Thank you, Carole, I will take a look at that.
This has been a fabulous workshop. Now I have done it in both PSP and Affinity, I think I will concentrate on one or t'other next time. It is too much doing them all, however, it was my choice and I loved it.
I have particularly enjoyed seeing what everyone has created. There is a lot of knowledge and creativity amongst everyone in this bunch, which I appreciate.
Lesson 6 - the lino paper original
This is only as far as I went. Well, actually I went really far but used undo to back up to the spot I wanted to start experimenting with.
Lesson 6 Diamond extra
This template comes with 4 photo squares as well but I chose not to use them. I also shadowed the mask (after duplicating, hiding the orig, then rasterizing the duplicate) to be as if I dropped my photo onto hard frozen ground and it shattered. The alpha is from one of the Build a Kits that I did. The photo is mine that I used for a Christmas card one year (2017 I think). I love the lino effect. Mine as you see doesn't look like lino at all. I only repeated the Control-Y part 2-3 times on the effect, then I duplicated that layer (after resizing and pasting into the layout) and did the plaid effect which gave a bit of a stone look to it (No typical plaid lines, but a neat looking result). Then I added a PSP texture effect (textures, Asphalt at size 504 and depth of 5) to get a stone look to it. the lino technique is a great jumping off point to make a textured paper, especially if the lino paper isn't the result I am looking for.