Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Trish, so sorry to hear about your reaction to your booster. That is awful. I hope you start to feel better soon. Your “Beautiful You” is stunning. I love your color palette and well, everything about it. Your pages are so diverse it’s really exciting to see what you will create next.
Hi Mary, (#73167) I just checked, I did it as download found in Messenger, on Facebook. It does have your picture on the page and your middle name. The file is 15 MB. I will try and send to your gmail account, but not sure if that’s too big to send. I sure hope I got you, or someone will be very confused. ?♀️?
Fiona (#73227) that’s beautiful. thank you for explaining how you made the changes, the tips are much appreciated.
I’m practicing today, keeping it simple. Mask practice and played with the new Lantern tubes, floating off up in the sky. I experimented with the Hue Map, thanks Carole for that timely blog tutorial, made several very slightly different Hues. keeping it analogous with, Magenta, Blue, Cyan, and white to mimic the clouds…and because black didnt look as good.
The lantern behind the mask is supposed to be coming out of the clouds.
(#73176) Julie, I love your “Spring is in the Air”. Trust yourself, your layouts are beautiful and inspiring. I’m a newbie too. I’m in Alberta, we had 4″ snow yesterday, ? and hoar frost on the trees today. It’s pretty, but I am so ready for spring.
(#73140). That’s beautiful Mary. A sentiment we all need right now. Did the download (About the Imperial Water Dragon) I sent to you via Fb messenger get to you okay? I also posted two other pictures in the Masks forum for your perusal.
(#73108) Fiona, that is so beautiful, both the design (love that kaleidoscope) and sentiment. Very sad world right now.
(#73102) Linda, that happened to me. For me it was that I was holding the button down too long(I have a heavy touch), even when I thought I was “just clicking once”. I had to click and lift my finger right away.
(#73103) thank you Sue, for the tip about changing the brush variance back to default. I be that’s what was going on with mine too
Mary, (#73092). check Kevin’s website at metalanimation.com and click on “projects” and you will see more photo’s.
Hi Mary. (#73092). Thank you for your comments, my heart is singing. I tried (hopefully successfully) to send a psp file to your FB account (I hope that was okay, I should have asked first?♀️ ). It is the artists words on the “Imperial Water Dragon”. I wouldn’t have been able to put it as beautifully as him. He is from Chilliwack BC Canada (where I lived at the time -2009). This was an unveiling of his latest art piece, only 5 minutes from my house. In one of the two images you can see how many people were there so it was really hard to shoot any full length shots, I mostly did close up shots. He also had two other previous eagle sculptures there (one for repair as it had been stolen and fell off the truck or something like that). The second photo is the artist being interviewed by local media, it gives you some perspective of the size of this beautiful piece. It was for sale for 1 million dollars (Canadian – that’s about $4 American, right??). It didn’t sell right away and I could always see it when I was driving on the highway.
(#73084) Carole, I will not give up, but it helps to know the tools are the friendly non-biting variety ?. I played around with image>negative image to adjust the mask. Here’s the two I’m working on; still not happy with the background layer, the stainless steel is busy because it reflects everything. It’s a work in progress and a good learning process to work through the challenges. I’m having fun with it, masks are very cool.
Thank you Carole(#73070). That worked perfectly (and I just wrote notes about that last night – LATE last night). Some days I soar with the eagles and other days I’m just a turkey-brain.
help, I’m trying to use the mask from lesson 6. How do I get a less greyed image on top. I see the mask layer is grey. I’ve tried to make it white (window), but cant seem to do it. It makes the bottom white. Ugh. I clearly need another year worth of mask training. Now that my brain is frazzled, what do I do with the bottom part. maybe this is not the day to try to be creative, hitting the iron will have to suffice…cant build the brain might as well build the body.
(#72973) thank you Sue. I love reading your comments to everyone (and me of course). I learn a lot from them. And I vow to become friends with the paint brush tool. It will take some practice to use it proficiently, I confess I might have a death grip on my poor mouse so the movement isn’t smooth yet. This is also my favorite workshop so far. It feels empowering when I actually get through the lesson and have a completed layout. I respond well to the teaching style of the bootcamps and workshops.
Thanks Carole (#72955). ?♀️. I was reading comments and there was several mentions of using the brush to paint on the mask too. Was I sleeping in class again. hahaha
(#71849) sorry Carole, I missed this post about “ascending” being hard to read. I agree and I will follow up on that. I remember playing around with it a lot and still wasn’t happy so I posted it anyway. What I envisioned and what I did were not the same.?
I just did the quiz, got 9/10. I must admit some (okay, most) were guesses. I didn’t know you could paint on a mask layer. We probably did that and I already forgot. I’m going to follow Sue’s advice and practice one thing until I understand it. Repetition is the key.
Day 7 Layout. I enjoyed this tutorial. I like how we made the mask and the dots were fun to do and try different sizes. Thank you Carole for having these tutorials available for the Diamond members. I’m going to need to refer to them for some time to come.
Thanks again for putting this workshop on. I have being inspired by and learned from everybody. Cant wait till the next one.
(#72752) Carole, I used the same size as the video. I kept going with the repeat command till I didn’t like it and then backed off a bit. I found the smaller pattern was a bit busy and wanted to see how big I could go. I wasn’t sure how to do the blur and blend thing and stumbled my way through, ended up with two raster layers with lino on them. When I’d hide one it would make the other one look weird (I cant seem to explain this part) even though it was two different layers layers. So I just merged the two layers together to keep the look you see in the layout. I’ve done lino before and don’t remember it doing that. More practice needed from me as I like this technique.
Really beautiful layouts from everyone and I love the lino and kaleidoscope papers you all have made.
