What are you working on with PSP (in August 2025)?

[Ann Seeber]

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Magazine Workshop 2024  Yay, Over 1 year in the making and I'm finally done.  

Here is the cover.  Subjects are part of my camera collection.  I got a start from my parents and my grandfathers old cameras they had over the years.  I had always liked them even before I started photography.  This one was from my grandfather.  I have also found some real gems in thrift stores over the years. They have become popular again and very rarely do I find them in thrift stores anymore.  Their prices have risen with the times as well.  

Nice, job, Suz. This cover is stunning with its mix of blacks, grays and a touch of red and gold. Your entire magazine workshop is excellent.

[Susan Ewart]

31 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Nice, job, Suz. This cover is stunning with its mix of blacks, grays and a touch of red and gold. Your entire magazine workshop is excellent.

thank you so much Ann.  I wasnt sure about all the different sort of text and colors going on.  In the end I just had to decide to put it out to the world.

Edited August 7 by Susan Ewart

[Mary Solaas]

4 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Magazine Workshop 2024  Yay, Over 1 year in the making and I'm finally done.  

Here is the cover.  Subjects are part of my camera collection.  I got a start from my parents and my grandfathers old cameras they had over the years.  I had always liked them even before I started photography.  This one was from my grandfather.  I have also found some real gems in thrift stores over the years. They have become popular again and very rarely do I find them in thrift stores anymore.  Their prices have risen with the times as well.  

Congratulations! Feels good to finish a BIG project doesn't it? Love your work!

[Mary Solaas]

Lab 15 Mod 5. Requirements: Dotted Line Pattern: - Background; Painted Punched Paper - Small paper under the picture in the right bottom corner.

Edited August 7 by Mary Solaas

[Sue Thomas]

33 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Lab 15 Mod 5. Requirements: Dotted Line Pattern: - Background; Painted Punched Paper - Small paper under the picture in the right bottom corner.

Congratulations to you too!  Only a few more months to go.  Your dedication  is to be admired. I hope you are proud of yourself  with what you have  achieved. What a leaning journey it has been for you in a relatively  short time.

[Linda Rexford]

6 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Magazine Workshop 2024  Yay, Over 1 year in the making and I'm finally done.  

Here is the cover.  Subjects are part of my camera collection.  I got a start from my parents and my grandfathers old cameras they had over the years.  I had always liked them even before I started photography.  This one was from my grandfather.  I have also found some real gems in thrift stores over the years. They have become popular again and very rarely do I find them in thrift stores anymore.  Their prices have risen with the times as well.  

Love this cover image!  I would buy that magazine.  This is a really cool camera!  

[Susan Ewart]

7 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Congratulations! Feels good to finish a BIG project doesn't it? Love your work!

thank you so much Mary.  yes, it sure feels good.  It's being there, in the back of my mind for a long time.  Thank you for your wonderful words about my work.  I'm having fun learning how to photograph this kind of stuff.  Watching tutorials during covid (I was on the ones that worked through it all) gave me the confidence to try it.

[Susan Ewart]

7 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Lab 15 Mod 5. Requirements: Dotted Line Pattern: - Background; Painted Punched Paper - Small paper under the picture in the right bottom corner.

I love that punched paper.  And how it appears lifted in parts of it.  

[Susan Ewart]

5 hours ago, Linda Rexford said:

Love this cover image!  I would buy that magazine.  This is a really cool camera!  

thank you so much Linda.  They are so cool to look at, and so foreign looking compared to todays cameras.  Can you imagine using them?  

[Linda Rexford]

11 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

thank you so much Linda.  They are so cool to look at, and so foreign looking compared to todays cameras.  Can you imagine using them?  

I wouldn't know how to use one that old!  My first camera was a hand me down from my brother.  It was a Kodak Instamatic with the film cartridge and square flash cubes!  I do love to take photos!

[Cristina]

15 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Magazine Workshop 2024  Yay, Over 1 year in the making and I'm finally done.  

Here is the cover.  Subjects are part of my camera collection.  I got a start from my parents and my grandfathers old cameras they had over the years.  I had always liked them even before I started photography.  This one was from my grandfather.  I have also found some real gems in thrift stores over the years. They have become popular again and very rarely do I find them in thrift stores anymore.  Their prices have risen with the times as well.  

Wow, congrats also, Susan. This is a beautiful cover and so unique, just like all of your work.

[kasany]

3 hours ago, Cristina said:

Wow, congrats also, Susan. This is a beautiful cover and so unique, just like all of your work.

Super, very interesting work!!!!!!!

[kasany]

[kasany]

Just now, kasany said:

Lady22 template, a silhuette found in net.

