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Just happened to see this topic when I was looking for something else, so I went over to freepik.com, got a frame with a perspective challenge, inserted pictures of my grandson, and ended up with this. It was fun! Barbara Hall
I had to rethink this project and decided to focus on one wading bird. I started with the great egret because of its name: great! There are a couple of things about the two-page spread. When I put the two pages together, I realized they didn’t quite align, so I put three staples about where they’d be if they were actually in a magazine and then pretended to myself that the page have been looked at a lot so they don’t quite meet correctly anymore. And the whole page layout really doesn’t follow format of the other pages, but I’m okay with that. Also, for the picture on that page, I used the fine reticulate script to make the picture look a little like maybe someone a long time ago painted it.
Lynda: Welcome to the New Orleans area! It’s been my home since I came south to attend Loyola University a long time ago. I hope you enjoy(ed) your visit and I look forward to seeing more of your RV adventure.
Barbara
Hi Cassel: Yes, all the photos are mine. I’m feeling a little whiny right now. Today’s challenge doesn’t make sense to me in terms of magazine flow. It seems more like a title page or the first page of a new chapter. I suppose I’m breaking the “always be positive and cheerful” code of forums such as this, but I feel disappointed about today’s activity. I’ve developed a couple of different pages, but nothing I want to upload at this time.
Day 2-I decided to restrict my photos to wading birds, so I changed the title on the cover. I uploaded it and page 2. I added pictures to page 2 since it’s the only one I’m doing about this particular bird and I wanted to show how it looks when it feeds and also how it looks as it matures.
Day 1–finished!
I think this will give me a good way to organize and display some of the photographs I’ve taken of birds–I’m looking forward to it!
Barbara
To Lynda: I’ve been having trouble with PSP 2019 as well. Every time I try to save something, my whole computer freezes. As soon as I designate a folder to save a project in, everything stops–not just in PSP, but in any other window that might be open. If I have the patience to sit and keep clicking the mouse for several minutes, something happens somewhere and the program wakes up and will start the saving process. Nothing else seems to work.
I’ve been using different versions of PSP for several years and have never had the problems I am having with this newest version. In December I contacted Corel because the Atherton PerfectlyClear program wouldn’t load. Trying to get help requires a lot of patience. First, a request for help has to be assigned a support ticket. Then a technician is assigned and sends an email asking what the problem is. Once you respond, then you wait for another email to tell you what to do. And, if that doesn’t work, you send an email, and wait for a reply, and, in my case, end up with a ridiculously long chain of emails over a prolonged period of time with no solution to the problem. At that point, the technician suggested remotely accessing my computer to see what the problem was, but I didn’t like that idea. It doesn’t seem safe to me.
So, I erased everything Corel from my computer and started over again. This time the PerfectlyClear appeared and works. Now, everything freezes up when I try to save anything. I’m not used to having problems with PSP so it’s all making me a little crazy.
Barbara Hall
To Vicky Holden: Just saw that you were traveling through New Zealand. Don’t know if that’s your home or you’re a visitor. In any case, I wanted to express my great sadness at the horror that took place there–we in America have experienced so many similar tragedies but it seems, to me, somehow worse happening in a such a peaceful country. .
Barbara Hall
Here is my last project–it’s not the one I wanted to submit, but my computer is unhappy with me right now and is just about to shut down so I thought I better send something before it quits completely.
Later: I think my computer is feeling better. I’ve attached the other page I was doing. The embellishments are from pixelscrapper.com.
To Cassel: Thanks, I’ll try that. In the meantime, I used the Cass font that has a pinked edge to finish Day 6’s page.
To: Cassel: my “pinked” edges look like a pair of dull scissors chewed through paper–help!
Day 5: I was like a 5-year-old left alone with a bottle of glue and lots of glitter–what fun! The 600 pixels don’t show it, but the title’s got glitter, the two swirls, and the flower and leaves are so heavy with glitter they almost look too heavy for the page. The trick of copying and pasting text from somewhere else is so great–I didn’t know I could do that–thanks so much!
