Western Styles

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Western Styles

Postby EYElene » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:14 am

Does anyone know where I can find western styles?

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Re: Western Styles

Postby debngar » Sun Jan 19, 2014 8:19 am

A free option...

If you want to include some rustic elements to your show and have a camera, you can be creative and capture your own unique pieces of content for your show. It's somewhat free to do and fun too. (At least I find it fun). Go to a place that has the elements that would fit that type of theme and shoot some pictures for extra content for your show. Even the newer smart phones have a decent camera and can capture fair pictures if you have one. I would choose a point and shoot over a phone in most cases though.

Here are some thoughts for content:

Coiled rope
Barn wood like background (to fill some backgrounds)
Tack room and equipment (allow for some "white space" for picture on top so it's not too busy of a combination)
Individual stable where a horse would stay that have those half-doors, use the top to place photos.
Cowboy boots and/or hat
Field or grassy area and a fence with leading lines to the horizon
Distant rickety barn in a scene
Horses or cows in a field
Horseshoe
Bales of hay
Picnic table with red and white table cloth

Photograph these things and leave white space for pictures on top.

Of course that would mean a day trip to a place that has that stuff which you might not be able to swing right now. But it would be a fun to find a day of the week you can manage to get those shots, have a picnic and make a fun outing of it. :D
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Re: Western Styles

Postby EYElene » Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:15 pm

Thanks for your suggestion. I have a lot of those elements already from when I took a trip to Texas. But I was really looking for styles to apply to the images.
I wish I knew how to make my own styles and transitions but I'm not that advanced yet.

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Re: Western Styles

Postby BarbaraC » Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:31 pm

EYElene wrote:I wish I knew how to make my own styles and transitions but I'm not that advanced yet.

I bet you're more advanced than you realize. If you can make a photo move from one spot to another, you can save the slide as a style. If you want decorative graphics included behind the photo, just remove the checkmark next to "Replaceable image" in Layer Settings, and then save the slide as a style. Start with something truly basic just to test the waters. You can do it. I have faith in you! :D

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Re: Western Styles

Postby EYElene » Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:46 pm

Awwww thank you Barbara :D
Do you know of any learning videos I can watch?

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Re: Western Styles

Postby BarbaraC » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:07 pm

Here's a beginner's tutorial from Photodex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEny8xpWedk

And you also always know where to find me. :D

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Re: Western Styles

Postby Betty » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:32 pm

If you use photoshop, here is a step by step on how to create a wild western wanted poster.

http://designinstruct.com/graphic-desig ... photoshop/

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Re: Western Styles

Postby debngar » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:49 pm

Note the examples below of shows with a Western theme. It's the imagery that conveys the theme. There is nothing "Western" about the slide styles or their movement used in the following show examples. The shows are older, but it's the combination of choices of related background pictures, music, font, captions and story that gives them their Western flavor.

By KarenLynn68 - "The Little Cowboy"
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 8192&alb=0

By HunnyB - "Cowgirl Photo Shoot"
http://www.photodex.com/share/HunnyB/2kmacmg4

By HunnyB - "Trail Riding 2009"
http://www.photodex.com/share/HunnyB/6gbg6mg4

Another freebie idea: Search for Western fonts and Western Dingbat fonts that you can insert into your show.

Here is just one of many links out there:
http://www.dingbatdepot.com/category/Western

Regardless of the theme, this approach can be used for any show.
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Re: Western Styles

Postby EYElene » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:16 pm

Thank you all for these great replies!

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