Vector Workshop 2023

[Susan Ewart]

3 minutes ago, Lynda DiGregor said:

Hello everyone,

It's good to be back at the computer. It's been hectic around here. First a shoulder replacement (another one to come), then the sale of our house. It sold in 4 days and we had to be out in 26 days. We are now living in our RV waiting for our new house to be built. We're in Sycamore RV Park in Illinois for about 5 weeks, so now a bit of down time. Yay!

I was able to do the first Vector lesson today. No frills, just the lesson. Time for number 2!

 

Wow! Lynda, so good to have you back.  I had been wondering what adventures you have been on.  Looks like some that were not what you had in mind.  Hope your recovery is speedy and goes well.   

[Sue Thomas]

Day 2 of the vector workshop. I used all of the techniques demonstrated in the 2 videos, and  a few more, which I'm sure will be demonstrated  throughout the week. For those that may be interested,  I will often see a label or a tag that I like, invariably, they are either PNG or JPeg.  I will take a screenshot, creating my own vector version.  

[Ann Seeber]

25 minutes ago, Lynda DiGregor said:

Hello everyone,

It's good to be back at the computer. It's been hectic around here. First a shoulder replacement (another one to come), then the sale of our house. It sold in 4 days and we had to be out in 26 days. We are now living in our RV waiting for our new house to be built. We're in Sycamore RV Park in Illinois for about 5 weeks, so now a bit of down time. Yay!

I was able to do the first Vector lesson today. No frills, just the lesson. Time for number 2!

 

Hi Linda, great to see you again. I missed you around the Campus! A shoulder replacement sounds scary! Hope your healing up is quick. ?

[Theresa Di Cesare]

Excellent Lesson 2 Carole, thoroughly enjoyed it ?

There is some wonderful work on these pages. I have done the very basics in doing my shapes, but I will be practising more and more, especially with node placement and the clicking on them to get the arms of the node types. I have read through many of the posts, and thank you to the participants who suggested the grids etc, made it a lot easier to deal with the symmetry of the shapes. And when using a few shapes, centring each one greatly helps.

I love that you can export many images into one file and then see them come up individually in the preset shape menu.

Anyways, here are my first attempts at the shapes, but there will be a lot of fun to be had with getting a bit creative as I practice more.

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

3 hours ago, Cassel said:

Yeah, that is a little annoying. I think we always tend to go faster and go with CLICK-move. We probably need to CLICK   -   move. Notice that the node will become black when it is selected (and ready to be moved).

That's how I do it after some trial and error! I often go to fast and I slowed down and that solved the problem! Glad I did it the right way. 

[Corrie Kinkel]

1 hour ago, Lynda DiGregor said:

Hello everyone,

It's good to be back at the computer. It's been hectic around here. First a shoulder replacement (another one to come), then the sale of our house. It sold in 4 days and we had to be out in 26 days. We are now living in our RV waiting for our new house to be built. We're in Sycamore RV Park in Illinois for about 5 weeks, so now a bit of down time. Yay!

I was able to do the first Vector lesson today. No frills, just the lesson. Time for number 2!

 

Lynda good to see you back, I was wondering what was happening to you! Sorry to hear of your shoulders, hope your new house will be build quickly.

[Marie-Claire]

After working on this for a long time, I succeeded, and also to save them as basic shapes in 1 file, but I still struggle a lot with those nodes. I'll have to practice a lot!
 

[Leslie Gifford Cook]

OK, so I'm a little late with Day 1 Heart and Arrow, but here they are.

[Corrie Kinkel]

54 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

Day 2 of the vector workshop. I used all of the techniques demonstrated in the 2 videos, and  a few more, which I'm sure will be demonstrated  throughout the week. For those that may be interested,  I will often see a label or a tag that I like, invariably, they are either PNG or JPeg.  I will take a screenshot, creating my own vector version.  

Sue as always very inspirational, but I can see that I will have to practice a lot!

[Deana Davis]

Sorry I'm out of the gate late once again.  I've done lesson 1 and have these results.

 

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

I made my shapes in purple so they stand out in the shapes folder when I export them and then made them a bit more fancy.

