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Lesson 6 where I want to show the beautiful irises I saw in California. I used again the diamond template because of the portret size of my photos. And again Jessica Dunn's bundle Meadow. I love that one it so versatile, especially with flowers which I love to take photos of. For the textured paper I used the blend mode pinlight and the font is Astrid.

Great watermark, Corrie! I really like the font. Yesterday, I saw an Affinity Photo tutorial from Design Bundles about creating a Watermark Brush. It was very interesting and easy. I didn't keep the brush file, but I'll go back and create something personal just for practice.

Hi, Corrie, it's great to see you back here again. 🙂 It's fascinating to observe how animals behave in nature. Typically, they run away, scared of humans, but in this case, he freezes.

About the PSP Auto-Preserve, I must say I don't use it. It's one of the features I uncheck after installing or reinstalling the program. The Autosave option meets my needs. But wow, Jacques, you are doing an excellent job researching all the differences between the programs. Great work!

I posted this in the Fingernails forum but I'm not sure anyone saw it. The photo was shot by my very first nail tech for her Instagram account. I provided the cat design. The layout is a scraplift from one of the layouts featured by Carole for the Fingernails topic. The title fonts are Algerian and Bremen. I got a kit from DS by Esperanza - Paradise Splash Bundle.

Wow Jacques, you've done a masterful job.

When I was looking for equivalence between PSP-Affinity tools, I believe that Affinity has 2 cloning tools: Clone Brush Tool Healing Brush Tool

Thank you so much Jeni.

i agree, life isn't perfect, which makes for a more interesting life, with big challenges at times, too!

Beautiful, Susan, the colours you have chosen give a certain 'mood' to your creations. I love it! I love the lifted paper, too.

Thank you, Jacques. i appreciate all your hard work.

Lesson 7 Yep I made it to the end, but this one was the hardest of all! I wanted to use these photos from my visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the biggest in the US which has a fantastic display of jelly-fish. The lesson was about changing a template with 2 photos into one with 4 photos. I think that by now I understand how to do this and in the end simply ignored it. I didn't use a kit because I have nothing that applies to an aquarium theme but I used bits and bobs from my stash with different adjustment layers, color overlays and a lot of blend modes to get something that gives me a somewhat coherent layout. The fonts are Ally handwriting and Arial. I have loved seeing all the work and ideas from everyone and I have enjoyed learning some new ways to use Affinity; a big thanks to Carole! I will certainly keep using it and already am looking forward to the coming vector workshop, but in the mean time I now am going to make a photoalbum from my trip.

Letter I I'm back to trying to keep up on color practice and was inspired by playing with very impure acrylic inks touting themselves as Primary Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The magenta has yellow in it. yeesh! And then there's me, mixing away and adding too much water as I was trying to get the same saturation...I failed, but it sure was fun overcoming the impure ink I had. All these hues were made from these three inks, and yes, even the black, known in this case as "hue black" as opposed to "true black- (which is a value on the value scale). The back light also washed out some of the hues and made Red, Magenta-Red and Magenta hard to tell apart - which is actually the case when sorting these ones in smaller increments of change. I'm adding this color bar so you can see what it should look like. The font is Wild Smith and this is a composite of two photos. I did extract the ink bottles to place in the frame, mostly to take up some space. I had wanted to do a circle but didn't have any suitable containers. I should point out that there is very few pure art media materials available (ink, paint etc), but knowing which way a color skews and how to counter balance that is most helpful. I learned from painters and polymer clay artists that if you have to add a bit of something to fix one hue, you should add it to all the hues you are working with so the palette works well together. I will invest in some high quality printer ink to play with.

I have no pets but my daughter in California has 2 dogs which I showed in day 2 of the Affinity Template Workshop. Because the family became annoyed with opening and closing the door for them my daughter installed a doggie door with a similar kind of flap as your screendoor. Their poodle is a full size poodle and just fits through that doorflap and after a day or two he understood how it worked and he uses it since them, even if the other door is open! The little one is afraid of the flap and he will go through when my daughter removes the flap, but although they live in California even there it can become uncomfortable and chilly with an open door. She researched the comments on the internet and there it was stated that a schnoodle will need a couple of years to get accustomed to such a doorflap. When I was with them I tried to learn him how to do it and with some treats I got him hesitantly to use it, but he flatly refused to come in through it and was patiently sitting outside with his little head a bit tilted and big asking eyes. I'm afraid it will not work in the near future!

