I have a little sneak to share from Studio Calico's May kit, 35mm:
This month's kits are filled with awesome stuff and lots of hexagons - which I'm loving right now. Want to know how to make your photos into hexagons without using a punch? I'll tell you how!
I did a bunch of hexagon photos for this layout using Studio Calico's March kit. It was all done in Photoshop using masks. Start by making a hexagon using the custom shapes tool:
Bring in your photo on a separate layer and place it over top of the hexagon. The hexagon is now your mask and you'll create a clipping mask for the photo. Select layer > create clipping mask OR hold your mouse between the two layers in the layers panel and click ALT/OPTION. This makes your photo fill up the hexagon shape:
You can now resize your photo and move it around to make it fill the mask how you want it. Just be sure you are only working with the photo layer and not changing the size of your hexagon mask:
Repeat for more hexes:
To make the big honeycomb on my Thirty-One Down layout above I created the pattern of hexagons in Illustrator then imported it into Photoshop to use as a mask - it was just easier to set up the pattern for me this way. But now the possibilites with hexagons are endless. Go forth and mask!
Don't forget that I have a free ship code for Two Peas in a Bucket going on right now:
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Treat yo self and buy some new supplies to create your new hexagon-ified pages with! Click HERE to shop the new products in-stock now.
