Template Workshop 2025

[Cassel]

 

A new workshop will soon start. Are you in?

It will start on April 21st, 2025.

This workshop is FREE for everyone, so spread the word.

This workshop is meant for beginners and advanced users alike. Beginners will find a simple way to get started to create their scrapbook projects. Advanced users will find that templates can spark your inspiration and help you complete projects on a deadline.

Did you find this thread before the registration page? Here it is.

This workshop will include tutorials for PaintShop Pro and Affinity Photo. You can follow along with the program of your choice. Supplies will be provided for both programs.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I'm in!

[Cristina]

I'm in, too! I'll work with Affinity to keep learning the program.

 

[Ann Seeber]

I'm in, too!

[Anne Lamp]

I signed up too.  I may not ever use any of the templates, but I am sure I will learn new stuff or be reminded of things I have forgotten about.

[Sharla]

I'm in and will work with Affinity.

[Susan Ewart]

I'm in and will work with PSP.  

[Ann Seeber]

I answered this before but forgot to mention that I'd be using PSP2023.

[Corrie Kinkel]

I am in too and will use Affinity but when this workshop is taking place I'm in California with my family and I don't take my laptop with me. However I take my iPad and will be able to see the lessons and will do them when I'm back home and have overcome the jetlag. I know that as a Diamond member I can always see those lessons on a later moment but I'm just curious to follow the new lessons for Affinity and this way will motivate me to really catch up when I'm back. Of course I will have a peek here to look what you all are making and cheer you on if necessary!

Edited April 9 by Corrie Kinkel

[AprilDawn]

I am also  going to give this a try and i will be using Affinity Photo.

[Jacques]

I'm in and will work with PSP. 

[Anja Pelzer]

I'm in too, I will use Affinity

[Jeni Simpson]

I'm looking forward to this, and I will be using Affinity Photo.

[Sue Thomas]

I bought Affinity  photo the other day, installed it.   It immediately  did an update, now I have version 2.6.2. I have started to familiarize myself with it.  I started with the Start here with Affinity tutorials.  Here is one of my pages.  I will use predominantly  Affinity for this workshop, along with PSP. 

Edited April 18 by Sue Thomas

[fiona cook]

I have just signed up to the workshop too and will be using PSP only. Hoping to have the time this week to keep up. I haven't been very active using PSP recently so hopefully can get refreshed with it.

[MoniqueN.]

I'm not very active here at the moment, but will try to do all lessons 🙂

I haven't really looked at Affinity yet, so will use PSP 2023.

 

Will there be an Affinity course again soon? 🙂

[Jacques]

Time flies: My third grandson is already 4 months old.

 

Edited April 21 by Jacques

[Sue Thomas]

Here is my day one.

 

Edited April 21 by Sue Thomas

[fiona cook]

For the Template workshop week I have decided to use a recent holiday to Croatia to showpiece some of the photos whilst I was there.

The background layer is a photo of mine rather than a paper. The scallop edge is a fill made from a pattern created from the pavement area of the main photo. The text panel background is a paper from Marisa Lerin's Picnic mini from Digital Scrapbook called Vellum Piece 2. I kept the grey panel underneath as it seemed to work better.. I left the bubbles from the template as they blended with the colours in the main photo. Typefaces are Impact and Ink Free.

 

Seeing examples by others above I am a bit confused as they don't appear to be the same template that I used for PSP. ?

 

Two questions from mine are:

1. How to align two separate text layers with each other. Objects/Align horizontally but what order do you select if this is the right method?

2. How to smooth the outline of the circular photo as it appears jagged.

[Hank Sobah]

[Rene Marker]

3 hours ago, fiona cook said:

Seeing examples by others above I am a bit confused as they don't appear to be the same template that I used for PSP. ?

The first layout Sue did is not a template from this workshop. She stated it was from Affinity tutorials and she posted it before the workshop actually began.

The non circular layouts are from templates available to Diamond members for this workshop.

[Donna Sillia]

I always have a difficult time deciding on photos to use and finally decided to use another rugby photo. I choose this photo since David had both feet off the ground which is normal for a fast runner. The background is grass from PSP texture effects. The lined paper is from my 2025 Build a kit. The ric rac is from Carole's script. The bokeh effect is from a Adobe brush imported into PSP. The font is an OFL font called Silverblade and has an AE gel style applied. I also remade the circle as a vector so that the edges would be smooth, converted it to a raster and used the clip to it script to make a mask. The circle frame was also a vector outline converted to a raster layer and beveled. I didn't add any shadows to the dots or the bokeh layer.

Edited April 21 by Donna Sillia
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[fiona cook]

44 minutes ago, Rene Marker said:

The first layout Sue did is not a template from this workshop. She stated it was from Affinity tutorials and she posted it before the workshop actually began.

The non circular layouts are from templates available to Diamond members for this workshop.

Thank you.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Last weekend 8 of us went to the beach (brrr) for a ladies weekend. While there we competed in a pickleball tournament. 

[Jeni Simpson]

Template 1
Using Affinity Photo 2.6
About 5 kilometres from where I live, is a farm where Muriel, the farmer's wife, started creating a garden during her pregnancy in the late 60s. 
The land was farmland, and Muriel wanted something to do whilst stuck at home, so she created Maple Glen, a beautiful garden, nursery, and bird sanctuary.

For this template, I have used Elegant Autumn kit by Jessica Dunn and her Autumn Dew mini kit.
Itsadzoke and ItsadzokeS01 by Gluk are free [PU & CU] at 1001 Fonts.