The Male Room Architecture

Hi Everyone my card for

http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/

is a card for Hubby's birthday which is next week, he won't see it, he isn't into blogs LOL. Go to the Challenge and see what beauties the DT have done, just fabulous and so clever.

This was I thought a big challenge, then thought of a few photos taken back in 2015 of St David's Cathedral in West Wales, nothing like OLD Architecture is it? It's a really beautiful place and, in which we had a wonderful day out. I thought one of the pictures would bring back memories of a lovely day.

It wouldn't be me to just place the photo onto a card, so I played about with the image in PS and made it to look like a sketch, (something like an Architect would do?) Such a simple thing to do. See at the end of the post.

I added a layout plan of the Cathedral and embossed the layer

Dry stone wall EF Crafters Companion

  digi paper and a PS mask by Memory Scraps
 to enhance the sentiment.
Twine stash

Tattered Lace circle die
Tonic rectangle scallopped die
Sue Wilson Noble square dies.
couple silhouette.com

I had this tutorial from SnickerDoodles on Digital Scrapbooking Studio tutorials.

1.  Duplicate your photo. (Image > Duplicate OR Keyboard Shortcut: Control + J) (PSE Users: File > Duplicate OR Control + J )
2. Desaturate the duplicate. (Image > Adjustments > Desaturate).(PSE Users: Enhance > Adjust Colour > Remove Colour)
3. Duplicate the Desaturated layer. Now you have 2 desaturated photo layers and the original colour photo layer.)
4. . Invert the top desaturated layer: Image> Adjustments > Invert (PSE Users: Filter > Adjustments > Invert)
5. Change the Blend Mode of the Inverted layer to Colour Dodge. (This will turn your document white, and that's okay!). (Using Blend Modes in Photoshop, if you need help with this step.)
6.  Next we will apply the Minimum Filter: Filter > Other > Minimum. Set the Radius to your liking; 1-3 pixels usually works best. Experiment with the Squareness or Roundness (not available in PSE). I usually leave it at Squareness. Be sure the Preview box is ticked so you can see adjustments as you make them.
7. If you would like darker lines, you can add a Levels adjustment, dragging the left slider to the right. (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels).
8. And that's it!
9. Another way of colouring this  - Click on the colour photo that is in your layers panel, and drag it up to the top layer position. Change the blend mode of the colour photo to "Colour." Adjust the opacity to your liking.