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I need more work/practice with this technique. I gave up and used Carole's script. Brushes/PNG's - Deer Tracks Sheila Reid at Digital Scrapbooking

Sadly, I haven't had a lot of PSP or pickleball time lately. Lots of work in the garden...and now, the yard needs attention. It will wait....tomorrow is pickleball, picnic and table games. Clusters and background paper by Jessica Dunn, Into The Woods, at Digital Scrapbooking. Template 242 by Lady 22.

I sometimes use AI, mostly when I can't make something myself or do not have a adequate picture. However, I had to try Copilot after the discussion here taking my inspiration from Ann. I have a favorite book series by Dorothy Dunnet featuring Francis of Lymond, who is a 16th century courtier, "a musician, a poet, a mathematician and one of the best fighting men of his age. He’s an adventurer, gracious, handsome, very light blonde and lethal." After entering this description, I am posting the picture that was made.😂

I'd say I threw this together quickly and easily, but it wasn't quick. I dithered around with it for too long and just wanted to keep it simple to align with the challenge. BeaBea belongs to a friend. I have no kitty, over a year now.😢 Now that I've conquered the Interlacing Technique....you'll likely see it often! 😁

Don't feel bad, Bonnie, I did the exact same thing! I did try with the Warp Brush and you'd shudder like I did, to see the results! 😁

I was in one of my book/author groups on Facebook and one member had asked AI to create a portrait for the main character using descriptions from the books. Their attempt was fair so I decided to try. It was rather interesting as I had all the books in my Kindle collection so I could copy/paste descriptions directly from the author. The portrait AI created for me was quite popular in the group so I might even try it again some time. If anyone is familiar with the character Lucas Davenport from John Sandford's "Prey" series, here's the Bing Copilot DalE-3 version. (the scar is too prominent but otherwise the wolverine smile and sparkling eyes are right on)

I didn't use the Warp Brush technique. It looked too wonky. So I reverted to the shadow on new layer and used the Perspective tool to adjust the corners and the shadow.

What a great shot Bonnie. I also think that's the best advice any deer or human could ever get. Love it!

For those who will want to practice more with this technique, there will be one lesson in the upcoming Shadow Workshop, scheduled for August 🙂

It really pains me to reduce an image to 600 pixels and under 200kb. lol Saying that I understand completely why it is nescesary to do so. Although I did reduce the imgae for facebook from 6mb to 1.5mb. As you say facebook is a handy alternative on occassions. When the wild fires started last year, there were two hundered and so, this year when they started there were over 300 fires. Unfortunately, the wild fires have to be controlled due to more and more people wanting to live in rural areas. Wild fires play an important part in renewing and recycling ecosytems. Many of the trees planted today for commercial use, are quick growing, and are unable to withstand the fires like so many of the native plants and trees, which depend on the fires for their survial. Fires open up the forests canopy to sunlight, to encourage new growth, including tree saplings.

Here is a post from the user-to-user forum, that an admin had written. We have been advised by Corel/Alludo that their server for Corel.com is being migrated and this may cause some disruptions. It will happen on 24 July at 9 pm US Eastern Time and should take between 1 and 2 hours. They advise that users may experience the following: Affected products: PSP, VSP, CorelDraw, Painter… - Cannot launch the Welcome screen; limited number of users affected as we have the Welcome screen cached on Akamai. - Cannot purchase items from Welcome screen. - In-app purchase does not work or no purchase button available. - If purchase button is available, it will not bring up purchase dialog but display error, “We are unable to process your request at this time, please try again later.” So if something is not working correctly with your Home page or Welcome screen, don't panic and wait an hour or two.

I saw there were two templates, and because flowers didn't seem to fit, I chose the other one. To choose the text outline, I first selected all of the stars and rectangles, and then inverted the selection. Then, I unselected everything outside of the story page. Finally, I condensed the selection to where it looked like good spacing to me. The poem box was a pain, because putting text in it kept the text horizontal. If I rotated it, it kept the angled shape. So, I copied that rectangle, pasted it as a separate image, used the straighten tool to make it horizontal, selected the inside, cut out an approximate of where the star would be, placed the text in it, merged visible, and pasted it back into the layer it came from - of course, rotating it back where it had been. Whew!

I've decided I'm not fond of templates. It seems to take me longer to work with them than to do my own layout! Here is the first challenge.

I created this layout the first time I participated in Story Time. I will now go and try the bonus layout and see how that goes.

Thanks Sue. You're right, of course. But I realize that every new skill is difficult before it's easy. It took me some time, but your encouragement kept me going. Now, on to other things I'm terrible at....

Yeah, I know! He pulls all my "bad boy" hormones out for a refresher! It's one of the reasons I love the book series.

I know you are a woman with a grand command of words, so I know your AI creations will knock my socks off. This guy is gorgeous!

Close, but no cigar.

Well done, your persitence has paid off. I see you have mastered that technique. I bet you are now looking back and thinking what was all the frustration about. 🙂 lol

I feel the same way. I'd rather do my own work, even if it isn't dazzling the way AI can do it. But I also enjoy seeing the creations others are doing.

I'll guess, even tho I have not read all of the posts yet. 1973! My first impulse was the year I graduated, cause I know there was a stoner on every bus I was on 😉 But the photo looks a few years earlier than mine.

I threw something together for this one. Not especially good but it's got some things from high school years.

