Text Workshop 2024

[Jeni Simpson]

20 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Featuring my zookeeper granddaughter, Jackie, and her snow leopards at the Nashville (TN) Zoo. I'm also posting the project from Lesson 4 in March of 2023 featuring Fog.

Ann, I love the fog page, the blues are colours I particularly love, and the poem is superb, the photos are so soft and misty looking. It is lovely to see the work Jackie is doing with these beautiful creatures. What a great job your granddaughter has.

[Ann Seeber]

28 minutes ago, Jeni Simpson said:

What a great job your granddaughter has.

I know, I'm envious but, oh so proud! J❤️ackie

 

Edited Thursday at 08:16 PM by Ann Seeber

[Donna Sillia]

Day 4 - More photos from Thailand. The red background was modified in FF, and I made the flowers for my calendar. The scripts are all from CF: Modecque with an added pattern, Royal Thailand and Autumn.

[Dan Greenwood]

Here's my lesson 4. The text is CAC Champagne.

[Susan Ewart]

On 11/20/2024 at 2:33 PM, Daniel Hess said:

Project #2.

OMG! I love this.  I love chickens and could watch them for hours. 

[Susan Ewart]

On 11/20/2024 at 6:16 PM, Mary Solaas said:

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)

Stunning layout with perfect colors Mary! I really like how your fonts are dancing.

[Susan Ewart]

Lesson 3

Yup, there's a typo 😪.  And I used 2023 for text wrapping when I meant to use 2022.  So of course soon as I duplicated and converted the dup to a raster the Vector turned into one single long line.  So the type will stay for all eternity.  These are my mutant Sunflowers that were only supposed to grow to 6-7' according to the package.  they topped at about 10+ feet.   That is the roofline of my garage that you see them grow past.  The font, the little bee below the flairs and the bee line-graphic is from Creative Fabrica.  The two flairs are from DigitalScrapbook.com and I believe they are from Jessica Dunn.  the green patterned paper is also from DigitaScapbook.com.  The other green paper is a gradient with a texture and a bit of noise added.  

[Cassel]

@Jeni Simpson You can play with shadows to get different effects. A large shadow like you have makes the text "float" above the surface, while a smaller but less blurred shadow will give the effect of the piece laying on the surface. It all depends on the effect you want. As for compatibility, jpgs will always work in all versions. It is the .pspimage files that need to have the correct compatibility setting.

@Jannette Nieuwboer NexusFont is another option. I personally don't like that it seems to need to load fonts and for me, it takes longer to use. I cross my fingers that TFT will still work for me for a while. Looking at the shadow you put on the text and the one around the project, it gives the impression that the white text is "engraved". That is an interesting effect.

@Daniel Hess That is a great use of text on path. 

@Ann Seeber That is quite an interesting font, and with the bevel, the holes stand out! Jackie must love to see all the attention she and her animals get from your layouts!

@gwen jewitt Great use of the text on path. It goes well with the theme of children playing.

@Corrie Kinkel Nice Christmas card. Will you print it?

@Cristina Mochetti It makes a difference when you add shadows. Don't you think?

@fiona cook I think that the text in the water works well too. If you keep it in the continent, maybe you can just make it a bit larger (in a larger selection starting a bit higher)? Just a thought.

@Anne Lamp Since you added some bevel on the text, you might want to add shadows to the photos to match the 3D effect.

@Jacques I think that a little shadow on the title would make it stand out a bit, since it is crumbled! And while at it, maybe something on the photos too. Delightful photos!

@Donna Sillia We got some milkweed plants a couple of years ago, and even though we planted them in our garden and they seem to have propagated, we have not seen a single mornarch. 😞

@Dan Greenwood Will you print this card for Christmas?

@Susan Ewart It is funny how those sunflowers look like they are peeking over the garage, as if they were spying!

Looking forward to your upcoming projects!

[Susan Ewart]

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

 It is funny how those sunflowers look like they are peeking over the garage, as if they were spying!

You are quite right.  Who's looking at who?

[Susan Ewart]

Lesson 4

I love text on a path.  I should have started the path closer to the left side by the tree and made the font bigger.  The font is Love Light.  It doesnt have glyphs, but it sure is pretty without having to have them.  Not sure if this is Creative Fabrica or a google font that came with FontBase.

[Carolyn Rye]

On 11/21/2024 at 4:30 AM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Nice layout you did of my country!

Really loved our time in that wonderful country.

[Carolyn Rye]

Day 3.  I finally understood the Journaling of text.  Previously I could never get it to work.  I love this photo of my Grandson and my darling Bundy.  It is an old one but every time I see it, I love the 2 beautiful faces.

[Jeni Simpson]

2 hours ago, Cassel said:

@Jeni Simpson You can play with shadows to get different effects. A large shadow like you have makes the text "float" above the surface, while a smaller but less blurred shadow will give the effect of the piece laying on the surface. It all depends on the effect you want. As for compatibility, jpgs will always work in all versions. It is the .pspimage files that need to have the correct compatibility setting.

Of course, Carole, I wasn't thinking. I automatically save .pspimage files to 7+, so I need to stay awake when creating in 2023. Great tip.
I saved all my shadow presets in x8. It seems I will just have to copy them into 2023 when using that version. I've been chasing my tail today. We have been putting up gib in the lounge and haven't had much time to play. I'll be away on days 5 and 6 and will try to get them all done when I get home.

