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And here is Day 6. The blend mode I used for the pink paper was Passthrough. I rather like it. It's so good to learn these things that I would never have stumbled across on my own. And it's fabulous to learn about the reverse shadow. I used that a lot with PSP and now it's great to be able to do it in Affinity. As always, we learn so much with Carole's workshops.

I've just had a play with Template 5 and made the 4 photos into portrait. I am having fun with this workshop.

Day 6: Japanese theme continues with images by Hiroshige downloaded from Wikipedia. The papers are from Janet Scott’s Fresh kit.

Day 6 - On the West Australian coast about 2 hours north of Perth are The Pinnacles of Namburg National Park. It covers an area of 17,487 hectares and provides an extensive area for native animals and bird life. It is an amazing place to visit. You can drive or walk among them. All photos are mine and the papers are photos - the background photo is of a beach totally made of shells.

Day 3 is of sweetpeas I grew a few years back. I LOVE the beautiful colors and smell of sweetpeas.

Here is mine for Day 2. Since I'm working on catching up, it is faster for me to do them in PSP. I'll try to redo them in AP when I have more time. I rarely work with pics since I'm not typically an avid scrap-booker so I'm enjoying this change.

Day 4 and I have only use Affinity Photo 2.6, I would like to also sure PSP and I will if I get time. We have I daughter and her girlfriend coming to see us this week, so we have been busy preparing. So excited as it has been 8 years since she has been down here to spend time with us. The photos are more from my girlfriend's tour of the outback. So many beautiful Water Tower and Silo Art and then there is the wonderful bird life and flowers. Carolle, the Anzac Day layout on my Day 3, did go blurry when I resized. Not sure what I did wrong or how I could have done it differently.

Day 5 are memories when my husband and I would travel in our motorhome. I didn't have the kit available for me to download so I used Gina Jones kit from Pixel Scrappers "Love-birds-bundle-KIT"

Day 4 - Remembering my daughter and her babies when they were all young.

Sorry I'm late to the game. Here is Day one for me. I started in Affinity but some things didn't quite look/work the same so I switched to PSP since I'm very familiar with it. I should probably download the Affinity instructions but that would end up being pretty much my download limit for the month. So I'll have to think about that one.

Template 6 Affinity 2.6 Ashlee visited Southland with her mum at the age of 4. With the two of them coming down from Christchurch, we thought we'd show them all over the Southland province. They were fascinated by the wildlife we have down here, and how close we could come to them. The Sea Lion behind Ash is safe so long as his mate is nowhere around, so sunning themselves amongst the beach-goers is common. With the mate around, just don't come between them. I have come across Sea Lions sunning themselves on the rocks or hiding amongst the tussocks, as Ashlee did in the lower photograph. The kit is Jessica Dunn's Coastal Spring, I used her Painted Papers, and the font is Lena.

Day 5 using Affinity Photo 2.6 Just a bit more Artwork found at Cummins South Australia.

Template 6 Affinity 2.6 Ashlee and her mum travelled down from Christchurch to stay with us, and we took them to many places around Southland. Ashlee was 4 years old and would start school in a few months. She had never struck wildlife on the beach before, so it was quite unusual for her to see the huge Sea Lion stretched out close to her. I have found them sunning themselves on the rocks, or, hiding amongst the tussocks, as she is doing in the lower photograph. If they are sunning themselves, they can be quite harmless, if you get in the way of him and his mate, you'd better watch out! Kit used is Jessica Dunn's Coastal Spring, and the font is Lena.

And here is my day 7. I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Affinity. The learning has only just begun. I am looking forward to learning so much more. Thank you ever so much Carole for introducing us to Affinity. What will we ever do without you! I used the Cowslip photo as a background paper, created a date stamp. I created an outlined text for the title WILD. which is quick and easy to do. Instead of using labels or tags, I often like to use brushes. As many will know, I am not a fan of patterned papers, I find they can be a distractation from the main focus, being the photo or photos. Which to me must take presidence. I have one more week at home in the UK, before returning to the prairies. My little girls and I have sauntered through woods and fields in search of wild flowers, creating memories, which I will undoubtably cherrish and showcase.

Day 4 The paper is mine and the font is Comic Sans. These are the other 4 cats we had at the same time as Mocha and Skooter. Sadly the only 2 left are Trax and Leo. Leo is the only one that was not born to our outside ferals. After Trax, we managed to catch the rest of the ferals and they have all been spayed/neutered. The remaining outside cats are all 10 & 11 years old.

This one makes use of elemets and papers from the Marilsol-pets bundle, the font is called Cute Cat N002

Day 3 using Affinity 2.6 Font is Blackboard, Papers are Chantahlia Design and the photo is my own. Every day I feed the blackbirds sultannas we have quite a few some of them we have given names. If there is no sultannas left one of them will land on the window sill neck stretched looking through the window ( Hence the titlte feed me)

Lesson 6 A day behind and still have the last day template to look forward to. My wave design background paper is from Marisa Lerin 'the captain paper'. The shells are from Digital Scrapbooking too. My photo groups when merging down did not show the Merge Group as an option but it worked in Merge Down to include the white border mat.

