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I'm using Affinity for these tutorials. The papers are all from Creative Fabrica and the font is Comic Sans (seems appropriate for kittens). This pic was from 2009 and Camo was the best momma cat!!

my template filled with Affinity , Kit Ilonka Designs - it had to be you - my Mom

Using Affinity Photo 2.2 - the photo is mine and the papers from a Gemini kit called Out of the Blue - the font is Mistic.

Here is the new Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo featured on My Modern Met. The designer is BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group. No papers used, just colors and textures. The font is Eras. There are several spectacular photos featured so I will continue with this theme.

Template 1 Diamond Using Serif Affinity 2.6 This photograph shows our village taken from a nearby hill with about as much snow cover as we would ever get. We are heading towards Winter down here. I left the white dots as would be snow. Kit is Jessica Dunn - Snow Place Like Home from Curio Pantry, I used 3 of her papers, the other two were recoloured, to match the papers used. Fonts are Cute Rita and Magical Feather.

There is a botanical garden and animal sanctuary near me where I took this picture of one of the Flamingos.

Day 1: 'All things Japanese’ is my theme for this workshop – the images will be downloaded or created by AI. The photo in this image is one I created with AI. The font is Iskoola Pota. The papers are from a kit by Jessica Dunn called Winter Solstice. Project completed in Affinity.

This is a photo that my sister in-law took a few years ago of Derby a town in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. i have used it before but thought to use it again for this workshop. Not toally happy with how the text ended up but it is my first go and hopefully will improve. Carole thank you for a well explained video i will have to keep practising on the text part. best wishes to everyone, Dawn.

Template 1 Using Affinity Photo 2.6 About 5 kilometres from where I live, is a farm where Muriel, the farmer's wife, started creating a garden during her pregnancy in the late 60s. The land was farmland, and Muriel wanted something to do whilst stuck at home, so she created Maple Glen, a beautiful garden, nursery, and bird sanctuary. For this template, I have used Elegant Autumn kit by Jessica Dunn and her Autumn Dew mini kit. Itsadzoke and ItsadzokeS01 by Gluk are free [PU & CU] at 1001 Fonts.

Last weekend 8 of us went to the beach (brrr) for a ladies weekend. While there we competed in a pickleball tournament.

Lesson 1 Template1b- PSP papers from Creative Fabrica and Digital Scrapbook. Font is Keshiki (CF). The dots have a very low opacity. The rectangle is a blend of a paper and a fill color. the photo is mine and a re-hash from the Magazine workshop (I'm almost done!). No time for new photos right now 😢.

Day 1 – Affinity I used papers and one element from the kit “Tastes_like_Summer” by Lynn Grieveson. I tweaked the color of the Edge Border using HSL Layer Adjustment (Hue-Saturation-Luminosity). I created the page, and only almost at the end did I notice a mistake I had made from the start. So, I decided to start from scratch since the layout was not complicated. At a certain point, I wondered if copying the layers from one document to another would be possible, as it does in PSP. I tried it, and it was even better! I copied the elements and the texts, and they were placed in the same spots I had in the first layout, rather than in the center of the page as they do in PSP. Font: Caneletter Script & Clumsy Blink

Day 1. I used Affinity Photo 2 to do this one. My friend and her husband just completed an amazing trip down to South Australia, through Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. This is one of the many art pieces that she photographed. This was taken in Cummins in South Australia. Some of the art photos that she has taken are just so beautiful.

Template 1 extra, the Facebook Header I have used another photograph from Maple Glen gardens. One time I was there, a Black Swan stomped across this bridge, angry that I had ventured too close to his mate's nest with her cygnets. Luckily, this wasn't the case when I took this photograph For this template, I have used the papers of Marisa Lerin's blog train kit for DSA February 2014, suggested by Carole, and re-coloured the scattered blobs to suit. .

