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Carole, I would be interested in learning more about the Frame tool, specifically: what, if anything, makes it different from text inside a shape that happens to be rectangular? I have PSP2022, but have only watched the Corel tutorial on the new tool, haven’t had a chance to play around with it yet. Any info you can offer would be appreciated.
And Days 6 & 7
Days 3 – 5 completed.
I have watched the tutorials daily, but haven’t had time to work on my pages very much. Here are my layouts from Day One and Day Two. If the photos and pages look redundant, it’s because, like Carole, I have a new grandson. When creating my plaid paper for day 2, I discovered too late that my single-pixel selection box was actually 4 pixels high – for some reason, the custom size didn’t apply the way I expected it to. But when I looked at the filled background paper, I thought that the waviness made it look like a baby blanket, so I kept it instead of re-doing it.
Hello, everyone. This year I’ll be creating my Love Story about my new grandson – he’s almost six months old. Finding pictures won’t be a problem, but choosing from among them might be 🙂
I know there are many modifications yet to come, but I enjoy looking at all of your pictures, so it’s only fair that I post my own progress so far. These are all my own photos.
Hi, everyone. I completed an earlier Up-To-Date challenge, and it introduced a new way of learning for me. I have participated in several other challenges since then, because this process works well. It’s great to be able to watch the lessons as many times as I need, to use the Forum for questions and advice, and to share everyone’s creativity. Looking forward to 2021, after the craziness that is 2020, so focusing on next year’s calendar will be a jot.
I often buy postcards when I am traveling and keep them for myself! Especially when I know my own photographs can’t compare -when we’re visiting in a different season, for example. I’ve always included these postcards in my traditional paper scrapbooks – guess I’ll have to scan them to add to my digital ones.
After all that work, I realized that I had forgotten to add the drop shadows at the end. So, take two! It’s amazing how much better it looks with that little detail added.
I really have been working at the lessons everyday, but I just haven’t put everything together into layouts. So tonight I decided to make a layout using most of the techniques I have learned on a single layout. I created the silhouette map, then decided that I needed the names of the cities to show through, so I lowered the opacity of the paint layer. I added 4 other layers, detailing our modes of travel, and I used that whole map as a single element. The date stamp was created using Cassel’s DateStamp8 script, and the postage stamp was created from a photo I took of a tourist information map in the city. The only thing I don’t have on this layout is the leather tag – I’m still fussing to create one I like. I used some picture tubes to mark the city on the map and connect it to the title of the page. The papers are from a kit by Nellie Bell called “Birds of a feather.”
Hi, everyone. I look forward to these “challenges” because I always learn so much! I’m going to focus on a trip through New Zealand that we took last February/ March.
Day 7: These pictures are from our truncated trip to the southwest US last month. After growing up in the forested Appalachian mountains, I can’t get over the forests of Saguaro cactus in southern Arizona. So different from what I am used to seeing! I reviewed using the Vector Tube script to add the rope frames, to (hopefully) solidify it in my brain. And I’m finally getting comfortable with using the Inner Bevel 3D effect. When this pandemic is over, I should be pretty handy with these text tricks, at least. Thanks, Carole, for the lessons.
Day 6:
Looking at it now, I wish I had used a texture for the letters before I put on the candy tubes, but it’s okay. I rarely create a page for a single picture, but this one stands alone.
I’m enjoying seeing everyone’s work almost as much as I am creating my own pages.
For Day 5, I created gradients from the featured flowers to color the overlapping letters of their names. The photos are all my own. If anyone can name the second wildflower down along the ribbon, please let me know – a Google image search just kept turning up violets, and I know they’re not violets.
The colored starburst paper was a freebie that Carole offered on her blog last year, made with her Sunburst2 script. I played with the “shear” pick mode to stretch it a bit.
Mary, I really like how you filled your title with snowflakes! Perfect for your page. I confess, I had to Google “straightlining,” since I’m not a skier. I think your page page looks terrific, especially for a novice scrapbooker. You’ll be running rings around the rest of us in no time!
Day 4: I gave myself a challenge, and kept at it until I was satisfied.
