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Thanks Carole, and Ben, I do understand the purpose of both Auto-Save and Auto-Preserve. I have my own pattern of saving whether I’m designing or doing a layout. The auto process messes that up completely. I’ve disabled Auto-save in every version of PSP I’ve used with no dire results. In PSP 19 I couldn’t find the Auto-Save until you, Carole, pointed me in the right direction. In every other PSP I’ve used it was under General Preferences so, stupid old woman that I am, I didn’t think to look on the same menu where General Preferences is listed. Anyway, all is well and thank you both. ?
Hi Best Teacher, Hi All Love everyone’s work.
Got mine done in Record time, Plus I could do, and follow all our Teachers instructions with No Hassle at all. Omg this was so fun, most fun I had so far. I wrote the maker of the Kumbaya and said thank you, loved this kit so much!
Gave me good thoughts and loved every bit of it. I had a rough day worrying about a 11 yr old boy missing here, haven’t heard a word about it till today. And hes been missing 3 days! The news just kills me all the time, 🙁 Nuff of that. 🙁
This lesson this today helped me so much, and reading and seeing all you all stuff. Thanks all. Our Governor made it mandatory to wear a mask over 10 yrs old, or you can get a misdemeanor charge and up to 500 in fines.
Day 5
Here’s my 2nd scrapbook page. I decided that I would use this workshop opportunity to make pages from our cats. Although we take a lot of photos of them, they don’t often get honored so prominently on scrapbook pages. (I normally do the old fashioned paper pages.)
I really enjoyed learning the shortcuts for several functions.
Digital kit from Club Scrap – Avant Garde (March 2008).
Busy day today; but I finally made time to complete the assignment. I have always tried to learn keyboard shortcuts instead of all the menus and clicking so many of the Ctrl key shortcuts were familiar. There is a set of PSP2020 keyboard shortcuts that can be printed from the program. The Ctrl+L was a new one to me and one I will use a lot.
I found a couple of free template sets from digidebdesigns.com that I used elements for this assignment.
No problems today. I am starting to dig this scrapbooking.
Thanks to my very special daughter-in-love for allowing me to use her lovely photo. A couple of years ago she sat beside this to eat her lunch.
Sorry, I didn’t follow directions for papers placement and don’t have patience left to go back and try to change them.
I used the kit “garden of the confidences” by paprika.
The title font is “Edda” and the text is Janda “As Long As You Love Me”
A hunter killed a mountain lion mama and she fell on one kitten and it died. The hunter went out the next day and got the other two kittens and brought them to the Wildlife Center and it turned out they would never be releasable, so we raised them and they finally went to a zoo when they were old enough. They have greyish blue eyes because they are blind for several weeks after birth. They were explorers and loved petting and cuddling, but not as much as a bobcat. They did sound like a chain saw when they purred.
A hunter killed a mountain lion mama and she fell on one kitten and it died. The hunter went out the next day and got the other two kittens and brought them to the Wildlife Center and it turned out they would never be releasable, so we raised them and they finally went to a zoo when they were old enough. They have greyish blue eyes because they are blind for several weeks after birth. They were explorers and loved petting and cuddling, but not as much as a bobcat. They did sound like a chain saw when they purred. I accidently hit the send button a second time and the computer told me off.
I hope it gets thru this time. I had to add the picture, again and add some text.
On July 16th I posted my first project but called it Project #3. It should have said Day Project #1. Sorry about that.
HenryHello
Today I’m posting my second project, Nelson, our grandson, was special in many ways. He was born with a disease that increasingly crippled his body, not his mind, he was gifted in so many ways. Although he needed total care as far as physical needs, he never complained, was cheerful and encouraging those around him. He blessed so many people during his short life and we miss him.
HenryHenry, I really like this layout but it’s what you’ve told us about Nelson that makes it so special. Would you consider adding the story to your layout? I know it’s said that “a picture is worth a thousand words” but sometimes the words are necessary to add meaning and purpose to a layout. I know that you have not included journaling here because it’s not part of our assignment but for your own album it would be a wonderful addition for those who see it in the future, especially family members. ?
