Text Workshop 2024

[Krystyna Nicholls]

Here is my attempt at Text for Day 1. I am using PSP2021 and when I was watching the video clip and clicked away from PSP to rewind (I have two monitors), the programme "accepted" my text, and so I had to delete and start again. Used Cooper Blkoul BT, and the Tube I had was a glitter ball. Not quite what I had in mind, and of course it ended up not quite following the instructions as I had hoped, but here it is...

[Ann Seeber]

2 hours ago, Cristina said:

Thank you, Fiona!

Do you mean the glow around the title?

If so, it's the Outer Glow from the Layer Properties (Layer Styles on the Layer Palette). The default size is 43, and the opacity is 80.

Here is a screenshot with the settings I used. 

 

 

That is not what I meant.  I need the way to blur someone's face who does not want it on the internet.

Edited November 20 by Ann Seeber

[Teri Cleaveland]

Just starting Lesson One today. I'm already behind!! I've done it before, but It's been a long time!

[Ann Seeber]

2 hours ago, Anne Lamp said:

Day 3   Photos are mine. Preset shape used for box is one Cassel shared with us called Gems.  The text for the title is cooperplate gothic light.

Anne, you need the letter "k" in Blackbird, instead of the 'L."

[Cristina Mochetti]

hi. i used the effects chipset for the title

[Daniel Hess]

Project #2.

[Jacques]

A story about a handyman grandpa

[Ann Seeber]

9 minutes ago, Daniel Hess said:

Project #2.

🤣Love the look on the cat's face!

[Daniel Hess]

For the day 3 project, I am going to resurrect my day 3 project from the Scrap Bootcamp.  I did some serious selection area shaping using the add/delete selection functions.  I think I've got that technique down pretty well at this point.

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my lesson 3.  The words appear to be off-center, and it's because Paintshop takes the spaces between words into account when centering. I could use a return instead of a space at the end of each line, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the text wrapping.

[Corrie Kinkel]

19 hours ago, Cassel said:

@Jacques Do you have specific plans to use those titles yet? For babies photos, are they photos of the mom and the son when they each were babies?

@Dan Greenwood Great start with your project. Do you plan to add shadows to the elements or treat the page like a printed magazine?

@Susan Ewart That is a great font to add the daisies to: it is fat and lets you see the details well.

@Carolyn Rye Now that you have some practice, you can always go back to your layout and change it if you are not 100% happy with it. Inspiration might strike another day.

@Jeni Simpson That translucent text is fun to see the rocks. And the gradient matches well the water theme.

@Anita Wyatt When you reduce the opacity of a color, it will be affected by the color below. If you see, on white, it looks lighter, but it is normal that it will look darker on the yellow paper. If you add some shadows to your papers and photo, it will match the shadows on the little leaves.

@Ann Seeber If you ever want to get color-specific confetti, there is always a script in the store to make them. Click here for it. For the Jumping Spider layout, normally, I would say that the title has too much shadow making it float, but with the theme of JUMPING spider, it is very fitting!

@fiona cook You certainly managed to get something done with the technique. I really thought that issue with the spacing was only in 2023.

@Daniel Hess Did the moon photo include the silhouette or did you add it afterward?

@Mary Solaas Great work on the title. You are good at manipulating the tools in PSP to get the result you want.

@Anne Lamp Nice way to combine two tutorials in one project!

@gwen jewitt You created a really nice background!

@Corrie Kinkel That is a nice card. What size it is? Is it too large for a normal envelope to send it in the mail?

@Linda J Walker It looks like you are affected by the same issue as others with one layer not matching the size of the other.

@Donna Sillia It is fun to have those different letters on banners!

Keep them coming!

@Corrie Kinkel This is a card from the Card Workshop-7-Extra 2100x1050 which means if I make it a double card it will be a square. Printing on A-4 paper is very inefficient, it either is very small to get 2 cards out of 1 paper or when it is bigger you have to cut of a lot of the paper. Over here we don't have square fotopaper for printing at home; for photos it is rectangular like 5x7. Even when it might be somewhere it certainly isn't widely available.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Due to a serious shortage of time I reuse this layout from the StoryTime Workshop that has the textwrapping. I liked to use that feature very much but PSP2023 has a big problem with that and although Corel knows about it there hasn't been a solution to it yet. The problem lies in the fact that you are not able to convert your text to a raster, it goes to a single line and disappears and thus you can't resize it for posting. Very annoying!!!! The only option to make text with textwrapping is to use an older version of PSP and then import it into your project in version 2023.

