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Day 7 Affinity. For some reason I forgot how to do the mask for Affinity, so I needed to go back to another day in the tutorial to remember how to do it. This has been a great Workshop. Thank you Carole.

Day 7 - PSP- My photo of my grandson, Phillip, who is now 17. I made the scattered flowers to match the tablecloth. I used a preset shape and several scripts including dimension 2 and a flower script. The fonts are Cute Dots and Groovy Dotted. The play doh dinos are from Adobe Express. The title was created in Adobe Elements with a clay style applied. One thing that I noticed after importing into PSP, the colors become dull unless you add vibrancy. "Fun" had a PSP inner bevel. I made the pattern using the scatter script because not only did I want to match the tablecloth, but also the dots were much to loud a pattern for the entire page. I created the outer frame and applied a FF clay effect.

Lesson 5 It was fun to make my own mask in AF. Photo is my own, Font Summers watering can The background is one (I think) from Pixelscrapper "ap-psApr19bt-mini-ppr-watercolor-daisy" And the elements are also from Pixelscrapper 🙂

Day 7. I had to do the text in PSP, as I failed to achieve what I wanted to do in Affinity. I highlighted the words 'are the kid sisters', only to find that the bold and italic icons weren't highlighted. I tried to do the same with Arial and other fonts like Times Roman, and I was able to change them to italic. I did try other fonts which aren't microsoft fonts, and the same thing happened. Anyone else experienced this?

I did it!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Carole, thanks for the much needed help and guidance. I could not have done it without you. I appreciate your kind and patient instructions. I could have done the shadows around the letters, but I got this far and before disaster happens, I will stop here. Grandpa Great lived a good long life. He was one of 13 kids, with a few still here. Sadly, we lost him a four months after this photo. Had he lived just 2 more months, we would have celebrated his 102 birthday. It is pretty special for Emmy to have this wonderful photo of her and her Grandpa Great.

Lesson 6 AF I set another filter (Diffuse) for the mat Font Algerian Didn't include elements etc. the project was busy enough for my liking 🙂

Wow, Carolyn, is this real? It's amazing how Max trusts Daniel to be quietly on top of his head. What a lovely moment!

And it actually came out of a strip from the flowers.

Flowers from my friend's garden. Lab 15-06 template.

Monique, they look so wrapped up in each other, they didn't even see the photograph being taken. I must admit, seeing the quote, I then noticed the couple. What a lovely statue, and quote.

Lesson 4 Liked the lesson 🙂 I consulted(?) my Affinity book how to create the gradient and ChatGPT provided me with the sentence 🙂 Font is Amazone BT Elements are from Pixelscrapper In Dutch it says:"Over the red bridge they forgot the world in each others arms"

Lesson 3 In my opinion the kaldeiscope is a bit to busy, even when you chnag the size, so I added a mat. It's ok for an excercise, but in a "real"project I won't use it much. But how easy this is in Affinity! 🙂

I had some spare time so I thought I would try doing some of the lessons in psp I have found that it takes longer to do some things in paintshop pro but I am learing so much more. Day 1 and day2

I looked on the forum and it does state that the B and I buttons are disabled in the Affinity apps for font families that don't include those styles. If you are using fonts that do have the styles, you can change them all on the same layer. You just highlite the word you want to change. I just tested it out and this is what I did. Different fonts and styles, all the same text box and same layer.

Lab 14 Mod 7 - Requirements: Paint drippings (I attached them to MLerin paint palette- red, yellow, blue) on the layout. The enamel element (the flowers which I will show separately). The photos were taken by my son Joseph of his wife giving a painting lesson to the children at the RV Park in Indiana where they are spending the summer. The background paper, Word Circle Frame around Laurie and the painting supply elements are from Merissa.Lerrin (PixelScrapper) the School of Art Kit. The font used in the layout is AdventureIslandScript.

Het boek is in het Nederlands. Werken met Affinity suite van Mark van Heck en Marloes Otten UItgever van Duuren Media 🙂

Monique will you be so nice to tell the title of your Affinity book, is it in English or in Dutch?

Here is my day 7. The font is Brahn Mufun

And what a nice, realistic plaid it is, too!

Flowers and Bunny from my photos cropped using a preset shape (cass Gem cushion) (Frame cass-ColoredPetals-SquareFrame . The butterflies were one of the dingbats recolored.

Linda thank you, I was planning to do a search into this, but was instead following the start of the NATO Summit on the telly. That important summit is held today and tomorrow in my country the Netherlands and all the news agencies are covering this.

I still think there must be a solution hidden somewhere, that we haven't found yet. There is so much more to learn before I can say I feel comfortable with this program. When I think back to when I started with PSP I so often felt the same. And look where I'm now.

Here is my first attempt at this challenge. I haven't used my DSLR is some time and this is the first time using a Light Box. I could use my practice with both. I ended up using the camera on my phone.

