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 Friday at 12:19 PM 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 6 hours ago by Jacques

[Sue Thomas]

Here is my day one.

 

Edited 3 hours ago 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]