March TUT/TECH Challenge (2025)

[Cassel]

 

The Campus is the perfect place to learn more about photo editing, various techniques, or PSP in general.

This challenge will allow you to practice some of those techniques or use some tools.

This time, the Tut/Tech Challenge will be to create a gold element from scratch. Check your stash. What element do you have? Which one do you want to turn to gold (like the Midas touch!)?

Check this blog article for detailed instructions.

 

[Anne Lamp]

I was trying this but the gold pattern paper I had open does not show in the "Texture Effects > Sculpture" dropdpwn window. Does it need to be saved someplace not just open? If so how?

 

 

 

[Cassel]

  On 3/15/2025 at 5:03 PM, Anne Lamp said:

I was trying this but the gold pattern paper I had open does not show in the "Texture Effects > Sculpture" dropdpwn window. Does it need to be saved someplace not just open? If so how?

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You guessed right. For the Texture Effect to use any texture, unlike the Patterns in the Materials palette, it needs to be saved, and not just open on the workspace.

[Sue Thomas]

Gold elements challenge.  I  turned  a stem of green ivy leaves to gold, and an insect which I extracted from a photo.I thought using the Shiny scarab beetle was appropriate for this challenge. Besideds the Shiny,  other scarab beetles have metallic green or bronze hues.  They are  a very diverse species. In the top left image, you can  see how this scarab spent the night, in a state of torpor.  The layout is my own, which  I created for this challenge. Again I used snowy, icy photos using the blend mode for the background paper.

[Anne Lamp]

I thought I would see how my Foxy Girl would look as a sculpture.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 3/15/2025 at 7:59 PM, Sue Thomas said:

Gold elements challenge.  I  turned  a stem of green ivy leaves to gold, and an insect which I extracted from a photo.I thought using the Shiny scarab beetle was appropriate for this challenge. Besideds the Shiny,  other scarab beetles have metallic green or bronze hues.  They are  a very diverse species. In the top left image, you can  see how this scarab spent the night, in a state of torpor.  The layout is my own, which  I created for this challenge. Again I used snowy, icy photos using the blend mode for the background paper.

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The snowy ice looks like marble.  These are "bugs" I dont mind.  When I worked at this one farm and lived in a converted barn (tiny barn, the bottom floor was z-brick and sand in some parts, still we loved it.   Anyway, each spring we'd have a beetle invasion...in the barn (lids were mandatory on all pots and pans while cooking!  We have lady bugs and little green and blue iridescent beetles, they were so pretty.  Ladybugs are pretty but pack a punch when a cat tries to eat them (foamy kitty mouth).

Edited March 16 by Susan Ewart

[Corrie Kinkel]

When I started to think Gold I made quite a lot of golden elements. 🤣 I took the photo of these crocuses  just a couple of days ago, they are coming in spades now and these lilac ones are always the first, then come the yellow, purple and white ones. The mask is by Jessica Dunn, I like her masks and often choose one of my collection. Then I started to make a golden crocus from an extracted crocus from my stash and duplicated and flipped it. Well I continued with  cass-stitch-flower1 brush at the bottom and at that point decided all my elements will be in gold. Therefore the butterfly and fern leave from my stash turned into gold as well. The font is Arienne and I honestly tried it first in lilac but that looked somehow a bit funny and it became gold too. I wish I could turn my money into gold that easy, I could fly business to California!

[Susan Ewart]

  On 3/16/2025 at 10:41 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

When I started to think Gold I made quite a lot of golden elements. 🤣 I took the photo of these crocuses  just a couple of days ago, they are coming in spades now and these lilac ones are always the first, then come the yellow, purple and white ones. The mask is by Jessica Dunn, I like her masks and often choose one of my collection. Then I started to make a golden crocus from an extracted crocus from my stash and duplicated and flipped it. Well I continued with  cass-stitch-flower1 brush at the bottom and at that point decided all my elements will be in gold. Therefore the butterfly and fern leave from my stash turned into gold as well. The font is Arienne and I honestly tried it first in lilac but that looked somehow a bit funny and it became gold too. I wish I could turn my money into gold that easy, I could fly business to California!