I should have also mentioned that I used Carole's banner 2 special font, which I bought. I'm hooked on creating banners at the moment, especially after watching the more recent master class on banners and pennants. Also used one of her punches, which I love. For the circle photo I used the technique I have demonstrated before. Personally, I prefer to use it on oval and circles rather than square or rectangle shapes. I did give instructions on how to create that effect, using vector shapes, to maintain clean sharp edges. As using the selction tool creates very jaggy edges on anything that isn't square or rectangle.

Here's my "School Daze" featuring the Washington Elementary School that was located directly across the street from my childhood home, which is also pictured on the lower right. Here is a photo of the school in the cass-schoolframe2. I used an old kit called SNU-BuckleMyShoe for most of the embellishments. The photo of downtown Rutherford, top left, has some cass-freebie photo corners. The fonts used are Copperplate Gothic Light and Bell MT. I used the curved photo script on the Classmates photo. Can you ID me in it?

I have taken a look on FB and you really can see the difference with the more compressed version here. I don't do much on FB and keep it just for seeing what is going on with the Campus and post there as well as here. It is a handy alternative if the campus site is down for whatever reason. It is a pity that there is smoke coming your way again. My daughter in CA told me that the wildfires are starting there too. At least we don't have many of those, although the last couple of years which were hot and dry, have made us here aware that we can get more fires too but they are so far on a much smaller scale. When visiting Yosemite this spring we drove for miles and miles along a road through the Sierra National Forest that had only blackened trees without any greenery.

I'm having to change the birds bath water several times a day. I also have 2 small solar fountains which I have in what were shallow animal mineral tubs. The birds love a shower. I even have bowls of water out for the ground squirrels, rabbits and other 4 legged mammals. The corvids are social birds, also highly intelligent. They willingly interact with others as you have witnessed. I have to clean out the horses watering bowl daily, as the birds not only use it to drink from, but as a bath. Then there are the birds that use bird baths to dispose of their young droppings. Taking attention far away from the nest. We really don't need to provide food or water for birds, we do it purely to attract them for our own enjoyment. It's a huge lucrative industry.

Here is my page for the Tut /tech challenge. I create the page a week or so ago. I added, by creating the date banner, lifting some of the pennants, also I added a ribbon, and lifted one edge. I replaced the date stamp with the banner. Head on over to the facebook page, if you want to see a much less compressed layout, to see the details and colours in the photos. I rarely edit my photos. If I find there is a need to, all I tend to do is use the brightness and contrast, and crop tools. In this case the photos weren't edited. Also, for those that may be interested, birds are like dog, they don't perspire, instead they pant like dogs. For the past fortnight the temps have been in the high thirties, again today it is 37c, and hazy, due to smoke blowing in.

I just used the basic one given as I was off to the dentist chair ... but it was vibrant and pretty and had blooms on it which I am STILL waiting on here! I'll take the digital blooms if that is all I can get! LOL

Good to see another Dan here.

I married a blonde, but Henry Cavill is my ideal man.

Good thinking Julie! I often use that technique, especially for something which has straight edges. There is always more than one alternative way of doing anything in PSP, to get the desired result.

Oh, my goodness, he is GORGEOUS! (But not my type, actually, as I go for a darker mien... 😉 )

Is this a brand new Workshop? I'm intrigued!

Me too, I'm old, so "old" fashioned is the way to go. I don't want to rely on AI as I would feel like describing art would not really be my own work or vision. Like when I was a young child and used to ask my mom to draw horses for me. That's more like an art director hiring an artist, the art director may own the work, but the artist still retains the copyright (how does an AI retain a copyright anyway 😁). Still, there is a place for AI to streamline workflow, without creating the work for us. This is just what I think for me and how I want to move forward creatively. I'm totally loving what others create with AI's and love to see what they doing with it.

Amazing what Bing can do and you certainly can give a good prompt! I think, for me personally, I will not be using this feature very much and I will doing things the "old fashioned way".

I have no photos from my first school, so I generated a Bing - Background and 2 Bing Layouts and put them together, the books are from CF, and Font is Archistico

Another beautiful layout Sue. We are experiencing the same weather and smoke. I've been changing the three bird baths every several hours today. 6 crows in the yard most of the day with cooling off in the way your explained above. And lots of bathing. The water had black bits on the bottom and I wondered if it could be ash from the smoke. It's really quite bad. My eyes are stingy. I feel so bad for the animal/bird/insect world who has to live with the smoke. Yesterday before the smoke rolled in, we had crows, magpies and pigeons all on the ground in my tiny backyard, chillin' out (at the same time). Just last week there was a young crow and magpie hanging out together and it seemed like they were playing together, picking up a stick and then dropping it, then the other one would pick up the same stick and do the same. they followed each other around for quite some time and would fly up to the same perches on the roof, the power lines. I've never seen that before.

Mary I love your dedication to the labs and tutorials. I just do them more haphazardly and when I need something for a particular layout I have in mind. Or one that takes my fancy😘

Your progress through the Labs is inspiring to see. Love these cutouts.

Love is in the Air. Pink title is Billgates with layer styles: Emboss; green title is Arial with 3D Effects: inner bevel; background paper I made from a tile I developed from a CF item that I worked with; the 2 flower items in the bottom corners are a watercolor from CF. The silhoutte I got from someplace several years ago and they are in a flower frame which was a Cassel freebie several years ago. The exploded hearts cutout was the requirement for Lab 12 Mod 9. I also did one of dolphins but haven't used it in a layout and I may practice this on some other cutouts later. Seashells didn't work so that is why the dolphins - i used layer styles on them - inner bevel.