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Day 7—The tubes are from the store. I always have trouble grabbing the correct little node created by the knife, so I go through a lot of trial and error. When I do manage, it's a great tool to have.

Okay, finally finished lesson 1. Had to back track a little to get everything.

Day 6 Well, this was fun. I, too, enjoy the vector tube script. It is a script I have used over the years, and there is always something different I learn. The text was fun, and I don't know how many times ctrl z was used. I didn't like what I got, and I undid and started again. On the 'j' I used a small grape, and around the 's' are some Easter Jellybeans. I have always loved these little colourful frog shapes, so I drew a rounded star, or a pool, then added them to the edges, I added them at their original size around the sides of the star as well. Luckily, the direction of each larger frog works well with the shape used. I have fond memories of staying with friends when I was younger, and the frogs croaked around their swimming pool, all night. I had only known tadpoles before hearing the frogs.

Lesson 7 Thank you for this workshop Carole. I had some ah-ha moments and a lot of ones I forgot. Today I learned with the ampersand that I should have cut my lines to give space for a bead when it meets the next line (wire). I had to use the eraser tool to take some of the beads away. Some I wanted to take away but it was two bead overlapping and they were on the same layer. Better planning next time. I stop in and see how Affinity works this week. It will be awhile before I have it. I enjoyed reading the forum and seeing how creative everyone is.

Day 6 enjoyed using the vector script ,thank you Carole for the free script. the frog was a font (EFON) the diamonds around it were from Janet Kemp digital scrapbooking. The font Unicorn Monogram was used for my Initial I used the rope from Carole and changed the colour, finally the flower with Caroles rope tube I made myself.

Lesson 6 Using PSP. Had a bit of fun with this Not sure how I ended up placing the text onto the frame, but it did happen. Will have to see if I can do it again. I tried to do it on one image and then copy and paste onto the frame of another image, but did have a problem. Eventually it appeared to work. I am sure that there is a much easier way to do this than I did.

Lesson 5 using PSP. As usual I still have trouble with Vector objects and text. Each workshop I think I learn a bit more, but I also forget some. It was great to learn how to do the bottom part of the logo again. I think I may actually have got it this time. I hope. I know I didn't do anything elaborate because I just wanted to follow Carole's instructions as that has helped. I am still time poor because still having doctor's appointments for my husband and trying to contend with a bad back. It least I am doing a little and watch the tutorials, which really help.

Day 7. Thank you for the workshop Carole, it is always fun to participate in the workshops. I know vectors can be daunting whilst learning. Bearing in mind they are very versatile with endless possibilities unlike rasters. In my opinion vectors are well worth the perseverance, same goes for the warp brushes. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the start of the Affinity vector workshop. After all these years in the campus, I will be a (affinity) newbie once again. These flowers really are incredibly minuscule. I had to run the script 3 times to get the effect I was looking for.

LESSON 5-1+5-2

Day 7 - I really wanted to challenge myself using the knife. My husband was a SeaBee during Vietnam so I wanted to honor them. Thankfully, Phil is still with us so I didn't use his photo. I used the poppy tubes and some corners from Carole. I made the rectangles and stripes. The firefly is from a CF dingbat font called Insects. I used my name so that I could have a lot of practice using the knife.

Day 7 followed Carole on the first one just added a paper by Jessica Dunn and added a border. I chose the letter F and added begonias to one side, hanging basket from vecteezy and not sure about the background paper.

Lesson 7:

Well - I did try the arrow - evidently I need more practice on this. 1st day.

Well done, it looks great, the more practice you do the easier it will become.

We shall learn together, whilst being amongst campus family.

Wow, that's great, Cindy! You go girl! ❤️

@Jeni SimpsonYour mug is well done. It is too bad it was giving you a hard time, but the result is great. Did you create the denim from scratch? The result is fantastic! @Jannette Nieuwboer How did you cheat if you made all those leaves? I am also curious to know why they are blurred. Did you apply some effects? @Harmony BirchI am glad you fixed your workspace problem. And your work is lovely. Practice always helps make those processes easier over time. @Sue ThomasConverting the text to character shapes allows you to have different tubes applied to individual letters. Otherwise, everything would be using the same tube all over. As usual, your work is stunning. @JacquesGreat work for Brian. You will have quite a collection of projects to share with your family (if you haven't yet)! @Susan EwartResizing your project after it is in jpg format might lose some quality but it could also prevent any issue with wrapped text. Those can be a headache if you resize a layered file. Those tubes on the edges are so much fun. I can just try to imagine the feeling of the first PSP users to use that VectorTube script. They must have been ecstatic! @Donna SilliaYou are definitely having fun with those tubes! @Gerry LandrethWell, it is good that you TRY to do the steps by memory. If it works fine, then you know you got it. If not, then you revert to the directions. Isn't that how we typically work and learn? @gwen jewittThat peacock was a perfect element to add a path along its back! Good work. @Sharon MurrayThat fairy is great. I probably would have mirrored the image so that the text would start at her hand and end in the sky. But that is just me. I love those Christmas lights. @Cindy SheetsThat is a lot to learn in one week! and you still have all those Vector lessons to come too! Good start on your shapes! Watch out for tomorrow's lesson. If you liked the lesson 6, you will LOVE lesson 7 as it will open up even more possibilities.

