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Same to you too Cristina. (thank you 🙂 )x Trial and error, is the key to learning. I also find I can get carried away, and over do the bokeh effect. I’ve found I much prefer less than more of them.
Shutterpixi, Thank you for your very kind comment, seems rather inadequate for the compliment you paid me. Your kind words are very touching and very much appreciated. Your day 7 page is exquisite. I love it’s simplicity.
Cristina, I love your Bokeh pages. For me it’s not creating the Bokeh, but the colour scheme. To me I feel some colours are better suited for this technique.
Thank you, to the others that have complimented me on my pages. I love scrolling through the pages each day. There is so much talent out there. They are a great source of inspiration. Well done all.
Once again I’ve used nature photos. These are some of the smallest of butterflies, only 20mm. I used one of the photos to create the background paper. I’ve used the same techniques in all of the pages for this challenge, to maintain some continuity. I have thoroughly enjoyed this challenge, even though I’ve participated before.
This isn’t very elaborate. Shrove Tuesday is coming up. I did use the warp brush, push to round the ends of the initials. Used the selection tool, promote to a new layer to intertwine them. I don’t only make pancakes on ST, but throughout the year, as we love them. It’s the same batter as for Yorkshire puddings, so when I do a roast beef dinner with yorkie puds, I make up extra batter for pancakes for tea.
Day 6 of the Love story Challenge. I love these cheeky little chappies. Like the ground squirrels they hibernate underground. Soon they will awaken from their long winter sleep. I’ll have more mouths to feed them, as they love sunflower seeds. The fonts are Ramolina Script and Memories. A heart font ( Mellow Soldier) on the frame. A curl brush on the mask.
Colour challenge. When I put the colour code in and flood filled a page, the Robin popped into my mind. Even though they are referred to Robin red breast, their breast is in fact orange. So here’s my page. I kept to the Love Story Challenge theme. I also used the superscript tool.
Cristina, I love what you did with the background papers, and the word sticker is awesome! Carole has a quite a selection of text tutorial, and I love them all.
Lydia, thank you! You have created a beautiful page to showcase your granddaughter. The wise owl appears to be renowned around the world. 🙂 What a lovely saying. Owls are one of my favourite birds. I love observing and photographing them, and searching under trees that I know they have roosted in, in search of their regurgitated pellets. To see what they have been dining on.
Here’s another one for day 5 of the challenge. In this one I used the round brush to create the main mask. I chose a brush, using the vector paint script I created a decorative circle. With the decorative circle white and the background black, I created a mask. Using a duplicate photo of the sparrow, I used the mask. Merged the group, and copied and paste it to the masked sparrow. Copy merged to the new page. This is my way of doing it, perhaps Carole has an easier better way. I can’t go through a whole challenge without using, at least once, Cassel’s corner punches. Text on a curve.
Day 5 of the Challenge. Here it is Carole! Your ribbon, dangled over the frame, tilting the frame. Just as I had imagined. I featured one of the many Great Horned Owls that call Saskatchewan home all year round. I used a feather brush on the bottom photo, and a round brush on the enlarged face of the owl. There’s a tutorial for the text circle in the lab. I don’t refer to it any more as I love creating them. Same goes for the word sticker. A little bit of trivia for you. To wit! To woo! dates back to Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labours Lost, in the 1590s. And of course I’m sure everyone had heard the ‘A wise old owl’ nursery rhyme.
I thank all of you for your very kind comments on my projects, it’s always much appreciated. When I create anything for anyone, they always like what I’ve done, but have no idea of the work that is involved, or the hours over time of learning the program to utilize what it is capable of doing. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed scrolling through the pages each day, viewing beautifully created projects. Each and every one is unique. Congratulations to the newbies that have persevered.
Leslie You are probably referring to text on a curve. I posted something similar on scrapbooking with PSP a short while back. I’ve attached it, using one of Cassel’s lace fonts. The other is text around a mask. You have to create a circle or ellipse using a preset shape, convert to path, then by hovering over the circle with the text tool, click. Then start typing. There is a tutorial on the blog. I’m sure Carole will direct you in the right direction. In order to have text at the bottom, you need to duplicate the circle, convert to a path, select the pen tool, right click in the circle, select edit, and click on reverse path. Then start typing . I’ve attached 2 examples for you to see.
Here’s my day 4 of the Love Story challenge. This was an easy page to create, as I had previously made the masks. The Shaped Text tutorial can be found in the Lab. The frame is a combination of a brush, a font and a preset rectangle. Which looks a bit quirky, but then so is the relationship between Tess and Tomi. So I’ll call this page quirky love! 🙂
Annie, thank you very much for your very kind comment on the Tomi page. As for the kaleidoscope tool, I must admit, it’s not a favourite tool of mine. I use the random, in the hope that I get a pattern that I will like. If I like the pattern, the colour will be not to my liking, which is what happened with this one, hence using the colourize tool, to get the desired colour, to go with the page. I really reduced the size of the pattern though. You create fabulous pages, although I’m not a scrapbooker, I commend you on your subject to detail, from co ordinating colours, to precise shadowing. Well done my dear friend!
Thank you for the very kind comments on my projects, they are very much appreciated. I’m really impressed with the high standard of work put into the pages posted. Not only are they unique and very personal to the creator, they are also of great inspiration to us all, whether you are a regular here or a newbie.
