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I follow a local photographer since last year. He has posted multiple photos of the area, so, with his permission, I plan to showcase night photos of Bathurst. So, this would be the cover. You can check out his photos or follow him HERE.

Now I understand what Carole meant with her remark and I like that idea. So I changed my cover and at the same time added a barcode, which I already was planning to do. I have some in my stash from earlier magazine challenges. Now my cover is complete, at least I think so.☺️

This time without a typo!

Thank you I'll rectify and in Affinity it is very easy to do!

Wow, El Capitan is impressive! You have a small typo, Corrie. The spelling you want is "notable."

Day 2 and I used the whole height of the page for my photo and the mat was just right for the amount of text I wanted keeping it still readable. The background is off white again and the font is Cambia. It is a simple layout, but I changed the color for the important words in the text. I needed the text to tell something about the park, to give more context to my magazine.

My day 2 Magazine Page.

I have a total of 30 photos in this series so I obviously won't use them all in this small publication. I decided to use just 3 photos on page 2 as one is so wide as to need the full width of the page. This is a 2024 Christmas tour of Port Jervis, NY and the various decor on many homes there. There is really not much else to say about it. I used the same green pattern for the background as I did on the cover. Since the photos are dark I added a white border to each.

Bina thank you for the gift, it looks lovely!

And Day 2:

Day 2 of Magazine Workshop. I decided that I would use Affinity Photo to create the pages of the magazine.

Hello @Cassel! Thank you for hosting this workshop! Hello everyone! Such gorgeous layouts here! I am a bit late and brought a little gift to the party, a new series of mine called MAGAzine. The kick off kit is called Janette and available as a freebie herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1qd8tP7GNcTO7mm8ciJvSMAMvzDL6DAaH/view?usp=sharing. I used it for my layout for DAY 01

Day 2 - Rachel and David travelled to Thailand to play in a rugby tournament. The background is from my calendar 2025 workshop, the photo is from David and the mask I used was a grunge mask that I made. The title font is Royal Thailand from CF and the text font is Typefont from CF.

Day 2: PSP file. I've added some papers I made for the Build A Kit workshop in 2024. I also did not use text wrapping since it shuts my program down whenever I use it. Day 2: Affinity file. I rotated the template to fit the photo. I've added papers from a kit (50 States Ohio by Kelly Bangs Creative available at Sweet Shoppe Designs). The font I used does not have a bold option but through a google search I found that you can add an outline in the effects that will make it appear bold. One thing I have noticed when resizing to 600x600, the image is not as sharp as the full size image. I have read complaints about this elsewhere from scrappers that post lots of images for creative team work. They do all say their large images are fine.

That looks like the work of Chihuly. He did an outdoor installation featuring works throughout the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami. It was stunning.

Thank you, Ann. We went to a Thai restaurant for my birthday, and they were showing many of the same scenes that David sent to me. I'll have to look at that series.

Thank you, Susan. I had a lot of fun playing with this script. I did a stupid thing and forgot to save the card as a psp image. Luckily, the original circle was saved, but I have to do the card over.

Donna, I thought of you Sunday when I was watching the first episode of the new season of The White Lotus on HBO/Max which is set in Thailand this time. The colors are really outstanding! The story is a bit bizarre 😉

Thank you, Christina. My grandson spent 6 weeks in Thailand this summer, and the photos that he sent are filled with such vibrant colors, especially red and gold.

Thank you, Susan!

Thank you, Corie!

No it isn't Chihuly (never heard of it). The museum is for the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company which was in business from 1826 to 1888. It also showcases modern local glassblowers glass artists. Basically it is a historical museum for the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts.

This is so cool. I watched some other ones too. I'm blown away at the eyes that move and all the intricate movements they can make. And the machine that drives them is so steampunk looking, very cool. Thanks for the link. it must be surreal to see this up close.

Here is my day 2. You can see the dog in motion on youtube "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilzkSMS2YQc&t=33s"

Thank you so much much Sue. I was looking for what I thought would be an odd description for oddball collections and had no idea it was Latin. I wish Latin was a language that was offered in my schools. The title font is Minerva from CF https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/minerva-4/