{"id":1215,"date":"2015-12-12T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:53:58","slug":"candy-cane-christmas-light-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Candy Cane Christmas Light Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SMALL-Carla-Candy-Cane-Text1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1223\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SMALL-Carla-Candy-Cane-Text1-1024x242.jpg\" alt=\"Candy Cane Christmas Light Text\" width=\"600\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SMALL-Carla-Candy-Cane-Text1-1024x242.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SMALL-Carla-Candy-Cane-Text1-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SMALL-Carla-Candy-Cane-Text1.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candy Cane Christmas Light Text (Click for larger image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My wife planned a Disneyworld trip to see the Christmas lights they put up every year. \u00a0She also insisted that I put together a vacation poster like those I have done in the past. \u00a0To change it up a little, I wanted to make the text at the bottom of the poster more &#8220;Christmasy&#8221;. \u00a0Now, what says Christmas more than a string of lights and candy canes? \u00a0So I did some googling to see how to photoshop Christmas lights and candy canes.<\/p>\n<p>First off, I found a\u00a0<em>GREAT <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5trPRqvDEUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youtube\u00a0tutorial<\/a> by\u00a0<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdNH09xTB9GTrflb4DZr4lg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ytid=\"UCdNH09xTB9GTrflb4DZr4lg\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDEQ4TkiEwjas63G7dbJAhXRwr4KHeNRBvEo-B0\">Keeling Design &amp; Media<\/a>\u00a0that walks you through the process to hang a strand of Christmas lights on letters (they also have a nice tutorial on making rope lights). \u00a0However, the light bulbs used in the Keeling Design video are pretty basic. \u00a0Instead of using the Keeling Design lights, I drew mine using a tutorial by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckleupstudios.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buckle Up Studios<\/a>. \u00a0The Buckle Up lights look just like the ones my parents used to hang on our tree way back in the day\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckleupstudios.com\/blog\/christmas-lights-photoshop-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tutorial here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While searching for Christmas light tutorials, I ran across another tutorial on making candy cane letters by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iceflowstudios.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ice Flow Studios<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iceflowstudios.com\/2011\/tutorials\/photoshop-candy-cane-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tutorial here<\/a>). \u00a0Combine the three tutorials and you get the image above. \u00a0Once you work through the process the first time, it is very simple to spell out anything you need.<\/p>\n<p>My wife is very excited to see the finished project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife planned a Disneyworld trip to see the Christmas lights they put up every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,8],"tags":[332,331,175],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-photography","category-photoshop-tips","tag-candy-cane-letters","tag-christmas-tree-lights","tag-photoshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}