[Anne Lamp]

2 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Anne, you need the letter "k" in Blackbird, instead of the 'L."

DU ! Thanks for catching my typo.

[Mary Solaas]

Day 2. I used a pic I had AI'd in 2023 (the only thing I do in 2023) -- it's a great pic that Laurie took when they were in Mobile Bay. The background is a paper I created in the 2024 Calendar Workshop that I thought would work well here. the cluster is one I developed for my Beach Kit. The starfish element is from Pixel Scrapper. The font is Arial Black but the M in Mobile and the B in Bay are Baghira. I had a time separating the other letters to make something different of them. If I was making this layout for display I would not have worked on the letters which I kept in Arial Black. But - this is a workshop and so I did do different things with them - sometimes using effects>Texture Effects>Sculpture, sometimes blinds, and then I just used the beginning letters from the 2 words with the effects Inner Bevel. This was an interesting trip. (PSP trip)

[Patty Swinimer]

4 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

That is not what I meant.  I need the way to blur someone's face who does not want it on the internet.

I can think of a couple of ways to do that...first, make a selection of what you want covered up, and then pixelate it.  Or, still selected, you can create a blur.  Or, still selected, you can place a shape (like a circle, square or X for that matter).  Add an image over top of their face.  There are many, many ways to do this...good luck!

[Jeni Simpson]

3 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Due to a serious shortage of time I reuse this layout from the StoryTime Workshop that has the textwrapping. I liked to use that feature very much but PSP2023 has a big problem with that and although Corel knows about it there hasn't been a solution to it yet. The problem lies in the fact that you are not able to convert your text to a raster, it goes to a single line and disappears and thus you can't resize it for posting. Very annoying!!!! The only option to make text with textwrapping is to use an older version of PSP and then import it into your project in version 2023.

 

Love it, Corrie. Years ago, when working for a newspaper, we received our opposition's newspaper to check out. This was great because the Cryptic Crossword was done by so many o us in the various departments. We telephoned around about clues and answers, etc. It really is quite an addiction.

Edited November 21 by Jeni Simpson

[Mary Solaas]

I went back to Lesson 2 and redid the title. Looked at the instructions again and tried doing it again - this time I actually highlighted each letter and was able to change the font AND the size as well as the color. Used the sculpture effect on the letters except the beginning letters, the beginning letters I just inner bevelled them.

[Linda J Walker]

Day 2 - I played with different fonts/size/colors. It seems that the baseline actually changes with different fonts, without changing the size of the text. Interesting experiment! I just love fonts 🙂

 

[Cassel]

Wow!!! That is a lot of projects posted. I am so happy to see that many participants!

@Jacques That perspective distortion on the Sleigh Ride is quite ingenious! That story of the old fashion cribs is lovely!

@Anita Wyatt That Storytime title is so appropriate with that photo! A big smile on my face.

@Cindy Sheets With practice, most of this should become more automatic for you.

@Dan Greenwood Whatever you used to fill the cruise title worked very well (photo or gradient!). Yes, the wrapping is not always 100% perfect. It sometimes, also changes line when there is an apostrophe or a punctuation mark. I think it is less obvious with the spaces when the text is smaller compared to the area.

@Susan Ewart The Texture effect is an interesting one that is not used very often. I just wish we could rotate the pattern in that command!

@Jeni Simpson I love that steampunk title. I think that it would give more 3D effect on the title if you added some shadows which would be consistent with a thickness of metal.

@Carolyn Rye Great Amsterdam project.

@kasany Lovely colors on the Tatry layout.

@Jannette Nieuwboer Interesting selection of fonts on your flower. Have you tried without an outline? With such variety of fonts, adding a stroke around makes it a bit harder to read (at least in the resized version).

@Emerald Jay Did you also have a chance to see the Northern Lights? Those are such great colors.

@Cristina That is smart to just complete an older project!

@fiona cook With the resized version, the poem is hard to read so we won't be able to say it is "awful"! And to answer your question about covering faces, there is an article HERE for other ideas if you want/need to conceal someone's identity in photos.

@Anne Lamp Great way to use that shape. Even though it was initially created for making gemstones, there are obviously other creative ways to use it!