Carole I have a question: In this lesson you told us how to export those shapes and I did as in the lesson, so I have label01and label02 who I have given the name ck-label01 and ck-label02 in the Vector Property box. The labels 03,04 and 05 where exported together with the name ck-labels for the Vector Property box. (ck is my prefix) Is there a possibility to bring the label 01 and 02 in the same Vector Property called labels. Or is it impossible to change that once they are exported?

[Art Kuiper]

This is not the most accurate image of a curling rock but as a lesson in exporting vector shapes it does the trick. I love all the submissions. They qualify as lesson 2a because I learn as well from the great images that are sent in. Bonus!!! 

[Cassel]

18 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Carole I have a question: In this lesson you told us how to export those shapes and I did as in the lesson, so I have label01and label02 who I have given the name ck-label01 and ck-label02 in the Vector Property box. The labels 03,04 and 05 where exported together with the name ck-labels for the Vector Property box. (ck is my prefix) Is there a possibility to bring the label 01 and 02 in the same Vector Property called labels. Or is it impossible to change that once they are exported?

That is a very good question. I had never tried. After testing, here is what you will have to do:

- open the FILE in question (the one that will include all the shapes you had exported)
- add the "missing" labels/groups to that file
- re-export the same way. You will likely get a popup reminding you that the Shape library already exists. Say OK.
- then, you will get another warning about duplicate shapes. Click Continue.

[Suzy]

I knew exactly what it was, Art! Do you do this curling?

I have always wanted to! (But mostly I wanted to do it in the Olympics, LOL!)

[Marvin Fojtasek]

My lesson 2 submissions. I feel so inadequate when I see so many better examples.

[Deana Davis]

I do hope I can retain this information!  It's great fun to see the variations and get more ideas from each other.  Wonderful work people!

Here are my samples for Day 2

 

Edited July 18, 2023 by Deana Davis

[Connie Collier]

7 hours ago, Cassel said:

If you get to select more than one node, you can change the Node Type together. But to get the control arms, that can only be done one node at a time. Would that address it?

Yes, thanks - I guess I was doing the right thing after all.

[Sue Thomas]

Just now, Marvin Fojtasek said:

My lesson 2 submissions. I feel so inadequate when I see so many better examples.

Don't  feel that way, we have all had to start  at the beginning. Just focus on what you'll  be able to achieve with practice, and hopefully we will  have inspired you to persevere with our submissions.

[Linda J Walker]

Day 2, nothing fancy, just shapes.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Wow! It is wonderful seeing so many new faces and sooo many completed lessons. I have been able to pop in less frequently and I am blown away by how many pages are filled. Great work, Everyone!

My Day One: I need to do this many times so I can remember all the steps!

[sharon thompson]

Grrrrrrr........... I am doing something wrong but not sure what. I keep getting that bounding box with all the original rectangular nodes no matter what I do. I can round the edges but when I try and add nodes to draw out the sides, the bounding box reappears. I am even getting ghost nodes and ghost bounding boxes in my workspace outside my image. I have backtracked on and deleted so many images that my frustration level is so high that even dark chocolate won't help. Going to bed. Will try again in the morning. 

[Cassel]

2 minutes ago, sharon thompson said:

Grrrrrrr........... I am doing something wrong but not sure what. I keep getting that bounding box with all the original rectangular nodes no matter what I do. I can round the edges but when I try and add nodes to draw out the sides, the bounding box reappears. I am even getting ghost nodes and ghost bounding boxes in my workspace outside my image. I have backtracked on and deleted so many images that my frustration level is so high that even dark chocolate won't help. Going to bed. Will try again in the morning.

Sharon, I'll send you a message. You should not get that, but a handful of people are getting it and I suspect it is a bug. I would like to document that, if you don't mind.

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Sue as always very inspirational, but I can see that I will have to practice a lot!

Me too!

[Susan Ewart]

1 hour ago, Deana Davis said:

I do hope I can retain this information!  It's great fun to see the variations and get more ideas from each other.  Wonderful work people!

Here are my samples for Day 2

 

I really like your heart.

 

[Donna Sillia]

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

Sharon, I'll send you a message. You should not get that, but a handful of people are getting it and I suspect it is a bug. I would like to document that, if you don't mind.

That's happening to me, too. I tried resetting to the original, but that didn't work.

Edited July 19, 2023 by Donna Sillia