So here’s my next page. I finally got a good photo of my newest great-granddaughter. She just came home from neonatal intensive care. Born June 26, she was a preemie and only weighed 4lbs 8oz. She had a feeding tube, which made it hard to hold her 🙁 But, now she’s gained her weight back and is finally home! As you can see, her Mom is fond of elephants and mandalas 😉
I followed the style of my first page pretty much but added more embellishments this time. I also added a vignette frame to the photo. Took me a long time to figure out to use the background eraser and save things as a .psd to preserve the transparent backgrounds.
Can you tell me where to find the printable list of keyboard shortcuts? That would be useful. Thanks!
Here is baby Sonia Anne..
Greetings all,
I have flowers and other photos from the same San Francisco trip as my ship images. This is resized and cropped for the project. No changes to the image. The depth of field was done in camera.
I went with simple rectangles as the design elements. I added noise to the rectangles to give it that cloth-like look and, of course, drop shadows. (I never do things the easy way…like use a kit. But adding noise is not too difficult.)
And, yes, I added a triangle using the Symmetric Shape in the Rectangle Tool fly out over top of the flower. Using the pick tool I rotated and resized the shape. I then reduced the layer’s opacity to around 30 percent to give a hint of the shape and relate to the flower. No noise added to this element.
The line drawing comes from one of Ron Deviney’s brushes that I converted for use in PSP. (Too technical to discuss as a Boot Camp topic. But PSP has grown over the years and the process is not too cumbersome.)
All this was to play with concept of geometry in nature.
As a post script: Kudos to all. The projects look very nice. Great sense of color and balance by all.
I swear, we have gremlins in the Campus as my long feedback post seems to have disappeared, so let’s do that again.
Bill, I see you are using a template. Did you know that those shapes like the flower below and the circle on top are meant to be only placeholders to suggest where to place your own decorative elements? Since you are getting more comfortable with manipulating the elements and layers, it is time to add your own! If you want a printed set of shortcuts, check out the freebie on this post.
Frances, don’t worry about being behind. You will have time to catch up. Your scattered gems are lovely. May I ask if they come with integrated shadows or if you did add them yourself? I can see that the shadows are toward the top right for a series of gems, so if the shadows were integrated, you need to make sure not to flip them. If you added the shadows yourself, you need to do the flip before adding them to avoid that inconsistency. I have a little soft spot for kittens, so I LOVE your Happy Lap layout!
Allen, doesn’t it make a difference with the shadows?
Brad, glad to hear that your brain didn’t explode. We would miss you 🙂 I like your sense of humour! If I could offer a tiny suggestion it would be to check the layering of your elements. The leaf designs look like a brush imprint, and it would likely not be layered on top of the rope or on top of the confetti. A small detail only. Practice will help you remember all those tools and techniques. The Adventure in nursing could certainly benefit from the story you put in the post. What if someone looks at your page and does not have the background story? It is important!
Simon, you can also post the quick pages in the other showcase thread of “what are you working on?” Other participants are browsing that thread too. Your sandwich looks good. What do you put in your coffee? Your first project is great.
Susan, it might be hard to make this sandwich simply because it is your first digital sandwich. I bet if you made 10 more sandwiches, you would surely become faster.
Lynn, nice layering. I also find that the tiny overlap of the tail gives a little interesting detail to find.
Ben, the overlapping of the bird gives an interesting and dynamic effect to your page. The shadowing of the elements really give that 3D effect.
Cindy, I am glad you are getting more and more comfortable. As mentioned to Brad, it is all about practice, right?
Margaret, it is ok if you don’t follow to the letter. The reasons I SUGGEST to follow somewhat closely are (1) so the techniques can be practiced, but if they are, while the paper is somewhere else, it is fine, and (2) when I keep track of the projects posted, for the random draw at the end, it is easier for me to know which projects were actually completed. As for your first project, I think that they are a bit large for what we are used to, but they do work very well together as they just give the impression of thick cardboard. This means that the settings work well together!
Henry, I agree with Fay that the story can benefit being added to the page. Scrapbooking is not just about the photos, but mostly about the story, whether it is told by the photo or added to it.
