Template Workshop 2025

[Jacques]

My Day 5: A Bike Ride
(Noah: 5 years old, Ludovyk: 3 years old)

 

 

Edited Friday at 05:48 PM by Jacques

[Sue Thomas]

I must say that I am thoroughly enjoying  the Affinity Template Workshop. Although  I have incorporated some PSP.  The mushrooms are what I had previously created, the tags are what I created some time ago, all I had to do was to add the text. The papers are my own, as like always are the photos, as I only ever use my own  photos. The process of adding all the elements, papers, photos, shadows, etc, to complete the page, is almost effortless using Affinity.  The more I use it the better I will get, providing I can remember all what I have learnt. I added the tags for better legibility. Carole has to take credit for  the effort she puts into doing these workshops.

Edited Friday at 04:41 PM by Sue Thomas

[Donna Sillia]

Day 4 = The photos and the background are mine. The frame is a cass metallic rope tube. The font is Retro Thick from CF. I used the cass script stamped on the letters for Zion.

[Anja Pelzer]

here is my day 3 with the Diamond template

 

[Ann Seeber]

10 minutes ago, Anja Pelzer said:

here is my day 3 with the Diamond template

 

Those look like grape hyacinths!

[Ann Seeber]

Here is my Day 5 - a wrap-up of the series I've been using from My Modern Met. And the architecture/design firm is called BIG. I used both logos in the layout. Here's a link to the story.

BIG Reveals Design for Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo

[fiona cook]

Lesson 5

My photo subjects, still on my chosen theme of Dubrovnik, are fabrics, artifacts and a painting from some of the visited museums. 

I have used the placeholders in the template to create a design rather than as realistic scrap elements on a page. To change the 'stitching' colour I couldn't get the flood fill to work so used a brush instead which worked fine. I drew a border around each photo group to make them stand out and added Noise to the overall background image to soften it. Because I was mucking about this took longer to do than the template afforded but is enjoyable as ever!

[fiona cook]

9 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Here is my Day 5 - a wrap-up of the series I've been using from My Modern Met. And the architecture/design firm is called BIG. I used both logos in the layout. Here's a link to the story.

BIG Reveals Design for Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo

Ann, thank you for sharing the architecture design with us. What an amazing building. It looks like something Zaha Hadid would have designed. Your page reflects the design as well.

[MoniqueN.]

Lesson 4 Affinity

Pictures are taken on our trip to Scotland. The Highlands were wonderful to be in and Culloden moor is the place where in 1746 the Battle of Culloden took place and where in just 45 minutes to an hour the clan culture was defeated and the language, the kilts bevame forbidden and the Scots weren't allowed to have weapons anymore.

Fonts Javanese and Amazone. Paper came from my stash.

 

[Ann Seeber]

I've been scrolling around looking for my Day 4 and it seems I forgot to post it! I may have overdone the silver but what the hey! 

[Ann Seeber]

1 minute ago, Ann Seeber said:

I've been scrolling around looking for my Day 4 and it seems I forgot to post it! I may have overdone the silver but what the hey! 

Here's the story which may be hard to read in the 600px size. "A large staircase leads visitors into the foyer, which is filled with light from a central skylight. Wood continues into the performance spaces, with curved timber elements providing visual appeal while also enhancing acoustics. Deep velvet upholstery and acoustic curtains ensures optimal sound, and the variety of venues allows for both intimate and grand performances. All parking is located in a subterranean level." The top photo of the venue was taken in winter with a snowy landscape.

[Harmony Birch]

Running behind as per usual here is my day 1. 

[Susan Ewart]

13 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Firstly I am going to suggest to you, if you  are not  already a diamond member to join the diamond membership for $1 for one week's access to  everything in the campus.  If not I can stear you to several turorials which are free to all in the blog, under tips and tricks, which will get you started, from there those tutorial will get your creative side going. Meanwhile here is a sample of my  word/subway art. I do like to  create ficticious magazine covers to show case  many of my photos, here is one, using word art. Should anything I have posted catches your eye, let me know and I will send you links  to the  tutorials which will get you started. Or I can give step by step instructions.   Created using only fonts (dingbats, swashes, glyphs)

This isn't really  isn't right section to post these.  As it is specifically for the Template workshop.  I can always remove them after a day or so. 

This is so wonderful to see them altogether in a collection like that.  Thank you.

[Susan Ewart]

12 hours ago, Cristina said:

Beautiful layout, Susan!

Thank you so much Cristina.  I really enjoyed this one.  the quote was so nice I had to use it.  

[Susan Ewart]

10 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Template 2 Diamond
A sunflower from my garden, taken a few years ago. 
It is probably the last time I grew these stunning flowers. They were taller than I am. I love their strong stems.

Kit is Jessica Dunn's Reach for the Sun mini kit, fonts are Benilla Calligraphy and Asking Ladies Bold.

I love this quote.  I'm about to post sunflowers too.  My bizarre sunflowers booked time in the photo studio so they are much different.  the petals on yours are huge!  I also love this particular template.

[Susan Ewart]

6 hours ago, Euka said:

Firstly thank you to @Jeni Simpson, @Linda Rexford for your font viewer info - I have since discovered if I open my viewer before I open Affinity they work - something I never had to do with PSP - but now I know!

@Cassel I use FontViewer and FXplorer  and (Character Map)  I like FXplorer as I have my fonts in different folders and can open 1 or multiple folders in it depending on my projects.  I did use The Font Thing many years ago.

Day 3 and 4 - Day 3 is a bit busy for me and needs to be redone - the photo is mine and background papers are all photos or parts of photos, the font is Alien Autopsy.

