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Here is my day 5 submission.

Lesson 4 I love text on a path. I should have started the path closer to the left side by the tree and made the font bigger. The font is Love Light. It doesnt have glyphs, but it sure is pretty without having to have them. Not sure if this is Creative Fabrica or a google font that came with FontBase.

Lesson 3 Yup, there's a typo 😪. And I used 2023 for text wrapping when I meant to use 2022. So of course soon as I duplicated and converted the dup to a raster the Vector turned into one single long line. So the type will stay for all eternity. These are my mutant Sunflowers that were only supposed to grow to 6-7' according to the package. they topped at about 10+ feet. That is the roofline of my garage that you see them grow past. The font, the little bee below the flairs and the bee line-graphic is from Creative Fabrica. The two flairs are from DigitalScrapbook.com and I believe they are from Jessica Dunn. the green patterned paper is also from DigitaScapbook.com. The other green paper is a gradient with a texture and a bit of noise added.

Here's my lesson 4. The text is CAC Champagne.

Day 3. I finally understood the Journaling of text. Previously I could never get it to work. I love this photo of my Grandson and my darling Bundy. It is an old one but every time I see it, I love the 2 beautiful faces.

Day 4 - More photos from Thailand. The red background was modified in FF, and I made the flowers for my calendar. The scripts are all from CF: Modecque with an added pattern, Royal Thailand and Autumn.

Day 5, text Place Star photo of starling I took last year, had fun doing this one I have never used this technique with text before.

@Cassel No, Carol, sadly I did not get to see the Northern Lights. But when I received those photos from the kids, I was just as excited for them as they were. 🙂 Lesson 2

Fuzzed out faces and Silchester title applied to my collage of images from a recent walk around Silchester Roman wall, Hampshire, England.

@Cassel I followed your recommendations and it's really better.

My lovely grandsons

It's my part of lesson1 or 2. BTW Carole, where in 2023 should I cose up COLOR of the font and show only stroke? The picture I sent has been crreater in PSP9.

@Jeni Simpson You can play with shadows to get different effects. A large shadow like you have makes the text "float" above the surface, while a smaller but less blurred shadow will give the effect of the piece laying on the surface. It all depends on the effect you want. As for compatibility, jpgs will always work in all versions. It is the .pspimage files that need to have the correct compatibility setting. @Jannette Nieuwboer NexusFont is another option. I personally don't like that it seems to need to load fonts and for me, it takes longer to use. I cross my fingers that TFT will still work for me for a while. Looking at the shadow you put on the text and the one around the project, it gives the impression that the white text is "engraved". That is an interesting effect. @Daniel Hess That is a great use of text on path. @Ann Seeber That is quite an interesting font, and with the bevel, the holes stand out! Jackie must love to see all the attention she and her animals get from your layouts! @gwen jewitt Great use of the text on path. It goes well with the theme of children playing. @Corrie Kinkel Nice Christmas card. Will you print it? @Cristina Mochetti It makes a difference when you add shadows. Don't you think? @fiona cook I think that the text in the water works well too. If you keep it in the continent, maybe you can just make it a bit larger (in a larger selection starting a bit higher)? Just a thought. @Anne Lamp Since you added some bevel on the text, you might want to add shadows to the photos to match the 3D effect. @Jacques I think that a little shadow on the title would make it stand out a bit, since it is crumbled! And while at it, maybe something on the photos too. Delightful photos! @Donna Sillia We got some milkweed plants a couple of years ago, and even though we planted them in our garden and they seem to have propagated, we have not seen a single mornarch. 😞 @Dan Greenwood Will you print this card for Christmas? @Susan Ewart It is funny how those sunflowers look like they are peeking over the garage, as if they were spying! Looking forward to your upcoming projects!

Those clouds would make a great base for making papers. Great shot. Clouds are so interesting to watch.

Stunning layout with perfect colors Mary! I really like how your fonts are dancing.

OMG! I love this. I love chickens and could watch them for hours.

Week 46 Some silver birch trees still with their autumn leaves against a slightly different sky – it was wonderful to get some blue skies as we’d had many grey days before it.

Featuring my zookeeper granddaughter, Jackie, and her snow leopards at the Nashville (TN) Zoo. I'm also posting the project from Lesson 4 in March of 2023 featuring Fog.

Daniel I recognized this great layout from the Tourist Spot challenge and it is very nice to see it again!

Lesson 5 - Our First Snow! In fact, it is still snowing as I type this. The title font is Elephant, and I used the Iceland kit.

IC, I understand. Thank you very much:)))))))))

In the Materials palette, the top swatch is the stroke and the bottom one is the fill. Click on the little square on the bottom right of the the swatch to make it transparent. Note that you can only do that when a vector tool is active (shape, text, pen).

