Text Workshop 2024

[Jacques]

My day 6 :
Cake made by my daughter's mother-in-law for her baby shower

[Dan Greenwood]

My lesson 6. Revisited my earlier "cruising" theme.  I found I had a gold rope picture tube and I just used Arial Rounded MT Bold for the letters.

[fiona cook]

Day 6   I chose the Picture Tube called River Rocks and ran the script 3 times to give a piled up effect of the rocks. On one of the stroked layers I added a drop shadow 5:5:87:5 for slight effect.

I don't know why but I am having trouble highlighting my text vector layer to be able to change attributes ie if I wanted to change the font.

[Mary Solaas]

15 minutes ago, fiona cook said:

Day 6   I chose the Picture Tube called River Rocks and ran the script 3 times to give a piled up effect of the rocks. On one of the stroked layers I added a drop shadow 5:5:87:5 for slight effect.

I don't know why but I am having trouble highlighting my text vector layer to be able to change attributes ie if I wanted to change the font.

@fiona cook I love that left side paper (photo?) - I've always loved that perspective; I guess when I rode the old Chicago-Northwestern train from Chicago to Ironwood Michigan and stood outside on the last car and watched the traintrack fade into the distance - for some reason that perspective always intrigued me. - I also like the path that has that perspective and curves to the right at the edge of sight - that intrigues me too.

[gwen jewitt]

Day 6 I used the font Segoe UI Black for the title and Sego variable text light for the writing at the bottom, trying to incorporate what I have learned from the previous 5 days.

The brick castle is a shape  I added a colour and a brick texture to it and gave it a dropped shadow. The photo was taken on a lovely sunny but windy day in September 2023.

The sign was also a photo I took which gave information about this particular part of Hadrians Wall. 

[Donna Sillia]

Day 5 - The photo is from my daughter's last visit to Las Vegas. Some of the backgrounds are mine modified with FF and some are straight from FF patterns. The font is from CF and called "Banner." The circle elements are from Adobe Express AI. Since the photo was taken in LV, I felt as if it deserved a "carnival" atmosphere.

[Rene Marker]

9 hours ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

You talk about a computer, and you're right that's possible, but I have a laptop and it's inferior to the PC. I'm going to consider getting a PC again.😏 I'm on a pc in vista started in the X12 which worked perfectly 👌

At one time I had 2 versions of PSP on a laptop running Win7. They even worked when it was upgraded to Win10 and it wasn't as powerful as my desktop I had at the time. And, I added a newer version of PSP at that time as well (X4, X7 and X8)

[Daniel Hess]

4 hours ago, fiona cook said:

I don't know why but I am having trouble highlighting my text vector layer to be able to change attributes ie if I wanted to change the font.

Make sure click the arrow on the side of the layer to show the object(s), then select the object, then select the text tool.  Should be able to click at beginning of your text to display the blinking cursor and then drag/highlight the text.  Once highlighted, change the font, font size, fill color, etc..

Edited November 23 by Daniel Hess

[Cindy Sheets]

As usual, I am behind. While I am not creating actual projects with this workshop, I am doing the exercises and learning techniques to use in my cards next year. I am slowly unpacking my office and getting supplies where I can use them (the whole house is unpainted and that has to be done before I can really put things away). I am planning my schedule for next year so that I can give cards again.

Can someone send me the link again for day 1 so I can see how to fill with the confetti again?

Day 2

[Teri Cleaveland]

I used the same layout I used yesterday. I did pretty much what Carole did, but I did add a slight inner bevel when I finished which I really like.

Now when I can get the script installed for lesson 6, maybe I can get caught up!

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

@Rene Markering  Fijn dat je Je ervaring deelt met ons Rene. in het verleden heb ik ook X5 en X8 tezamen gehad op de laptop. Hoe meer ervaringen we delen des te beter overzicht ik/we krijgen.

[Ann Seeber]

31 minutes ago, Cindy Sheets said:

As usual, I am behind. While I am not creating actual projects with this workshop, I am doing the exercises and learning techniques to use in my cards next year. I am slowly unpacking my office and getting supplies where I can use them (the whole house is unpainted and that has to be done before I can really put things away). I am planning my schedule for next year so that I can give cards again.

Can someone send me the link again for day 1 so I can see how to fill with the confetti again?

Day 2

Hoping this works, Cindy Go to this page for lesson 1

[Ann Seeber]

Here is my Lesson 6 featuring the only local college football, the Army Black Knights at West Point Military Academy. I've never been there but I hear it is beautiful, and the football team is doing very well this season (surprise! lol) and is moving up in ranks so it might earn a bowl game yet. The traditional Army/Navy game has yet to be played, and that always generates a lot of excitement. The title font is Stencil. The top photo is of the campus; the right is the marching band and the bottom is Mitchie Stadium. 

