Masks Workshop (2025)

[Jeni Simpson]

  On 6/23/2025 at 8:29 PM, MoniqueN. said:

Lesson 4

Liked the lesson 🙂

I consulted(?) my Affinity book how to create the gradient and ChatGPT provided me with the sentence 🙂

Font is Amazone BT

Elements are from Pixelscrapper

In Dutch it says:"Over the red bridge they forgot the world in each others arms"

 

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Monique, they look so wrapped up in each other, they didn't even see the photograph being taken. I must admit, seeing the quote, I then noticed the couple. What a lovely statue, and quote.

[Donna Sillia]

Day 7 - PSP- My photo of my grandson, Phillip, who is now 17. I made the scattered flowers to match the tablecloth. I used a preset shape and several scripts including dimension 2 and a flower script. The fonts are Cute Dots and Groovy Dotted. The play doh dinos are from Adobe Express. The title was created in Adobe Elements with a clay style applied. One thing that I noticed after importing into PSP, the colors become dull unless you add vibrancy. "Fun" had a PSP inner bevel. I made the pattern using the scatter script because not only did I want to match the tablecloth, but also the dots were much to loud a pattern for the entire page. I created the outer frame and applied a FF clay effect.

[Carolyn Rye]

Day 7 Affinity.  For some reason I forgot how to do the mask for Affinity, so I needed to go back to another day in the tutorial to remember how to do it.  

This has been a great Workshop.  Thank you Carole.

[Cindy Sheets]

  On 6/23/2025 at 3:21 PM, Connie Collier said:

And what a nice, realistic plaid it is, too!

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And it actually came out of a strip from the flowers.

[Cristina]

  On 6/23/2025 at 8:34 AM, Carolyn Rye said:

Day 7 PSP I made it, and it was fun.  This is Daniel with one of his friends.

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Wow, Carolyn, is this real? It's amazing how Max trusts Daniel to be quietly on top of his head. What a lovely moment!

[MoniqueN.]

  On 6/23/2025 at 9:29 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Monique will you be so nice to tell the title of your Affinity book, is it in English or in Dutch?

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Het boek is in het Nederlands.

Werken met Affinity suite van Mark van Heck en Marloes Otten

UItgever van Duuren Media 🙂

[Sue Thomas]

Day 7. I had to do the text in PSP, as I failed to achieve what I wanted to do in Affinity.  I highlighted the words  'are the kid sisters', only to find that the bold and italic icons weren't highlighted.  I tried to do the same with Arial and other fonts like Times Roman, and I was able to change them to italic. I did try other fonts which aren't  microsoft fonts, and the same thing happened.  Anyone else experienced this?  

[MoniqueN.]

Lesson 5

It was fun to make my own mask in AF.

Photo is my own, Font Summers watering can

The background is one (I think) from Pixelscrapper "ap-psApr19bt-mini-ppr-watercolor-daisy" And the elements are also from Pixelscrapper 🙂

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 6/24/2025 at 9:23 AM, MoniqueN. said:

Het boek is in het Nederlands.

Werken met Affinity suite van Mark van Heck en Marloes Otten

UItgever van Duuren Media 🙂

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Dank je, ik was on line boeken aan het zoeken en dan krijg je maar een heel korte beschrijving te zien. Ik ga eens kijken of ze dit boek bij ons gewoon in de boekwinkel hebben, waardoor je er even doorheen kan bladeren. 

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 6/24/2025 at 9:26 AM, Sue Thomas said:

Day 7. I had to do the text in PSP, as I failed to achieve what I wanted to do in Affinity.  I highlighted the words  'are the kid sisters', only to find that the bold and italic icons weren't highlighted.  I tried to do the same with Arial and other fonts like Times Roman, and I was able to change them to italic. I did try other fonts which aren't  microsoft fonts, and the same thing happened.  Anyone else experienced this?  

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Sue that is happening to me too, also for italic and bold. If you happen to have a font family then you can choose regular, bold, italic, bold/italic etc. But you have to use each on a separate text layer.

[Sue Thomas]

  On 6/24/2025 at 3:44 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Sue that is happening to me too, also for italic and bold. If you happen to have a font family then you can choose regular, bold, italic, bold/italic etc. But you have to use each on a separate text layer.

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For those fonts which are not part of a family, you still can not italic or bold them. Which limits the use of so many fonts. Which I have found frustrating. I did work out that I  couldn't  change the font of a few words within  a sentence. Without creating them on a new layer, then arranging them, to make sense.  That is the only drawback, I  have encountered  in Affinity.

[Linda Rexford]

  On 6/24/2025 at 3:56 PM, Sue Thomas said:

For those fonts which are not part of a family, you still can not italic or bold them. Which limits the use of so many fonts. Which I have found frustrating. I did work out that I  couldn't  change the font of a few words within  a sentence. Without creating them on a new layer, then arranging them, to make sense.  That is the only drawback, I  have encountered  in Affinity.

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I looked on the forum and it does state that the B and I buttons are disabled in the Affinity apps for font families that don't include those styles.