This is a lovely layout, Dawn, and a very interesting technique that starts with the Star Shape Tool in Affinity. I bookmarked it and will watch it sometime later.... I’m not short on PSE and Affinity videos to watch later. 😄

Thanks Jacques thats a nice clear jpg to read and very useful, thank you for all your hard work.

Beautifully done Susan and thank you for the detailed information on how you achieved your end result.

I love it! Very creative.

Some additions and English labels for Affinity Info-04 (En).jpg

Well your wish is my command 😉. I just had to convert it to jpg, because for obvious reasons I have it as a png and a psp.image. At first I applied an emboss to it but I decided against it because now I can use it on almost any background and bevel or emboss as I think fit. All my photos are shot with my iPhone therefore I searched for a free image of one and found a font that I liked and erased some of the lines with a feathering. I didn't want something that is too overpowering or obvious.

the jpg can be enlarged (I can do it with the mouse wheel)

Template 7 - Diamond I just shot these photos last weekend, now that the dandelions are out. The Alpha, the prongs and the two clocks were from my Build A Kit 2024. The one clock is on the brown circle which I used one of my papers from that kit. The clock is a cutout which I saved and did you all know you can resize the cutout? So cool! The other two circles I tried for a couple hours to find a paper anywhere that I liked and didn't find anything suitable. I just colored them thinking I'd add a texture from PSP but ended up blending them in. I chose to cut off the rest the one circle. I use Shift D and Duplicate a lot when I'm playing around with different techniques. Especially Duplicate when I'm testing out which texture I like and I can compare. I used Shift D to duplicate the the layout when i want to test out big changes or make a version two. Which is what you see here. I used the Lifted Photo Script. The font for the quote is Banerton. the brick wall is PSP with a gradient, duplicated, free rotate 180 and sliced diagonally-deleting the unwanted 1/2 (and yes, I kept the full size duplicates and hid the layers). I didn't quite get the BG lines to hit the corners or both the edges and the blue paper. Life is like that, so I left it. ...and if you thought the "s" in changes looks far away, it is...I forgot to move it back into place. ugh!

that's a neat watermark. I'd love to see it on it's own so I can get a good look at it. I have a design I used in the past but it was drawn on the work itself physically. I must sit down and get to making one of these. Although, I'm pretty sure my layouts are training some AI somewhere, not much I can do about it. If only the AI could come and work off using my data by cleaning the toilets and washing the dishes etc. You, know, doing something really useful to us.

Gwen, I think you are correct there. Thank you. I saw the blue dot higher, and looking at your image, it looks like the lower blue dot...I missed that one.

I would say it corresponds Jacques

I think No 18 is the brush tools, the Erase brush, the Background brush, and the Flood erase tool. I wasn't able to read the tools in jpeg form, the writing was quite small, I'm afraid.

Hello, here is my latest comparison between PSP Tools and Affinity. This comparison isn't yet complete, and I'd like to request a "call for help" to first tell me if my links are OK and help me with those that aren't yet complete. The PSP sections are listed in order of appearance in the left-hand section. I've added a number (and letters in the case of submenus) to the right of "Affinity." Just to tell me, for example, that PSP tool 7a (Red Eye Tool) corresponds to 18E in Affinity. Thanks for your help. Here is the link to my file: Info-03.jpg

Lesson 5 and I really want to do this workshop one after the other, just as if I was participating at the actual dates. When finished I can go on to make a photoalbum of my trip and get it printed. Again flowers from my trip from different spots, some I took one on a walk around the neighborhood where my family lives and some from a daytrip we took. I used a bright background, very unusual for me but somehow it works. All the papers and the flowers are from DigiDewi's Kumbayakit. Instead of the swirls on the template I used 2 hexagon rows that I made some time ago and I colored them with a gradient just to give that option a try. I kept the 3 horizontal papers just solid, all the attention has to be on the photos. I didn't use a title but just the vertical paper for a list of the names of the flowers. Before I went on my trip I had a conversation with Sue T and some others about having a watermark for my work, especially if I would want to use it outside of the campus and the result is in the bottom left corner.

Thank you and it is always a joy to get the composition well at least if it goes my way ........😉

Susan thank you and it is good to be back to scrapping! The photos I showed here are just a couple of the lot I took photos of.

Thank you so much!

Beatiful work with good elements here /I must think about them to expres a walk/:)))

Love, love this, Susan. It's beautiful!

These are great, Gwen. I'm impressed.

