The Highest Accolades Dress from Anthropologie’s September 2010 catalog is one of the most charming dresses I’ve seen in a long time and it’s the inspiration for today’s short and sweet Pixel Pointers Tip — award ribbons!
Award ribbons are easy to create in Photoshop! You can also use the Scallop and Starburst Medallions if you like.
If you want to make award ribbons similar to the ones I made, you can easily create your own solid medallions in Adobe Photoshop by following these 10 simple steps:
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Lovely!
I think it would also be fun to use a couple of scallops on
each other from small to big. This way you can also use
the patterned scallops in the back so the font will still be
clear when you put an 1 colour scallop above it… Oh.. does
this make any sense with my pour English :p?
Those are so cool! And I love the dress too.
How fun! I knew that ellipse tool was there. I’ve just never taken the time to play with it…..well, I just did! Thank you for posting this!
I love this idea! I only just discovered your beautiful website, love love love it. I’m going to play with the medallions some more, but for now I’ve made myself a new blog header with some of them (with a shout out to you :)
I’m using Pixelmator rather than photoshop (because I am cheap), but I find for the most part the same steps can be taken. It takes some effort to add drop shadows, but they make things look so much better than just one layer on the page.
Thanks for your fantastic blog!
You are fantastic, I really need to learn to do stuff like this!
How fun!! I can’t wait to start giving out random awards to anything I can find :) October 1st can’t come fast enough!
how fun are these award ribbons~!!! great job katrina!! btw, stop by my blog to enter my giveaway for ad space, i think your shop is soo lovely!!
I love these Katrina! So adorable. Thanks, as always, for your tips.
Pssst head on over to my site to check out how I employed the use of your fabric ribbon :) You rock!
I just found your blog a few weeks ago and am now totally obsessed. You are amazing!!!! Love all your tutorials!
oh thank you thank you girl!!!
such a wonderful tutorial. . . and super cute ribbons!!!
and those fonts!
grabbed the ones i didn’t have already :)
what a cute idea!! & this dress is a stunner.. je l’adore!! :)
I think I need to get Photoshop ASAP!!!
I’ve always been hesitant on giving awards to other websites b/c part of the prestige of getting an award has to do with displaying a fancy cool award icon/ribbon. So thanks for these ideas
wish i had photoshop. this is super darling! love your work as always. your blog is one of the blogs im constantly obsessed with! thanks for the inspiration, friend!!!
Thank you – I love all your designs and this really makes me happy. I love that Anthro dress,too! Suzy
i could totally see you wearing that dress, hell the whole outfit. i love the award ribbon idea! your e-course is going to be amazing i just know it!
Amazing, thank you for this! Question – how do you add a shadow to the scalloped image?
Also, what do you mean by a strike in the text?
how did you apply the stroke to the learning curve font? the letters are not connected so it looked different…
thanks for sharing! I’ll give it a try.
Thank you for this super easy and fun tutorial!! I just posted about this great tutorial on my blog. Thanks again :)
Happy Friday!
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Love these! Thanks for the wonderful tips and tutorial.
(~.~)~Bekah
Oh I wish I had photoshop so I could play around and make my own awards. I will have to settle with admiring yours.
Thanks for this! Now I feel ambitious enough to do something really cool.
can’t thank you enough for taking the time to write out and share all of your fabulous tutorials! Thanks!!
These are just gorgeous and your tutorial is so clear and easy to follow! Thanks for sharing! I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve borrowed your photo to put something about your blog on my blog. I feel I need to shout your fabulous-ness out to those that haven’t discovered you yet!
I recently came across your blog and it is so wonderful. Then I saw that dress from anthropologie and I had to stop and comment, I have been a bit obsessed with it since I first saw it :) Thank you so much for the lovely tutorial I am going to have to give it try this weekend.
Thank you for the medallion tutorial! I just made one and it was very easy. I learn something new everyday on Photoshop, and I’ve been using it for 15 years!
Thanks for the tutorial. I was surprised that it was so easy. I’m off to make Award Ribbons for random things now…
wow, just found your blog and am LOVING it! Thanks so much for all the cute freebies. I’m a newbie blogger and can’t wait to try out all this cute stuff! Thank you!
Out-take ribbon!
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