@Jannette Nieuwboer Thanks. I wasn't thinking about the existing shadow or the sun in the original picture. Although...the statue was cut out of another photo just pasted into the middle of that one and as such I just wanted it to "stand" out from the rest. I'm going to leave it for now and try to remember in future projects.

@Daniël Hess HALLO Daniël, ik wil graag een reactie geven op je crea. Degene waar het standbeeld van de man op staat. Niet uit kritiek maar om je wat inzicht te geven. Je schaduw staat aan de verkeerde kant. Kijk goed naar het standbeeld, vooral op de mouw en de broek, de linkerkant is donkerder dan de rechter helft. Dat betekent dat de zon (die je niet ziet) van rechtsachter komt. Dan moet je de schaduw links achter plaatsen. Dit is een natuur wet. Nogmaals, Dit is géén kritiek. Je plaatje is prima werk. 👌 ook zo'n natuur wet is dat hoe lager de zon staat des te hoger je de schaduw plaatsten moet. Tijdens noen geen schaduw. Een tip is: Bepaal, waar komt hij ☀ vandaan! Groeten. Ik zie je op de campus, Ik kijk uit naar je volgende werk.

Really loved our time in that wonderful country.

I know, I'm envious but, oh so proud! J❤️ackie

Day 3 - I love monarch butterflies and took a lot of photos when I visited the Butterfly house. The background is one of my own with a gradient on the other curve. The caterpillar, pupa and milkweed are from Canva. I made the arrow fasteners from an arrow dingbat font from CF. The first letter of "The" is Butterfly Monogram from CF, and the title is called MeLove also from CF. The word milkweed is from some png letters downloaded from CF and recolored. The gold circles are from my Build a kit 2. The crown is from AI, Adobe Express.

I made the journaling bold. Here it is: Brandy, my new teen tortoiseshell rescue kitten is getting comfortable indoors, helping Mom with the laundry.

Ann I like your new kitty but the wrapped text is a little bit hard to read in the color you choose on the busy background.

Here is my Lesson 3 featuring my bratty teen kitten, Brandy. 🤪 I used materials from Marisa Lerin's kit, Teenage Life. I added the cat toy and created the mat for the title. The title font is Dingo Nursery colored with metallic gradients.

les 3. I heb een zwarte ruit genomen als vorm om de tekst in te plaatsen. I toke a black diamond as a shape for the text.

Day 4. I did these for the October Tourist Spot challenge. Used Text on Path, Reverse Contour, and adjustments in Leading, Kerning, and Offset to get the effects. Also showing the project.

I got to thinking. The photo that is my backdrop was taken close to the town of Lahaina Maui. That was the town that was totally destroyed in the big wildfire last year. While I wish we could go back to Hawaii again (we can't) I don't think I would have the heart to see the devastation from that fire.

@Cassel schrijven De tekst schaduw heb ik gewoon met PSP gedaan. De schaduw van het plaatje is met een insteekfilter GEDAAN. ik gebruik het graag. Ik Zou Niet weten hoe ZIJ het DOEN. Na gebruik van de plugin bleef mijn plaatje zoals ik het gemaakt had. Daarna gebruikte ik het tabje hoogdruk van PSP toen veranderde de achtergrond kleur in een egale veel donkerder groen. Mijn kleur was veel lichter groen met een donkerder patroontje erin. Ook uit PSP. Ik heb nu drie werkjes ingeleverd en alle drie komen ze er anders uit dan wat ik gemaakt heb. Ik vind het om te huilen. Sorry voor de vele capitole letters, dat komt door IA. Die Schijnt beter te weten wat ik schrijven wil dan ik.

That is one gorgeous sky!

Of course, Carole, I wasn't thinking. I automatically save .pspimage files to 7+, so I need to stay awake when creating in 2023. Great tip. I saved all my shadow presets in x8. It seems I will just have to copy them into 2023 when using that version. I've been chasing my tail today. We have been putting up gib in the lounge and haven't had much time to play. I'll be away on days 5 and 6 and will try to get them all done when I get home.

A great layout and so you! You do the design elements of Anna Aspnes and Katie Pertiet justice and those fit your style perfectly.

I'm not able to do the Text Workshop this time, but I enjoy seeing the output from others who are. I don't actively look for photos online, but if they happen to appear in front of me, and they touch me somehow, I grab them as a layout possibility. National Geographic is a good source, and I get plenty of emails from them (even though I don't pay for a subscription to read the articles). This one is from their Photos of the Century collection, and I just loved the face. So many of the pix they present are sad and reflect the steady decline of wildlife species and flora of the world. Since 2005, this photographer has taken pix of over 10K species to document their peril and to encourage people to be aware. I think Nat'l Geo is preaching to the converted, unfortunately. I did an extraction of the image since it had a black background and was straightforward to do (but not perfect I fear). Anna Aspnes and Katie Pertiet design elements used. Font for 'cheetah' is Stardust.

