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15 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

Yes, I am able to change the fonts of words from within a sentence, which is on its own layer. What I am not able to do, with many of the fonts I use  regularly,  which are not part of a family, change those fonts to italic, shoud I want too, or bold for that matter, unlike in PSP. 

Sorry, I must have misunderstood something.  I agree that it would be nice to change the fonts to italic or bold, but it is not possible at this time in Affinity.  Each program has their pros and cons.  

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Day 7 finally complete

Thank for the wonderful workshop and I was happy relearn how to move masks.  I had forgotten.  

this is a busy layout for me, but fun to follow through with.  I changed sizes of the tile i used (brush from CASS-summer time -sun shape) and was going back and forth when i left one layer on and saw the result of the two sizes together.  this is a photo from a couple years ago (or more) when i was doing a bunch of flat-lay flower photography.  

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And here are the various papers I could have used. I used Paper 1 +2 (rather, tile size 1 + 2).  it's interesting what comes out of accidently having two layers on that I'm comparing.  It sent me down a rabbit hole playing with combinations. Probably too busy for me to use but would blend into a background maybe.

 

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Lesson 7

Sometimes adding apaper is more than enough, that was the case with this mask,photo and paper too. 🙂

Thank you again for the nice lessons, Carole, I really enjoyed it! 🙂

Tomorrow I will finally have a look at all the nice projects I saw here 🙂 I just wanted to catch up with the lessons first 🙂

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5 hours ago, Linda Rexford said:

Sorry, I must have misunderstood something.  I agree that it would be nice to change the fonts to italic or bold, but it is not possible at this time in Affinity.  Each program has their pros and cons.  

Overall I  am impressed with Affinity.  Perhaps down the road, they may make the bold and italic tool available to be used with every font.

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6 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Yes, I am able to change the fonts of words from within a sentence, which is on its own layer. What I am not able to do, with many of the fonts I use  regularly,  which are not part of a family, change those fonts to italic, shoud I want too, or bold for that matter, unlike in PSP. 

I agree, that is a problem! Let us hope there will be a solution with an update on the program.

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Well I started off with day 1 and 2 in paintshop pro with the intention of carrying on through to 7 but alas that's not to be I am in for cataract surgery tomorrow but I have squeezed in day 7 lesson I really enjoyed doing this one I changed the polka dot to a pattern  using Effects- Reflection effects-pattern and I put the owl inbetween the background and the dots. The font I used was Baby Garland. There are some mistakes I made but too tired to go back to iron them out. Thank you Carole for all your hard work we all appreciate it.

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I am impressed by all the birds, and bees photographs, they are all so clean and crisp. I love them. My bee photographs are similar to Susan's; where the bees photobombed the photographs. I have almost always used point-and-shoot cameras, and my photographs aren't nearly as crisp.

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19 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

We must remember Canva has bought Affinity now, so things may well change for us all. https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

Since I have Canva, I am interested in what is happening with Affinity. I signed up for the Canva newsletter. Canva is free to educators and students, and I wonder if the same offer will apply to Affinity.

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19 hours ago, gwen jewitt said:

Well I started off with day 1 and 2 in paintshop pro with the intention of carrying on through to 7 but alas that's not to be I am in for cataract surgery tomorrow but I have squeezed in day 7 lesson I really enjoyed doing this one I changed the polka dot to a pattern  using Effects- Reflection effects-pattern and I put the owl inbetween the background and the dots. The font I used was Baby Garland. There are some mistakes I made but too tired to go back to iron them out. Thank you Carole for all your hard work we all appreciate it.

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Gwen - Good luck on the surgery. It makes a big difference. 

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2 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

Since I have Canva, I am interested in what is happening with Affinity. I signed up for the Canva newsletter. Canva is free to educators and students, and I wonder if the same offer will apply to Affinity.

I think I'll wait a bit before I buy Designer, you never know.

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On 6/25/2025 at 5:22 PM, Susan Ewart said:

And here are the various papers I could have used. I used Paper 1 +2 (rather, tile size 1 + 2).  it's interesting what comes out of accidently having two layers on that I'm comparing.  It sent me down a rabbit hole playing with combinations. Probably too busy for me to use but would blend into a background maybe.

 

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Nice with this technique the possibilities are endless , almost.