Sue that is happening to me too, also for italic and bold. If you happen to have a font family then you can choose regular, bold, italic, bold/italic etc. But you have to use each on a separate text layer.

Dank je, ik was on line boeken aan het zoeken en dan krijg je maar een heel korte beschrijving te zien. Ik ga eens kijken of ze dit boek bij ons gewoon in de boekwinkel hebben, waardoor je er even doorheen kan bladeren.

@Cassel I used two different brushes same size and same scale. One brush was a basic round brush as in the lesson and was on the bottom layer. The second brush was a round flair brush and was on the top layer. The bottom layer was green and the top layer yellow. I played with the blend modes to see if I by chance could get something interesting and with the Divide blendmode it resulted in a white layer with mostly blue dots and some greenish ones that due to the flair looks in this reduced version as if the dots are a bit mismatched. On a larger scale you see the flairs.

Day 7 PSP I made it, and it was fun. This is Daniel with one of his friends.

This is spring time and I am suggesting to you, a set of THREE fonts: a large uppercase font, a small cursive font, and a spring-related dingbat! Yes, you get all three at the same place. Of course, you can use them separately but they go very well together. You can get these free fonts HERE. What will you write?

Day 7 - Affinity - I used the dots and added some of the elements from my PSP image. Instead of importing my mask from PSP, I made the scallops using Carole's tutorial on making scallops. The script in PSP is much easier. I the Affinity image better because of the limited amount of my scattered elements. I also decreased the opacity of the dots.

For those fonts which are not part of a family, you still can not italic or bold them. Which limits the use of so many fonts. Which I have found frustrating. I did work out that I couldn't change the font of a few words within a sentence. Without creating them on a new layer, then arranging them, to make sense. That is the only drawback, I have encountered in Affinity.

Yes Dawn I downloaded them all and I love them. With the variety it will give a different result for as many masks as I want to create for a long time. So again thank you for sharing and best wishes to you, Corrie

Jeni, I really like the layout, especially how the background blends with this beautiful photo. I believe the Linoleum Effect has great potential, particularly with the right color choices. I rarely use busy patterns because I’m not sure how to incorporate them effectively, and when I do, I usually don't like the result. However, I enjoy seeing how others utilize them.

Day 6 Affinity. This workshop has been so good. I have used both PSP and Affinity and loved them both. I think I may have done the background a little too red in Affinity so that is something that I will work on with other projects.

Day 7 PSP My cat, Abby, was quite the intrepid traveller. Subsequently, she slept a lot; she would sleep anywhere. I believe cats will sleep 20 out of 24 hours, when allowed. My girl wandered across the Rainbow Bridge a few years ago, at age 19, so she lived a long and varied life. There were two of them, originally, although Jessie was only 9 months old when she was run over by a car. They were a delight together, played constantly, ran around, and climbed trees together.

Lesson 6 Diamond extra This template comes with 4 photo squares as well but I chose not to use them. I also shadowed the mask (after duplicating, hiding the orig, then rasterizing the duplicate) to be as if I dropped my photo onto hard frozen ground and it shattered. The alpha is from one of the Build a Kits that I did. The photo is mine that I used for a Christmas card one year (2017 I think). I love the lino effect. Mine as you see doesn't look like lino at all. I only repeated the Control-Y part 2-3 times on the effect, then I duplicated that layer (after resizing and pasting into the layout) and did the plaid effect which gave a bit of a stone look to it (No typical plaid lines, but a neat looking result). Then I added a PSP texture effect (textures, Asphalt at size 504 and depth of 5) to get a stone look to it. the lino technique is a great jumping off point to make a textured paper, especially if the lino paper isn't the result I am looking for.

This made me smile. What a zest for life James has, and a good sense of humor

I wonder if they call us "human brain". In the song "I'm like a bird" (Nellie Furtado) the lyrics are: "I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away I don't know where my soul is (soul is) I don't know where my home is And baby, all I need for you to know is" It really bugs me because a bird knows exactly where it's home is, even migrating 1000's of miles. Whereas, my human brains sometimes gets lost on the 8 minute drive home from work! Birds are awesome!

whew! I finally finished the last lesson. Loved the Polka Dot paper tutorial. Thank you Carole for your help and patience. I refreshed my PSP skills but discovered I have a lot to learn. I need to practice, practice, practice. Here's Lesson 7 layout.

I am working my way through the workshop. While I am not completing spreads, I am learning the skills. I loved learning how to do the matching plaid.

The layout looks beautiful, Connie, and I really loved the colors of the linoleum paper.

Day 6: Created in Affinity. Once again I enjoyed making the mask but not so much the paper – only because I couldn’t get it like I wanted.

I have them also. They love the Oriole's jelly. They sit and "meow" at the cats! They are quite the mimics. I found an old photo...