Text Workshop 2024

[Elaine Banks]

I'm in and also need a refresher!! Desperately! 😅

[fiona cook]

Day 1  The first font I used (Swiss721 BlkCnBT Bold) didn't work too well as the fill part was too condensed so I expanded the fill but it then spilled out around the outline on some letters. 

I then tried in Arial Black ( a safe bet) but had to reduce the kerning a bit. I used X3 Stars for my Picture Tube. It helped laying a Guide Line at the top level where I wanted the stars to appear and then filling downwards.

As far as a project goes to apply the effect, I am thinking of a greetings card for my niece in Africa who is about to graduate.

[Patty Swinimer]

I had to resize this down from the original 1000px and 150 resolution, so it looks kinda choppy but it was a fun exercise!

[Donna Sillia]

3 minutes ago, Patty Swinimer said:

I had to resize this down from the original 1000px and 150 resolution, so it looks kinda choppy but it was a fun exercise!

Me, too, Patty

 

[Donna Sillia]

I had started the Detroit page a couple of days ago in order to see the effect of the 3D mask that I made from a Canva graphic and also because all the talk of the bridge to Windsor reminded me of all the times that we have crossed that bridge.  The photo is mine taken from our Windsor Casino window. The patterns in the font are from Canva. The car is one that I made after the Vector Workshop and, both of the mask shapes are from Adobe Express. The record was made many years ago in Photoshop. I changed the color and added "Platinum Record  Motown." However, the letters on the record are not very visible. The fonts are both from Creative Fabrica - Banner and Type and Write.

We will be crossing the Ambassador Bridge on November 27 since we will be spending Thanksgiving at the Casino.

[Cristina Mochetti]

Hi everyone, I am in, too. 

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Het is niet zo gegaan zoals voorgedaan. Maar ik heb het eruit gekregen. PSP moest eerst flink gereset worden. Eerst flopte het steeds weer, kleuren sprongen terug etc. Ik heb het witte invul gedeelte een voor een ingevuld daarna ingevuld met een patroon. Ook had ik het iets groter willen hebben. Het font heet Eras bold ICT.

Edited November 18 by Jannette Nieuwboer

[gwen jewitt]

This is a birthday card I made for my son some years ago I substituted the Happy Birthday gold peel offs

with the text tutorial for day 1. The font I used was Workforce,

Edited November 18 by gwen jewitt

[Corrie Kinkel]

I'm in need of Christmas cards; it is already a bit late but my calendars took more time then anticipated. This is a chance to combine it. I used a card template  from the last card workshop. The font is Gill Sans ultra bold but because this is a card I used a less thick outline and filled it with a cass-star tube. The papers and illustrations are from my stash and I have got them from Creative Fabrica a long time ago.

[Cassel]

Welcome everyone, especially our newcomers.

@fiona cook Are you using PSP2023? One bug that I had brought up was the fact that some fonts (too many to my liking) will have a different "width" if you have a stroke or not. If that happens and you still want no stroke, you can create one with the same color/pattern as the fill but with a width of 0.1. It will not be visible, but will override that bug. The standard Windows fonts are safe. Others are a hit or miss.

@Patty Swinimer Welcome to the Workshop! Although we recommend to resize down to 600 pixels, you should not have to change the resolution.  Did you adjust the Compression?

@Donna Sillia That is a fun fill that you used. A lot of work to fill the different letters differently.

@Cristina Mochetti Glad to see you here. Looking forward to your projects.

@Jannette Nieuwboer If you want to post just the text part, crop to its size and you can resize to 1000 pixels (because it won't be very high). It will show better your work.

@gwen jewitt That looks like a lovely card! Isn't it nice to be able to reuse projects when working with PSP?

@Corrie Kinkel It is a great idea to combine this workshop with the cards you need to do!

Looking forward to everyone else's projects @Ann Seeber, @Susan Ewart, @Cristina, @Cindy Sheets, @Jacques, @Julie Magerka, @Mary Solaas, @Dan Greenwood, @Dee Morris, @Jeni Simpson, @Anita Wyatt, @Linda J Walker, @kasany, @Elaine Banks.

And the other 100 who have not posted yet, I would encourage you to post. If you encounter any issue with a tutorial, or a tool  in your PSP, come and post in here. I read every single post and we are all here to help you succeed.

[Jacques]

My little contribution...

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my lesson 1:

[Susan Ewart]

Lesson 1

Font is Erica One (CF I think) - it is one of the fonts that don't line up so you have to use the 0.1 stroke rule.  I used daisy picture tubes and very low opacity fill.  Photo is mine. I love this technique.  Button is from Elif Sahin (Digital Scrapbook.com), papers are all PSP textures or patterns.