Ann, I love the fog page, the blues are colours I particularly love, and the poem is superb, the photos are so soft and misty looking. It is lovely to see the work Jackie is doing with these beautiful creatures. What a great job your granddaughter has.

For day 4 I used a card from the Mask Workshop - Extra 2b and a photo I took in Yosemite NP in may this year. When I took that photo I already thought X-mas card! 😃 It has text on a path and the 2 embellishments are from my stash. I don't think I am able to finish this workshop but that isn't a problem I have done this one before. The reason is I have a photo assignment and have to make a album out of it. The lady of our swimgroup has her 85th birthday this week and we decided to give her a surprise buffet in the cafetaria part of the pool. Everybody paid € 5 and one of the members is a cook and the pool director donated all the coffee and tea and the plates/cutlery etc. Today was the big event and I had to take all the photos, so for the next couple of days I'm busy to make an album that then will be printed and presented to her. If I was making this only for me I would take the time to finish this workshop, but now there is a little bit more pressure to hurry up. I'll have a look her what everybody is making and see you all in a while

Something that I always do to make black text darker is always select bold on the text tool bar. The other thing that I do that is actually against everything everyone says about text and drop shadows is to add a very small drop shadow to my text after I rasterize it. I use the settings: 01-01-50-05. Horizontal/Vertical offset being the 01. Opacity is 50 and Blur is 05. I only use these settings for black text but I do usually use black text anyways. I want the text readable which is also why I very rarely use a patterned background for my text. I know if I can read it, anyone can!

Thanks, Corrie. It is already black so I will change it for something bolder.

Thank you Cristina, Anne and Carole. It was the pixelated blanking out of the portraits I wanted so I will have a go for a design I wish to post. Thanks again.

Wat zijn er al veel inzendingen, helaas kan ik het niet bijhouden om iedereen te complimenteren. Maar denk niet dat ik jullie werkjes niet goed vind. 👍

Select the face using freehand, then apply Gausian Blur to it in whatever strength is sufficient for you.

@Cassel Ik werk nu met nexusfont daar moet ik nog aan wennen na jarenlang gewerkt te hebben met TFT. Daarin moeten we de fonts aan vinken die we willen gebruiken in PSP. Ik heb ze in files gegroepeerd staan net als in TFT. Dus eerst zoeken in je mappen en aanvinken, het is wat omslachtiger. Met uitzondering van wat je opgeslagen hebt op je pc. Ik had de tekst tool 'bolvormig verwringen' gebruikt op het font, maar dat verdween met het verkleinen. Wat ik erg vervelend en jammer vond, het stond veel sierlijker en leesbaarder. Ik heb het ook zonder omlijning geprobeerd, maar omdat ik de kleuren uit de foto had gebruikt viel daar ook een deel van de letters in weg. Volgende keer ga ik maar een geheel andere kleur gebruiken. Ik ga nu alles verder doen in de '18. Na de tip van Corrie gelezen te hebben. Zou het een oplossing zijn om direct op 600px te gaan werken, of voor de tekst toevoegen het werkstukje verkleinen?

Oh, I get it. I guess I never read it correctly and that the question was about the portrait photos. 😬 I learned this from Carole, and there is a 2017 blog post titled "4-ways-to-hide-a-face-with-paintshop-pro/." Since then, I have been doing this with the family and my own photos when I post here. There are other ways of doing it, but I prefer pixelated.

That backdrop for the text on the Mentor's Muse project was from the below photo, taken while we cruised rapidly through the "Red Sea" near Egypt on our way to the position from which we launched 23 Tomahawk missiles at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I did some cropping, duplicating, mirroring, and flipping along with some blending to achieve the result in the project. I guess it was "sort of" lights but actually a reflection off the waves in almost perfectly calm water as the ship sliced through it.

Day 3 I like to use two fonts at the most in any project I do, haha, there goes Day 2 I began with Billboard in bold for Chocolate, then Angora for the word Hot. Well, Angora wasn't going to work for the journalling, so I went back to Billboard, no bold for the text there. Thanks, Carole, for that hint about the text, and later versions. I didn't know that. Mind you, I'm new to 2023, using x8 or x9 for years, yet it is relevant to both those versions. I have always ensured my images work with PSP7, and the jpegs can still be saved for that version. For this page, I have used an image I took years ago of a beautiful rose, Hot Chocolate. It was only when I was looking for info on this rose, I found out it was a Kiwi who created Hot Chocolate. This particular rose bush had a family of baby birds living in a nest cradled in the fork where the branches come out from the trunk. In this composition, I have used staples from Sharon Dewi Stolp available from Digital Scrapbook. She had a lovely green paper with white daisies on it, so I used the green from her paper for the backing of the photograph, not her paper itself, which is very pretty. The beige and coral colours are in the photograph. The nest down below the flowers. Interestingly enough, others around me, at the time, did not see these birds in their nest.