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That’s cool Mary, the gulls look like they have always being part of the photo. Just from watching the Q&A today I did an extraction using the “smart selection” tool. I like the style of your layout, especially how the photo’s are arranged and the background being a photo really adds to the layout.
Sue, I love the information along with your beautiful layout. I had no idea that bees can “sleep” while hanging on with their teeth. fascinating!
Here I am again! My photo’s are still in my camera so I don’t have one to post just yet. I am hoping to be doing some flower photo’s for all the layouts. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s layouts.
I tried saving it to another folder as well. It happened once before. What I dont get is the whole point of the auto-preserve. it often lags the computer down as it does it’s auto save every 15 minutes. yet when I went to the folder the only one it had was was the night before when i first started the layout. I’m going to turn that “feature” off and auto-save on my own as I do a certain amount of work. I think PSP got stuck because sometimes I’m clicking on something and it doesnt respond and I click again and still no response, then I see the green bar at the bottom and I see that’s why. I even tried do an unexpected shut down to see if it would clear the mistake while still opening the last open file. It opened it but still the same error. I did get a JPG so I’ll have to re-create it. Maybe I’ll even make it better. hahaha, wishful thinking.
Lab 5-11. Quite an enjoyable Lab. Well, except the part where my PSP wont save the pspimage file. All is not lost as I could save as JPG. And here it is. It goes with the last Lab I did. Lessons learned:
- Chevron 2: loved this tutorial and this pattern. I used a gradient for the background.
- Cutout Word: I think font choice is important and perhaps only using one word would have been better (more readable)
- Punched Out Border: another fun one that has so many possibilities.
The shadows were tricky on the Punched Out Border and the Cutout Word. I did lower the opacity of the shadow to make it easier on the eyes. Papers and photo is mine, elements from Digital Scrapbook, Arial Font for the journaling and I forget the font for High Key and I rasterized it without duplicating (a boo boo on my part). It did come from Creative Fabrica though.
UpDATE: I never did get it saved. I see a spelling error in the journaling so when I recreate the layout I can fix the spelling error.
This might to to late. I am trying to save my layout and I get this message. When I looked in the Preserve folder it has the version from 11:47pm last night. It was doing the auto save as I was working today yet it doesn’t show them. How do I get to the most recently autosaved version? Or will I need to start from the actual “save as” that I did last night.
UPDATE: I can save it as a JPG. bummer to lose the layers. I’m leaving it open just in case there is something that can be done to save it as a PSP file. temp files were dumped, stuff deleted from task manager etc.
Bonnie these are awesome. So many varied layouts. I enjoy reading them.
Fabulous page Sue. Thank you for the larger write up, I didn’t know birds had friends. I can totally see that. I love the part where you said ….”sleep under the stars”. It’s sounds wonderful.
Thank you Mary. I have to laugh that you thought our looked like kindergarten work, it’s just what I thought of mine. Who knew coloring could be so hard. You can dress up bad coloring, but underneath it’s still bad coloring. ?
Wow! Dawn! I’m blown away at your postings. They are incredibly beautiful.
Here is my layout for lab 5-10. Does it look like I got a kindergartener to color the crayon edges? Of course, a kindergartener would do much better. ? I’m a lefty who uses a mouse right handed. It was a challenge. I shouldn’t be surprised, in the physical world I can’t color or sew. A tablet would work best for this type of work.
Even though it’s not my best work, I am happy that I’ve learned new techniques which makes this work as important to my growth as work I’ve done that I like.
Tutorials learned:
- Stitching (very cool, loved learning about the presets too!)
- Random picture tube (Even more cool)
- Crayon Edge (interesting, loved the sample. mine? not so much, hahaha)
Sue, those are wonderful. A great idea. The weather in Alberta is dismal and cold today, rain, rain, rain. And I’m pluviophile (rain lover)! However, I’m in the middle of an abstract flower photo project and without the sun, the flowers are holding tight in their buds. I did get to practice 3 tutorials last night for the next lab, so all is not lost.
Thank you Mary. I think there probably is an easier way to do it. I was trying to do it the same as the tutorial and since I didn’t have a color picture to start with I figured I’d color it first then follow the tutorial. I sure had to zoom in when I was erasing and when I edited the selection for the Out of Bounds. It was hard to tell where I was sometimes. I love your Lab postings, you are so dedicated and I can see how much techniques you are learning. I hope to carve out more regular time to do mine.
Anne, I love your effects posting. I have never tried them before. They look like they could be addicting.
That’s very beautiful Pirkko. I love that look. I find it very hard for me to do that style so I really appreciate when someone does it this well.
