Originally known as the design house suite vol. 1, the design house library vol. 1 is a library of Adobe Photoshop actions, brushes, custom shapes, and styles, as well as hi-res backgrounds, wallpapers, textures, digital mats, and photo objects. In essence it’s a complete digital design house for the modern photographer and designer.
design house vol. 1 contains over 40 Photoshop actions.
There are black and white actions, sepia actions, punch and workflow actions, sizing actions, colorization actions, and of course, there are 12 of those infamous monkey actions that create some of the most stunning cross-processing effects in the market.
design house actions are easy to use, highly adjustable, and completely non-destructive. That means you can intuitively adjust all of the actions in the set and never damage your original file. And, unlike many actions on the market, you can layer design house actions easily to create new and custom effects.
design house vol. 1 contains over 55 Photoshop brushes.
From grunge to florals and everything in between. The design house brushes were created to enhance images not only as paint brushes, but also as burn/dodge tools, erasers, and clone stamps.
The example to the right shows just a little bit of what is possible with design house brushes.
design house vol. 1 contains 26 digital mats.
Do you love those grungy and ornamental edges around your photos? Of course you do. They add an edge of creativity and a fleurish to your albums.
design house vol. 1 digital mats are hi-resolution tiff files that allow you to quickly and easily create grungy borders with clipping masks. They are completey adjustable, sizable and just plain easy to use. There is no limit to what you can do with your album pages and marketing pieces.
design house vol. 1 contains 64 custom shapes.
Custom shapes are really vector paths saved inside of your Photoshop presets manager. A vector path is an important part of the design world, because it lets artists render concise shapes and images at any size (teeny tiny or gigantic) without any loss to the original image.
Add window light to your plain studio portraits or replicate a brush that would have been limited to only 2500 pixels (by photoshop). There are literally thousands of creative applications for these custom shapes.
design house vol. 1 contains more than 100 hi-res photo and handmade textures.
These hi-res files are big enough to be used as backgrounds in your albums or marketing pieces. They also make great texture overlays for your images.
The hi-res handmade texture files are among the most-used tools in the design house library, and they’ve been part of some really big wins in competition.
design house vol. 1 hundreds of background and wallpaper files for your albums and marketing pieces.
Choose from printed patterns and mottled spot wallpapers in a plethora of colors to antique burlap sacks and pre-made album page backgrounds.
Your album pages will never be boring again. Dig in and get creative.
design house vol. 1 also contains 15 hi-res card stock pieces.
Designed to WHCC card standards, these pre-made card stock backgrounds give you a great starting point to make cards and marketing pieces of all kinds. Just drag and drop them onto your canvas and get creative.
design house vol. 1 also contains some great photo objects.
When dropped on a page and combined with your images, these fully clipped, hi-res photo objects make your designs more real. From thumbtacks and paperclips to keys and luggage tags, there are 10 great photo objects to incorporate in your albums and juice your creativity.
System Requirements
design house by Andy Armstrong requires a dvd-rom drive for install. Most of the actions and styles require Adobe Photoshop® CS2, CS3, or CS4 however, many of the pieces in this collection will work in most any professional photo editing software. design|house™ is MAC & PC Compatible
To learn about specific features and see samples of the design house™ library volume 1, you can visit the design house™ learning center.
To purchase the design house library vol. 1, visit the design house store now.