If you are using fonts that do have the styles, you can change them all on the same layer.  You just highlite the word you want to change.  I just tested it out and this is what I did.  Different fonts and styles, all the same text box and same layer.

[Clarine]

I did it!!!!  🙂 🙂 🙂   Carole, thanks for the much needed help and guidance.  I could not have done it without you.   I appreciate your kind and patient instructions.    I could have done the shadows around the letters, but I got this far and before disaster happens, I will stop here.

 

Grandpa Great lived a good long life.  He was one of 13 kids, with a few still here.  Sadly, we lost him a four months after this photo.  Had he lived just 2 more months, we would have celebrated his 102 birthday.   It is pretty special for Emmy to have this wonderful photo of her and her Grandpa Great.   

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 6/24/2025 at 3:56 PM, Sue Thomas said:

For those fonts which are not part of a family, you still can not italic or bold them. Which limits the use of so many fonts. Which I have found frustrating. I did work out that I  couldn't  change the font of a few words within  a sentence. Without creating them on a new layer, then arranging them, to make sense.  That is the only drawback, I  have encountered  in Affinity.

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I still think there must be a solution hidden somewhere, that we haven't found yet. There is so much more to learn before I can say I feel comfortable with this program. When I think back to when I started with PSP I so often felt the same. And look where I'm now.

[MoniqueN.]

Lesson 6 AF

I set another filter (Diffuse) for the mat

Font Algerian

Didn't include elements etc. the project was busy enough for my liking 🙂

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 6/24/2025 at 6:17 PM, Linda Rexford said:

I looked on the forum and it does state that the B and I buttons are disabled in the Affinity apps for font families that don't include those styles.

If you are using fonts that do have the styles, you can change them all on the same layer.  You just highlite the word you want to change.  I just tested it out and this is what I did.  Different fonts and styles, all the same text box and same layer.

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Linda thank you, I was planning to do a search into this, but was instead following the start of the NATO Summit on the telly. That important summit is held today and tomorrow in my country the Netherlands and all the news agencies are covering this.

[gwen jewitt]

I had some spare time so I thought I would try doing some of the lessons in psp I have found  that it takes longer to do some things in paintshop pro but I am learing so much more. Day 1 and day2

 

 

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[Donna Sillia]

Day 7 - Affinity - I used the dots and added some of the elements from my PSP image. Instead of importing my mask from PSP, I made the scallops using Carole's tutorial on making scallops. The script in PSP is much easier. I the Affinity image better because of the limited amount of my scattered elements. I also decreased the opacity of the dots.

Edited June 24 by Donna Sillia
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[Jeni Simpson]

  On 6/24/2025 at 8:04 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

I still think there must be a solution hidden somewhere, that we haven't found yet. There is so much more to learn before I can say I feel comfortable with this program. When I think back to when I started with PSP I so often felt the same. And look where I'm now.

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Corrie, I have joined an Affinity facebook group, they have some tutorials in their files section, Affinity forums, Affinity Revolution, I'm watching YouTube tutorials, and, DesignBundles tutorials, plus, Robin Whalley, a photographer who has some good photography tutorials, and, anything else I can find. 

[Cindy Sheets]

lesson 4 

Didn't do much with this one so I can move on but wanted to do the skill.

[Bee Kelly]

Day 4 -  Just wanted to let you know I'm still working on the lessons. 

[Jeni Simpson]

  On 6/25/2025 at 3:49 AM, Bee Kelly said:

Day 4 -  Just wanted to let you know I'm still working on the lessons. 

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Good for you, Bee.

[Mary Solaas]

  On 6/24/2025 at 6:17 PM, Linda Rexford said:

I looked on the forum and it does state that the B and I buttons are disabled in the Affinity apps for font families that don't include those styles.

If you are using fonts that do have the styles, you can change them all on the same layer.  You just highlite the word you want to change.  I just tested it out and this is what I did.  Different fonts and styles, all the same text box and same layer.

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@Linda Rexford I had to try this out in PSP Ultimate 2022 and this is my result. I started with Always Amora at 50 points and it does not have italic. I was able to highlight the word separately (on the same text layer) and put it in italic and the last word I changed the points to 36. Each of the other words are in different fonts with the 50 points.

[Sue Thomas]

  On 6/24/2025 at 6:17 PM, Linda Rexford said:

I looked on the forum and it does state that the B and I buttons are disabled in the Affinity apps for font families that don't include those styles.

If you are using fonts that do have the styles, you can change them all on the same layer.  You just highlite the word you want to change.  I just tested it out and this is what I did.  Different fonts and styles, all the same text box and same layer.

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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. 

[Sue Thomas]

  On 6/24/2025 at 8:04 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

I still think there must be a solution hidden somewhere, that we haven't found yet. There is so much more to learn before I can say I feel comfortable with this program. When I think back to when I started with PSP I so often felt the same. And look where I'm now.

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It's early days.  There is so much to learn, taking one step at a time. I love creating word art etc, and I have my favourite fonts, some of which are not part of a family.