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So sorry not to contribute before now as have had unexpected family commitments and only just managed to catch up. The first lessons I found quite tricky but got into it from lesson 5. Although the text on the path with the cat got bit distorted even if I changed the size of the text.

Lesson 6. Text used 'Mister Earl' but it is an unusual character 'F'. The Picture Tube is 'Confetti' which I made look thicker by reapplying the Vector Tube script.

Completed lesson 7 A little confused using vector lays duplicated each looked the same. Decided to rename the layers from the start which made things much better. Then rearranged the order in which was done first, slicing the path then applying tubes seemed to work ok for me. Anyway got the idea after a few attempts, practice, practice. Quiz, I got 8 / 10 Can I ask regarding #1 how many different icons are there to identify the different types of vector objects. What little icons and where are they? I am sure this must be simple but not sure what you are asking here, I thought about Cusp settings etc, I guess a senior moment.

I had another play with Day 7's vectors. I knew I had used jellybeans yet my image didn't have the pretty colours I had used originally. I searched through all my picture tubes and realised the one I had originally used was Easter Jellybeans. Showing the Jellybeans first. The Easter Jellybeans

Jour 5 - premier travail et plus haut le deuxième my curve was made from the ramp

Lesson 7. I copied the vector layer, removed the stroke and added fill and texture but have made the mistake of adding this on top of the inner bevel! Not sure how I could have achieved this properly.

With the text on circle exercise, I got muddled up with where to double-click. To Reverse Path double click on the actual circle path (not the layer). To get the text to go under the circle, double click on the object text path Layer (not on the image) and select all.

Day 6

Good for you, the result is feedback on what you may need to study. Maybe do as Corrie suggested to Susan, do the tutorials again in a few weeks, that way you can go over what you may have forgotten between doing the workshop and the quiz.

Thank You. I live in town and there are street lights etc. in fact there is one not thirty feet east of my porch where I took the picks from. Luckily the moon was pretty much due south of my house and there is a tree just west of that light that cuts down on the glare. I just got lucky with the direction and height of the moon that night, and a beautiful clear not hazy evening. Well actually about 1AM,

I got 9 out of 10, so surprised at how much I remembered.

Added the states to my USA pre-set shape. I'm happy with it.

Lesson 7. I've had quite a time with this but this is what I came up with - both A and B.

Wow Anne, this is so cool.

You don't know how true that statement is! 🙂

Take care, Doska, your health is most important. I don't know when Carole will do this workshop again, and I am sure Vectors will be here maybe next year, they are such fun to do, even when not going right. Look after you first. Sending good health and love your way.

@Corrie Kinkel Yes, I did hide the path of the circle. The green circle is part of the globe preset shape.

To add to the fun I had 8 out of 10.

Anne nice picture of the moon; you must live in an area without light contamination! I wish could take such a picture but the few times I was in such a place with a full moon, there were clouds!

Lesson 6. I'm going to have to work hard on this path business. It seems that I've forgotten a lot! With the Globe of the earth, I had to put another circle around the outside of the globe as the maps of north and south america are also open and thus a path. The leaf was interesting - made the leaf last year in the vector workshop and using it as a path this year, I fooled around with different picture tubes and finally settled on the stars. The letter - I had already worked with it several days converting text to a path and this time no problem. I used a string created earlier.

Used the VectorTube script to light up my house.

Randy great that you enjoyed the workshop and even greater that you will be able to use what you have learned. When you use it you will getting better in doing it and discover new ways to use it differently.

Rene, where I live we have bookstores a plenty as well as a good library with ebooks and of course they are displayed at shelves or on tables. Because of my eye condition I nowadays only use digital ones, just as the newspapers, but I like going to the bookstore in our shoppingcenter and have a look at the new arrivals! The feeling of a real paper copy is something I miss but I'm glad with the digital opportunities we now have.

I got some pretty good moon picks a few nights ago and combined two of them and then put it on a Starry Night Sky background (probably from C,F.

Well, I took the quiz, and my score was 6/10. Oh, well, I'm working on it. 😉

Totally enjoyed this workshop. Gonna do a diamond membership for a few months and try to pick up some of the classes and information available for PSP. My next project already started is to do a preset shape of a USA map. I guess to do state borders internal to the closed vector path, you just select the lines (vs edit) with pen tool and put them in seperate. I'll find out if that is just a folly in my mind LOL.

Carole, Thank you so much for your lessons on Vector. I like what I have learned so far and expect to review to get a better handle on what I have not "mastered" yet. Everyone else, Thank you for sharing your work. Thank you for helpful input. Thank you for encouragement by showing what can be done, and encouraging words to push ahead. This is great! And having something that I have learned that I can use in the future is really the best part.

Doska, I hope you are feeling better soon. We will all be here when you feeling up to returning. Take care of yourself first.

Thank you. This sounds promising.

I agree, one piece of pie is never enough!

Is this a flower tube that is in the store?

