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Did an In Memoriam for my daughter’s dog, Lolajean. Sweet girl! Used Cassel’s template. Not easy!
Jnet: Traduit pour vous
C’était le 18 décembre 1977 et cela a commencé par une tempête de verglas la nuit précédente.
Nous avons parcouru environ 20 milles dans la glace pour aller au palais de justice pour la cérémonie. Frank était le conducteur nerveux et nous avions Laurey, Beth et l’amie de Laurey, Laura dans ma petite voiture. Frank n’arrêtait pas de dire: “Je vais vous y amener, Annie!”
Nous avons dû nous garer en bas de la colline du palais de justice de Newton et c’était de la glace pure alors que nous nous efforcions de marcher dans nos plus beaux atours pour rencontrer nos parents et le juge.
Nous avions réservé une réception au Ye Olde Jolly Onion Inn à Pine Island pour 85 personnes. Trente-deux se sont présentés. Il manquait le témoin et notre patron du journal.
Le rendez-vous de la mère de Frank a remplacé le meilleur homme de la cérémonie. Ma fille, Debbie, a signé le certificat de mariage avec Russ.
C’était définitivement une aventure!
I pulled out the April color palette to play with and turned it into this swirly background paper using various tweaks. I had the photo of the birds which I think are super cute so I added a frame that looks like looking through a lens. A little journaling about the birds and two of Corel’s spring overlays. Then I played with Cassel’s tutorial on text on a path. After several false starts I think it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself! 😉
Michelle: I could share Grands, of which I have 9. Here’s a photo of us with the Grands back in the year 2000. It’s the Great-Grands that are diverting me nowadays.. 😉
Annie: I love birds and have 5 or 6 feeders here for them at my little city condo. Your species Down Under are endlessly fascinating as I showcased with the lorikeets from my granddaughter’s zoo. Interestingly, when in our 20s my first husband and I tried to emigrate to Aussieland. He was a local town police officer here and contacted several cities there looking for work. Unfortunately nothing came of it so I’ve never even visited your great continent! Actually, the 22 hour flight is somewhat daunting! Glad your layout had large enough type so I could read the whole thing. I would love to see a lyrebird in person! Well done!!
Cassel: Thank you for the clarification. Meanwhile, the wedding bells are a transparent .png that I found with Google which, of course, had a fake transparent background so I wielded my trusty background eraser and it was pretty easy after all. It has two colors so I don’t think it’s a dingbat and I didn’t treat it as a font which I would ordinarily duplicate the vector and rasterize. I was rather dumbfounded when it vanished on resizing. Here’s a peek at the original piece of art…
We had a bit of an adventure getting to our wedding ceremony. Hereby lies the tale…
(I also had an adventure trying to post this.. the wedding bell elements vanished when I scaled down the .pspimage. I had to go back and put them back in and then I saved it as a .jpg full size before scaling down. That worked!)
Sandra: That’s a wonderful story! We have something similar here called Pennings’ Farm and when they wanted to expand the town was fearful they would bring in outside produce but they eventually got permission and my grandkids loved it too. I do love your red background! A quick hint, your title APPLE CHARLIES has too many “Ps”. 😉 I used to work as a proofreader and the hardest mistakes to catch are those in the largest type!
Worked up another double page, not necessarily a particular lesson, though this had the three photo masks. Good for me to practice doing them. I still have to have a “cheat sheet.” LOL I used a “template” from last year’s Travel Time Challenge but it is really a sketch as there were no layers included. I used several baby kits that I’ve accumulated since the great grands started showing up. 😉
Working with double width pages in the Double Take Challenge, I pulled out a “template” (really a sketch, there are no layers) from last year’s Travel Time Challenge and rounded up the latest photos of my “Great Grands” I have several baby kits to choose from.
Carole: I’m a little confused. I didn’t know I was supposed to crop the photos for the slats. I just chose photos that seems to work vertically. I actually enlarged them to 2900 in height to fill the slat and then slipped into the mask to get that effect which is what I saw you do on the video.
Here are the full photos of each bird, resized for posting here.
Annie: My goodness, you have smashing birds Down Under! The colors blow me away. Your layout certainly does them justice. If I were you I’d contact the Tourism Department to see if they’d buy it for their promos! Well done! 😉
Since, as Carole pointed out, I already did a panorama for my Lesson Two, I decided to do the slats and masks that I skipped instead of the current Lesson Five. It’s a showcase for the photography of my friend Ed Frampton from Poughkeepsie.
Michelle: I understand but I didn’t expect it to read my mind! I just opened my Pick tool and moved them where I wanted. The fact that I had 21 photos to place would be daunting if I didn’t have the script to help.
Jnet, what a nice layout! I’ve been to LA but never found the stars in the pavement. I wish I could read the wording on your right hand page but unless it’s text my browser can’t translate it since it’s in a graphic. Is that the star for Celine Deon? I can’t quite make it out from here… 😉
Michelle, I used the scatter script on my Lesson 4 for the first time. It gives you the option to put the pictures on the edges, or in the middle or totally scattered. I’ll post my layout again here so you can see the effect I got.