Ann, that is a lovely photo of your great-granddaughter. You mention saving in .psd format to keep the transparency. Did you know that the .png format would also do that? That is the typical format used for single-layer elements with some transparency.
Robert, you are really exploring your PSP and that is great. I am sure everyone here also appreciates it when you explain what you dit. It is always inspiring others to try or check more options. You said you converted the brush to PSP. Without going into details, what format was it initially? You played with the shadows but it looks like the photo is missing it.
Hello All
I have completed a couple of pages but firstly:
1. Carole – I have successfully downloaded the zip file and redone my sandwich. Not sure what happened but maybe the same gremlins as you are having problems with – :0
2. For practise I have made another sunset with a totally different colour scheme. The heading font was Bodoni MT Black and the poem was Blackadder ITC. The poem was found on the internet and I acknowledged the author’s copyright (is this allowed for personal use?). Elements were from Lara’s Digital World (Inner Peace).
3. Project 3 for Day 5 completed. I used elements from Connie Prince (Memories). The heading was Bodoni MT Black and the journaling font was Script MT Bold. I did not add shadows to the gold flowers at the bottom of the page as I thought they looked like stamped images. The top left image was a cluster and the shadows did not work as well with that.
I would like to add how much I am enjoying the course and how helpful it is reading the answers to other people’s queries eg about Autosave which I was also finding a little annoying as everything stops while it saves. Now I have a solution – 🙂
Looking forward to Project 4.
Hi Teacher, 🙂
Yes Ma am, Last lesson was nothing but fun No frustration or upset at all just really fun.
I also went and figured out how to put a photo in my profile. I’m the guy in blue. The little girl graduated from college along with her mother a couple of years ago. Not a good pic and I tried to use some fill light on it, but it changed so much if I used too much that it isn’t much better than before. Unfortunately, I am behind the camera normally, so there are very few pics of me.
bcj
Ok, Just changed my photo to one slightly better and cropped it pretty heavily. The shot is only about 15 years old and I burned up the bike a couple of years ago.
Cassel: You said “You mention saving in .psd format to keep the transparency. Did you know that the .png format would also do that? That is the typical format used for single-layer elements with some transparency.”
Well, I tried that, first just saving as a .png and when that didn’t save my transparent background, I used the Export function as a .png where you can tell it what color should be transparent and that didn’t work either! 🙁 I must be doing something wrong or there’s something wrong with the file.. I’ll upload it so you can see.
BTW: I downloaded the Shortcut files but they only go through 2019 whereas I have 2020. Is there anything new in 2020?
Cassel: Part II -Well, I opened that .png file in PSP and it had the transparency!
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Day 5
2nd project using an old holiday snap and the ‘My Tribe’ from the same site as the link in the video.
Cassel: Not able to download from the Facebook link for the Sweaters & Hot Cocoa kit. Here’s what I get…
Ann
Ann, I am sorry. I thought I had checked it before posting the link. I am contacting the designer to see if there is another way to download it. Thanks for letting me know.
As for the Shortcuts, can you download it again? I had forgotten to upload the updated version.
I just want to mention, before I forget, that I found two procedures in the Day 7 (Friends) video very informative. The first was how you, Carole, used the Guides for uniform placement and sizing. The second was the “copy and paste” procedure you used within the engaged Text tool. Maybe this is only possible starting with PSP19 or perhaps I never thought to try it in PSP15. In any case, it’s very efficient and a time saver. I need to watch that part of the video again. ?
I have been very busy searching suitable backgrounds and embellishment for my London picture. It took me several hours……..
But finally my picture is ready:)
I’ve started renaming my layers, sometimes I can’t see what the picture is on the layer I am working on.
Had a bit of a difficulty how to give shadow to my text, but in the end it worked, but don’t remember exactly how I did it. Keep practicing I guess.
This picture I took when I was on a 4 day trip with my youngest son, trip given to me by my family for my 5oth birthday. It was very special to do this with my him, quality time. 🙂
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Question I forget to ask in my post:
Upsizing pictures I can understand why it’s not clever to do, but how is that with background papers? Especially when they have patterns and no symbols or something on them? 🙂
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