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Here's my lesson 4, 2 photos, 2 masks, made the background with a selection from the girls dress, applied balls and bubbles and seamless tile and used as a fill, then put a beige layer on top with an opacity of 50 to tone it down a little. The font is Eyeballs. Then just a couple of scatters and a ribbon to finish it off. .

This was a good refresher for me. Font used is Perfectly Imperfect.

Lesson 3 I added some grunge around the edges. I'm not too crazy about the kaleidoscope method.

Day 3 are 2 more layouts for my cousin. Layout #1 used the mask by Melo although I added to it so that I could get more of the photo. The kit is a really old kit by a designer that retired over 10 years ago. The kit was called Christmas Time and the designer was A Work in Progress. Again, the font is Discover Beauty. Layout #2 used the extra mask from the 2022 Mask Workshop. The kit is called Around The World: Iceland and is available at Sweet Shoppe Designs. It is a collab kit from 2 designers. I again used Discover Beauty for the font.

Day 3 of the Mask Workshop. This day tested what I have learnt about Masks. I feel so much more confident now. My problem now is how to respond to others on this site. I don't know where to go to respond to anyone. Cassel is there some literature that I can get regarding this? I feel a bit silly that I do not know.

Lesson 4. I had a little trouble locating the image to brush the mask with white because the mask completely blanks it but by trial and error seemed to work out. I made two masks groups including an additional background one for the green bits. The main photo is a colour one of mine that I made monochrome. For the text I used Effects/3D Effects/Chisel (with solid white colour). The words are extracted from the poem 'The Oak' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Artistic licence requested for the shape of the leaves, not being oak!

Day 4. I used a brush from the Brusheezy download, #21. It was a lot of trial and error since a part of the photo was very close to the edge and I kept getting the hard edge. I did a lot of fiddling with the size and jitter settings but finally got it. Kit used is called And Bake by Clever Monkey Graphics and is available at Sweet Shoppe. I again used the Discover Beauty font. A note about the cake. My cousin's granddaughter (age 12) has been cooking and baking for about 4 years. She has figured out how to bake using gluten free ingredients since her mother has 2 auto-immune diseases and can't have gluten. Essentially the whole family is eating gluten free in support of Mom. At the age of 10, she knew that she wanted to open a bakery specializing in gluten-free items. And, sweet Caroline is a big fan of Taylor Swift thus this cake!

Day 3...the kaleidoscope is very faint. I have played more with this technique and have learned somethings that make a better selection and therefore, perhaps a better effect. This pattern is from another layout but chosen from the same photo.

.... looking at this too often.. it seems. Plaid is by Jessica Dunn as is most of the rest, except a strip by Marisa Lerin and the frame mask by Rachel Martin. Fonts: Omnia, Pinky Funky

I said that I didn't care for the Kaleidoscope effect but that doesn't mean that I didn't try it out. Interesting results but too busy for my papers. The 600X600 pixel jpgs were large for some reason & would not load so I resized the to 400X400.

This one depicts random thoughts. If it needed a title, it would be My Mother's Day. Years ago, I started calling my mother on my birthday to thank her for being my mother. I called it My Mother's Day. When I moved back to Alabama to be with her, I would take her to dinner to celebrate (usually at a restaurant that gave a free dessert for my birthday!) This will be the first birthday without her. I may still go to a restaurant. After all, she wouldn't want me to miss out on a free dessert! The mask for my mother was made using a watercolor brush from Rikard Rodin. The raggedy edges and the gold from were made using Picture Frame in PSP.

my Day 4 The photo was from the Black Sands Beach area on Hawaii Big Island. The background paper was adjusted from "Ocean-Water-Background-Digital-Paper-27720793 10 " I have no idea where that was downloaded from years ago.

Workshop Day 2 This is the place we stayed at for 7 months while waiting for our home to be built.

my day 3 fonts are Arnold Story and Handwriting

Day 2 again, Thanks Carole for pointing out my mistake with not replacing that placeholder with something else. I used a bird from the Escale Amoureuze kit but recolored it to yellow.

The car is from CleanPNG. The mask is from Graphics Creation. When I saw that it was Kaleidoscope Day, I set aside a couple of hours to stare mindlessly at the changing shapes and colors.

Day 4. A very simple layout that has the mask in the right hand corner because that suited my photo best. The font is Better Brush and I used a greyish background with an inked edge. The only extra embellishment is a paint splash that is in my stash and recolored.

now here is my day 4 , font is Arnold Story

I am continuing with the amazing food the my daughter and I had in Fredericksburg at an Italian-Mexican fusion restaurant. One dessert is a goat cheese panna cotta and the other was a chocolate pot with hazelnuts. The background is actually a wood background that I made, but when I used the textile fill, this is how it came out. The pictures and the arrows are my own. The black border is from Creative Fabrica. The font is called "Los Pinata" from Creative Fabrica. I converted the text to curves as character shapes, duplicated them and now I can't remember the next steps, but I know that I did not use stroke. I guess I will have to keep experimenting and save my steps.

