. How to use them, well that is another story.