Thank you, Jacques, and Cristina, for asking the questions and doing the research. I'm impressed!

Thanks, Jacques, that is awesome. I have saved your images.

Corrie, I am loving your pages, and the descriptions, wonderful, keep it up

Those are so neat. the ones on the right look like they are made of wood.

Template 6 Papers and elements from Digital Scrapbook (Gina Jones, Jessica Dunn, Sheila Reid and one paper that says ABM-Christmas Joy). the background paper is Creative Fabrica. I used also a pattern paper that i blended into the texture layer and added a PSP texture on top (Striation). I selected the light bulbs in the string and promoted them so i could add an outer glow to just the bulbs. Title font: Christmas Ink (CF) and I blended it into the background as if it was written with a felt pen. Journal: words of the song...oops I forgot the authors (in the layout) Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi and it's one of my most favorite Christmas songs. Photos are mine from driving around the neighbourhood. The lights on the fence I didnt have to angle the photo to match, as the fence is on a street that has a pretty steep hill and it fit perfectly.

Dawn, I enjoy a mix of watercolour, watercolour pencils, graphite, and coloured pencils. I use Polychromos and Prismacolor, which I often use along with Inktense and pastels. I have enjoyed some classes with Udemy, I used to go into town for classes, although not since finding online classes.

I know how much you wanted to make it perfect and I'm glad the bride loved it, of course she did! Knowing your creativity and eye for detail that couldn't be otherwise. It is good to have you back here with new ideas and projects!

My second attempt: The papers are mine that I used for the 2025 Bootcamp. The dog silhouettes are from Adobe Express. I made the paw print frame from a CF paw print clip art and a frame from Procreate. The font is Majestic Inline Grunge, probably from CF. I played with Styles on the font, using bevel, color overlay, 3D and outline. I love playing with styles.

I felt a weight lift off my shoulders, it was a great feeling. I learned a lot and like all things made for someone else I worried that she would be happy or not. I was happy with the result, the bride-to-be said she was too. There was a lot of steps in the build and I feel so much better that it's done. I'm getting back to the creative stuff I've been looking forward to.

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I finally broke down and downloaded the trial version of Affinity. It is only the 7 day trial, but I am pretty sure that I will invest. The papers, hearts and scatters are all mine. I'm not really happy with the font which is from my Hallmark card program, but experimented with a bevel along with the shadow.

This is my page for Project 3. As we had to use 3 photos this time, I used actual photos rather than one of my Affinity Photo creations. Up until I was 8 my dad's mum and stepfather lived near Weston-Super-Mare (which is in Somerset in the south west of England) and we spent the first 2 weeks of June there each year. I absolutely love this photo of my mum. She would have been 35 at the time and a 6 year old me thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Our last holiday there was in the summer of 1974 and it was strange going back with my husband after all this time. A lot has changed in 50 years, including the pier which had to be rebuilt after a fire in the 80's, but I had my heart set on recreating the photo my dad had taken of my lovely mum, along with our daughter who travelled up from Devon to join us for a day at the beach. I really enjoyed putting this page together as it has huge sentimental value for me. I used a couple of the scrapbooking sets I bought from Opticillusions on Etsy, Under The Sea and Under The Boardwalk, with the glitter layer, the rope and knots coming from Piixabay.

I finally have something to post for Day 5. A much younger Nano exploring her surrounds and I love her look in this photo. I saw a little tut on using the Mirror tool (it creates kaleidoscope images) - omg - I had so much fun creating images and spent so much time playing with it but I was unable to work out how to use them as a pattern to create my papers. The font is Samantha upright and the papers are from my stash. I was able to put a frame on the photo but once I did that I was unable to change the colour - I guess I should have done it on a different layer. I like how to select layers to apply a shadow to all at the same time, that is a bonus The shadow on the side Nano ended up looking like it was embossed. I need to work on the shadows (as well as everything else!). Ctrl Z sometimes doesn't work for me and I end up having to delete the layer and start again.

You are correct. The original photo actually HAS been used for an out of bound photo a long time ago in PSP but I had also separated Tyson and his ball from the original photo and saved as a png file in case I ever wanted to use that image elsewhere and voila!...this project popped up so I had a use for it. The original out of bound photo is below:

Here is my 2nd project. I did struggle with changing the colour on the text layer, mustn't have been trying hard enough!

Project 2. I really like the place tool. It saves a few steps. The critters obviously weren't there when I took the photo. They were cut out of other photos. I find it easier to get good cutouts in Affinity compared to PSP.