Day 6 - I love the vectortube script! The chain aroung my initial and the christmas lights are Carole's tubes 🙂

It's a miracle, I finally have a heart. I don't know why this one seemed so hard. In all fairness, my brain has had a work out this week. Learned a new instant pot, learned a new cooking technique (sous vide), worked on learning two things in affinity publisher and photo, and worked on figuring out a new knitting pattern.

Lesson 6 part 2 playing with fonts ( must not forget to go to the pen tool and convert it). I love ampersands and wanted to see how it work with the serif, because it's so thin. And the Ornament frame was from a font that had ornaments (their high-end word for dingbats) that came as a separate .0tf file with the original font. This is such a fun lesson.

OMG! that's hilarious. I cant wait till spring to hear the birds. If we lost all the birds people would really notice, it's eerily quiet. It's like that in the winter here. On one of the farms I was at, uppercrust rich people from the city decided it was cool to own and live on a farm. They complained to the city that horses pooped on the road in front of their driveway, on the way to the big park we could ride in. We were all like, hmmmm, this is farm country, there's going to be some poop.

lesson 4-1 and 4-2

Thank you - I see it is under the Affinity Workshop.

@Cassel mentioned using the Perspective tool when confronted with a photo that needed straightening. When my daughters took a trip to Washington, DC, they sent me this photo of an oil painting of the female "Supremes" which was taken at an odd angle. I asked for help and using the perspective tool, here is the original and the corrected result.

Such a lovely tiny flower and it makes your page! The word and tag are great! See you tomorrow at the Affinity workshop, where I'm a newbie as well!

Cassel, The cheating part is I didn't use the nodes. I had this row of leaves in stock. I don't remember from who I got them. I selected them one by one. Choose my color, Chose a pencil as well and rubbed over with the cursor.The selected parts ware colored. But what you said it blurred out. I really don't know why I got with every leave the same effect. As I choose every time another pencil. Like the chalk, and other ones. And what I told before I never had these parts of PSP used before. It was experiences. But it turned out well to my opinion. It might be you can help me further with working this way as I like it to get different effects.

Susan, I am moving a lot of my files to an external hard drive. I won't shift my graphics: 1. because I'm always adding to them; and 2. because I will use them most days. My graphics folder consists of all my graphics, fonts, photography, inspirational layouts, tutorials, my art, including colour theory, scrap kits, MyPSPfiles, and lots more. My books, dictionaries, videos, music, health, and recipes etc will go onto my EHD along with my genealogy and family history. I have a couple of 2TB EHDs to backup and copy files over.

Day 5

Lesson 6 part 1 Such a fun one that I could lose a day just trying stuff out. I learned a lot like making sure the spacing is far enough on text and that the picture tube isn't too small to lose all it's awesome detail. these are the ones below that I think don't show the detail well or the word isn't kerned enough. The leaf like object, was from a previous Vector WS as was the little shape cutout (trying to practice this more). the yellow tag is also from a prev. Vector WS. Carole's picture tubes are so detailed look so real. I'm sorry I didn't do them justice here.

It's hard to know what to shift and not shift. I just want to have a second copy (on a separate drive) of the scrapbook layouts and all my supplies, tutorials etc (can you imagine losing them and starting over again. UGH) and my photos/photography tutorials, those are the things I cant replicate again. If I lose my Excel Budget file I wont be crying about it. My hubby, who likes to play with computers, just "found" in his pile of stuff a 5TB external drive. I started to look at my files and think what could I lose and not cry too hard over and it's like I'm a file hoarder or something. Like, I haven't touched some files in over 5 yrs, but I have to have them...don't I? hahahaha. I have a lot of clean out to do. Wish I could hire someone to do it for me.

It is in the first sentence of the Practice.

Since a couple of years I have an iPhone and I take most of my photos in Heif because I shoot in max seize pixels and PSP as well as Affinity can read those, so I start at least with a high resolution. Maybe I should start using TIFF for printing, see how that works. The printed album about my trip has turned out very well and some friends commented on how "sharp" my photos looked and I used ordinary jpg files, but big ones.

Other glasses maybe ..............

Those frogs are so colorful. I remember living on horse farms and listening to the frogs at night. I like to hear the night sounds.

