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A little late, but here is my Card #2. A Birthday Card for my husband who loves flowers.
Hi everyone. I have to circle back and do Day 2, but here is my Day 3 creation. Thanks Cassel for the new info.
I found a background with candy canes and used one size on the front of the card along with other Christmas features and used a slightly larger size, arranged differently for the back.
I took the card template and added a notice for a Craft show I’m in this weekend. I plan to print a 3X4 copy for the back of my nametag. Thanks
Hi everyone,
Here is my 5th project. It was lots of fun because it seemed to bring a lot of features together. I did struggle with it because my laptop seemed to have slowed down quite a bit. I thought I had figured out why, but I’m not sure. In the end it just took longer to finish the project. I did not copy my text into the text selection box I typed it and it created only a Vector layer so when I saved it as a jpg the text was tiny and up in the corner. Once I copied the layer and converted it I was able to resize it and put it back in the white area beside the picture of the woodpecker. Easy fix once you know what is happening.
Cassel – In answer to your question above regarding milkweed – I had to check with my husband, but it should propagate by spreading seeds. As long as they didn’t all fly away to another’s garden you should see them come back this year.
Here is my Project 4 – His and Her Flowers
Just to be clear, the two on the left are from my husband’s garden (black bees), the intarsia on the right is my kind of flower (yellow bees).
I think I’m finally getting the hang of the Text tool and I learned a lot about the Magic wand in making the white frames. I had the tolerance set too high in the beginning and I was getting a blotchy edge. Once I lowered it to zero, it covered all of the picture in a nice crisp white edge.
Hi,
Catching up on Cassel’s comments from earlier posts.
1 – Adventure – I’ve added greater drop shadow to the house element. Also put it on a separate layer in case I need to make further adjustments. See below.
2 – Project 3 – Butterfly Garden – Since I found the History palette I was able to make the changes to the drop shadow without putting them on a separate layer. Going back in I don’t have the option to view/change the shadows now so I will use “separate layer” in the future. Also, a Butterfly Garden is one that is intended to attract Butterflies so it has flowers they like such as Butterfly Weed (Milkweed); Echinacea (Cone Flower) and Rudbeckia (Black Eyed Susan). In my husband’s case, he is also trying to find plants/flowers that are deer resistant. Finally, I mislabelled the flower on the left, it should read Hyacinth, not Iris.
Here is my third project – My husband’s Butterfly garden at the lake. While I’m busy with my woodturning at the cottage he is busy creating beautiful flower gardens. The three pictures below are of one of his gardens (centre) and two of the flowers from last summer (left – Iris), right (allium). The papers and elements all came from Pixel Scrapper (over the past year). I didn’t have a poem to add so I’ve not yet used the import text feature, but did use the History Palette to remove some of the drop shadows and replace them with thicker, blurrier (not sure if that is a word) versions on the flowers and the coloured butterflies. I didn’t add drop shadow to the lace butterfly on the dark background because it darkened it too much, but used a blurier version on the lace-on-green butterfly. I like the different effects that the changes made and the opportunity to selectively remove some effects with the History palette. Looking forward to Project 4.
Here is my second project. Got this picture of a Woodpecker building a house last summer and thought it would be good for this. There is no “ink” writing on this project so all of the pieces have drop shadow to give that 3d effect.
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s projects.
Cassel,
You caught me. I did forget the drop shadow on the picture. I’ve added it and reposted the project here.
Thanks
Just catching up from yesterday so kept this one simple. The picture is of a Loon at our cottage, right in close to the dock. I found a picture of a sailboat and used that to make the whole thing look nautical. I added the drop shadow to the text and the boats to give them some depth. Looking forward to seeing what others come up with.
A little late in posting this. Spent most of yesterday fixing an HP/Adobe Flash issue. All better now, on with the Bootcamp. I almost forgot the table cloth, but saw some of the previous entries and went back and grabbed a background from one of my Freebies from Pixel Scrapper. I changed the sandwich to Roast Beef (you can see just a sliver at the bottom) and removed the onions and tomatoes, added some Mayo (that’s it on the left side), kept the lettuce and pickles. (I’m with Clarine, you gotta have pickles). Now on to Day 3.
Here is a picture of the picture I plan to use as well as my workspace preferences. I like to keep the Organizer open at the bottom, as well as the Navigation (list of files) on the left. I am lucky to have a large screen so that still leaves me quite a bit of space for the pictures. I’ll be working with the Loon picture on the right which was taken from the one on the left, but with the vertical branch removed. (Found the Magic Fill function during the Basic course.) Looking forward to Day 2.
Hello everyone,
I’m back for round 2 of the Bootcamp. I’ve upgraded to 2021 and am still learning the basics as well as a few more advanced features. I made calendars for everyone for Christmas and am hoping to be more creative after this and the Basic course I’m also completing. I too have unchecked the Tabbed Documents (once I found it with the help of the Basic course. It is a lot easier to keep track of the pictures when you can see them and not have to remember all of the file names. Off we go…..