Edited November 23 by Ann Seeber
identify font

[Donna Sillia]

Day 6 - A photo of my youngest grandson fishing off the pier in Myrtle Beach. The fish scales are from FF, the boards are from my own photo. The embossed fish are from a CF dingbat. The fishing rod is AI, and the fish is from FF. The font is called "Aquarium" from CF. 

[Susan Ewart]

On 11/22/2024 at 10:27 AM, fiona cook said:

Day 5   Love this effect. I have added it to another project but just need to fuzz their faces out before sharing.

Font: Humnst777 Blk BT. Pink letters with Hatch Fine texture and green with Grain Long. In Layer Styles I added the bevel.

I tried to use the repeat function when applying the texture to the letters but it didn't work. Just opened up a new canvas. Worth a try I guess.

LOVE those colors!

[Susan Ewart]

21 hours ago, Cassel said:

If you added some googly eyes on those sunflowers, it would be quite funny! Do you know that you can tweak the path even after the text is on it?

No I didn't.  I tried just moving the whole thing but then it didn't match the tree line.  Thank you for mentioning that, it's just what would work "after the fact" and saves doing it all over again.  

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Teri Cleaveland said:

I used the same layout I used yesterday. I did pretty much what Carole did, but I did add a slight inner bevel when I finished which I really like.

Now when I can get the script installed for lesson 6, maybe I can get caught up!

I love this!  Well done

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Les 1 overnieuw gemaakt, Het pad liep wat anders maar ik kwam toch heel dichtbij. 

[Susan Ewart]

Lesson 5  has arrived!

hahaha, it's rhyming day.  I hope you'll stay...and see how I did this.  Rhyming aside.  Photo is mine, taken on a grey background then I used a paper from Riley B Graphics (Creative Fabrica) and used a blend mode.  Then a mask on the paper and brought out some of the whites of the flowers a bit more.  I used the text effect as shown in the video and then turned to raster so I could scuff it up more with the eraser tool. 

Papers are from Riley B Graphics (CF) and DigitalScrapbook (Gina Jones, Janet Kemp, Catherine blan-230580-neutral foliage -  description 'cause I don't know her last name)

Elements are from C.F. (Key top left of larger pink paper - cutout used, element hidden) and Ornament (lower right on larger pink paper, very light, used a blend mode, lowered opacity)

Elements from DigitalScrapbook:  Rose, greenery, floral flair.

Font ( from CF likely) is Lilita One

Edited November 24 by Susan Ewart

[Susan Ewart]

Carole,

Do you know what I've done to get this weird shadow on my image.  There are no layers past the bottom layer showing.  PSP got stuck on and would not close so I had to do the "end task" thing.  I cant find any layer that is doing what this is doing.  I also lost the icons at the bottom and the top of the layers palette.  ugh. what have I done? 

Edited November 24 by Susan Ewart

[Carolyn Rye]

Day 4.  A Day at the Adelaide Zoo.  We had just a good time especially when we got to see the pandas.

[Carolyn Rye]

Day 6.  Our fur babies got to visit Santa.

[Cassel]

22 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Do you know what I've done to get this weird shadow on my image.  There are no layers past the bottom layer showing.  PSP got stuck on and would not close so I had to do the "end task" thing.  I cant find any layer that is doing what this is doing.  I also lost the icons at the bottom and the top of the layers palette.  ugh. what have I done? 

Are you using 2023? Occasionally, it would do something odd like merging layers and such. It is not often, but since you have also lost the icons, it looks like PSP went wonky. You might have to reset your workspace. You have saved a custom workspace, haven't you?

[Susan Ewart]

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

Are you using 2023? Occasionally, it would do something odd like merging layers and such. It is not often, but since you have also lost the icons, it looks like PSP went wonky. You might have to reset your workspace. You have saved a custom workspace, haven't you?

 I am using 2023 Ultimate and I do have saved workspaces, but I messed them up too.  My icons came back and I haven't tried doing another layout to see if the weird shadow is there again.  At the end of the year I think I will do a fresh install.  I'm sure it was from my clicking at a crucial time it was doing something in the background.  If it keeps doing it I'll finish the year with 2022 and then do a fresh install.  It's been acting weird.  When it opens the workspace and I open an image the image opens on the screen and then it hesitates for about 5 seconds before it allows me to move it.  This is even when opening a blank image.  A new year and a new install will be the trick I think.  

[Cindy Sheets]

And, moving on to Day 3.