Here my go at the 2nd template

I always have a difficult time deciding on photos to use and finally decided to use another rugby photo. I choose this photo since David had both feet off the ground which is normal for a fast runner. The background is grass from PSP texture effects. The lined paper is from my 2025 Build a kit. The ric rac is from Carole's script. The bokeh effect is from a Adobe brush imported into PSP. The font is an OFL font called Silverblade and has an AE gel style applied. I also remade the circle as a vector so that the edges would be smooth, converted it to a raster and used the clip to it script to make a mask. The circle frame was also a vector outline converted to a raster layer and beveled. I didn't add any shadows to the dots or the bokeh layer.

For the Template workshop week I have decided to use a recent holiday to Croatia to showpiece some of the photos whilst I was there. The background layer is a photo of mine rather than a paper. The scallop edge is a fill made from a pattern created from the pavement area of the main photo. The text panel background is a paper from Marisa Lerin's Picnic mini from Digital Scrapbook called Vellum Piece 2. I kept the grey panel underneath as it seemed to work better.. I left the bubbles from the template as they blended with the colours in the main photo. Typefaces are Impact and Ink Free. Seeing examples by others above I am a bit confused as they don't appear to be the same template that I used for PSP. ? Two questions from mine are: 1. How to align two separate text layers with each other. Objects/Align horizontally but what order do you select if this is the right method? 2. How to smooth the outline of the circular photo as it appears jagged.

Here is my day one.

Here's my version of Lesson 2 - trying to showcase the Kosovo Opera House. I dumped a few of the photo blocks and just used the circles. My text font is Elephant, journaling is Copperplate. Papers are from a jess-countryside mini.

Hello Carole, hello eevryone! Thanks for hosting this workshop, Carole. Here is my go at the 1st template, I just duplicated the circle twice and adjsuted the size a bit, but now I am thinking I want to have a second go with the template as is.

Time flies: My third grandson is already 4 months old.

Day 2 Templates

A family story

Here's all 8 of us with our 8 gold medals. It was a very cold day.

The first layout Sue did is not a template from this workshop. She stated it was from Affinity tutorials and she posted it before the workshop actually began. The non circular layouts are from templates available to Diamond members for this workshop.

I am glad to see you all. We have almost 100 registrants. Based on this thread alone, I see that we will have both PSP users and Affinity users. For those who will be using Affinity, if you find any issues with the tutorials, things that are unclear, etc., let me know. It is the first time the Affinity tutorials will be in use. @Anne Lamp Even if you don't use templates typically, you will hopefully still gather some tips along the way. @Corrie Kinkel We will be looking forward to your projects upon your return. In the meantime, you can chime in. @Sue Thomas You will see that templates can be easy to use with Affinity. @MoniqueN. Are you referring to another Affinity Bootcamp? If so, yes, I am planning one for September. @Jacques I hope we will see more photos of your grandson!!! @fiona cook There is a basic template, used in the tutorial, and another one for DIAMOND members. Did you download the extra? @Hank Sobah Did you apply a pencil effect to the photo? It looks interesting! I would suggest that you check your drop shadows. It looks like they are even all around, which would not be the case if the light source is on the top left. @Donna Sillia Did you duplicate the dots layer to get the different colors? That is an interesting idea. @Bonnie Ballentine That layout made me smile. Looking at the "Bokeh" dots that you replaced with stars and pickleballs. It is so you!!!! @Jeni Simpson Great start. Are you new to Affinity or already familiar with it? @Anja Pelzer You tweaked that layout beautifully by adding lace and a cluster. For anyone participating in this workshop, make sure you add your program version in your profile so we can help you if you ever have any issue. You can follow this tutorial to update your profile. See you tomorrow!

Pickleball is a realativly new sport...just a little over 50 years old. It is a paddle sport, similar to tennis and badminton, played on a smaller court with a plastic ball and paddles. It's a fun and social game that's easy to learn but can be fast-paced and competitive. It involves hitting the ball over a net until one side fails to return it or commits a rule infraction. Google it...it is very popular...fastest growing sport in the world...or at least, the US.