Well, this was supposed to be for the June Scraplift but it wasn’t to be. Life can get unexpectedly busy sometimes. I learned a lot with this layout. Out of Bounds technique on the centre dragon and Coloring the red balls with the eraser tool. This was a long large freestanding cement installation in a new park in Edmonton where the city is putting in a Japanese Garden. The sculpture starts with the big dragon in the middle and has two scenes on either side with two dragons playing/fighting (?) with a ball. Since it was already mostly grey, I used HSL to turn the image red, then made a duplicate and desaturated that before using the eraser tool to reveal the red ball. Out of Bounds was just a small area on the middle photo (top of the head). I had a little problem with that as I thought I followed the instructions to put the white frame on the inside. when I did that the white frame went straight across the out of bounds part. So I put it on the outside and it seemed to work. Not sure what I did wrong, but got there in the end. I chose not to do the Slipped in Photo, and subbed in Cutout Word on a curve. the pen tool was a bit tricky, thankfully the tutorial was really good and I actually made it work. More pen tool practice is needed.
I have being enjoying all the various posts in the forums, despite not being too active in them.
Ann, that is beautiful. I missed getting those templates, they are really nice with clean lines. Your color choices are perfect.
You had a timely newsletter. I was looking at fonts I purchased and several have layered fonts and was going to ask in the Q&A. Even better is the downloadable instructions! thank you. I hope all will be well with the technical issues too.
I did sign up and added a question. If you don’t see me in the webinar it will be because of technical difficulties. The next master class will show if it’s working for me again. Either way, I’m looking forward to it. I made the same mask (just last night) from the last Q&A about the school photo’s. Really good practice at making masks. Good thing you have that available to us.
Corrie, I can see the background overlay of the windmills and it looks really cool. it’s hard to imagine the one from 1744 is still in working order.
Rene, I love your M letter. In fact the way you’ve done all the letters in the alphabet so far.
thanks Michele and Cristina, I hadnt heard of FontBundles.net and the other sites. I’m not ready for Fontaholics Anonymous yet, I’m not addicted….much. LOL. My therapists (AKA my cats!) say I’m in denial. I say, if I gotta be somewhere, denial is a wonderful place to be. ?
I don’t have a subscription either. I found them to be quite responsive when I had a problem logging on (my fault) and they fixed it right away. Norton hasn’t detected anything devious from them so far. I get the freebie’s and bundles. I love looking through the fonts and there is cool ideas when you look at the thumbnails when you click on a font to see more of it. sometimes I really like a font and will pay the $1 sale price if I don’t want to wait and see if it will come around as a freebie. I did buy my favorite font (Samantha Upright Script by Laura Worthington) that finally came on sale for $9, reg. $79. It’s on sale for $17 right now. It has so many glyphs that it has a user guide! I’d say give it a month or two with the free membership and then decide if the membership price is worth it.
Michele, your layouts are always so inspiring and motivating for me. I love your style and beauty of them. And thank you for your explanations on how you made the layouts.
P.S. A lot of adults like what we think others would think as “for kids”…hubby and I watch anime…we are 57! Inspiration for creativity can be found from the most unexpected places.
Wow! It doesn’t get anymore motivational than everyone’s layouts. Delightful to log in and see all the creativity. I’m trying to soak it all in (the creativity).
I also meant to add that my project is meant as a “poster” so I didn’t add shadows.
Ann, that’s a cool background. Isn’t that the way? You are playing around and do something cool, then you don’t know how you did it so you can recreate it again.
Here is my tut/tech challenge. Gradient on the bottom quote and, well, not so colorful (in fact Hueless or Color-empty) use of Value going from White to Black on the value scale in random increments. Seeing the Value of Hue in my Color Course was the hardest to learn and still an on going struggle. That is why the ‘A’ in ‘Scripta’ is barely discernable as this cyan/blue background is very close in value to the letter ‘A’. Painters are really good a reading the value of a hue.
Thank you Sue, for the explanation and for graciously adding the practice photo’s. If I didn’t know you blended the three photo’s I’d have thought it was one photo.
Ann, that is a beautiful page and I love the picture. That font is awesome and really looks great colored the way you did.
Wow! Sue, that’s awesome. Very complex too (to me). I love how you did the coloring on the all the letters, all with varied techiniques. It’s fun to really look and discover all the ways you colored the lettering. I love the idea of photo blending, would make a good master class. I have started playing a bit with blend modes and learned about the tools having their own blend modes too. I would love doing the same with masks to blend photo’s together. Am I correct in understanding your layout is 3 different photo’s, each with one insect on them, that you blended using masks to uncover the areas you wanted to show through? Did you have to keep the framing of the flower the same for each photo?
Thank You Lynda. It’s actually a common one calligraphers would do. Only it wouldn’t be a repeating alphabet, just once through with the “I” being I love you done in a different hand. Suzy had a great idea to tuck a smaller photo under one of the eyelet ribbons. I think I could also use that as a base and add different photo’s for different occasions. I just started the labs. Watching Mary and Colin progress with the Labs was very motivating.
Thank you for the ideas Suzy. I had originally wanted to do a photo of my father (passed in 1995) for fathers day. You are right, it would still be understandable as a repeating alphabet with “I” being the I love you part. I will try and rework with an old B&W photo if my scanner behaves enough to scan one. I like the idea of making a small B&W image and tucking it under the eyelet ribbon like you mentioned.
