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“If you are stuck…there’s a tutorial for that” a play on “there’s an app for that.
which is what I’m doing now, text on an ellipse path that I want the bottom to have a curved word going in the right direction. I found two that I’m about to watch. I got the words across the top and now to get the word across the bottom in the right direction.
All the answers you need, just a click away!
or something to that effect.
All the inspiration…
All the tutorials….
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Thank you for the bigger picture Sue. I did read about how they are also endangered in Alberta. They are so beautiful. Hard to believe they are part of the weasel family. Predation probably keeps disease down (in the ground squirrels) and then the strong, healthy ones pass on their genes. How lucky you get to see them. I cant wait to see photo’s from your trip.
Sue, can I have a drop of your energy? Fabulous calendar. Is that a badger? I just read about them in Nature Alberta magazine, they are so cool.
Here’s what I mean when I want to learn about blending. I have these video tutorials (Creative Live) but it’s in PS and it was way over my head when I watched them. They are composites but with lots of blending of layers and using layer styles and all of the above mentioned in the forum here.
As an example, the beach one has, near the top (above the words), the lid of a garbage can from a city park and it was blended into this background for effects/texture and you wouldn’t even know it.
They are beautifully blended (believe me there is a lot of different layers in these layouts) and you cant see any hard lines from the different layers. I’d like to be able to learn that.
Wow Michele, I love this. I miss seeing your Fab Divas layouts. You matched everything perfectly, that background and the models dress goes so well together.
Another fun script. I need to do more practicing to get as nice ones as Ann. But happy with how easy it is. I will play with different settings too to see what I like best. I used the colors from the image for the colored matt. And the frame as well, but I choose a darker version of the what I selected with the color picker.
I really want to learn how to blend well too. I did watch a PS tutorial but I’m not good enough to extrapolate PS techniques to PSP yet. I’ll go look for that tutorial. I think there might be a blending master class too.
H and Ann, great layouts. Ann I love the texture you did in your frames. I love that framed look. I just bought the ankscript (10 min. ago) and cant wait to try it out. You sure have great subjects (cant go wrong with cats, dogs or any critter really).
Bonnie, I totally forgot about that method. Wonder if it would go through the dishwasher. You know how hard it is to get packing tape off of stuff, it might be durable. And I know there is a crystal clear packing tape, I’d go for that one to keep the image saturated.
Awesome Rene, I’ll have a look tomorrow, I need to watch the master class too. But first I need to get some newer, younger, bionic-er grey cells to remember all this stuff.
Project 5 – Concentration.
the name is what I needed most this time (concentration). Something happened that really slowed down my PSP. I think in making the journaling vector I had a weird blip (PSP was acting weird) and something happened. Luckily my husband gave me ideas to figure out why (after he did a bunch of CPU tests) and he noticed my file was 1.09 GB…yes that’s Gigabytes! What the heck. I ended up having to copy and paste each layer to a new canvas, it was under a 100 MB’s. I have no idea what happened. At that huge size, every click took about 30 seconds to happen.
The photo is mine. The weed/flower is mother nature. The papers/elements are Digitalscrapbook.com, and fonts are Creative Fabrica and Windows (Carade, Wide Latin, Arial). this was a ride for sure.
Marie Claire, STUNNING! I too saw something like this and did a screen shot of the layouts as inspiration. I had no idea how to even make it. This is really beautiful.
Mary, I love that layout and the colors are so perfect.
Lynda, what a great graphic, I did try the CF spark. it’s pretty cool.
Monique, after you create your image for your cup/mugs, what do you use to get them onto the mug. Or do you send them to a photo store. They would make great gifts.
Oh, this new Palette Maker 2 Script is FUN! And addicting. The results are art in itself. I wasn’t expecting it to be so easy and fast. Here’s my tests. I did the default choice 8 colors and choose with the Hex. Love that it’s on a different layer so I can choose to use the photo/palette with or without the Hex. Then, I tried 12 and 15, I love the look of more strokes. BTW I really like the brush strokes. Another cool thing is it makes a copy of the original photo then makes the palette/photo combo. But the cool thing is the copied photo is really neat looking. It could also be something to use in a layout. I didn’t edit my photo’s so they might look a little off colored, my monitor seems a bit on the warm side. Hoping new monitors come into my life soon.
Thanks for the heads up Lynda. I don’t use Hex codes, I’d probably leave them off and use the dropper to pick the RGB anyway. but I will get the un-glitched version because I might one day want to use them (Hex).
Wow Lynda, that is so cool. I also purchased it and hope to try it out today. Love the colors that it picked.