Day 5 - I seem to be running a day behind. The background is my own created from a photo of my cement driveway. The lines were a bit harsh so I used a gaussian blur. I made the stitches into a vector using the selection to path script. I used vectorpaint to add the stars in the circle. The patterns were created using Adobe Elements styles.The balloon pattern is from my Build a Kit 2025. The stripes were created with the cass gradientstripes script, and the beads are from the cass Alphabead 3 script. The photos are mine. The heart was a vector preshape selected and converted to a raster. I then applied a FF effect called "Colored Squares with Photos." The striped #1 is a png number from CF. Carole, I am really enjoying using all the scripts that I downloaded on your birthday.

So Here is my day 4. I am findingworking with affinity really speeds things up.

Day two I have used affinity 2.6 for this template it is my first time of using it.All the papers used are from Chantalia designs the photos are my own which were taken last year at a pretty village in Cumbria U.K. called Grasmere. William Wordsworth is buried there in the grounds of St Oswalds Church and they made this lovely garden as a tribute to him which looks amazing when all the daffodils are out.

Day 5 Affinity Tried to make a reverse shadow for the circle and photo's but could'nt find how to. Found it! Outer shadow 🙂 Haven't applied it to my project yet.

My day 7

My day 6: My grandsons: Noah, Ludovyk and Brian The photos were taken a few hours after their respective births

Here's my Day 6 concoction. I've been waiting for my cherry tree to bloom but all I was getting was leaves. And yesterday, the flowers started to appear! Curious, I looked it up and the tree people said it's a Royal Burgundy cherry and leaves always come before the flowers. I used the Difference layer style to get the texture on the background paper which was pale blue to start. I just used star pattern fills for the elements and added brads from my stash.

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And here is my number 6, at the ripe age of 64 and disabled I qualified as a Yoga Teacher something I am very proud of. The yoga pose skeletons I wanted to look like someone had added ink stamps over the page which is why they go over the photo's. The yoga skeletons are from rachelM-yoga-skeletons from digitalscrapbook.com

Lesson 6 Many thanks for the lessons, Carole. They are really great!

Template Workshop I used the diamond template and my photos

Yes, I finally thought of checking my spam. Many emails were in there but I didn't find them all. I'm a Diamond member so I can get to the lessons. I just didn't know if all the links to supplies would be with them. I'm good now and hope to catch up.

One thing I think I've noticed with Affinity is that it doesn't seem you can save settings for effects such as DS and IB if you have favorites. I could be wrong but I am LOVING that you are doing Affinity tutorials now!!!

For this page, I used paper and elements from Lynn Grieveson's kit “Whale of a Time.” Cassel’s DateStamp#8 script was also included. Font: Canastra This is the paper I used, but I changed the Blend Mode to Difference.

Participating in the Workshops is always something I like very much. Each and Every One created unique pages that taught me something or inspired me; thank you to all who shared their work. It's much better to participate with everybody than to do it by myself. Carole, your comments are a plus, as they always highlight areas where we can improve. Thank you!

You are right, Carole. I am also watching a lot of videos on YouTube (PSE, Affinity Photo-Designer-Publisher), and I have learned a lot, but none of them cover what you do here. That's why it's so important for me to participate, especially in the Workshops with Affinity.

Thank you, Susan. Sharks and salties find enough food in QLD to avoid conflicts it seems, both prefer prey over conflict. Local fishers and Indigenous communities in North Queensland report rare sightings of shark-crocodile interactions, often describing them as brief or avoidant. For instance, a 2017 video from Queensland showed a crocodile and shark circling each other over a carcass, with neither escalating to a fight. Research is limited, but studies on bull sharks and crocodiles in similar ecosystems (e.g., Northern Territory) suggest spatial partitioning, where sharks dominate deeper waters and crocodiles control shallows. 💞

You can save settings for drop shadows. If you look in the forum here called "Let's Talk", you will see a sub-forum called "Affinity". In the sub-forum, I created a post that shows how to save your drop shadows in Affinity. They are called "Styles". There are several default styles in the program as well. I also picked up some free styles from a YouTube channel called "Affinity Revolution" that has a freebies available with a free class they offer. The class has several mini-lessons and one of them was on the use of styles.

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Thank you, Jeni! Townsville's Ross River is a major croc habitat and I have seen crocs on the beach in Townsville like right across the street from that Catholic Girls School, no kidding. I took a walk in Townsville to look at the Sister Kenny Memorial and afterwards sat in a beach cafe and saw the crocs from the deck. I was totally shocked, it was like plain day, mid day, it is not normal behavior for crocs to just take a sunbath at the beach.... like with the napkin already wrapped... lurking at you for starters.... There are sometimes media reports about tourists from Asia or Europe that fall into the Ross and then end up being killed by the crocs.... the river is liked packed with them, I find that a rather scary aspect of Townsville which apart form the croc factor is a most wonderful place!

