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Hello Cindy, Thank you for your greeting. .. like you i know what it is like to have health issues all the time. I hope you find joy in each day doing something that makes your heart happy.
Thank you Cristina…. not sure all the worries have gone, however the heaviness in my thoughts has lifted. Hope you are keeping well my friend.
Hello Corrie, hoping all goes well for you in your surgery and then recovery.
Dawn.
Carole: You asked: “Ann (#83186), what will be the theme? Where do you bring up for a visit?”
The photos are from my daughters’ trip to Washington, DC, last week. (#83156)
Carole,
To answer your question, yes all places we’ve been since retirement and some before. All the photos are mine. We got home from Nevada around November of last year and have not ventured out due to the corona virus but we will be on the road again in the near future.
Lynda
Thanks for your kind words, Lynda. Both my husbands served in Korea after the conflict. My daughters were impressed with the memorial. There will be other sites from DC in coming calendar pages. I already changed April from Lincoln because I found another KWVM photo that I forgot about.
Here are a couple of my works in progress. The pictures are of the people who have a birthday that month.
Corrie – Good luck with the surgery tomorrow. You will be uncomfortable at first, but each day gets better. I look forward to seeing you back in action soon.
Here is the March page.
I used a freebie overlay from Design Cuts.
The font is Soffia Slant.
Dawn, I am sending my best wishes and hoping you feel better soon, my friend. I’d love to see your pages!
Anita,
Love that photo you used and your BG choice. Looking forward to seeing more of Germany. It’s a place I haven’t been yet. Love to know the name of the castle.
Lynda
This is May and June. I decided to add days to the calendar as I’m lost without them. The BG on May is an aerial photo of San Antonio (not mine) and the BG on June is a photo of part of the Biosphere. The photo is mine.
Sue,
I like how you were able to use the background to frame the grouse. Very clever and it looks great. I like the birds too.
Lynda
Corrie,
Will be thinking of you and wishing you the best for tomorrow. I’m sure all will be well. Take care of yourself and give time to heal.
Lynda
Decided to make another change. I put the days and dates together and made the lines longer to give more space to write stuff.
Wow, already wonderful calenders are shown(sp?) here!
I’m experimenting a bit over here, as you can see. 🙂 Maybe it’s faster to make masks and the boxes myself 😀
Lynda, it’s from the tv series Outlander, adaptation from the books written by Diana Gabaldon. 🙂
Here’s May & June, featuring the women who have made our country great. For May, featuring a sculpture of the original Suffragettes, I used a gradient on the background and then hit it with Kaleidoscope. For June, featuring an oil painting of four of our female Supreme Court justices, I also used a gradient and then used the Blinds texture.
Monique,
I haven’t watched that show so I know nothing. 🙂 I’ll have to check it out.
Lynda
Who says you cant put a circle (flower) in a square (glass) in a circle (mask)….or a circle in a star in a circle? ?
All kidding aside. First off, Dawn, thank goodness for your result. The “C’ word is scary.
Here is my March and April works in progress. I am playing with each month with colors, fonts. April’s front is nice but ugh, the color looks like bad bruise, so it will change, thought you’d get a laugh over it. I will keep experimenting with color, font, texture and after the workshop I will choose what I liked the best.
Carole, I had something weird happen with using the glyphs. Not sure if it’s the font program (Font Base, subscription version) or just how some fonts are. I copied and pasted the glyph and some of it is cut off. Have you seen it before? Is that just something that happens? I did choose another font.
I like the masks, they are interesting. At first I thought I shouldn’t have the white space around images that were shot that way (I have other photos of the star one, shot on different colored backgrounds that I made sub in later), but now I like that white space.
Oops, forgot to add the fonts. April is Prida02Calt. March is PridaEmCooper. I’m not sure where I got them.
Susan, I have had something like that happen, and it seems to be font related. It seems to happen only with SOME fonts. Can you try a different one?
All the best to Corrie and Dawn.
I love the circular frames used for the templates Carole. It makes a change and surprisingly photos composed in a rectangular format seem to easily fit.
Lynda, how did you add the days to the dates? I agree, it makes it more concise.
I have created the first 6 pages but have been contemplating adding quotes to match my photos. The photos are mine but the quotes that I would match to them are other people’s. Not sure where to put the quotation text though.
I dragged the text layer for the month name across from one file to the new one. I was thinking I would save myself a bit of bother but when I drag it in, the text does not slip into the same position on the new page. I had to put guidelines on each new page.
Thank you Carole. I did use a different font that worked. It’s good to know that happens and it’s not something I did. My computer was working slow because I had been looking at 100’s of photo and the cache was full. Did a re-boot and it was all happy again. My husband works from home and uses the computer too, with very big files, and said after I use PSP he has to dump the cache as his program works slow. It’s good to know what to do when that happens.
Fiona! Wow! I lOVE your layouts.
Off to work now….I’ve decided I dont like working any day that ends in a “y”….hahahaha
Thank you Lynda. I like your your January page showing the Mitchel Corn Palace too, it is beautiful. The castle is called Neuschwanstein and it is one of King Ludwig’s Castles. It is nestled in the Bavarian Alps, south of Munich and inspired Walt Disney to create the Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disney World.
Cindy (#83262), it looks like you fixed the issue of the black and white image.
Susan (#83266), sometimes, going out of your comfort zone is a way to experiment and maybe find something new you will like. What font did you use for the months?
Anita (#83270), drop shadows on a new layer have always been linked to the layer it is shadowing. Wasn’t it doing that in other versions for you?
Ann (#83273), it is great when the theme of the calendar has a particular meaning. (#83317) Have you considered straightening the painting image? Based on the mirror in the back seems obviously angled.
Gerry (#83284), do you have enough people with birthdays in each month?
Cristina (#83287), is that an overlay on the background layer? I like that font. Maybe one I’ll have to go grab!
Lynda (#83298), that is a good idea to add the days of the week. Since the templates were generic, I could not offer that, but you certainly have a great idea and executed it well too.
Monique (#83309) I am glad to see you tweak the template to make it vertical AND with boxes. A great example of how one can customize a given template to suit their preferences.
Fiona (#83328), yeah, when you copy and paste, it will always be centered in the project. If you want to add a quote, you can easily place it at the bottom if you want. Did you try different locations?
If you have not posted yet, is it because you want to wait until the end? Or are you having any difficulty? Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions. We are all here to help (24/7, there is someone around!)
Carole, you are right about the shadow and the link. The text in my PSP X9 was so small so when I started with PSP23 last week I was able to increase the text and the link icon on the shadow layer was so much more visible now. I should have double checked my old PSP one more time. It just looked strange to me when I saw it. I will try to get my February page up soon. You mentioned the UWP character map, where can I get one of those. The character map I have on Windows 10 is hard to read the letters are very small. I may be behind a bit with my calendar pages as I just started a course in Criminal Justice at work, but I will do the best I can. I love looking at everyone’s beautiful calendar pages.
Carole, you have an eagle eye! 😀
I checked the file again and remembered I didn’t use the Overlay in the end.
I tried it (halftone 05 overlay), but I decided to go the same route you showed in the video.
New Layer > Flood Fill with a lighter shade of the background color + Grass Texture.
I thought the result was a bit too dark, so I duplicated the Texture Layer and changed the Blend Mode to SCREEN.
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I loved your tip: Flood Fill Active, hold the Ctrl Key, and it changes to Dropper Tool.
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