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

@Daniël Hess HALLO Daniël, ik wil graag een reactie geven op je crea. Degene waar het standbeeld van de man op staat. Niet uit kritiek maar om je wat inzicht te geven. Je schaduw staat aan de verkeerde kant. Kijk goed naar het standbeeld, vooral op de mouw en de broek, de linkerkant is donkerder dan de rechter helft. Dat betekent dat de zon (die je niet ziet) van rechtsachter komt. Dan moet je de schaduw links achter plaatsen. Dit is een natuur wet. Nogmaals, Dit is géén kritiek. Je plaatje is prima werk. 👌 ook zo'n natuur wet is dat hoe lager de zon staat des te hoger je de schaduw plaatsten moet. Tijdens noen geen schaduw. Een tip is: Bepaal, waar komt hij ☀ vandaan! Groeten. Ik zie je op de campus, Ik kijk uit naar je volgende werk. 

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

@Cassel schrijven De tekst schaduw heb ik gewoon met PSP gedaan. De schaduw van het plaatje is met een insteekfilter GEDAAN. ik gebruik het graag. Ik Zou Niet weten hoe ZIJ het DOEN. Na gebruik van de plugin bleef mijn plaatje zoals ik het gemaakt had. Daarna gebruikte ik het tabje hoogdruk van PSP toen veranderde de achtergrond kleur in een egale veel donkerder groen. Mijn kleur was veel lichter groen met een donkerder patroontje erin. Ook uit PSP. Ik heb nu drie werkjes ingeleverd en alle drie komen ze er anders uit dan wat ik gemaakt heb. Ik vind het om te huilen. Sorry voor de vele capitole letters, dat komt door IA. Die Schijnt beter te weten wat ik schrijven wil dan ik.

[Jacques]

@Cassel I followed your recommendations and it's really better.

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Jacques

[kasany]

It's my part of    lesson1 or  2.  BTW Carole, where in 2023 should I cose up COLOR of the font and show only stroke?

The picture I sent has been crreater in PSP9. 

[Daniel Hess]

Here is my day 5 submission.

  

Edited 16 hours ago by Daniel Hess

[Daniel Hess]

2 hours ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

@Daniël Hess HALLO Daniël, ik wil graag een reactie geven op je crea. Degene waar het standbeeld van de man op staat. Niet uit kritiek maar om je wat inzicht te geven. Je schaduw staat aan de verkeerde kant. Kijk goed naar het standbeeld, vooral op de mouw en de broek, de linkerkant is donkerder dan de rechter helft. Dat betekent dat de zon (die je niet ziet) van rechtsachter komt. Dan moet je de schaduw links achter plaatsen. Dit is een natuur wet. Nogmaals, Dit is géén kritiek. Je plaatje is prima werk. 👌 ook zo'n natuur wet is dat hoe lager de zon staat des te hoger je de schaduw plaatsten moet. Tijdens noen geen schaduw. Een tip is: Bepaal, waar komt hij ☀ vandaan! Groeten. Ik zie je op de campus, Ik kijk uit naar je volgende werk. 

@Jannette Nieuwboer Thanks.  I wasn't thinking about the existing shadow or the sun in the original picture.  Although...the statue was cut out of another photo  just pasted into the middle of that one and as such I just wanted it to "stand" out from the rest.  I'm going to leave it for now and try to remember in future projects.

Edited 15 hours ago by Daniel Hess

[Cassel]

43 minutes ago, kasany said:

BTW Carole, where in 2023 should I cose up COLOR of the font and show only stroke?

In the Materials palette, the top swatch is the stroke and the bottom one is the fill. Click on the little square on the bottom right of the the swatch to make it transparent.

Note that you can only do that when a vector tool is active (shape, text, pen).

[Anne Lamp]

19 hours ago, Anne Lamp said:

Day 4 Photos are mine.  I played with this one a long time figuring out what picks to use etc.  Oh well I had fun.

I got to thinking.  The photo that is my backdrop was taken close to the town of Lahaina Maui. That was the town that was totally destroyed in the big wildfire last year.  While I wish we could go back to Hawaii again (we can't)  I don't think I would have the heart to see the devastation from that fire.

[kasany]

8 minutes ago, Cassel said:

In the Materials palette, the top swatch is the stroke and the bottom one is the fill. Click on the little square on the bottom right of the the swatch to make it transparent.

Note that you can only do that when a vector tool is active (shape, text, pen).

IC, I understand. Thank you very much:)))))))))

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

4 hours ago, Sharla said:

Bedankt

 

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Deze middag is verloren door een lange chat met Alludo. En het verwijderen van de '23. Wat ook niet al te gemakkelijk was. Aanvankelijk werkte zelfs de cleaning tool niet om de problemen met PSP op te lossen. Geen twee edities op één devies plaatsen was het advies. Dat zou kunnen, ik ben geen technicus alleen een gebruiker van PSP. Dus weer een dagje achterstand. Ik hoop dat ik nu ongestoord verder kan gaan. 😏

[Jacques]

My lovely grandsons