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By: A Bee’s Life: Yorkie’s Tale » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:13:10 +0000

[...] came to mind as a detail, so I started searching. Before long, I found the instructions on Brooklyn Bride for the digital silhouettes that would become the official logo of our little shindig. Searches on [...]

By: Karl Johnson

Karl Johnson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:01:00 +0000

My husband Karl Johnson is a silhouette artist and he creates custom silhouettes both at weddings or from photos for brides and grooms to use on invitations. He can be found at http://www.cutarts.com.

Thanks,
Lauren

By: Vane

Vane — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:39:00 +0000

julia, once you have the area you want highlighted, just use your paintcan tool and fill it with white.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:48:00 +0000

Thank you for the directions! How do you turn everything in the background pure white? Needless to say, I am new at photoshop…!

By: Darci

Darci — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:19:00 +0000

I love this, thank you so much for the instructions! I am going to try it out this week…

By: Leah in Brooklyn

Leah in Brooklyn — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:11:00 +0000

I love the silhouette concept, and have actually arranged for a silhouette artist to mingle during our reception and create silhouettes of our guests (a fun diversion and a unique gift for guests to take home). For our close family, he will cut two pieces of paper so we get copies, too. We’re getting married in England, so the artist is based there, but there is likely something similar over here, too. Here is the link to our guy:
http://www.roving-artist.com/home.html

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:00:00 +0000

Love this idea! If only I didn’t have this giant honker of a nose… I actually have explicit directions for my photographer: NO side profiles of the bride!!!

By: Lisa from Blush

Lisa from Blush — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:18:00 +0000

Hi Vane,
love, love, love silhouettes! Thanks for the tutorial. A couple of years ago I came across this invitation someone had made, it was fantastic. She had her bridal party take a full body picture of themselves in a neat/interesting/funny pose and send them to her (they had no idea why) and she silhouetted them all in fun colours. It was fantastic. I probably still have the picture somewhere.

By: Vane

Vane — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:41:00 +0000

I do know Kara Walker! Back in college, I actually babysat her daughter…she’s a sweetheart!

By: meladoriem

meladoriem — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:37:00 +0000

Love it! Thanks for the directions, Vane.

Have you ever seen artist, Kara Walker’s work? Really great, but more political than wedding friendly!