I hope it made sense. I too have done the .pspimage and the 600 file only as well, but kept having to open PSP and make a bigger file for people or FB. MERG is just the flattened 12x12. I used to just do that and open psp to make any other files from it. Then I just started doing the 4 files. I have an 8TB hard drive so for now it's okay. Other wise I'd just go back to the same way you do it. Hard drives do fill up fast though.

I sort of do that. Here's my files (the prefix number are just to explain this) #1 is the layered file, that I dont want to mess with so I Make a merged copy to do any copying from #2 this is the merged copy, I cant mess up my original file by accidently overwriting when I'm making copies, I've done this and lost work. #3 is the jpg of the merged full sized file that I'll upload to FB or send to friends #4 I re-open the pspimage merged file, resize to 600 and save as the jpg-600 for the forum. I used to make the smaller 600 file from the jpg and couldn't understand why my forum posted layouts were so blurry, when the big jpg and pspimage files were really sharp. So I did some testing and found it was a little sharper to make the 600 one from the pspmerged file (because it is bigger and has more information). That file I can go back to over and over again and never have to worry about messing up the original layered file. PNGs for me are great for transparency but I found they get blurry quickly if you need to enlarge. Also, for the wedding invites I tried using them, it was a blurry nightmare. I got advice from Corel who said to use a PDF because they are more stable when outputting the file. The pngs would print fine on my black and white printer but when i outsourced the printing they were super blurry. Even the png's in kits I might want to use them bigger and upsizing them is a blurry mess. the AI helps but it's still not great. It's probably just one of my many idiosyncrasies I guess.

I also love ampersands, Susan, they are quite luscious, I think. These are both quite beautiful.

Day 5 I was inspired to use this photo that my son sent me on the very day we were asked to do this lesson, he snapped it on his phone while riding his bicyle up to the village hall. The photo used for the text around a circle was from unsplash by Daniel Lincoln.

Our newest workshop will soon start. Are you in? Are you intimidated by vectors? Are you at a loss when you need to use them? The challenge will start on May 26th. This challenge will be FREE for everyone, so spread the word. This workshop will be using Affinity apps only (for PaintShop Pro users, it it was last week) Here is the link again: https://scrapbookcampus.com/workshops/vector-a Let us know when you are registered, and share what is the biggest challenge or fear you have about using Vectors.

I love the hanging basket touch. so perfect for that layout.

Cindy the workshop has the PSP video at the top and a video ffor Affinity below that. Did you, perhaps, start playing the wrong video? I see you have answered this now, Cindy.

Oops, psp video is above the affinity one.

Great images used for both, and you'll have me singing that song the rest of the day

Go into the vector workshop, day three, where the video tutorials are, under the Affinity video tutorial, you will find the screen shot I posted. There is the zip file which tells you to download.

The leaves can be downloaded directly from the email. I haven't checked, as I had already downloaded from the very first vector workshop I did.

thank you Sue, I can never tell. I need to better the lighting where my computer is, and I'm due for an eye exam. I have two ASUS pro art monitors, they are supposed to be good, but who know's I might have gotten the lemons. 😄

I'd say you did do them justice, all I had to do was to zoom in, all the details are clearly visible.

Thank you Corrie. I will try that. I do always save the pspimage full size, as well as a merged pspimage full size, then from that I resize and save as (600)jpg for the campus only. The reason I was making a separate MERG pspimage at full size was, a couple times I nearly lost everything by clicking on a jpg instead of pspimage and almost lost stuff. I cant mess up the layered psp if I'm not making jpgs from it. I"ve lost some and just today I almost lost stuff when my finger hit another button and it was all gone. thankfully I had just saved it prior and was able to recover it in the auto preserve. (stoopid fat fingers!). I like tiff because it's a bigger file and only if I was printing. the jpgs are just for the campus and FB. I learned about tiffs from some pro photographers that i like. here's what Adobe says. I have found PNG not to hold good resolution if I enlarged them too much. PS I did not bold that text below, the google AI did. I'm not yelling at you. I've compared Tiff to Jpg in photos and you lose detail in jpg in the blacks and shadows. As I tend to like darker layouts this makes a difference. I'm always surprised at how much darker the jpg is compared to the pspimage file. HOpefully soon we will have Heif and we will all rejoice. All hail the heif image file! 😅 What is the difference between TIFF and PNG files? Both PNGs and TIFFs are excellent choices for displaying complex images. But PNGs tend to be smaller in size, so are potentially better suited for websites. TIFFs, on the other hand, are often the best choice for professional use, scanning, and print options.

Day 6 - Both of the tubes are from the store. @Cassel Carol, I ran into problems with the earlier lesson because I was working from memory. I would forget a step or do it out of order. It's akin to trying to remember a recipe you haven't used in a while. There's always an ingredient you forget or a spice you didn't remember to buy.

Day 6 - I love using the Vectortube script. I used a presetshape and the offset cutout for the flower, and created the tulip some time ago and added some of Carole's seed beads.