[Susan Ewart]

11 hours ago, Cristina said:

Wow, congrats also, Susan. This is a beautiful cover and so unique, just like all of your work.

 

8 hours ago, kasany said:

Super, very interesting work!!!!!!!

thank you so much Cristina and Kasany, very much appreciated.

[Sue Thomas]

These Bumble Bees can be found  from Alaska to California.  Including here on the Saskatchewan prairies. The rather long word,  means Beautiful.  I created 2 rows of embosed bees, using the repeat script. Which doesn't show up very well, due to compression.  The background paper is yet another photo of  the frozen lake.

Edited August 8 by Sue Thomas

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, kasany said:

what a great template for this adventure, the film strip is perfect for these photos.  That background is really nice.

[Susan Ewart]

Just now, Sue Thomas said:

These Bumble Bees can be found  from Alaska to California.  Including here on the Saskatchewan prairies. The rather long word,  means Beautiful.  I created 2 rows of embosed bees, using the repeat script.

What a great shot Sue.  the wings look almost like soft fluffy ears.  like a little flying puppy dog.  I LOVE that word!  Will you be putting this on FB?  I can see the rows of embosed bees and would love to see that bigger.   such a nice touch and surprise to use to discover.  I remember when you discovered that cutout method (for lack of a better description) you use on your layouts.  they are so interesting to look at, and it really steps it up several notches in design.    

[Sue Thomas]

48 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

What a great shot Sue.  the wings look almost like soft fluffy ears.  like a little flying puppy dog.  I LOVE that word!  Will you be putting this on FB?  I can see the rows of embosed bees and would love to see that bigger.   such a nice touch and surprise to use to discover.  I remember when you discovered that cutout method (for lack of a better description) you use on your layouts.  they are so interesting to look at, and it really steps it up several notches in design.    

If my memory serves me well, I  gave a sort of tutorial on how to  do the cut out. I always use vector shapes, then use from vector shape, and expand to remove from around the photos. That way the cut outs are sharp, no jagged edges. Quite simple really, yet gives the pages, as you say step them up a notch.   I will post  it on FB. I found a vector bee  on CF. Did the plus and minus using the cutout tool, on separate layers, merged down, then used Carole's  repeate script  to save time, to create a row of them.

Edited August 8 by Sue Thomas

[Susan Ewart]

Magazine Workshop 2024 page 1 (lesson 2 of the workshop)

Before I forget; the background paper is from bgazarek_crisp-fall-fair-paper-03 (DigitalScrapbook.com).  I changed the color of to fit the layouts.  this is one of my grandfathers cameras and I think it is stunning in design. It's just a really pretty camera.  In the reflection you can see the leaver at the bottom that folds out to advance the film.  Great design!  Why didn't Ricoh design super cars instead of photocopiers, they would've kept the camera line because, sexy cars and sexy cameras is cool. But sexy photocopiers, I don't think so.  

Edited August 8 by Susan Ewart

[Mary Solaas]

Lab 15 Mod 6 (I'm in June - nearly up to date). Requirements: Outlined text - title; Tight Flip Diagonal (again) - background paper. I used Cassel's Photo Circle Template script for the circle of pics; and I used my doodle flowers and butterfly as elements and embellished the doodle flowers with a copy of a leaf I used in one of the early labs for a crayon rubbed leaf.

[Linda Rexford]

9 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

These Bumble Bees can be found  from Alaska to California.  Including here on the Saskatchewan prairies. The rather long word,  means Beautiful.  I created 2 rows of embosed bees, using the repeat script. Which doesn't show up very well, due to compression.  The background paper is yet another photo of  the frozen lake.

This is beautiful and I love your bumble bee!  That's a great new word, but I don't know if I'll be able to remember that one!  

[Corrie Kinkel]

On 8/8/2025 at 6:11 PM, kasany said:

Your photos are looking great in those filmstrips. The landscape in the photos is so beautiful, it must have been a great trip.

[Sue Thomas]

It is that time of year again, the drawing close of another season, when the Hummers arrive on or around the 2nd Aug, and stay until the end of the month. Making their long jounrney back south for the winter.  Always a joy to see them. I know it's almost a week, but  I have been intending to go over some of the techiniques demonstrated in last weeks masterclass. 

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

It is that time of year again, the drawing close of another season, when the Hummers arrive on or around the 2nd Aug, and stay until the end of the month. Making their long jounrney back south for the winter.  Always a joy to see them. I know it's almost a week, but  I have been intending to go over some of the techiniques demonstrated in last weeks masterclass. 

Great photos and a nice demonstration of the techniques from that masterclass. The small detail of the out of bounds of the birds make it much more interesting to look at.