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Here’s my Day 11-Project 5 design: Dueling at Dawn; not people – birds!
First layer is filled with a gradient – Autumn Foliage. 2nd Layer is a sunrise photo from HViP that I cropped square and enlarged to 3500, leaving 100 px of the gradient as a border. Headline font is Bandidas in the same gradient. Photo of birds from HViP – Frame from a kit -All That’s Fall. I played a lot with the colors for the squares, after applying a canvas texture and using the Adjust/ Hue and Saturation/Hue-Saturation-Lightness. The journaling text is called Bring Heart.
The Corel Freebie this week is a Honeycomb Photo Collage in .pspimage or ,jpg. I tried it out using the same photo in each of the cells and adding frames as I slowly reduced the size and put every other one on a diagonal. Interesting effect, I think. I’m uploading reduced versions of my design; the original photo and the Corel collage format which in .pspimage form are all masks.
Cindy: Thank you for reminding us. My granddaughter is a medical worker on the front lines and tells tales of rudeness and entitlement that you wouldn’t believe. I suppose many are frightened out of their wits. The whole world could use a little more kindness lately!
Susan: When using the Magic Wand to select a whole photo in prep to doing a border you can use “none” or “opacity.” Both give the same result. I have been learning lately to be really careful to Ctl-D or Select None after every encounter. Many times a little swatch of image has remained selected and causes untold problems down the line.
Martin: You have created an excellent showcase for your musician. If you look at the top of this page there’s a topic of CLASSES. The flyout gives you the choice of Intermediate/Creative Scrap. There you’ll find LOTS of little tutorials to make your own elements; customized to your needs. Also, the website NicePNG has hundreds of topical images with transparent backgrounds available for free. Just do a little search there.
Susan: You asked about the borders. I posted the dialog box you get when you tell PSP to create the border and as you can see it asks if you want it “outside” or “inside” or “both” and you control the width here, too.
Susan, the main reason I upgraded to PSP2021 is the new AI software for enlarging images. I had found my own photos were small when put on a 3600 layout. Now I blow up EVERYTHING! 😉 You can always scale down with the pick tool but NOT UP. It’s so much easier working with larger photos! I hope you get it installed soon. And be aware, your computer might hiccup a few times with the heavy demand for calculations but mine settled down after a few days.
Susan, don’t worry. If we were on Facebook I’d give you a “heart!”
Cassel/Carole in the Scrap Bootcamp – Day 10 today asked us to mention any technique from class that has been particularly helpful and I’d have to nominate using the Magic Wand and then Selection/Modify/Select Selection Borders to create those nice narrow white borders around photos that helps them stand out from various busy backgrounds. That technique can be very versatile!
Hi, Susan. Thank you so much for your compliment. (I hope it was for me as we have at least 3 people with similar names on Campus right now. I am “Ann” with NO “e” and we also have an Anne and an Annie. 🙂 )
Here’s my Bees layout: Headline font is Baby Olivia; double background layers: honeycomb paper from the Serenity Bee kit and the background photo is by Lori Myers Gambill from HViP
Here is my layout for Day 7. Mine is titled ‘Shrooms. The photos are all from HViP and the photographers are: white mushroom photos by Reni Lorray; and in the center: Underside of a mushroom by Isabelle Soule. The background paper is from Pixel Scrappers Feb2016 for the love of coffee. The flower and feather are from the Animal Kingdom kit. The headline font is Glamlips and the text is in Harlow Italic. The plaid paper is my own pattern made from the photo and flower colors.
Corrie: That design looks very handsome! The colors and photo and elements really come together well. These classes are really back to basics but they do stand the test of time!
Just realized my design for Bootcamp has a seashell so it goes with this theme, too! Introducing a fish.. 😉
Anne: here is a better picture where he’s peaceful. 😀
Here is the Day 5 – assignment. Introducing my Siamese Fighting Fish: Red Wolf the Betta. lol I’m having a lot of fun with my first tropical fish in many years. They live alone in a 5 gal tank or larger. Sometimes they tolerate snails as tankmates. He looks mean because he IS mean. He glares at me and dares me to approach his tank! 😉
The photo is mine, the patterned paper from my stash and I created the textured papers with flood fill and a texture effect. The shell is a Corel Summer Clip Art freebie. The branches are from Marisa Lerin of Pixelscrappers. The title text is Algerian. I used 3 layers for the background so I have a double border.
Cassel: Interesting because your script generates rectangular confetti. I would prefer round if I could get it. Is there a way?
Annie: Very nice! I’m admiring your clusters lately. So much better than from a kit. If Jaws terrified you, you ought to see The Meg, if you’re in the mood for terror! Starring Jason Statham, which was the attraction for me. 😉
Cassel: No, actually the scatters are from your script for custom scatters which make a Tube so I didn’t touch them with the pick tool at all.
My theme seems to be fences so far this month. Here’s a showcase of some of the photos from HViP featuring fences + a quote from Robert Frost. Just stuff from my stash..
Assignment for Day 3: New Kid on the Block
Here is my version with a summer garden along a fence. I used a kit from Pixelscrappers: Rachel Martin-Jessamine Juliet. I used 3 layers of papers for background, each one reduced by 50 pixels to make borders. The photo is from the Hudson Valley in Pictures on Facebook to which I added the white border. The headline text is Bodoni MT Bold and the photo caption is Copperplate Gothic Bold. I cheated and used cass-custom scatters script to create scatters from one of the flowers in the photo. I also applied a LOT of drop shadows. 😉
Cassel: You made me laugh with the “fine china” description. The pattern used was actually “cracked plaster” 🙂
Here’s my sandwich, table and place setting. I added the coffeepot. I flood-filled using a pattern for the tablecloth (and had to add a layer as there wasn’t a separate bottom layer). Using the Magic Wand a lot, I used the chrome effect on the silverware. I duplicated the plate layer and made it smaller with the pick tool for the saucer. I filled the plate and cup/saucer with a pattern and added a drop shadow effect. I filled the cup with a brown gradient. I created the napkin from a small piece of white textured paper and added the page curl effect twice. After I colored the bread to my liking I did an edit/ copy special/merge and pasted it as a layer onto the table. I kept the pickles separate as I don’t like them on sandwiches. It was so easy to grab each pickle layer from the original sandwich and slide it over to the table setting!
Cindy, your Bruce Lee reminds me of my hauspanther Adam…
Libera: Very nice layout; I agree with Annie — lots of garlic for those mussels! This is the first I’ve heard of Cassel’s Close-Up script. Can you tell me how it works?
I downloaded the Freebie from Creation Cassel and then went further on that site where there were MORE freebie templates. Here’s a colorful one I admired with photos from the HViP. The title font is Bandidas and the template is khadfield-scrap-like-olga. I loved playing with the colors on this one. 🙂
Hi Corrie and everyone. I’m here again. I do this every time it’s offered. I love Cassel’s designs and always pick up something new from each class. I’m from New York and we’re just coming out of the pandemic shut-down so these classes have kept me sane for the last year or so. Here’s a photo I MIGHT use; this is my granddaughter with Marshmallow, the porcupine baby at her zoo. So, come on in, the water’s fine! 😉