HI all,
I’m definitely late with this one, but I wanted to show that I actually figured it out. Here is my Day 7 submission. A shot of the fall colours and how I cut them out with the letters. I didn’t do much to the template except use the colours from the picture to bring it all together.
Thanks Carole for all of your wonderful instruction.
Not sure if anyone is still watching since it’s Day 8…
Here is my Day 6 submission. I kept it very basic to show the “rope” effect. The picture is of my sewing workspace in my basement. The table is supposed to be a pool table…who knew???
Good morning,
Was sewing and turning over the past few days. Just getting caught up with Day 5,6,7. Here is my Day 5 attempt at moving and changing the letters. I really like this feature. This picture shows the 25 masks I finished yesterday. I’m up to 136 and my group has donated over 1400 to the local hospital, clinics and correctional facilities, not to mention how many were made for family members.
Almost caught up. Here is my Day 3 submission. I really like the wordwrap. As you can see, I’ve reverted to my woodturning pictures. Tomorrow I’ll be back at the sewing machine and likely have more shots of masks. lol
Hi everyone,
I used a couple of pictures of a segmented bowl/box that I was working on at this time last year for my Day 2 submission. I hope you like it.
Hi everyone,
I’m a little late in getting started, but when you see my picture I think you will understand. Usually I would be posting pictures of my woodturnings, but right now the lathe has taken a back seat to the sewing machine. In the attached picture, the gown was made a few weeks ago, but about 50 of the masks were made this week. It’s been a busy week. Still playing with the fill options, but here is my first attempt.
Well, I made it to Day 7 (a little late). I wasn’t able to master the wire effect, but I did have some fun with the polka dots. The colours seemed to work with a picture of my mother’s china (Wedgewood) so here it is. Thanks Cassel for all of the information and thanks everyone for the inspirations.
Wow, I still have to refer to my notes to create a Mask, but with the notes it’s getting easier. I was able to make a 4-object mask this time and used the colours from other Niagara pictures to create the background. The colours are a little bold, but right now it’s all about the process. Hope you like my pics from the Butterfly museum at Niagara Falls.
PS I really like the keyboard shortcuts, but I’m not sure I will remember them for long. lol
Well here is Day 5. A little plain because I’m at the cottage and working on a single, laptop screen, rather than my big monitor on the desk, but I think I’ve tried all the new tricks. Now to try the text on a curve. Thanks to Sue and Cassel for the instructions.
Wow, with all the downloads and installs I know I never would have figured this out from any manual. Thanks for the great instructions Cassel. And thanks to the other participants for their great inspirations. Here is my Day 4 Mask, still pretty basic, but I added a frame from Bootcamp and coloured the text based on the butterfly wings. My cold is almost gone so the brain is starting to work again.
I’m trying to create a circle logo with writing around the border. I saw a post today that had a similar text art, but I’m not sure where it came from. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Well, here is my attempt at a plaid background. I thought I’d try to recreate my Grandmother’s “McArthur” plaid/tartan. I need to spend much more time on it, but I think I’m on the way. The yellow should be consistent all the way around and the grey should be a combination of grey and black.
Here is my day 3 post. In keeping with the Niagara Falls theme it is a picture of the falls from our restaurant at night. The Kaleidoscope was created from part of a picture of all of us on the boat (earlier in the day) with our red raincoats on. It’s a little busy, but it shows the kaleidoscope effect so I’m keeping it for now.
Now I’ll try to create the plaid pattern from yesterday (day 2).
Day 1 Repost – I updated the Text to indicate where we were (as if it was not obvious). lol
Hi all,
I’m a little late getting Day 1 posted and starting on Day 2. I’m fighting a cold so my brain is not working well. I managed to figure out the Masks, but I can’t remember how to access the text to update it. When I click on the Text layer and then the Text tool I end up creating a new raster layer instead of editing the “titre ou petit texte ici”. Would love a reminder about Text. Thanks. Also, my husband is camera shy so my pictures will be of places we travelled to together – This one is Niagara Falls.
Leslie
Hi all,
I’m a beginner with “Masks”. I’ve taken the bootcamp course and am using PSP to help showcase my woodturning products. I’m also the newly appointed Editor of our Artisans Centre newsletter. Many of the techniques in Scrapbooking are helping me in these two areas. Looking forward to this challenge.
Fellow Bootcampers -I really liked this set of tutorials. I’ve had the software for over 4 years and never learned how to use it. I’m sure there are many things to still learn, but now I can get started and do what I have wanted to do all along. Thanks Cassel for these videos and your great ideas. As for what I learned – all of it. I couldn’t quite get my head around the layers piece; was having trouble with the text functionality (not sure I’m clicking on the “accept” button); I like the drop shadowing…… all of it.
I have pictures from two recent trips (over the past two years) that I have yet to do anything with. Now I have my projects set out for me. I also want to create a pictorial inventory of my turned wood products. I expect there will be at least two versions – “inventory” pics and “items for sale” pics. Now I can make them look much more professional.
Thanks Cassel
Leslie