Here’s my Day 4 assignment. I used the cass-scatter photos script and then went from there. No room for embellishments. This place is just 6 miles down the road from Warwick Drive-In. It used to be called Action Park and was considered the most dangerous amusement park ever created. We locals called it Death Valley. They’ve cleaned up their act now; I assume.
Gerry: My, Rudy is handsome in his Phantom of the Opera mask! Your layout works perfectly. Well done!
This is the Day 3 project, so I’ve finally caught up! I’ve showcased my “day job” – the Warwick Drive-In Theater, owned by my daughter Beth. She’s the grandmother of baby Sonya that you’ve seen on the Campus.
The posters and map are from Google who provided them for marketing purposes. This is a full 7200 x 3600 layout. I’m grateful that PSP2021 does such a great job of enlarging photos!
My Day 2 Double page. The photo is by my grandson Will Lennox. You can see the village far in the background out on the point. The headline font is Childish. A very simple layout with a couple of beachy embellishments. The photo speaks for itself.
Mendocino was once the stand-in for Jessica Fletcher’s New England village on the tv show “Murder She Wrote.” The director had problems with the sun going down on the “wrong” side and when he flipped the film to have it as a rising sun he ended up with some seabirds flying backwards! 😉
Michele: regarding random photos, Cassel/Carole has a script for that. Here’s the read me text:
PSP Script – Scattered Photos
by CasselThis script will use all the jpg images in a single folder to scatter them onto the open image.
You will only have to open one image from the source folder for the script to determine where to grab the photos.
You can resize ONE photo and the script will resize all the photos to a similar size.
The script will offer the option to add a border. If you choose to add one, set the values for ONE photo and the script will apply it to all of them.
You can have the photos scattered all over the image, only in the center, or only on the outer edge.You can start with any size of shape image, and the script will determine if the resizing of the individual photos will yield a good result.
Once all the photos are added, you can add a drop shadow to them.
Each photo will be left unmerged so you can rearrange them if you want.I couldn’t find it in the store but it is on my PSP filed in Trusted Scripts.
HTH
I was really struggling with the pen tool yesterday and finally gave up and decided against needing straight lines. The pen seems a complicated tool with various uses and I know very little about it. I think I actually had a class back 20 years ago in Adobe Illustrator that covered it but without frequent use I’ve lost the techniques. I’m enjoying the Double Take with the mask creation repeated over and over. Maybe I’ll make a point of doing one once a week from now on so I retain the steps.
A new project every day now seems too fast, whereas I complained about the slowness of the Basic Study Group. There must be a happy medium!?! Then, again, now I’m actually working part time from home so my time is limited. This happens from March to October for me with the drive-in theater. I’ll upload a sample of my work product.
Thanks, Carole!
Ok, my turn. I finally did the first assignment. Don’t have as much time nowadays with the theater open. Here’s my granddaughter Jackie’s bridal shower from early April. I have a lot of photos so didn’t do much with the second page at all except for a floppy bow. I used a bit of lace this time, unusual for me but that’s my Jackie. *love*
If you peek hard at the 2nd page in the middle you’ll glimpse the bridegroom who arrived at the end with an enormous bouquet of flowers for his honey. 🙂
Oh, wow, Michelle. Your designs are such fun. I was unaware of templates within PSP. Are they free or for sale?
I went looking for songs with the topic “walk” and found an oldie by The Beatles that I had never heard before. I had a template in my stash from who knows where and since this song only seemed to have a music video, I took screen shots and put them in the film strips on the template. The black and white photo was the first part of the video. I worked on the title The Walk, it was a rather messy job by someone but I did copy their little blurb that went with the song. Found The Beatles logo on Google, used Cassel’s script for the curved photo, added sprocket holes on the film strips after changing it to black. The background is just a pattern from my PSP. I like to keep my designs simple, especially one that has all the elements like this. The trickiest part was getting the video images going in order and facing the right direction!
Wow, all these designs are great! I just got my Creation Cassel this morning (Sun). How do you get it earlier? I was working on my April Song – Walk: Beatles design all day. My artist daughter thought it should be an album cover! 🙂
I went looking for songs with the topic “walk” and found an oldie by The Beatles that I had never heard before. I had a template in my stash from Lab 11-01 since this song only seemed to have a music video, I took screen shots and put them in the film strips on the template. The black and white photo was the first part of the video. I worked on the title The Walk, it was a rather messy job by someone but I did copy their little blurb that went with the song. Found The Beatles logo on Google, used Cassel’s script for the curved photo, added sprocket holes on the film strips after changing it to black. The background is just a pattern from my PSP. I like to keep my designs simple, especially one that has all the elements like this.
An afterthought: here’s the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKSbcbq7pV8
Here’s Sonya. I hear she’s standing and starting to toddle. Time to baby-proof the house! 🙂
This layout is based on one I did with a mask for a sleeping Magic but I created a new kaleidoscope background pattern based on Sonya’s photo and added her elephant.