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21 hours ago, gwen jewitt said:

Well I started off with day 1 and 2 in paintshop pro with the intention of carrying on through to 7 but alas that's not to be I am in for cataract surgery tomorrow but I have squeezed in day 7 lesson I really enjoyed doing this one I changed the polka dot to a pattern  using Effects- Reflection effects-pattern and I put the owl inbetween the background and the dots. The font I used was Baby Garland. There are some mistakes I made but too tired to go back to iron them out. Thank you Carole for all your hard work we all appreciate it.

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Gwen all the best with the surgery!

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5 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

Since I have Canva, I am interested in what is happening with Affinity. I signed up for the Canva newsletter. Canva is free to educators and students, and I wonder if the same offer will apply to Affinity.

Donna, there is a link in that article I sent that talks about four pledges. "One of the pledges we're making is to keep Affinity free for schools and nonprofits."

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2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I wasn't aware of that and I hope it does go the same way as Corel did with PSP. Thanks for letting us know.

Corrie, I wasn't happy with Corel when they bought from Jasc. There were things I could no longer do, though now, that was so long ago, I have forgotten. I kept at PSP and love it. When I began studying graphic design on a computer, after about 30 years as a graphic designer, illustrator, and paste-up artist, in 1994, it was on an Apple Mac with Photoshop 3.0 and I had to learn CorelDRAW for my graphics on a PC. So I knew Corel a bit and wasn't too concerned about them taking over PSP. There was a period of change from Jasc to Corel.

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3 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I wasn't aware of that and I hope it does go the same way as Corel did with PSP. Thanks for letting us know.

 

28 minutes ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Donna, there is a link in that article I sent that talks about four pledges. "One of the pledges we're making is to keep Affinity free for schools and nonprofits."

I wasn't aware either and first thought...Oh oh, not again.  Thank you Jeni for the link.  I read it all and the pledges.  It's good to know they have theses pledges and that consumers can hold them to it.  One company I worked for ended up getting sold just to the competitor couldn't have it, in the end sold it again to holding company that just buys and sells companies.  This Canada wide company basically died. I think there is one location left which is an online store.  They no longer have the clout to compete in the market they are in anymore.  In my personal experiences with this is; Company gets sold, new owners say nothing will change, first thing new owners do...change everything.  But, it's good for Affinity as there will be more money for development and Canva (so far) does business in a fair, non-conglomerate, non-tech-giant way that it's main competitor does.  

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On 6/25/2025 at 10:22 AM, Susan Ewart said:

And here are the various papers I could have used. I used Paper 1 +2 (rather, tile size 1 + 2).  it's interesting what comes out of accidently having two layers on that I'm comparing.  It sent me down a rabbit hole playing with combinations. Probably too busy for me to use but would blend into a background maybe.

 

Various papers from mixing tile sizes-600.jpg

I love what you did with your paper tiles and how you combined the papers to make different background papers. I love making background papers and I don't like them too busy. These aren't too busy you used them beautifully in your layout and it doesn't take away from the focus of the layout. 

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On 6/18/2025 at 11:18 AM, Ann Seeber said:

Here is my Lesson 2 - Great granddaughter Magic is taking a dance class, and they produced a cute version of the Wizard of Oz. Magic danced as one of the Munchkin characters. I love the costume! The font is Marguerite for the title and Modern #2 for the text. I tried to make a very subtle plaid and I'm happy with it. Using PSP2023.

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Magic has grown! What a lovely girl! 🙂

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Oh My, what a bunch of great artists we are! I really enjoyed scrolling through 18! pages of lovely projects!🥳

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14 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

 

I wasn't aware either and first thought...Oh oh, not again.  Thank you Jeni for the link.  I read it all and the pledges.  It's good to know they have theses pledges and that consumers can hold them to it.  One company I worked for ended up getting sold just to the competitor couldn't have it, in the end sold it again to holding company that just buys and sells companies.  This Canada wide company basically died. I think there is one location left which is an online store.  They no longer have the clout to compete in the market they are in anymore.  In my personal experiences with this is; Company gets sold, new owners say nothing will change, first thing new owners do...change everything.  But, it's good for Affinity as there will be more money for development and Canva (so far) does business in a fair, non-conglomerate, non-tech-giant way that it's main competitor does.  

I designed a business card for my son's business using Canva and had them print it. I made a mistake and sent the wrong card for printing. When I emailed Canva, they quickly responded requesting the correct layout and repinted the card at no cost to me even though it was my mistake. I was very impressed with their customer service and also the the print job was outstanding.

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On 6/26/2025 at 12:15 AM, gwen jewitt said:

I am in for cataract surgery tomorrow

Best wishes for your surgery and a smooth, quick recovery, Gwen.

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