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I wish you could turn your money to gold too.  I'd be the first the line up for a hand out.  Your elements look great.  I like how the texture is retained in the elements.

[Julie Magerka]

This is my bit of gold (the text) to send wishes to all good Irishwomen/men. For today we can ALL be Irish. And it's my birthday, so I get to do this!!!! Cheers and to your health! ☘️

Edited March 17 by Julie Magerka

[Ann Seeber]

  On 3/17/2025 at 5:07 PM, Julie Magerka said:

This is my bit of gold (the text) to send wishes to all good Irishwomen/men. For today we can ALL be Irish. And it's my birthday, so I get to do this!!!! Cheers and to your health! ☘️

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Happy Birthday! 🍀

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I used these stars in a layout. I need to resize it before posting.

This layout is for the About Me Challenge...Places I've been. I have played competitive basketball in 25 US states and Washington, DC. The states which are colored in are the states where I have played. I included Iowa because I will play there in the National Senior Games in July.

Edited March 18 by Bonnie Ballentine

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 3/17/2025 at 5:07 PM, Julie Magerka said:

This is my bit of gold (the text) to send wishes to all good Irishwomen/men. For today we can ALL be Irish. And it's my birthday, so I get to do this!!!! Cheers and to your health! ☘️

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I belated Happy Birthday to you! Due to the time difference I often see posts somewhat later, because when you post them I'm already asleep. I hope you had a lovely day.😍

[Susan Ewart]

Happy Birthday Julie.  Hope you had a wonder-filled day.  

[Ann Seeber]

  On 3/15/2025 at 5:09 PM, Cassel said:

You guessed right. For the Texture Effect to use any texture, unlike the Patterns in the Materials palette, it needs to be saved, and not just open on the workspace.

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I finally figured out I had to add a gold texture file to the Corel documents folder. Then I called up a leaf from my stash and made it gold. Somehow, it looks more like the underside of the leaf compared to the original. Which setting needs adjustment? I just added the original leaf element so you can see it is smooth and not as veined as the gold variation looks. Don't know how that happened!

Edited March 19 by Ann Seeber

[Sue Thomas]

  On 3/16/2025 at 10:41 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

When I started to think Gold I made quite a lot of golden elements. 🤣 I took the photo of these crocuses  just a couple of days ago, they are coming in spades now and these lilac ones are always the first, then come the yellow, purple and white ones. The mask is by Jessica Dunn, I like her masks and often choose one of my collection. Then I started to make a golden crocus from an extracted crocus from my stash and duplicated and flipped it. Well I continued with  cass-stitch-flower1 brush at the bottom and at that point decided all my elements will be in gold. Therefore the butterfly and fern leave from my stash turned into gold as well. The font is Arienne and I honestly tried it first in lilac but that looked somehow a bit funny and it became gold too. I wish I could turn my money into gold that easy, I could fly business to California!

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Beautiful Crocus photo, such vibrant Spring colours.  Love the Gold Fern and text.  You also retained the details in the butterfly.  I use a slightly different approach to colouring elements gold, depending on the element of course.  I duplicate,   flood fill the element  with a goldy yellow, then use the blend modes. Adding noise makes it look more gold like too.

[Donna Sillia]

I love gold and use it a lot. For this challenge, I used a flower from AE with a sculpture effect using one of the gold patterns. The flower pattern was made using Carole's scripts--pattern maker and seamless pattern. I used a slight layer style on the flower and a gold gradient for the background.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 3/19/2025 at 11:48 AM, Sue Thomas said:

Beautiful Crocus photo, such vibrant Spring colours.  Love the Gold Fern and text.  You also retained the details in the butterfly.  I use a slightly different approach to colouring elements gold, depending on the element of course.  I duplicate,   flood fill the element  with a goldy yellow, then use the blend modes. Adding noise makes it look more gold like too.

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Your approach works well too and makes your elements not so shiny and when I need something to look goldy I often use the color gold that I have in my materials palette together with noise. However this time I wanted to follow the TUT and see what that brings, but I'm not sure that I want to use this technique very often.