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Scalloped edges – phew. Thank you so much for this workshop, Carole. I hope I retain at least HALF of what I learned this time around.
Thank you so much for this course, Carole – it has been so much fun to see everyone’s lovely work!
Here are my bubbly oranges for Day 6 – the little label came wrapped around a blood orange called “La Capricciosa.”
Connie, (#72555) having overcome all those obstacles, I can just imagine that you learned a few things to make them work. Did you use masking to get those bird “cutouts” ?
Yes, Carole – I found the silhouette of a raven and turned it into a brush, then used it the same way you used the snowflakes in the lesson.
Lynda #72563 – yes, it’s a bird brush I made on the fly (no pun intended!) for the project.
Lesson 5: never give up! At first I did everything wrong with this one and had to solve endless mysteries with my layers and tools. It’s so easy to get lost. This is where I ended up – I forgot to add a final frame of some kind and decided not to use any drop shadows.
Lesson 4 took me forever because I realized I didn’t have any custom brushes, so I went down that rabbit hole for a while. I decided to try another plaid for the background – they’re growing on me!
This time around I decided to use woodblock print in the public domain instead of a photograph. I chose the kaleidoscope swatch from her obi. This could get to be very addictive.
Plaid snow! That was fun.
Sue Thomas – Thanks for mentioning the location of the video. For some reason I totally missed it, too. I’ll have to go back and watch it now to see what I did wrong, hehe.
Hi all! I’m looking forward to working with masks as they always perplex me. Here’s my first exercise, a quick survey of everything that’s blooming around my house at the moment. I used the template Cassel supplied pretty well “as is.”
Done Project 5 – now I can go back to all those chores that have been piling up! It’s so easy to get kinda obsessed. I added all the parts of the lesson to bevel my “lumber” framing device, use guides to line the pieces up and flip them around horizontally and vertically, use a frame around my photo and substitute a letter in the title with an element. I added a block of text using a selection rectangle to keep it justified and confined. The lovely wreath element is called Kendra_frame_round.png but I’ve lost the source. Everything else is from Soniasscraps, Katie Pertiet and pixelscrapper.
Thanks, Cassel! I realized I forgot to “deckle” the edges of my background paper as shown in the tutorial. But when I opened the file, I found I’d overwritten my original with the 600×600 version. Argh. It’s good practice to go back and try to remember how I got to where I ended up the first time. One of the steps I couldn’t reproduce very well was the manual colour corrections I did on the two photos to make them a similar sepia. Oh well – live and learn! Here’s my second version with holes punched along the edge of the newspaper strip.
Project #4 homework is a portrait of my parents with a little pen tool practice to link the two photos to the central ‘N’.
Pirkko, I love your Project 3 page for more than one reason. First, it is beautifully designed – I especially like your handling of the clusters of berries – and captures the colours of the season and your photographs very well. And I ADORE picking berries, especially lingonberries, so it touches my heart. Thank you!
And Susan Ewart, those leaves in ice – wow, what a cool idea!
Thank you, Susan – I was worried about working with black and white images. I did have to size them all up quite a bit. I also converted them to greyscale because each of them had a different colour cast.
The earlier conversation about fussy vs. tailored spoke to me! I find the visual “clutter” overwhelming at first and I delete and erase a lot! It’s hard to find your own style, isn’t it, when you’re using so many borrowed elements? How do you get started? Do you think about what you’re going to do or do you just jump right in and start mucking about? I’m not much of a planner, so I definitely do the latter.
Project #3 … I kept this one simple and followed Cassel’s instructions, although I used a patterned paper as my fill around the photos instead of glitter. I’m till stuck in my crocheted doily phase – all from pixelscrapper.
My Project 2 again with a bigger picture as Carole suggested! The AI function in PSP 2021 worked very well with this old beaten up photo, but I didn’t want to push it too much. In fact, the original photograph has a big hole in it.
I’m using PSP 2021, Carole. I’ll make another version tomorrow – I assume you mean using the AI setting in “Resize.” I hadn’t noticed it before. Thanks!
Project 2 and I’m still sticking with my vintage photo theme, this time using a picture of my great aunt in her new car on her way to her first day as a prairie teacher. I stuck to the lesson pretty carefully, but I decided not to rotate the subtitle because I couldn’t get it to work visually. And I need to find a better handwriting font.
Project 1 for Bootcamp Day 3. Most of the elements come from DigitalScrapbook.com (thank you!) and I had fun using more muted, vintage colours.
I got out the nice silverware for this open face BLT. And I must say I got very hungry preparing it! I used some copyright-free cutlery images and practised drawing and editing vector images for the sandwich ingredients. I forgot to add drop shadows!
Hi everyone! I think this is my second bootcamp and about my zillionth year using PSP badly. I’m always keen to practise. Eventually it will all sink in. I haven’t picked any photos yet, but may use some vintage ones this time around.
I am using PSP 2021. My preferences for now are dark gray background in the Complete workspace, the Tools toolbar docked on the left, the Standard and Tool Options toolbars at the top, with the Materials and Layers palettes open on the right.
Everyone’s work is always so inspiring and interesting. Today I started at the beginning with Carole’s Lesson One again just to have some fun with my shiny new copy of PSP 2021.