It is barely another "software". It is way more advanced, and it is something that already exists (open-source, so it is free). I don't know how it could be integrated directly into a script (not even sure if they speak the same language), but I have used this "workaround" in the script for Embroidered Patch. That is the first time I used that process (given to me by LeviFiction). Potrace is very stable and might have other uses. The only use I know (and use) is to convert a selection to a vector path. That is something we had asked Corel multiple times, without success.

I use Font Expert, and I have thousands and thousands of fonts. It's a great program, altho it is one that you have to buy. I'm still using the 2018 version. You can just activate a font temporarily, and you can sort and search the fonts in all different ways. Including the link in case anyone is curious. https://proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/

@Cassel Thank you, Carole!. Haha, yes the text is a bit off on several occasions.... There are orphans and widows, I can see those but as you noticed I used Affinity and I might have to go back to loading the file into another app to get a handle on the way the text looks, especially around the circle, lol.💞

That would be great, Carole!

The elements were each separately filled with the silver gradient, but that dark area appears always appears unless I change the angle.

I use the Selection to Path script quite often. I believe that I found the script through one of your posts.

Angela has a YouTube channel that she has videos of her scrapping. She doesn't use Affinity Photo to scrap but uses Affinity Publisher. But it does have a lot of the same features as photo.

@fiona cook the stars are an embellishment that I found, and I just placed it between the layers. As Carole has now pointed out, I need to move the stars on top of the stitching layer though.

Great participation again today. You are all giving me a lot of "work" to do! 😉 @Jean Naumann That fishing layout is stunning: simple yet so meaningful! It might actually be worth printing and framing. I love the little stars that you put in a circle. I would just move the stitching UNDER those stars as it is not a realistic layering with the stitching on top. @Carolyn Rye It is fun to see art on water towers. It gives it a much more interesting appearance! Did you enlarge a paper for the Anzac layout? It looks like the poppies are very blurred. Or did it happen in the resizing? @Sharla All the colors match beautifully in your Tea layout. @CristinaCreating the effect for multiple surfaces in Affinity MIGHT involve masking. I'll search for it and when I have something reasonable, I will turn it into a tutorial to match the PSP one. Using Blend modes can often give such interesting results. It ends up like having completely different images/papers. @Euka I thought the paper you used under the photo seemed similar to the one used on the flower. I thing you might have stretched it. Is that right? It really looks great for pebbles! @Bee Kelly The shadows really look large on your layout. What settings did you use? @Leslie Pugs That Rhino font that you use is quite interesting! I had never seen that one before. @Sue Thomas I am not at all surprised to see such a colorful title on your layout. That is so you! @Susan Ewart Maybe I can share SOME comparisons in the Q&A as I find differences. It will take a while to get an exhaustive and fair comparison, but I can start somewhere. I am also watching a LOT of videos on YouTube, but strangely, a lot of what we do in the Campus (as far as creating from scratch) is not covered in those multiple videos, just like for PSP. I guess, what we do is typically NOT covered, even for Photoshop! @bina greeneRotating the template gives you such great space for your text! Did you use PSP or AP? I find that wrapped text is more flexible in PSP than AP. @gwen jewitt Good start with Affinity. I think you might have forgotten to add the shadow effect to the yellow scalloped paper. It is interesting how that black title "Feed me" is so appropriate with the black birds. @Harmony Birch I have to agree that using templates seems faster in Affinity, especially with the "clipping" ability. @Ann SeeberOn your Royal Burgundy layout, is it a coincidence that there is an "apparent" dark line across the two white flowers, almost perfectly aligned? @Donna Sillia I don't often hear of using the Selection to Path script. That is LeviFiction's script, right? It can be used in so many creative ways when you need a path. @Jeni Simpson You are doing really well with shadows: you know when you add a much larger shadow for much thicker elements. @Linda Rexford 10 and 11 year old for feral cats? I didn't think they lived that long "in the wild". But I guess if they get good care, that helps. @Deana Davis As Rene has mentioned, you can save Styles for Drop Shadows. There is an article HERE. For your first project, if you want the bottom element to be very thick (as it is with the bevel and the shadow), you might want to slip the photo underneath it. Keep them coming. This thread is a real gallery of masterpieces!

Thank you so much for the info. I copied it and will look into that! I appreciate the helpful tips

Wow, Bena, that is great information. I have surfer friends on the Gold Coast, and my housemates in Sydney would venture out on boards into the harbour, but I have never realised there is that line, in Australia, of all places, one doesn't cross on a board. Although I have visited Rockhampton, I'm no surfer, so I didn't notice that line. It didn't occur to me why my friends in Townsville never talked about going surfing. Nor did I know about saltwater crocs! Thank you for opening my eyes!

I was able to read this and WOW! the crocs are scary sounding. I had no idea there was ocean crocs. I had to read it all because I wondered why there was also a crocodile on the layout. The shark I understood. Do the sharks even stay away from the crocs?