First, I extracted a cactus shape with a curve to follow. I used the “Smart Selection Brush” (which I have only used in tutorials up till now), followed by the “Edit selection” feature with a paint brush, to extract the cactus. Then I used the pen tool and edited the nodes to get a matching curve for the title. Created the title on the path – I found it really helped me to zoom in when I was trying to anchor the text to the path. Used the sculpture effect on the title as an afterthought. Then went back to yesterday’s lesson and wrapped my journaling in an ellipse. And just for fun, I put a white shadow with the place and date text at the bottom. I’m feeling very accomplished right now 🙂
For Day 3, I used some photos from our recent trip to Arizona, which was cut short by the virus. I do really like the text wrapping feature. I know the text seems small in the 600X600 image, but it’s very readable at full size.
Shirley, we were able to visit your lovely country last year, before all of this dangerous nonsense began. I haven’t scrap-booked the trip yet, as I’m currently working on another project, but every now and then I play with the pictures and remember what a good time we had. We only went as far south as Queenstown, and we weren’t able to drive the west coast of the south island because of a ‘slip’ that closed the highway, but we do have some great memories and would love to return someday.
For today’s challenge, I got to use a photo I have been itching to use for several years. My husband is an actor, and we were rambling through the rainforest in Olympic National Park with our (adult) son, when my husband popped out from behind a tree. The mixed-up title format seems to fit perfectly!
I’m playing around with possibilities for the cover of an album for my New Zealand trip, so I came up with this. Not very exciting, but for a cover page, I think I like it.
Looking forward to this challenge! I always learn more than the intended lessons, as you remind me of techniques or tips along the way. Ready to refresh.
And Day 6. I’m not sure if I’m completely satisfied with these two pages, but the nice thing about saving them as PSP images is that I can change things if I want. Created a grunge background, but it was apparently too subtle, so I added a blinds texture as well.
Day 5: I don’t have any panorama shots from the Florida trip, so I found this one from our trip to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, later the same year.
I created the layout as 3600 x 7200 pixels. I used a pre-made gradient for the bottom layer, and I learned how to add borders using the selection – modify – select selection borders technique.
After saving the image as a jpg, I used the “custom selection” to create the left and right side layouts. All simple things, but the first time I have tried them.
For Day 4, I used some of my photos from “the oldest marine animal park in Florida.” The scattered format was perfect for these pictures!
Carole, thank you for reminding us about the “add border” command, and the texture effects, which I used to create the pink ribbon for my layouts.
Day 3 Balance, still at Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park. The fort hasn’t received much attention, so the ruins make for interesting shapes and shadows.
I’m really enjoying everyone’s layouts. Shutterpixi, I especially like the way you featured the landscapes of Colorado and Utah; I’m going to scraplift that layout for sure!
I’m really glad to see that everyone else takes photos of birds and flowers – seems we all seek beauty in nature.
Shirley, thank you for sharing your painful experience as a cautionary tale. I hope you had everything safely backed up. I’m doing another back up today, after reading your story. 🙂
And Day 2: Dry Tortugas National Park, Fort Jefferson. I used the arch shape from the fort’s construction to inspire my photo shapes. I applied the “duplicate and change the brightness” routine to create the shaped mats around each photo by just resizing the black shape to slightly bigger than the photos. I’m pretty happy with the results. I made the background paper (and the tag) by using the PSP brick texture blended with a basic background color.
Hi, everyone. I’ll be using pictures from a spring trip to Florida for this challenge. The more I learn about scrapping with PSP, the more I want to learn. (I’ve put a Diamond Membership on my Christmas wish list!)
My Day One pages feature some sights from Key West. I didn’t have enough vertical pictures, so I rotated the pages. The seashore paper is from a kit by Digicats called “Travelling Abroad,” and the letters are from the Let It Shine alphabet kit by JSS.
Thank you for the “wrap up” email. I was able to get to the lesson for Day 7, which had been a problem for me. I used the opportunity to make a sort of back cover, a page without any text.
This challenge was good for me, as it reminded me that I don’t need to spend so much time and energy on choosing or creating embellishments. After all, for some scrapbooks, I just want to focus on the photographs, and let them tell the story. An introductory page of clean text in journalistic style would make a nice addition.