To Cassel: About that resizing to 1000 pixels again. After I read your response, I thought, “Okay, I must have misinterpreted something.” However, as I was looking through the projects, I noticed that David mentioned resizing his picture to 1000 pixels, so I went back to the Day 3 instruction page to see if I could find where we had both gotten that idea. First, I rewatched the video, but there was no mention of 1000 pixels there. Then, I actually read what was written above the video and there it was–the info about the 1000 pixels. So my question is about picture size–there really isn’t a limit to pixel size as long as it’s no more than 3600 x 3600, right?
Day 4 Homework–I discovered that the selection tool makes several different shapes and I had fun playing with that. The stars were made with that tool. I outlined some stars with the vector tool and then deleted the actual star to get the stars on the bottom. The plaid paper is from the Pixel Scrapper commons gallery.
Homework–Day 4. I discovered the selection tool makes a number of different shapes–I had a lot of fun playing around with them. The stars on my page were made with that tool. And I just learned how to highlight text: until now, it’s been a kind of hit or miss thing. Sometimes I could get it to highlight, sometimes not. I heard Cassel say to double-click and highlight and, indeed, I can highlight the text, every time. I must have been doing that sporadically before. The plaid paper comes from Pixel Scrapper commons.
To Cassel: I don’t understand the reason for resizing pictures to less than 1000 pixels. My picture was 1920 x1280 and when I tried resizing it, it was too small for the page, so I used the original dimensions.
Day 3–I had planned to use some pictures I’ve taken of pelicans for the bootcamp assignments, but yesterday I photographed something else that I thought was interesting and changed my topic.
The insect and flower elements are by janet scott at pixelscrapper.com; the grass overlay is by marisa lerin at the same site. The paper is by RvMcSou, though I recolored the green.
Hi, I’m Barbara and I live in southern Louisiana. I enjoy photographing birds and I choose PSP as an editing tool because the reviews I read made it seem a lot more user-friendly (and a lot less expensive) than Photoshop. Until recently, I used PSP almost exclusively to edit pictures–and my editing skills are maybe intermediate at best. Now I’ve become interested in digital scrapbooking as a way of organizing and presenting all the pictures I’ve taken of family over the years.
I participated in the Valentine Challenge and learned so much. I’m looking forward to learning more in bootcamp.
I made a BLT sandwich. I got the bacon (which you can barely see) at http://www.pixelscrapper.com. I decided to see if I could cut my sandwich into quarters and was finally able to do it.
I like keeping the organizer panel open beneath my workspace. The pictures I want to put into scrapbook pages are grouped by topic and I can just look down and quickly see if there are any other pictures I want to include in the page I’m working on. It also helps me to remember what the colors of my original pictures are because I have a tendency to play with white balance and the color changing tool and I forget what I started with . . . and probably should go back to!
I wonder what we’ll learn tomorrow?
Barbara
I finally finished the challenge–the only thing I didn’t do was the metal-look writing. It’s an interesting effect but it’s way more labor intensive than I care to get into at this point. I tried to tie the pages together by using some of the same elements on each: the frame, the shape of the background for each of the comments, the age and date tab with a butterfly and, of course, hearts. Then I joined it with a page I’d recently done showing her as she is now–“flipping out”.
I’m happy I participated–I learned a lot!
Barbara
@Nana Ray: I don’t know if I can help or not. Can you see all of the different layers over on the bottom right of your screen? If so:
1. click on the layer that has the dark blob (mask) on it and click “select all” (I probably do this the long way, but I go to the top of the screen, click on “Selections” and then click on select all)
2. push shift and “f” together–another layer will appear with the (mask) blob and a padlock
3. click on the same layer you did in #1. Go to the top of the work space where file, edit, view, etc. are and click on layers–under that click on “new mask layer” and click on “show all” (there’s probably some shortcut to doing this, but I don’t know it)
4. over in your layers palette, drag the mask layer with the padlock on it down to the one that just opened up in #3
5. push shift and “d”–the mask on the screen will turn white
6. at the top of the screen click on image and go down until you see negative image and click on that–and you should have a mask
Is that what you needed?
Barbara
@Rhonda–your page is the essence of Mardi Gras–great job! I like the way was placed the beads in the double oval around the largest picture.
