Corrie Kinkel Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 And this is the cover for my calendar. When I was trying some colors for the background I got this nice result with a blendmode. Originally I had a very light color with a darker layer with my mushroom as a pattern. For the pattern I kept the outline of the mushroom without a fill and with this dark color it looks fine, at least in my opinion. Now I only have to make an index with all the names of the mushrooms , but that is more or less a text file with some sort of frame around it. I will print that on the backside of the cover and I need the Latin names as well otherwise my recipients in another country do not know the Dutch names and I don't know the common German or English names. Besides that I have to change the names of the months to German and English. So I'm not done yet................. 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Seeber Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 1 hour ago, Susan Ewart said: Wow, Ann. In Canada you can pretty much double that. My staples where I live used to be good, now the advice i got when asking if I could use my own paper for the wedding invite printing (and pay as if it's their paper - I did this before for my nieces wedding invites - they were totally cool with it, almost 100% profit for them as I they didnt have to supply the paper but got paid for it!), was to buy my own printer or borrow one from a friend. BIG eye roll. I use staples because they have really black blacks (even though my laser printer has black settings - it just doesnt compare). So I'm quite disappointed, are they not a printing company? Just asking them to do their own job. they have two kinds of white....white and another white that is the same. So nothing slightly warmer, just plain bright white. There is big advantages to living in the US! Suz, I am sure I'm not as discerning as you about blacks and whites. Prices on everything have jumped here mostly caused by corporate greed so who knows what I'll pay this year!?! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrie Kinkel Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 To complete my calendar: this is the index for my Dutch calendar and I'll change the language to German or English but the rest will be exactly the same. I have enjoyed looking at all the different calendars that are made, or are in the making. It was great to see the verity in styles and creativity and I it has given me new ideas for next year. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Landreth Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 On 10/27/2024 at 9:05 PM, Julian Adams said: I'd love to get a lesson from both you and @Gerry Landreth on the techniques you used in your gradients. Most of the gradients I use are preset and I will tweak them depending on the project. Susan has a good outline of that process in a later post. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Ewart Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 6 hours ago, Ann Seeber said: Suz, I am sure I'm not as discerning as you about blacks and whites. Prices on everything have jumped here mostly caused by corporate greed so who knows what I'll pay this year!?! Yes, corporate greed is everywhere these days. Mostly with the wedding invites it's the blacks in the text that is important to me. Especially with fonts that have really thin lines. And putting cardstock through my printer, even on the thick cardstock setting, leaves unsightly black streaks. My printer is 17 yrs old and still going, but not up to that kind of work anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Ewart Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 7 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said: And this is the cover for my calendar. When I was trying some colors for the background I got this nice result with a blendmode. Originally I had a very light color with a darker layer with my mushroom as a pattern. For the pattern I kept the outline of the mushroom without a fill and with this dark color it looks fine, at least in my opinion. Now I only have to make an index with all the names of the mushrooms , but that is more or less a text file with some sort of frame around it. I will print that on the backside of the cover and I need the Latin names as well otherwise my recipients in another country do not know the Dutch names and I don't know the common German or English names. Besides that I have to change the names of the months to German and English. So I'm not done yet................. Fabulous Corrie. The cover is striking and really sets off the beautiful mushroom. I cant believe how red it is. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Ewart Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 8 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said: Mai and June. @Susan if you look closely on June you can see even on this resized version that I used a texture you made for Donna (I think) with a blendmode. I used it on a couple of pages. It's funny I didnt recognize the texture at all. I was planning on reshooting the garage doors (that's where the texture is) this year with my better camera. Well, you can see how I got around to that. Now it's cold and frosty so i dont want to be out in that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoniqueN. Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Life got in the way again, and when I could work on the calender things didn't work out the way I wanted, but finally: 2 page's ready! 🥳 What was the best way again to resize to jpg-600 ? Save as jpeg and then resize? Or resize the psp-image? And now I will have a look at your calenders! 🙂 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoniqueN. Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 On 10/25/2024 at 7:36 AM, Susan Ewart said: I'm also posting unfinished stuff because PSP is being quite cantankerous tonight. I am living with a few things in the mask to see if I want to leave it or delete the part in question - the stem running through the frame. I've cut it off completely from going out of the frame part of the mask, in one month, and cut off only in the frame part of another one month. I like the font you are using, simple but with a curl 🙂 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoniqueN. Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 On 10/26/2024 at 10:13 PM, Sharla said: May is a peony in full bloom. June, lilies in the sun. Flowers are alway wonderful to use on a calender🙂 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoniqueN. Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 On 10/27/2024 at 11:23 PM, Susan Ewart said: I made the calendar smaller to fit the days of the week across the top and so I could enlarge the Month. Still playing with placements, month in Love the quote! (And the page 😉 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Ewart Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 26 minutes ago, MoniqueN. said: Love the quote! (And the page 😉 thank you so much Monique. I'm glad to see your getting time to get to your calendar. Mine will have to wait a week or so. I love the rich colors you use. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrie Kinkel Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 8 hours ago, Susan Ewart said: It's funny I didnt recognize the texture at all. I was planning on reshooting the garage doors (that's where the texture is) this year with my better camera. Well, you can see how I got around to that. Now it's cold and frosty so i dont want to be out in that. That texture works fine as far as I'm concerned and it gets so nice with different blendmodes and opacity depending on the background color I used. Thanks again and now I have discovered how well it works I'll probably use it more often. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Sillia Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I decided to print my pages just to see how they looked and am really glad that I did so. Then, I compared the cmyk that I had also saved; the rgb colors printed much more vibrantly, although I had to increase the vibrancy on a few, especially the reds. They look garish on the computer, but printed they are much better. No more going to the trouble of converting them to cmyk. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Solaas Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 (edited) This is June for the 2nd set. It was interesting cropping the photo to fit inside the first frame, adding a layer behind it to make the next layer cream (which I saw let in the background layer as well) so I extended it just a fraction so that it made another frame (cream). Carole, those masks are very interesting. I would love to know how you made them - they are intricate! Edited October 31 by Mary Solaas 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Seeber Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 32 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said: This is June for the 2nd set. It was interesting cropping the photo to fit inside the first frame, adding a layer behind it to make the next layer cream (which I saw let in the background layer as well) so I extended it just a fraction so that it made another frame (cream). Carole, those masks are very interesting. I would love to know how you made them - they are intricate! Mary, I agree. I found these masks the most interesting part of the class. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassel Posted October 31 Author Share Posted October 31 1 hour ago, Mary Solaas said: This is June for the 2nd set. It was interesting cropping the photo to fit inside the first frame, adding a layer behind it to make the next layer cream (which I saw let in the background layer as well) so I extended it just a fraction so that it made another frame (cream). Carole, those masks are very interesting. I would love to know how you made them - they are intricate! I actually didn't make them. I happened to have them in my stash from many years ago. I thought they were different than the ones we had in previous calendars. I didn't think it would be that challenging though as I just expected that people would just use a large image and the "extra" would simply fill in the outside. I didn't think participants would go through all the lengths you all did to "separate" the main photos from the "extras". But it could definitely become a class or something like that. 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Solaas Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 YES, YES, YES. New class! Yay! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Solaas Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I didn't go to the lengths I did on the last one. However, this one - I developed the picture from a clip art I had from Kissclipart that I had used in my Alphabet Workshop, put it on a background that I had created to reflect grass and sky, merged it into one image and then used Instant Effects - Watercolor and used strength 50%, Color Match 30% and smooth 22%. I cropped the image to fit inside the first (light) frame. 2 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Solaas Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 The mask kind of looks like it is in layers ??? with varying opacity????? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassel Posted October 31 Author Share Posted October 31 42 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said: The mask kind of looks like it is in layers ??? with varying opacity????? Yes it does, and I think that is what puzzled some users! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Seeber Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Yes, the masks are challenging but also, fun! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristina Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 On 10/30/2024 at 9:17 PM, Corrie Kinkel said: And this is the cover for my calendar. When I was trying some colors for the background I got this nice result with a blendmode. Originally I had a very light color with a darker layer with my mushroom as a pattern. For the pattern I kept the outline of the mushroom without a fill and with this dark color it looks fine, at least in my opinion. Now I only have to make an index with all the names of the mushrooms , but that is more or less a text file with some sort of frame around it. I will print that on the backside of the cover and I need the Latin names as well otherwise my recipients in another country do not know the Dutch names and I don't know the common German or English names. Besides that I have to change the names of the months to German and English. So I'm not done yet................. Corrie, the whole calendar is lovely, and I am sure the recipients will greatly appreciate it. The result you achieved with the blend mode is beautiful! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Sillia Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 On 10/31/2024 at 5:27 PM, Ann Seeber said: Yes, the masks are challenging but also, fun! Ann, when you had your calendar printed, did you leave the back white? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Seeber Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 2 hours ago, Donna Sillia said: did you leave the back white Yes, I did, Donna 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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