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Okay, today’s lesson started out as pure frustration. The flood fill step just wasn’t working! After trying it three times, I looked to see what other settings might be interfering with my efforts, and I discovered that I had my blend mode set to “darken,” which the white wouldn’t do, of course. When I changed it to “normal,” all worked as expected – hooray! Then I had to play around with the size and placement of the photos so the actual arches weren’t ‘interrupted’, but at least I knew that my skills were up to that challenge.
I am learning so much! Thank you all for sharing your talents.
I divided the original mask into space for three photos, just for a challenge. I really need to practice creating masks, so this was a great exercise for me.
I wanted to see what my pages would look like with a colored background and some added frames, after seeing everyone else’s pages. The frames really help, I think.
Day 3
Day 2
I’m sorry I didn’t visit the forum to introduce myself earlier. Last week was busy; this week, I can learn and create! My magazine will include just some of the photos from our visit to Arches National Park last summer. So, here’s the cover:
I changed the frames to a gold color reminiscent of National Geographic magazines, and I chose a font that resembles the one the National Park Service uses on their publications & website.
I’ve spent all day playing with this, when I should be outside working in the yard – Spring has arrived in full bloom, and it’s beautiful here! Fortunately, I have a window. My final layout is way more cluttered than is usually my style, but I don’t care. I have learned so much! Thank you all.
I really enjoy seeing everyone’s unique applications of the techniques we’re learning! I’m still behind, but I’m liking my page better with every addition.
Day Two: I created a frame, and I’m pleased with it. I found my whitewashed wood texture at Freepix.com. Washington, DC, is all about cherry blossoms this time of year, so I took my camera to the National Arboretum last month and got several good photos that aren’t just run-of-the-mill blossom shots. For now, I’m just featuring one on my page, but that may change.
Such artists we have! I am a day or so behind, but I spent a lot of time playing around with the pen tool – I’ve never tried to use it before. I came up with a geometric pattern that I like, but I think I would like it to be bolder on my paper. I lowered the opacity of the background color, but my lines still don’t stand out as much as I would like. Can anyone suggest a way to fix it (that doesn’t involve starting from the beginning)?
I’m looking forward to learning more about using PSP to create. I have used it to edit my photos for years, and now I’m beginning to create scrapbook pages. Every tip I pick up expands my repertoire.
@Sue, I guess I need to learn about blend modes and overlays next. I really like your background paper – it makes the lovely little hummingbird shine.
Day 2 led me off in a lot of different directions. I needed to rotate the mask to fit my photo – I tried using it in the original position, but I didn’t care for the result. So I started over, which meant I got to practice the mask creation twice 🙂 and I did it without consulting yesterday’s instructions both times! (Five more times, and I’ll consider it truly learned!)
I duplicated one of the brush layers and played around with rotating them to keep my photo clear. I deleted the circle brush layer as well.
Then it was time to try my hand at creating the plaid using colors from the photo. For some reason, the lines I pasted into the 200 X 10 image wouldn’t stay straight, so I re-watched the lesson, and noticed that Carole’s line size was longer than the size of the image. I made that change, and it did help a lot.
I didn’t want the whole page to be plaid, so I created the circle, and then had to figure out how to mask the plaid behind the photo so it didn’t show through. More practice! I think I’d like to add some texture to the background paper. The solid color flood-fill doesn’t please me, but that’s a project for another day.
As Barbara said, I don’t fully grasp the concept of masks yet, but I can follow step-by-step directions. I removed the flower doodle and replaced it with a wire heart from Pixel Scrapper (by Jessica Dunn), and added scattered pearls (by Sheila Reid, also at Pixel Scrapper). I layered a dried flower paper and a solid color selected from the flowers on the cake (at a reduced transparency). I do have a title as well, but I’ve hidden that layer in the version I’m posting here, just for the sake of privacy.
This is the third Challenge I’ve followed since last fall, and I am learning something new every day. Thank you, Carole, for creating this learning format; it fits my learning style perfectly.
I’m really looking forward to learning more about masks! Even though I’ll be travelling during this challenge, I’ll have access to email, so I can follow along. I may not make many posts because of limited internet access, but it should be a great challenge.
~Alicia
Boot Camp Day 6: still in New Orleans, but used a very different style for this page. I really appreciate knowing about the Selections-Modify-Select Selection Border! I so often want to add a contrasting border to my photos to make them “pop,” and then I end up having to move a colored rectangle as well as every photo. The items I used for this layout came from another Nellie Bell kit, this one called “Alpha and Omega.”
Here is my page from Day 5. I used papers from a free-to-use kit by Nellie Belle called Friendship From Georgia, then I used some elements from Pixel Scrapper. I used the glitter swatches from today’s lesson to turn my photo corners sparkly. You really need to enlarge the page to get the full impact of the courtyard photograph. I need to lear more about photo editing to make that picture better.
Here’s my second full project. As you can tell, I’m scrapping my visit to New Orleans with my husband last spring. For this challenge, I used a free kit I downloaded from the Scrappin Your Heart Out blog train, called “I Could Have Scrapped All Night” by Tammy Schockley of Songbird Scraps Designs https://songbirdscrapsdesigns.blogspot.com/, along with a background paper from 25NOJ-Lamb of God_D4ED (solid 4), found at https://dreamn4everdesigns.blogspot.com.
Kind of simple, but that’s my style. A street scene from our first visit to New Orleans, last summer.
my low calorie lunch
I’m ready to learn!
I’m Alicia, and I have been scrapbooking the traditional way for many years. Now I’m retired and doing a lot of travelling, so digital scrapbooking seems the way to go. I don’t think I’ll ever fully give up on traditional formats (I have too many supplies!), but I’m ready to learn some new possibilities.
I have used Paintshop Pro since the JASC days, but I never went beyond adjusting and cataloging my digital photos. I enjoyed completing the Up-To-Date calendar challenge a few weeks ago, so here I am, back for more.
Hello, everyone. I’m Alicia Garbelman. I’ve used PaintShop Pro to edit, tag and organize my photos for many years, but I’m new to the process of creating artwork with it. So I’m looking forward to learning more about the program and beginning to create. I’ve taken the basic digital scrapbooking course, but I haven’t begun to use my own photos to create digital pages. Baby steps.