Barbara
Day 6–Yes! I’m getting tired. I’m happy that I’ve participated and learned lots of things, but I’m ready to stop learning for awhile and just get to work on making scrapbook chapters of my grandchildren’s different activities–OR to go out and photograph birds–this is a good time to see bald eagles and a couple kinds of hawks down here. We’ve had some beautiful days–interspersed with cloud and rain (after all, it is winter, sort of)–and, unlike Sue–I don’t seem to be able to photograph and scrapbook at the same time (same day). It’s one or the other. And then it’s nap time.
I have a feeling I’ll end up changing my background. I sort of played with the bokeh effect but I make great big blurry circles, mostly in blue, so the change in color is just barely noticeable. The color goes with the picture but, as I look at it, it reminds of the way blue construction paper gets all faded when it’s been left on a bulletin board for a long time.
I didn’t make the mask-I think I bought it at scrapgirls.com. The heart bunting is by janet scott at pixelscrapper.com. I don’t know where I got the other heart (it’s the same heart that I recolored, sized differently). As usual, there’ll be no narrative until I finished with all seven pages. And my granddaughter is doing a back bend in both pictures–there’s a year-and-a-half between the two pictures. She’s more flexible at eleven than she was when she was ten. (It’s just the opposite for me–with every year that passes, I stiffen up more!)
@Sue: gorgeous day 6! The colors, the flourishes, the frame, everything . . . wow! Also, that is one plump sparrow. I just realized that I didn’t comment on your fox. It’s hard for me to imagine living somewhere where one could photograph foxes (I’ve never seen a live one), much less get such a lovely picture. Now that I know how you manage to shoot wildlife in subzero temps, I’m curious to know what kind of zoom lens you use.
Barbara
This is a total re-do. Sometimes something that seems really special in the wee hours of the morning does not look that way in the light of day. So I begin again.
I had wanted to do something with heart brushes since that has been the main decorating element during this challenge, but I didn’t have any. Now I do-because I watched a video and learned out to make them, which was super easy. The paper is from hfinch. I’m holding off until day 7 to decide what narrative will travel through the seven pages. And it looks like my granddaughter is maybe doing a handstand or something.
I just realized that I didn’t do a floating frame. Maybe I’ll come back later and do one.
Day 4–I’ve decided not to write anything on my pages for now. Each of the pages I’m making have pictures of my granddaughter when she was younger. At the bottom of each page I’m putting pictures of her I took last week showing her in various positions as she does front and back flips.
Well, this turned out to be a lot harder than it should have been. For some reason, my 2019 version of PSP didn’t want to let me paint over the raster to make a mask. The paint brush would only remove a small amount of the layer at a time and I ended up with a situation akin to trying to remove a product sticker from a piece of plasticware. I kept virtually scrubbing and only bits of the layer would come up. And then the program kept shutting down. I finally gave up and opened my 2018 version of PSP and had no trouble at all. This isn’t the first problem I’ve had with the newer version–it also won’t accept plug-ins. I’ve been in contact by email with Corel and have received instructions via email to fix that. But the fix didn’t work. It’s frustrating because all communication has been via email and there’s a day or so lag between me doing what I’ve been instructed to do, sending info to my assigned technician saying it didn’t work, then waiting a day or so until he responds. Anyway . . . has anyone else had problems PSP 2019?
So, this is my day 4 page. All of the pictures I’ve been using are of my granddaughter at a younger age. I decided to put up-to-date pictures of her in the process of doing flips on the corner of each page (I went back and added them to my other pages). Then I also decided to forgo words on each page until later.
@shutterpixi Using that really strong plaid to frame your loggerhead shrike was a great idea. It not only adds interest, it also forces my eye to move to the center of page where the shrike is.
Barbara Hall
@Dee 347 As I was looking at the newest submissions, my eye stopped at your day 2 page–I was attracted to the sheer simplicity of it. The photo was the hero of the page and there was nothing to distract me from that. I also really liked your day 3 page. Both the elements you chose and the way you arranged them added to the overall “beachy” ambiance of picture without distracting from the picture itself.
Barbara