Carole, on the "invisible" question, I don't believe so...it disappeared when I CUT it from the base image and showed up for final repositioning after pasting. It just (many times) did NOT paste the cutout (transparent) into the original vector. The "undo" to the Reverse Path command with a new Reverse Path inserted in the process worked. I'm sure I have been doing something wrong but the only thing I can think is using the "Select None" after creating a selection to change multiple nodes to Symmetrical...I couldn't seem to get it back into edit mode any other way. Anyhow, I finished the 16 cups rendition AND some of them with additional cutouts. Also Lessons 6 and 7. I did NOT do the text part of that...I just went for a real complex "cut with knife" thing on a circle using a compass layer to divide it equally into 4 parts. Here are the results.

Thank you, Carole, I wasn't sure whether that could be done, and added the wire to hold them together. I appreciate all your comments to everyone, they help immensely. Jeni

Day 7. One of the challenges with this one was grabbing hold of the correct node to move after cutting. I learned not to move the node too far before you determine it's the correct one. I had to start over a couple of times because I couldn't get it back in place to line up with the full shape. Carole - Thank you for the reminder about Vectors in Action. I recall that all of the Vector masterclasses were great. I'll definitely go back to watch them again. After every workshop I think about the Mickey Mouse song: Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company. See you real soon!

Lesson 5 #2 A fun exercise to do. I spend more time trying to learn how to work with layer masks (not sure that's the correct terminology), photographed on grey so I could add a textured back ground with blend modes (easy part), then needed to mask the blended texture layer to let the flower show through (hard part to wrap my mind around - which layer is the mask, is it black or white etc). the hardest part was wrapping my head around what on the top layer needed to be blocked, it kept thinking it was everything but the flower, but it turned out it was the flower I needed to block. Hopefully I will remember for next time. I added the little round label thinking you couldnt see it, but it seems to show up well and I have no idea why the top text on the flower is blurry, the original is not and even looking at the 600 version on my own computer it is not blurry. PSP is acting really slow today. Yesterday fast, today the opposite. And with the all temp files and cache cleared.

Lesson 5 first one

Haven't had much time to play as a major house project started much earlier than I expected .... but I am following along. Love seeing what everyone has been doing! I am looking forward to July 4th ... a traditional day of BBQ around this family!

Thank you, Carole, I had been searching for offset, yet when you said where to find it, and that was where I had been searching, I actually found it to the right, after warp text and mitre limit. I tried this text in a circle again, using an ellipse, and a quote from Pablo Picasso. I'm no fan of his later work although have an illustration he did of a horse and the anatomy is accurate.

Day 5: Mountain photo: Massimiliano Morosinotto (Unsplash) with a quote from novelist Mark Obmascik. Rainbow Roses: Denise Chan (Unsplash) with a quote from American poet Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893). The quote in the mountain photo is: "I like the mountains because they make me feel small. They help me sort out what's important in life."

Lesson 3 First image shows the leaf after I edited all the nodes. Second image shows samples after the vector was exported.

I started to make an arrow, but then began to play with the nodes and ended up with a pencil. I converted the pencil to a raster and filled it in with different textures. The heart was harder than I remembered, but I finally got it to look like a heart using a lot of guide lines. I used a lined stroke, duplicated the stroke and made it smaller to fit inside the bigger heart.

I have done some effects.

Love the touch with the punches in the bottom corners. It adds a nice touch.

I LOVE the birthday girl one. Your style is so awesome, the ethereal quality I love, but cant seem to replicate.

Jessica Dunn has a challenge for June on Pixel Scrapper using one of her masks. I am using that mask on this layout. The flower is from Rachel Martin (Pixel Scrapper); the string is a Cassel string in Picture Tubes; the leaves are mine from one of the labs; the Title font is Arshinta Kirania Script; the place name script is Arial Black.

Here's the fisherman.

My physiotherapist is moving to the the interior of British Columbia (Kelowna, also part of the what we call the Okanagan area - home of the Ogopogo). I have lived in that area twice in my life enjoying mountains, lakes and lots of fruit (cherries, peaches, apples, grapes) and lots of wineries...even though I don't drink wine. This seems to be my go to e-card style of the moment. they are quick and easy to do...well, I say "quick", deciding on the font is the hardest part and takes forever playing around with it. You will notice the kerning on the word "Bye" is weird. I wanted the swash of B to blend in to part of the swash on the "e". I made masks for each, the upper and lower portions thinking I'd be using two different pictures (Lake shown is Lake Okanagan). I like the original photo, that I found on the internet so I put a copy into each mask but I wanted it to seem like it was two different elements. For the top portion I added two textures and some noise and used brightness/contrast to darken it a bit. That is also the area I added my sentiment on the copy I sent to her.

Thank you Michele always appreciate your kind words. i am going to try to make a card every day to get my brain active again. Corrie your Candle is beautiful. well done.. love it and will look great in a card. the card i am posting is a birthday email card. Flower is free from chantalia design...paisley lace sort of thing is created with a Ps brush that i use in PSP i downloaded it some time ago and the beads are done with cass. chain beads tube and the font is Brock Script. Best wishes to everyone.... Dawn. i could not remember where i got the free brush from so i went looking and found it...i found it on a site called antarasdiary.com it is set 28 when you click on download it takes you to brusheezy.com.

She's ba-ack!!!! It's wonderful to see your creations again, @AprilDawn. ❤️