Bonnie, I am curious, what is Pickleball?

I bought Affinity photo the other day, installed it. It immediately did an update, now I have version 2.6.2. I have started to familiarize myself with it. I started with the Start here with Affinity tutorials. Here is one of my pages. I will use predominantly Affinity for this workshop, along with PSP.

Day 2: I created the photos with AI (via Freepik). The font is ‘Night in Tokyo’. The papers are from a bundle by Rachel Martin called ‘Ansel’. Project completed in Affinity.

I sure hope I can get a photo like that when I take a trip down under. A friend and I are talking about 2027 for the trip!

I do it the same lazy way you do. Drag and drop. For the whole page papers, I do have to align center and align middle to get them in place but I set up those shortcuts on the toolbar so no problem! I do drag and drop in PSP as well. It just works so much better for my scrapping process.

Hi Bina! Nice to see you!

I love the clean lines in this layout and the circles look great against it.

You asked for feed back on different versions of Affinity. I'm using 2.6.2 and I do not see the option to float window of new document in the settings interface. Maybe it was moved? And I have a question about adding the various papers into the project file. I see that you open the paper file then copy and paste into the project file. I have gotten lazy and drag them directly from the Finder window into the Affinity project. Is there a difference in the end result of doing it my lazy way? These tutorials have been really easy to follow along. Thank you for creating and sharing them.

Beautiful, I have always loved that building. I have a layout showing a new rival opera house in Kosovo.

Yes, pickleball is pretty much everywhere.

Oh, yes, I watched a video on YouTube. I had not heard of this sport before you mentioned it in these forums. Sounds like fun I see we have a pickleball association in New Zealand, probably in the North Island.

I'm not very active here at the moment, but will try to do all lessons 🙂 I haven't really looked at Affinity yet, so will use PSP 2023. Will there be an Affinity course again soon? 🙂

Here is my day 2 page. Carole, dropping photos, and papers into their layers is ever so easy, compared to in PSP. (masks) I stopped using the text wrapping tool many years ago in PSP, as editing the text within has its limitations, hence I do it manually. Applying shadows, is also a sinch and time saving. I don't use kits, what I do use, after discovering them in a masterclass are paper layouts. Otherwise I create my own papers, and elements. With practise, I can see myself replacing lots of techniques within PSP with Affinity. Which will allow me more time out in the field with my camera, and other outdoor persuits. Good to see the campus up and running again so quickly. Those gremlins, must have got overly excited at all the wonderful pages submitted. lol Sending you birthday wishes. Thank you for making us aware of Affinity, which I hadn't previously heard of. Along with the easy to follow tutorials. I have said it before , and I shall reiterate. Using the same template, every completed layout is uniquely inspiring.

using photos from my girlfriend Melanie, the kit is Meow Party by CaroleWDesigns

I didn't duplicate the dots layer. I have a bokeh brush from AE that I imported into PSP.

Thank you.

I have just signed up to the workshop too and will be using PSP only. Hoping to have the time this week to keep up. I haven't been very active using PSP recently so hopefully can get refreshed with it.

OK, I guess I'm up first with my interpretation of the sketch. It's for Easter. I used an illustration that I came across online that just caught my eye and my heart. Illustrator is Michael Sowa. It is posted on Beautiful Illustrations, a FB page. Lots of elements from my stash. At least it got me motivated enough to make a layout as sketches are meant to do.

I'm looking forward to this, and I will be using Affinity Photo.

I'm in and will work with PSP.

I am also going to give this a try and i will be using Affinity Photo.

I am in too and will use Affinity but when this workshop is taking place I'm in California with my family and I don't take my laptop with me. However I take my iPad and will be able to see the lessons and will do them when I'm back home and have overcome the jetlag. I know that as a Diamond member I can always see those lessons on a later moment but I'm just curious to follow the new lessons for Affinity and this way will motivate me to really catch up when I'm back. Of course I will have a peek here to look what you all are making and cheer you on if necessary!