I had fun with this one, the fonts are Retro Daisy and Pristina

Font is Omnia, graphics Marisa Lerin, Jessica Dunn and myself. Haiku myself. This somehow sits better with me.

I forgot how interesting the kaleidoscope effect is! This was a little plant given to us when we attended grandchild Jackie's wedding. Her hubby is a horticulture enthusiast and he had put out baby succulents for us to take home that day. Originally it was 1/4 the size of this. One of my few successes with a houseplant. It did stay outdoors all summer. The title font is Vivaldi, the journaling font is Copperplate Gothic, the mask is cass-SimpleArtsy-Template01.

DAY 2 Flair button is from Jessica Dunn on Digitalscrapbook For the two small photos I applied the cass-PencilSketch2 script, but stopped halfway through the script to get a different effect. (not good visible here) The border above the plaid is a font from the Creation Cassel Store: cass-Edge2 Text font: Dialova

Continuing with the theme of grandchildren, not all grandchildren are directly descended from your own flesh and blood that doesn't make them any the less important. The title font is Snap ITC, and the journalling font is Magneto. I used a free mask from Jessica Dunn's nesting mask kit. https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/jessica-dunn/kits/nesting-masks-kit-baby-birds-precious-love-black

Day 3 and I was looking for a mask in my stash and this one was a Diamond of last year. Just a title - font Bavire - and a string of brads that I recolored. After some trying with the kaleidoskop I'm going for this one, which is a very subtle pattern otherwise I didn't like it.

Font is Omnia, graphics Marisa Lerin, Jessica Dunn and myself. Haiku myself. The kaleidoscope pattern is Greek enough alright. Day 03 :

I added shadow to the text which I think makes it stand out better. After converting the text to character shapes and duplicating, I colored the bottom letters and then moved the top letters which kept black slightly using the pick tool to expose part of the bottom layer.

Hello everyone🙋‍♀️, I'm also there now because I also want to use the masks in PSP. I can already do it in PI. I just need challenges in order to learn as daily as possible so that it sticks in my head. Thank you Carole💞 , for all the learning opportunities and making the material available I have now received the first three lessons, translated and now I'll do one and, if I'm not tired yet, the second lesson to catch up. Here in Germany it's only 2 p.m.

Ha, ha, Susan! The crane did very well and ended up winning Queen of the Court that day!

Day 3 - Still can't figure out how I locked that color palette for my project but decided to work around it. If anyone can help sort that for me, I will redo the project but with a colored background paper as originally planned. I flattened the image & exported to a jpg and then reopened it, treating it like any other jpeg & then finished the lettering & border. That restricted my background to b&w instead of the red bloody splattered grunge paper that I wanted but, it seems to work. I did have to change the quote though as my original choice went better with the bloody paper. The film style mask is a snag from Pinterest, the monster collage is from a horror movie archive, the paper texture is from Freepick, and the font is Anger Styles from Dafont. I am not a fan of the kaleidoscope effect but that is just a personal preference. I am too busy making more plaid patterns from yesterday's lesson.

Mask Workshop Day 1 Getting off to a slow start. Still moving in and figuring out what furniture we want to put into this place. Time is always short. The poem is an excerpt from a poet, Samantha Fernando. Her credit is included on the bottom of the page. If you would like to see the entire poem you can find it at https://starsafire.starrayz.com/wordpress/2014/07/a-touch-of-purple/ All the photos are mine.

Day 3- More chocolate for Carole. The mask was made from a preset shape converted to a raster with raster to mask script applied. The picture is of a chocolate mousse cup from a French restaurant in Fredericksburg, VA. (and I wonder why my sugar is so high) The font for the title is Chocolateheartfree. The side font is Constancia from Creative Fabrice, and the journal font is Fiolex Girls(not sure where I got that). The background is from the background of the mask, but I changed the color to a more red for Valentines Day. It is actually two layers of the same pattern with different colors and a blend mode of burn for the top layer. BTW, the mousse was outstanding. I think there may be more to see of this restaurant.

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Lesson 3 I made the kaleidoscope pattern from a selection using the main photo (mine from my window) so that the colours matched a bit. I used another Melo Vrijhof Mask from Digital Scrapbook.com as it fitted the format of the photo better. For the 'Mama' text I used 'Selection from Vector Object' and placed the text selection over the main image and Promoted the Selection as a new layer which I slightly offset on top of the original white text.

Thanks for lesson two and the template update @Cassel and especially for the plaid trick! It works really well. But in this case (I played around with a plaid but then decided against it) I left the plaid at home 😉 . Lady22 (Bourico at digitalscrapbook dot com) has been sharing such lovely templates! I really do like these simple, photo centered templates without much frou-frou... My take for day 2. Haiku and most supplies myself. Mask Lady22. Fonts is Poppins on haiku and Omnium on title.

Day 2 of the Mask Workshop. It am finding it easier each time I attempt doing this. Thank you Cassel for your comments regarding my beautiful grandchildren. These photos were taken many years ago, and as adults they are still beautiful. I really like the way you did the background on this workshop.