Let me introduce you to Tomi! He’s still going strong. I was given his mother just before she gave birth to a litter. Tomi being one of the kittens. She was jet black in colour, 4 of the kittens were tabby, and then there was Tomi. She became pregnant again, so I gave her to a neighbour. I kept Tomi and one of his sisters, she went off and didn’t come back 4 yrs ago. Tomi is strictly an outdoor cat. He behaves more like a dog, comes when he’s called, and constantly talks to me. I used the kaleidoscope pattern in the frame . I wasn’t quite happy with the colour of it, so used the colourize tool. The background paper was created using an overlay.
Hi Lynda, thank you for your kind comment on my photographs and page. I’m not a professional photographer. My bridge camera is a Panasonic FZ300, which I upgraded to from the FZ200. The FZ300 is far superior. It’s a camera which doesn’t support zoom lenses, other than the Raynox macro convertor lens. The max zoom on my camera is 600mm, with 600mm digital zoom, which I have disabled. I have the ISO set to a max of 400. To shoot birds I use Aperture mode, set at AFS/AFF. The exposure metering mode is always set to centre. I have a monopod, but rarely use is. The majority of my shots are taken by hand held only. Focus, on my camera is set to f4.5. Which I find is it’s sweet spot. For my camera I find that those setting, give the best results. I always use a lens hood! It has to purposes, one to reduce lens flare, and the other to protect the lens. I use one to reduce lens flare, even when I take macro shots. I hope this helps! I’ve only ever used Panasonic bridge cameras, so I can’t speak for other makes.
To create a subtle background, choose a light colour from the image, and flood fill, place the layer above the seamless tiled background paper, and play with the opacity of the light colour.
Thank you ever so much Barbara for your very kind comment. I have 6 tree Swallow nest boxes, and every year they are occupied. I agree they are very agile little birds. The technique for the background paper isn’t in the campus. Some techniques I’ve learnt by trail and error. I will say that you will be learning how to create your own masks in the challenge. You don’t necessarily have to use a masked image. Choose a square image. (if using a masked image, on a new layer I will flood fill the background with a matching colour. Move that layer beneath the mask, merge down) Go to adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur. Then go to effects, image effects, seamless tiling. Go to the material pallete, select pattern. There you will find the seamless tile you created. Flood fill your layer. The settings will depend on the size of your image. I hope I have explained this is a way that you can follow. I’ve attached an image of one of, what I refer to as one of my Male Tree Swallows. Feel free to save it, and use it in a project. It’s best to crop as a square, when using the seamless tiling tool.
Day 2 of the Love story Challenge. The facial expression on this female Tree Swallow is priceless. It speaks volumes. I created a masked image of her to create the background paper. Using a high blur, and seamless tiling. I then used that masked image, mirrored, and blend mode. To jazz up a very simple preset frame I used a heart font to maintain it’s simplicity.
So many beautiful pages. Well done everyone. As for the newbies, don’t give the ghost just yet if you are finding it difficult, we have all been there, and I encourage you to persevere. I can say with all honesty, it will pay off.
Here’s my day 1 of the Challenge. I used a few techniques in this project, out of bounds, lifted corner, present heart shape which I made into a heart balloon, with a few holes punched out. Already there are some beautiful pages. It never ceases to amaze me with the same layout, each one is unique. Well done !
What a beautiful page you created Annie. Your background papers are stunning. I love the colours you chose to showcase the photo. I love lilac! The purple flower is a cornflower, commonly known as Bachelor buttons. Small birds love their seeds. The foreground seeded plants are thistles, I can’t be certain but the leaves resemble the Sow Thistle. They have delicate buttercup yellow flowers. The seeds in the background are a member of the coneflower family. You also did Lynda’s photos proud. All your papers are exquisite. Well done!
Thank you Cristina, I did use a canvas texture on the background photo, it toned down the colours. As for frames, I’m always thinking of new ways to frame my photos.
Thank you Annie on your very kind comment. Trish and Cristina, your pages are stunning. After several days of thick fog, it finally lifted this afternoon to reveal a winter wonderland, with thick hoar frost. So off out I went armed with the camera. This evening’s project, using this afternoon’s photos. Quite a few techniques used in the project. I’ve included a photo which I used in the page after I extracted it. I edited it slightly to make it very easy to remove the background. I used the magic wand, but there are other ways to do it. The frame is what I created the other day. I changed the colouring.
The photo of the White tailed deer buck is an old favourite of mine. A relevantly simple page, buttonized frame around the deer, which I masked first. A coloured gradient on the left side to highlight the text. Beautiful page Lynda, and an interesting read. I like the simplicity of it. I don’t follow tutorials. I start with a photo, and I look at it, and go from there.
Thank you ever so much Annie. I have to agree with Lynda, you are the ultimate cheerleader. Lovely photos Lynda!
Now to work on the pages of the Wild Magazine that I created. So much information, and many photos can be displayed on a magazine/ newspaper layout. Don’t have to worry about framing, element or shadows. Here’s page 1.
Thank so much Annie. I’m delighted to see that you did learn something from the page. 🙂 Nature truly is amazing.x
Last night’s project. A magazine cover, using all my own photos. A magazine cover, or a magazine page is a great way to show case photos, and to tell stories. For those that may be interested, the beautiful British Painted Lady Butterfly undertake an autumn migration, making 14,500 km (9,000 mi) round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle.
