Magazine Workshop 2025

[Cassel]

Our next workshop will soon start. Are you in?

You will create various pages in a "magazine" format, with little to no decorative elements. That will generate pages with a "clean" look and save you time in choosing and arranging embellishments.

The workshop will start on February 17th, so there is plenty of time for you to find your photos and invite friends to join.

And this workshop will be FREE for everyone, so spread the word.

(although every registrant will get some templates to work with, as a bonus, DIAMOND members will get more)

Did you happen to find this thread before the registration page, by chance? Here it is.

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The tutorials will be available for the duration of the workshop, plus one week. Of course, the DIAMOND members will keep permanent access and will receive extra templates.

There will be tutorials for PaintShop Pro and Affinity Photo users. If you have access to both programs, you can choose which tutorial you will follow. They will be clearly identified.

[Susan Ewart]

I'm in.  I'm not sure what I will do.  I did cameras the last time so I'm going to have to think something up pretty quick. 

[Cristina]

I'm also in, and I'll work with Affinity.    I want to use the trial version as long as I have it.

Like I did for the Affinity Bootcamp, I will use the same photos from the 2023 Magazin Workshop, which I never finished.

 

 

[Rene Marker]

I'm in. I plan to use some photos from the Sandwich Glass Museum I visited when in Cape Cod last fall. Lots of photos! I also plan to use Affinity but might also do it in PSP. Double the pages (yes I have that many photos from that place) and seeing how it compares doing the same simple pages.

[Corrie Kinkel]

I'm in too and I will use Affinity for this workshop because I want to use and learn as much as I can as long as I have the free trial version. However I will look at the diamond extras for later use. I'm not sure yet what my topic will be and which photos to use for it.

[Ann Seeber]

I'm in. I'm planning a guided tour of Port Jervis, NY, and it's stunning Christmas decor on every single home. I have a lot of photos. Last time I only had 6 or 8 and did an overview of my daughter, Debbie's, artwork. Not sure how I'm going to handle using 29. Here's a peek at my mag from 2023.

Edited February 15 by Ann Seeber

[Susan Ewart]

  On 2/15/2025 at 9:14 AM, Ann Seeber said:

I'm in. I'm planning a guided tour of Port Jervis, NY, and it's stunning Christmas decor on every single home. I have a lot of photos. Last time I only had 6 or 8 and did an overview of my daughter, Debbie's, artwork. Not sure how I'm going to handle using 29. Here's a peek at my mag from 2023.

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I cant wait to see your Magazine!   I love Christmas lights.

[Susan Ewart]

Ann you had a good idea posting you Magazine from last year.  I never got mine done, two pages and the cover to finish.  So I will follow you and post it here since I had not even done the backgrounds when the class finished.  I sure hope I finish within a week or two after the workshop.  

Oops, forgot to add that page 2 is not finished either.  I am going to finish this up after the 2025 WS is completed.  I also based my Calendar that year on this magazine so I'll have to finish that too as I used different pictures.

 

Edited February 16 by Susan Ewart
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[Cristina]

  On 2/16/2025 at 4:53 AM, Susan Ewart said:

Ann you had a good idea posting you Magazine from last year.  I never got mine done, two pages and the cover to finish.  So I will follow you and post it here since I had not even done the backgrounds when the class finished.  I sure hope I finish within a week or two after the workshop.  

Oops, forgot to add that page 2 is not finished either.  I am going to finish this up after the 2025 WS is completed.  I also based my Calendar that year on this magazine so I'll have to finish that too as I used different pictures.

 

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 I also never finished the last year's Magazine Workshop.

So, I'll do the same as I did for the Affinity Bootcamp, use the same photos, and try to complete the workshop this time. 🙂

[Jeni Simpson]

I'm in, and will use Affinity, mostly.
Thanks, Ann and Susan for showing your previous layouts, they are lovely.

[Jacques]

Giant Puppet Walk that took place in Montreal in May 2017.

[Jen Brown]

Theme for my magazine will be to show items that I machine embroidered or sewed in 2023.

Here is Day 1 - Magazine Cover

[Anja Pelzer]

Hi all, here is my new Cover- this time from Tierpark Alsdorf

 

[Anne Lamp]

My Magazine day 1. The flower pic is a background page I downloaded (Retro-Spring-Garden-Flowers-Pattern-90720530). The font is one I downloaded from somewhere and the only name it shows is  "am_intex"  .  Hopefully all the flower pics for the rest of the pages will me my own photos.

[Rene Marker]

I did this one real quick with PSP. These will feature photos from the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts (on the cape).

I will do another one with Affinity on a different subject this afternoon.

[Art Kuiper]

Hello Scappers and PSP Users,

I'm liking all the examples already shown on this forum. It gave me the idea of using waterfalls as a theme. I live in mountain country so waterfalls large and small are plentiful. When I take the two hour drive to visit my son's family, there are three waterfalls all worth visiting along the way. So naturally I have lots of pictures of them. Hopefully you will enjoy seeing them through this evolving magazine article.

[Ann Seeber]

Here is the cover for my magazine. The title font is Showcard Gothic in a brass gradient with a slight chisel effect and the background is a pattern called geometry 07 that I darkened a bit. The photos for this series are done by Lawrence McElroy.

 

Edited February 18 by Ann Seeber
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[Rene Marker]

Here is my Affinity magazine cover. I'm highlighting the statue dedication at the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in July 2019 that took place during the 50th Anniversary celebration for the first moon walk. I used the same font as the other one, BakerSignet BT.

 

[Lynda DiGregor]

We recently went on a cruise out of Galveston to Mexico for my Granddaughter's 21st birthday. Not sure which ship photo to use. I think I like #2 the best.  

[Donna Sillia]

Since you need a lot of pictures, I decided to use my Thailand pictures. Some of them will be repeats of my 2025 calendar.

[Ann Seeber]

  On 2/17/2025 at 8:20 PM, Lynda DiGregor said:

We recently went on a cruise out of Galveston to Mexico for my Granddaughter's 21st birthday. Not sure which ship photo to use. I think I like #2 the best.  

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I agree, Lynda. I prefer the head-on shot. It makes the ship look huge. The other one sort of cuts it off and it looks flat. imho

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 2/17/2025 at 8:20 PM, Lynda DiGregor said:

We recently went on a cruise out of Galveston to Mexico for my Granddaughter's 21st birthday. Not sure which ship photo to use. I think I like #2 the best.  

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Lynda nice to see you back and I also like nr 2 better, the ship looks very imposing photographed this way!

[Corrie Kinkel]

I will use Affinity for this workshop and have settled for Yosemite NP as my theme. I visited the park last year and I have a lot of photos from that visit. This is going to be a magazine and therefore I will keep the background for most of my pages off white. The font is Algerian and I have seen this font or something very similar used on posters and cards in the park. I included the NP-shield that you can find on all the national parks.

[Jacques]

  On 2/17/2025 at 1:10 PM, Jacques said:

Giant Puppet Walk that took place in Montreal in May 2017.

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The "Walk of the Giants" can be seen on "youtube" on the site "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNdzi0FyaM".

I can't say if my photos are from that same day but I saw these giant puppets in action.

More photos to come?.
This Giant Puppets can also be see in other countries.

Edited February 17 by Jacques

[Corrie Kinkel]

I couldn't help myself and just played a bit more with this cover. I already had in mind that I would present it as a special edition and put that on the cover.