That's great, Harmony! The font is outstanding! 👀

Project 3 Hey corn is a vegetable.

Took Judy shopping for new pickleball shoes. While she has played PB for years, this is her first pair of pickleball shoes. Our DSW has Sketchers PB shoes in stock which means we can try them on before buying. Judy is very difficult to fit, so being able to try shoes on is a real treat!

Another workshop will soon start. Are you in? It will start on February 12th. This workshop is FREE for everyone, so spread the word. This workshop is meant to be for those with some experience with PaintShop Pro. If you are brand new to using the program, it will be a little more challenging, although we are here to help you if you still want to participate. Did you find this thread before the registration page? Here it is. (and yes, it is the same series of tutorials, but I'll try to find more supplies for the DIAMOND members)

Doska, that is a very amusing story! 😆 The description of the wedding dress sounds much like the maid-of-honor at Will's wedding. Here she is with the drum. The bride is on the left and the groom on the right. The officiant is just behind her.

I am late. But still looking forward to this refresher on masks as I really don't remember a lot from last time. I have been enjoying PaintShop Pro Scripting and because of time spent there, I had forgotten to sign up for this course (until today). I have been finding Scripting very enjoyable though a bit hard a times (like if you use a variable and spell it slightly different in one place (such as using an upper case in one place and lower case in another - Okay that was me recently 🙂 ).. It is nice to know that Carole is available to work alongside us and provide assitance when we need it.

Hi all , I`m in too I will go with photos from our Tierpark --Zoo here in Aachen I made over the years here is Day 1 and Day 2 the fonts are Ariston and Handwritten

Day 2 - Continuing with my birthday trip theme, my daughter took some selfies at one of our favorites stops on the way home from Virginia. Jean Bonnet Tavern is filled with ambience and a lot of wonderful food. The font is called "Valentine" from Creative Fabrica, and the plaid background is from one of my Build a Kit plaids. I thought it matched the old quilt hanging on the wall. The dessert is Oatmeal Pie. My husband begged our wonderful server for the extra whipped cream.

I started a bit later today and noticed a new link for a template which I used, although I have the old one and the Diamond one too. I have both used, but a new template is always welcome! For this template I could use a couple of photos that are narrow and long without having much resizing. I made different plaids until I had one that I liked and that went well with the colors of the photos but I reduced the opacity otherwise it would overpower the photos. Fonts are Perfectly Vintages and Arial rounded. The smaller photos had no borders or a mat underneath, so I made very thin borders to make them stand out a bit more.

Day 2 starting off great. I actually had that template that is no longer available (large stashes confuse but are can be helpful if you know exactly what you want). I think I have mastered the whole raster to mask group conversion enough to start altering the mask since I wasn't too keen on some of the streaky bits once the photo was added. Went back and forth several times and, between a paint brush and an eraser tool and the pick tool, managed to get rid of the offending streaks. Because of the theme that I was using, I couldn't make my plaid from the photos so I used a another photo of a greenish grain field.... lots of small edges and muted colors in it. That way it wouldn't clash with the plaids in the main photos (all snagged from free photo sites). Added a few very thin borders. Font is Brush Script. I tried using that trick of brushing behind the text to make the words more distinctive but, because my background plaid is so small & tight, the brushing was too obvious. When adding a shadow really didn't work either, I changed the color of the drop shadow to a mid green color from the plaid and it brought out the text a bit. The nice thing about these structured lessons is that, if you make enough mistakes & have to redo things, you get more confident & adventurous (though you still need post it note reminders on your monitors for the command sequences).

For today's Lesson 2 I am still on my Trees theme. I condensed the the main photo mask shape so it suited the format of my photo better. I used a brush tip 'Fuzz soft' to white out the mask a bit on the sun flare and a bit on the trunk to bring those bits out that were subdued by the grey of the mask. Deciding I liked the grass under the tree on my main photo I duplicated it and made a selection of just the grass. I also like the white of the background for this image so I didn't use the plaid idea although I think on some of the designs I have seen today, the pattern suits. I used the same photo for a panoramic effect for both the small photo masks. I used the Mama font again but am finding I need to kern it quit a bit.

I going to be using the photos that I took in Fredericksburg, VA for this workshop. The photos in the image were taken on route to Fredericksburg, only a little out of the way, because I love Mallo Cups. The graphics are from the kit. Large font is called "ChocolateHeartFree" and the journal font is called "Chewy" which is a free font.

Masks Workshop - Lesson 1

Here's my day 1, I used a paper from the kit you linked too and colorised it and the font is Poemiore for the title and good old Arial for the journalling. I did the making the picture subject clearer a little differently as it was not the middle of the picture I wanted to make clear but rather their faces which were closer to the edge so I used a large paintbrush and set the hardness to about 30 and the size to approx 1500 and painted in white directly onto the mask. I tend to like the appearance of an outer frame so promoted a selection of about 50pixels round the border to a new layer and used an inner bevel on it. Promoted to a new layer in case I want to change the edge at any time. Great lesson I often forget how to make those templates into masks.