@gwen jewitt Great use of the wrapped text.

@Krystyna Nicholls Welcome to the workshop. We are here to help you get re-acquainted with PSP.

@Teri Cleaveland You will have time to catch up, I am sure.

@Cristina Mochetti Since you added some "volume" in the title, you might want to add also shadows on the elements and papers on the page to be consistent.

@Daniel Hess That hen/cat layout made me laugh! It is interesting that you shaped your text around the "lights". Very clever!

@Corrie Kinkel The problem with the text wrapping in 2023 is not really that it disappears (unless you use a compatibility mode to save your pspimage file lower than X7), but that it does not resize. I think it is the same with other versions. Could it be the compatibility mode that is different between your versions?

@Mary Solaas It is ok to just do projects as a practice. You might just use the same technique later, in a different project.

@Linda J Walker Yes, the baseline can differ from font to font, especially for the less "basic" ones.

This is a great thread to get inspired by all the projects posted and ideas shared. Keep them coming. And if you are ever stuck on one tutorial or if something does not seem to work, don't hesitate to post, so we can help you over those hurdles!

[Jeni Simpson]

31 minutes ago, Cassel said:

Wow!!! That is a lot of projects posted. I am so happy to see that many participants!

@Jeni Simpson I love that steampunk title. I think that it would give more 3D effect on the title if you added some shadows which would be consistent with a thickness of metal.

Thank you, Carole, I had another play with that Steampunk title and I somehow find it looks more of a rusted metallic after adding bevels and a texture as well as a gradient. I used a drop shadow that seemed to make the word stand out more.

[Jeni Simpson]

Day 3
I like to use two fonts at the most in any project I do, haha, there goes Day 2 
I began with Billboard in bold for Chocolate, then Angora for the word Hot. Well, Angora wasn't going to work for the journalling, so I went back to Billboard, no bold for the text there. 
Thanks, Carole, for that hint about the text, and later versions. I didn't know that. Mind you, I'm new to 2023, using x8 or x9 for years, yet it is relevant to both those versions. I have always ensured my images work with PSP7, and the jpegs can still be saved for that version.

For this page, I have used an image I took years ago of a beautiful rose, Hot Chocolate. It was only when I was looking for info on this rose, I found out it was a Kiwi who created Hot Chocolate. This particular rose bush had a family of baby birds living in a nest cradled in the fork where the branches come out from the trunk.

In this composition, I have used staples from Sharon Dewi Stolp available from Digital Scrapbook. She had a lovely green paper with white daisies on it, so I used the green from her paper for the backing of the photograph, not her paper itself, which is very pretty. The beige and coral colours are in the photograph.

The nest down below the flowers. Interestingly enough, others around me, at the time, did not see these birds in their nest.

 

 

Edited November 21 by Jeni Simpson
My keyboard is misbehaving, I can't type the letter 'f' easily.

[Daniel Hess]

5 hours ago, Cassel said:

It is interesting that you shaped your text around the "lights".

That backdrop for the text on the Mentor's Muse project was from the below photo, taken while we cruised rapidly through the "Red Sea" near Egypt on our way to the position from which we launched 23 Tomahawk missiles at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  I did some cropping, duplicating, mirroring, and flipping along with some blending to achieve the result in the project.  I guess it was "sort of" lights but actually a reflection off the waves in almost perfectly calm water as the ship sliced through it.

[Cristina]

14 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Great work on both these layouts and their titles, Cristina. I am so jealous of you going to that exhibition; it must have been mind-blowing.

Thank you, Jeni!

It was really a special moment. 🙂 

[Cristina]

13 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

That is not what I meant.  I need the way to blur someone's face who does not want it on the internet.

Oh, I get it.  I guess I never read it correctly and that the question was about the portrait photos. 😬

I learned this from Carole, and there is a 2017 blog post titled "4-ways-to-hide-a-face-with-paintshop-pro/."

Since then, I have been doing this with the family and my own photos when I post here.  There are other ways of doing it, but I prefer pixelated.

Edited November 21 by Cristina

[Cristina]

14 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Susan, the entire town is beautiful, with limestone buildings. There is an older part, which is beautifully decked out in a mix of vintage and steampunk. We go there whenever we travel to Christchurch. A little way out, north of Oamaru, is a castle and gardens with a restaurant, and shops galore, owned by the same family.

Jeni, this looks like a great place to visit.