[Carolyn Rye]

Day 1.  Yes, I have done this workshop before but definitely needed a refresher course.  I have always had problems with Text for some reason.  The top text I did a Vector and Raster Layer and then used the eraser tool with a watercolor brush to erase the bits from the text.  On the bottom Journaling text, I did use a Vector and Raster layer then used Effects, texture then sculpture on the raster layer.  I am not really liking the finished project but at least it gave me a chance to play with text.
 

[Jeni Simpson]

Day 1
I played around with this one, when creating the page, I used the same settings for the papers and the photograph, yet they look different, not sure why!
I wanted the idea of waves crashing into the shore with rocks flowing in with the water.

I used Cafe Rojo for the word BEACH and 1 Archer DNA for the remainder of the text.

This lovely photograph of a friend's son and his family at the beach. It was Ruby's first trip to the beach.

Edited November 19 by Jeni Simpson

[Anita Wyatt]

Here is my Day 1. My friend sent me a picture yesterday of her cat Lacy Lou and when I saw it,  I asked her if if I could use the picture for this workshop. I noticed that after I added the background  paper the blue text seemed a bit darker, even though I had used an opacity of 65. Papers and leave scatters are from Digital Scrapbooking  and font is Cooper Std Black. (Thank you Carole). I used the clip-it mode to fill the shapes around the picture, but realized that after that the layers formed a group and 1 could not see the drop shadow that I added. However, I had a lot of fun playing with this layout and I am learning something new every time I join a workshop.

[Anita Wyatt]

Here is the text for day 1.

[Ann Seeber]

I had been playing with Carole's Word-Grid, so I went ahead and used the Lesson One technique on the letters for Hanukkah. The font is Babilonia and the decor is from the internet. I'm not very handy with Picture Tubes and was wishing I could have a confetti in the blue, gold and white of the holiday. The large menorah is the top layer set to Multiply and at 45% opacity.

 

Edited November 19 by Ann Seeber
added more confetti

[fiona cook]

I am using PSP2021 (not PSP2023) and had the problem with the character width on some fonts so the effect didn't work. I then tried out Carole's 0.1 outline technique but couldn't get it to work. In the end was defeated but had a bit of fun with a character that did work. 

 

[fiona cook]

Day 2   I am going ahead with the idea of using some of the ideas and template in this workshop for my niece's graduation card so this is her name. I ended up making a selection of each letter and then changed the colours as I had already converted to a raster at that stage. I added an inner bevel.

[Daniel Hess]

Hello everyone.  Here is the first day's project.  Hard to spot the "wave" in the title at this resolution but it's there.  

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

2 uur geleden, Fiona Cook schreef:

Ik gebruik PSP2021 (niet PSP2023) en had het probleem met de tekenbreedte op sommige lettertypen, dus het effect werkte niet. Ik heb toen Carole's 0.1 outline techniek uitgeprobeerd, maar kon het niet aan de praat krijgen. Uiteindelijk werd ik verslagen, maar had een beetje plezier met een personage dat wel werkte.

 

Hallo Fiona en Carole. Ik heb het probleem ook. Het was gisteren een echte worstel wedstrijd. De spatiëring werkte niet naar behoren. Ik moest font na font uitproberen welke wel of niet voldeed. Ik werk in de 2023 maar heb ook nog steeds de 2018 draaiend. Maar daar deed die het ook fout in. Kennelijk staan ze gekoppeld aan elkaar. Maar ik ga het uitzoeken zodra ik er tijd voor heb. Gisteren heb ik daar zeker anderhalf uur tijd door verloren. Het is zo lastig als je device niet werkt naar behoren. Het haalt alle plezier eruit.  

 

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my lesson 2.

[Mary Solaas]

I'm slow as usual. However, this is a photo of my daughter's dog, Murphy, which she took while they were on a morning walk. The font is - I dont know as I didn't save the text file I just converted it - and I used a pattern where the color was a medium tan for the outline, I used a blue for the transparent inner layer. I used the Lock Transparency tool to put the grass patch picture tube in the bottom of the text and for the birds tube in the "Sky" top of the text. I know, it is hard to see the birds, but they are there. I had to merge the outline layer and the bottom fill layer of the text in order to enlarge the word. the papers and elements are mine.  Fun.  I don't remember this from the first Text Workshop I did, so this refresher is great. I didn't remember that the sculpture layer not only puts a pattern, but you can change the "light color" color as well as those numbers puts a bevel on the object.

[Jacques]

My Day 2