Wave Rock is in Hyden West Australian and Rising 15 metres from the ground and more than 100 metres long, the rock looks like a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash onto the bush below. It’s believed this amazing formation was more than 2,700 million years in the making.

Day 4 - Photos are mine and taken at Eco Beach, 130 klms south of Broome and is a self sustainable Eco resort - the background is a photo of the sand with a blend mode, the waterlilies were in a pond there and the font is Admiration Pains.

Part of the Eco  promotion - As pioneers of the sustainable tourism movement, we also aim to set an example of how to facilitate a holiday experience that operates with the preservation of the environment as a priority. Providing our guests with the ultimate holiday, while also taking care to protect our amazing natural surroundings, which we take great pride in!

Very beautiful photos, I can't imagine what it must feel like standing at the base of the rock.  by chance have you heard of the song "Echo Beach" by Martha & the Muffins?  They sing a song with the same name (different spelling).  I can't help but sing it even though it's not about your beach.

[Anja Pelzer]

now here is template 4,

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Here is my Day 5 - a wrap-up of the series I've been using from My Modern Met. And the architecture/design firm is called BIG. I used both logos in the layout. Here's a link to the story.

BIG Reveals Design for Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo

These so beautiful Ann, I love this type of architecture.  

[Susan Ewart]

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

I've been scrolling around looking for my Day 4 and it seems I forgot to post it! I may have overdone the silver but what the hey! 

Not at all overdone Ann! I LOVE this.  

[Susan Ewart]

Lesson 3  -  Template 3-Diamond

I should have titled this "Blend Modes" because every paper or photo mat, and the two pieces of foliage have blend modes and some with 3 or 4 papers in the blending group.  I did group all the blended stuff and duplicated the group, hid it, then merged the end result for the shadow part.  I used elements/papers from Digital Scrapbook (Marisa Lerin, Brooke Gazarek, Gina Jones, Jessica Dunn, Kerri Dempsey and Janet Scott). 

The foliage I used the tutorial with the filled duplicate layer above, took me awhile to get the right color fill.  I still found it was too bright on the layout so I merged the blend group and blended them into the blue paper (already merged blended group).  I even attempted to make a cluster from 6 separate elements.  

The fonts are Creative Fabrica; Madelican and Matona ('S')

Photos are mine and they aren't really looking at the real sun (like fake news, there is also indoor fake sun 😲).  These were my surprise sunflowers I discovered at the back of my very small garden that I only noticed because I needed to go into the little shed.  I thought they were mutants, cute fluffy mutants.

Edited Friday at 09:17 PM by Susan Ewart

[Jeni Simpson]

2 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Those look like grape hyacinths!

Yes, they are, Ann. They grow like weeds in my garden.

[Jeni Simpson]

27 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

These so beautiful Ann, I love this type of architecture.  

The architecture is stunning, I can envisage the skirt swirling, it is so beautiful.

[Harmony Birch]

And here is my day 2. I am doing these templates in affinity to help me get used to it.

[Jeni Simpson]

7 hours ago, Euka said:

Firstly thank you to @Jeni Simpson, @Linda Rexford for your font viewer info - I have since discovered if I open my viewer before I open Affinity they work - something I never had to do with PSP - but now I know!

@Cassel I use FontViewer and FXplorer  and (Character Map)  I like FXplorer as I have my fonts in different folders and can open 1 or multiple folders in it depending on my projects.  I did use The Font Thing many years ago.

Day 3 and 4 - Day 3 is a bit busy for me and needs to be redone - the photo is mine and background papers are all photos or parts of photos, the font is Alien Autopsy.

Wave Rock is in Hyden West Australian and Rising 15 metres from the ground and more than 100 metres long, the rock looks like a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash onto the bush below. It’s believed this amazing formation was more than 2,700 million years in the making.

Day 4 - Photos are mine and taken at Eco Beach, 130 klms south of Broome and is a self sustainable Eco resort - the background is a photo of the sand with a blend mode, the waterlilies were in a pond there and the font is Admiration Pains.

Part of the Eco  promotion - As pioneers of the sustainable tourism movement, we also aim to set an example of how to facilitate a holiday experience that operates with the preservation of the environment as a priority. Providing our guests with the ultimate holiday, while also taking care to protect our amazing natural surroundings, which we take great pride in!

 

Euka, what an amazing country you live in. It is so vast and beautiful. I have never been across to West Australia, although my brother lived in Geraldton, now in Kalgoorlie.
It is great being able to travel from my lounge, nowadays. I posted a reply before and found it had 2 quotes attached to the one reply, so deleted that to take less room.

[Jeni Simpson]

50 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Lesson 3  -  Template 3-Diamond

I should have titled this "Blend Modes" because every paper or photo mat, and the two pieces of foliage have blend modes and some with 3 or 4 papers in the blending group.  I did group all the blended stuff and duplicated the group, hid it, then merged the end result for the shadow part.  I used elements/papers from Digital Scrapbook (Marisa Lerin, Brooke Gazarek, Gina Jones, Jessica Dunn, Kerri Dempsey and Janet Scott). 

The foliage I used the tutorial with the filled duplicate layer above, took me awhile to get the right color fill.  I still found it was too bright on the layout so I merged the blend group and blended them into the blue paper (already merged blended group).  I even attempted to make a cluster from 6 separate elements.  

The fonts are Creative Fabrica; Madelican and Matona ('S')

Photos are mine and they aren't really looking at the real sun (like fake news, there is also indoor fake sun 😲).  These were my surprise sunflowers I discovered at the back of my very small garden that I only noticed because I needed to go into the little shed.  I thought they were mutants, cute fluffy mutants.

 

Susan, I am enjoying all your templates, your photographs show a great sense of style, and the colours you choose are perfect.