Lesson 6. Today I used a scanned image of one of my photo’s. This photo is from 1993! A time when I shot mostly slides, very little film. Except on this day when I went to the Vancouver Aquarium where this guy landed on top of an exhibits (pretty sure the rocks are fake), I was shooting film. 19 yrs later the negative (which has been kept in the dark) is not viable anymore, wish I’d shot slides that day. I had a few problems today and was able to overcome them when I used my laptop to follow the lesson on making masks from selections, while actually doing the lesson on my desktop. I had written the instructions wrong and I was on the wrong layer while making the selection. And I also had to go back to get the settings for the brush behind the quote (from Lesson 2). And, I see it needs to be moved to the right a bit. the lino paper is fun to do and quick.
(#72636) Carole, when I was learning Calligraphy many years ago the Calligraphers would refer to Titivillus as the Patron Saint of Mistakes. I actually thought it was made up, until I looked him up. Usually it’s when you lettered something and were nearing the end (or finished) and you see you had two of the same words in a row or a spelling mistake.
It is very sad and tragic. Safe thoughts to you Pirkko and to anyone affected by this madness.
OH Julie, I feel for you(#72551) . I’m having that day too (thankfully not the vet emerg…I’ve had enough of that too!). Your layouts are always beautiful. Sometimes I find I just need to walk away for a bit. You got this, and if you don’t, someone here will have your back.
Day 5 layout. Not the best creative day or layout for me. I really liked the lesson and how the masks were made. I didnt do the feathering enough, I can see it’s too hard of a line in the feathering. I thought I didn’t have room on the photo so I used 100. next time I’ll do the 200 like I should have. I used the Bokeh brush but don’t think it looks good. Titivillus has plagued me most of the day (Titivillus was a demon said to work on behalf of Belphegor, Lucifer or Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes) and I was making so many mistakes that PSP (2022) gave me an error saying I was out of memory (how rude!) and if I didn’t put the keyboard/mouse down and back away from the computer the world would implode. Who needs that stress?
Beautiful layouts as usual from everyone. Takes the stress away and warms the heart.
sorry, another thing I forgot to add. I filled the ‘siblings’ title with the fur from the raccoon. the quote is cute and yet funny for me to use since all 4 siblings in my family are adopted. ?
Day 4 mask making. I can see I need more practice. This is a valuable technique. The photo is mine the font is Gills Sans Ultra Bold and the quote is Gills Sans something-or-other-skinnier-version. Back ground I think came from the photo and I added a texture again. It’s small and might not show up. This time I did it right. However, I never unchecked add textures and I was getting textures everywhere. Textures in places textures shouldn’t be.
Sue, amazing the defenses of insects. My cat ate a ladybug once, and paid for it with a foaming mouth, a trip to the vet and an antihistamine shot. we didn’t know at the time it was from that until later years when another cat ate one, which we saw. On a side note: Do you know what kind of spider this is. it was night, outside on my driveway in Chilliwack, BC October 17, 2011. I love snakes and rodents but don’t do so well with insects, beetles are okay though. This one creeps me out.
Hope it’s okay to have posted it. I could have done mask page with it but I can’t bear to look at it for that long.
Sue, I LOVE snakes. The feel of them wrapping around my arm is so cool. I agree with you and Ann, they are amazingly soft feeling. I have experience with the anal gland “present”. icky. Corrie, I love that you made those little frames darker. May I ask how that was done? I did that extra layout too and wished I could’ve made those darker. Such beautiful and interesting layouts from everyone and the kaleidoscope papers I’m seeing are to die for! The extra tips are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Fiona, I too go over and over the videos and I make lots of notes. In calligraphy we learned the 3 P’s; Practice, Patience and Perseverance, I have to remind myself to follow that.
So true Gerry, I used to think social media platforms were a time “vampire” but now it might be Kaleidoscope paper that is.
Here is the extra from Day 3. I made a textured background. I don’t know how, I was madly clicking buttons and it just happened. I have a layer with the texture and somehow I put a texture on the solid layer below so it was full of holey transparent bits so I put yet another layer under that. As to how I even got the texture in the first place is a mystery to me. It was fun though. Font is Rachel Brown from Creative Fabrica. Photo is mine.
Laurie, beautiful layout. You did much better with “pattern” than I did.
PS…the other “vampire” in the house is the couch…we call it the “buttocks vampire”, once you sit it sucks the energy out of you and you stay put longer than you should.
Guess who has the day off? Guess who “should” be adult-ing and doing housework but is playing with PSP instead? This is the extra mask from day 2. I actually did the the solid background one first, it’s the one I like the best. I like making plaids, it’s a surprise each time and it just fun making them. The first plaid I did (the light one with hard to read title) I forgot to try the brush technique under the title and the second plaid (which is way too over the top for me) I tried it but with not great results. Probably from my death grip on the mouse.
Manning Park was about 1 hour 40 min from where I lived in BC. On my birthday in June we’d go to see the ground squirrels (mother natures present to me) as they are only above ground for a short period. The steller’s jay and the ground squirrels were in the day use area which was busy with black bears (about 5 of them) that day. I was laying down to photograph the squirrels and I could hear my husband quietly calling me. I had being keeping an eye on the bears in front of me but didn’t realize one had come between me and my vehicle. It was a weird day, where people were getting out of their cars and walking around and there were bears walking around and no person or bear seemed concerned (except us). Surreal. I made a quiet retreat to the nearby outhouse. The brown bear in the photo in another area of the park.
Day 3 layout. You are not kidding, kaleidoscope-ing (new word of the day!) is addicting. I settled on this background to keep it clean and white-ish. Photo is mine, from the Greater Vancouver Zoo. On this day this peacock was guarding the pop vending machine and wouldn’t let people near it. Hilarious. I had previously downloaded masks from Digital Scrapbook but had no idea how to use them. Loved this lesson.