Thank you, Ann. Your color combos are always spot on, so this makes me very happy to hear. They seem to be my go-to colors; Cyan-Blue and it’s Yellow-Red compliment, and also Analogous Complimentary and Split Complementary schemes. Okay, I just love all color, all schemes and all color flows. Yes, they are just like dandelion fluff but much hardier. I can move them around without them falling apart. Recently, I was out in an industrial area one night to shoot the moon and there were ginormous ones like dandelions, that come from the really big prickly weeds. It was a comical sight; me and hubby trying to manage my camera, tripod, camera bag and two of these big fluff balls, traversing over a dark field full of ground hog holes and into the car. One got home safe the second one suffered some injury. They are so big I’m not sure I can shoot with enough depth of field to get it all in focus.
Project 4 – Busy Bees.
the photo’s are mine from a spent Clematis flower that grows in-between the boards of the fence on my yard and my neighbours yard. Neither of us know where if came from. It has really pretty flowers and tries to take over my neighbours lilac. the little birds like it and the flowers are pretty but we do have to keep under control. It’s a zombie plant; un-killable, it will probably outlive the apocalypse.
All the papers from Digitalscrapbook.com. Dandelion seeds from Creative Fabrica. Fonts as well: Adam Melda (days of the week), Maheer Bright (Fabulous), The Hunter (Frazzled) and Arial (windows -To)
I built the page mirrored from the sample because the flowers look like they are looking inward instead of outward. I like the eraser tool exercise.
Ann, hahaha …Metaverse
Damn the Metaverse, Damn it to hell! ?
Here’s two questions for the Q&A November Edition.
Color Space: I often get this pop up when I’m picking papers from DigitalScrapbook.com. I just click okay and keep on working as I cant see the difference. Should I be in a different color space?
Saving Options: When I’m saving I often get a pop up warning for not being able to save …something about limitations, the usual message when we go to save JPG. This however, is when I’m saving a PSPimage file. I know when I get that, that my “Version” in the saving options pop up is not correct. It always goes to PSP 8 Compatible. I have never knowingly changed it (meaning I could have changed it by accident at some time) or ever owned PSP8. I change it back to 2022 and it’s good as long as PSP is open. Next time I open PSP (2022 ult) it’s back to PSP 8. Carole can you look at the settings in the photo to see if I have something set wrong. eg. Is the compression supposed to be on LZ77 compression.
I also noticed today, after I’d being to the Manage workspace yesterday, when I opened PSP it did not load my saved workspace. When I save the Edit workspace does it not also save the Manage workspace as well so I can go back and forth and not lose a workspace. Would I need to save the Manage workspace and then load it from File>Workspace>Load Workspace? (so as not to lose the settings in my Edit workspace. This could also just be from opening PSP and it didnt fully open correctly.
Frist I tried to register, but it said my email wasn’t valid (I did spell it right). So, I tried again using the same email, this time it worked and did not ask me for a code. always glad when it works.
Sue, holy wow, beautiful.
Pirkko, I love that layout, what a great effect.
Happy Birthday Shirley, love that page.
Bonnie, winning anything is always so exciting. I like what you did with the masks.
Ladies, you are both very strong. Just reading that you keep putting one foot in front of the other everyday is proof of that. You are strong because you both have decided it’s the only choice you could make. Pat yourselves on the back and see how far you have come. That’s how I got through spinal fusion surgery (2011). It wasn’t until about 5-6 months into rehab/recovery that I realized I was doing stuff that I couldn’t do before. Be patient, stay strong.
I second what Corrie and the above said. The Campus came into my life during a stressful time and gave me something positive to look forward to. I am immensely grateful.
Project 3 Friendship – I used mostly the kit in the lesson(from Digitalscrapbook.com). I did make a paper; flood filled with color then added a texture effect (the darker solid paper). Fonts from Creative Fabrica (likely) are Hamilyn (title) and Hallow Spire (quote). Photo’s of my cat girls not long after we adopted them. They started out hissing at each other, after two weeks of being kept separate as one was sick. By the second week this is what they were like. I wasnt sure if I would like this color scheme, but it’s growing on me.
I have been posting the credits in both the forum and the gallery. I do admit I liked clicking on a layout and seeing it bigger. I also enjoyed running through the project 3’s the gallery tonight.
Carole and Cindy, that’s a great example of what we should have been doing. I started watching the news during Covid and it was scary and depressing so I quite altogether and started watching tutorials on the subjects i wanted to learn (which is how I found the campus…albeit, not until May 2020).
Julie, I agree, if the news was like Carols, uplifting or even humorous it would be worth watching.
