Chalk It Up Tips and Resources
Create your own digital chalkboard signs from scratch with this companion to Diana Day’s “Chalk It Up” tutorial in the March/April 2013 issue.
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Michele
March 7, 2013 at 11:53 am
Oh, my, this is more “extra” than a person could ask for! Thank you so much for putting this together, I can’t wait to go play with it all!
Diana
March 7, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Hi Michele,
I’m glad to hear how excited you are to try this project. Hope you have as much fun with it as I have.
Diana
Peggy
March 8, 2013 at 4:14 pm
Thanks for all of this information to go along with your article. It is really appreciated!
Diana
March 8, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Thank you, Peggy, for letting me know these extras are useful to my readers. I’m happy to share them with you all.
Mary
March 8, 2013 at 7:51 pm
Thank you for all your hard work – this makes the article look as if it was easy to put together – WOW my mind goes blank just thinking of it! As an add-on….as Peggy said it is really appreciated!
Diana
March 8, 2013 at 8:07 pm
You are very welcome, Mary. Hope you have fun with the project tutorial and extras.
Michele
March 9, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Diana, would you be willing to tell me what font you used for “when skies are grey” on the Sunshine example? Thank you!
Diana
March 9, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Sure Michele…. it’s Albemarle Swash http://fontzone.net/?q=albemarle+swash. I thought I had included that on my font sheet. Sorry about that. So many great fonts and so little space on my sheet. :-)
Michele
March 12, 2013 at 4:07 pm
Thank you so much! I will be interested in seeing other creations as well on flickr. Mine is taking a while to make, ha ha. I only have a few minutes here and there to play.
Thanks again!!
Diana
March 9, 2013 at 5:36 pm
I would love to see the chalkboard signs you all create. I created a Flickr Group where we can upload our images to share with other users. You need to have a Flickr account to upload.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/pse_chalkboards/
Natalie
March 10, 2013 at 8:35 pm
Thanks so much! This is GREAT!!
I made a menu board but now I can find some new fonts and dingbats to play with.
Doris
March 11, 2013 at 5:36 pm
This is great. Thank you for the font suggestions and the wonderful times. Appreciate it.
Diana
March 11, 2013 at 7:07 pm
It appears I’m not alone in my font addiction. I’m so happy this project is so popular. Thank YOU all for your comments and appreciation.
Diana
Linda
March 15, 2013 at 8:21 pm
This info is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to put it all together!
Diana
March 15, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Thanks, Linda… you are very welcome. I enjoyed doing it.
Deborah
March 21, 2013 at 8:26 am
The tutorial was terrific, what a great idea! Just one question, how do I get the white to print? Say if I want to use my creation for a program.
Diana
March 21, 2013 at 11:03 pm
Thanks for your nice comment, Deborah. When you print your chalkboard creation, your printer prints the blacks and gray tones, and where there is white (chalk), no ink is laid down. So, for the text and design to look white, it must be printed on white paper.
Denise
March 22, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Wow!!~ Thank you so much for the awesome tutorial! I just love the chalk design signs I see everywhere these days!! So nostalgic. I can’t wait to start playing with these for some cool layouts! Thanks again :)
Diana
March 22, 2013 at 12:54 pm
I’m so glad you like it, Denise.
Gina
March 23, 2013 at 1:03 am
The tutorial was very informative. I’ve always wanted to create a chalkboard, but just didn’t know where to begin. Thank you for sharing. Greatly appreciated!!!
Diana
March 23, 2013 at 4:53 am
I’m happy to share the fun with other Elements users, Gina. Hope you enjoy creating yours.
Diana
March 24, 2013 at 11:34 am
Please post your chalkboard creations either in the gallery at http://www.elementsvillage.com, http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com, or http://www.flickr.com/groups/pse_chalkboards/
Then post a link to them here.
Diana
Davd
March 24, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Loved the tutorial and it worked nicely. I do have one concern, after downloading some of the font types and ribbons I started getting ADD WARE links showing up as underlined linked words in other internet pages…. the only thing I can think of is that one of the “truefont” file types had a bug…..
I know this is not you Diana, just a warning to others to be careful when down loading….
Diana
March 24, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Thanks, for your nice comment on my tutorial, and the heads up, Davd.
I probably should have mentioned that some free font sites have several links on their download pages, some which lead to ads or to products other than the font, which can be misleading. You do need to be careful and watch that you are clicking the correct Download button. And at some font sites they required you to first download a download manager to get the font–I have tried to especially avoid those in my list.I haven’t seen any of this practice at all yet on DAFONT.COM.
There is one thing you can usually do to avoid the wrong download link. Hover your mouse cursor over the download button or link and you should see an address or label showing where the link leads.
As an example, here’s a link to a screenshot of a tricky one:
[URL=http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=14xwGer5qSEukfKytHxjJrSm24m1c80][IMG]http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/14xwGer5qSEukfKytHxjJrSm24m1c80_thumb.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Diana
March 24, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Whoops, posted the link used for forums, which doesn’t work here. The correct URL is here:
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1ztOZTpsP3VLZVWMtj2NlD7lMKXJI
Susan
April 17, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Diana,
This is an amazing tutorial. I heard about it so I renewed my expired subscription to Elements!
Thank you.
Diana
April 18, 2013 at 8:56 am
Thanks for your comment, Susan… you made my day. You make me look good to the subscriptions dept. :-)