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The photos are mine taken after the Jan 5/6 snow storm. The frame is Thecass-PaintedFrames1-Sample-02.

Back to the labs. Lab 13 Mod 6. Using a dot pattern (small dot) I made a paper and several ribbons. I am using the paper for this layout. The other element to make was a rustic wood frame which I used to showcase one picture (my great grandchild who lives in West Virginia. The other pictures are from my home; however, the dog is Murphy, my daughter's dog. I used a texture on the dark blue background paper (a woven fabric weave that I had made some time ago. The font is Pristina. I made a mask for the pictures on the side to resemble a snowflake and filled in with snowflakes in a light grey color so that where they are in the mask is less opaque. Oh well.

I will give it a try. I made my template and will use it throughout, but will be changing the background color to suit the photo. This is my alarm clock. The description font is AdventureIsland Script Bold, and the Letter font is ChalkZone.

Good news for those who want to use the trial version. I just got an email from them and they will be able to extend your trial to at least 30 days (which makes more sense to try a program!) I am just waiting for the details on the process so stay tuned!

I think I am getting closer to a fix. Can you like this post?

The first thing that came into my head when I thought of the letter A: my dad's photo album. That was the easy part. The challenge was to choose the layout I would want to use for all letters of the alphabet. I think this one is generic enough to allow me colour changes and element placements to mix it up a bit. I chose B&W this time b/c of the subject. That album is a treasure, but it contains images of unnamed people (from the 1930s or so) whom I know are somehow related to me. But there are no identifiers on so many pictures. I call it "Dad's Mystery Album", and so it will remain despite my best research efforts. The threads are there to show very tenuous connections that exist.

Ja hier maar eens proberen aan me te doen. Een beetje plezier maken. Alle stof is zorgvuldig verwijderd Julie, Ok, de Appels zijn al een beetje oud. maar dan smaken ze lekkerder. En de glazen vaas komt uit het appartement van mijn man. En doet hier nu bij mij dienst als fruitbowl. En ik zie op de foto dat dan alle stof wel weggepoetst is, maar ik had het glas ook wel kunnen poetsen........... En gelijk maar een kort lesje Nederlandse taal. Bij ons heten ze ook appels alleen een klein verschil in letterring/ Wij schrijven APPEL jullie APPLE. allebei zetten we een S als MEERVOUD. De uitspraak is een klein beetje anders. Die eerste letter de A. Is bij ons een deftige A alsof er een hete aardappel in je keel dwars zit. Zoals de koningin van Engeland het uit zou spreken. Zoals de A in het Engelse Dance en veranderd nooit in een E. Het font heet BONSAI

It is confirmed! I managed to get everyone a 90-day trial. This will allow you to follow the bootcamp AND the next workshop in February with Affinity. For that, I need to forward them your contact information, and they will add a 90-day trial to download in your account. If you have already installed the 7-day trial, you would have to uninstall it, download the 90-day version, and install it. If you want/need that 90-day trial, please, drop me a message. I don't want to share anyone's contact information without your express permission.

Here is my letter A - my oldest cat Adam looking regal. Using the cass-CustomPhotoCard script and the font is Algerian. I like the effect of the mirrored image.

This is my take on Cass-MultiFramesCollage1-Sample. the pictures were taken on 2 separate trips to the Gulf Beach. the background paper is one inspired by Ann Seeber some years ago as I had never used the Wave tool before (lots of fun and I have made several wavy background papers). The font (script) is Adventure Island Script Bold. I innerbevelled it. The F, B, and the collage are from my Beach Kit.

The snowflake mask is great; so clever.

I have already told a lot about my life in the AAM series and I will combine those with the layouts for this Time Line and in the end will make a printed album. I don't want to repeat the stories that I have already told, for instance I did in the AAM a page about the city where I was born, therefore n the time line I just mention where I was born but don't elaborate on it. I will roughly use a period of 6 years but to the end it probably will be 7. In the years I was born the parent didn't know if they would have a boy or a girl and therefore the first set of baby attire were mostly white, but for my layout I choose pink and red which has been my favorite color for many years. If I was allowed to choose the color it was always red. I use a bow and sticker by Jessica Dunn, the teddy is by Angelhaze and the doll sticker is by Janet Kemp. The cup is an extraction from the photo I took today. The fonts are Algerian and Arial and I my starting point for this layout was Lab 6-07 because the sizes of my old photos fitted nicely. I had some cleaning up to do on the photos, haze removal did its work and the scratch remover too.

Woohoo! Nice to be back. Didn't realize it was fixed so posted my layout in the old forum. Well, I was able to get a layout done. I used a kit from a designer that retired over 10 years ago. After figuring out that when you drag and drop something into Affinity, you need to rasterize the layer before you can delete, it went quite smoothly. And, I love that you can add a shadow to the text layer even if it isn't rasterized.

Alright. It's supposedly fixed. Gonna post my Sandwich and Project one on this side of the forum now. Left the sandwich at bare bones...didn't garnish it like I did in the last PSP Boot Camp LOL. I have come back to edit this and will be changing the Project One Page. I had not added any shadow. Done now.

I noticed that long list. At least alphabetical would have been nicer. I havent really had a good look around. I'll be really careful only to use 1 or 2 characters from different sets for patterns on paper. But, YIKES! I could start an international incident!

No, pspimage files cannot be opened in Affinity. The only common file type would be PSD. PSP can save as .psd and open them. Affinity can export and open .psd.

This is a good idea because i'll think of a something for a letter then see something shiny and I forget. I'll have to do this for sure.

On a side note, I was catching up on emails when i happened across a FF email about supporting fonts (FF 14 - I dont have it). It linked to Google fonts. Here's a snippet of a section. I did download some other ones (free) but thought there is some interesting characters in these "Noto" fonts (it even has it's own catagory) that could be used as designs on papers. And being a vector they are scalable. This is just a tiny snippet of some really interesting looking languages. I only downloaded the Noto Music but havent tried it yet.

This is my normal. I often have to leave them for several days and come back later...or not at all. It takes me some time to warm up creatively too.

I finished project#1, and to simplify and speed up the process, I created the same layout I did for the 2019 Jul Scrap Bootcamp workshop. There are minor differences, as PSP has some features I didn't find in Affinity yet. The kit I used is from Kim Broedelet, "kb-seasideholiday". / Fonts: Bastro & Candy Round BTN.

See at the Q & A where we get to focus on the something different.

You're a good woman, Janette, to take care of the dust! Mine is lingering. Je bent een goede vrouw, Janette, om voor het stof te zorgen! De mijne blijft hangen.

Beautiful photo Jannette. I love this style and I very much love that vase. How are you doing? I'm glad to see you back to being creative and taking some needed time for yourself.

Oh, Jannette. I love this and in the picture it doesn't look like the vase needs polishing. I believe I see a banana behind the vase and 2 avacados in front. That looks like a beautiful wooden tray that they are in. The apples look good enough to eat. Such a beautiful way to use something that belonged to your husband - a beautiful reminder.

Interesting but I do hope, when you use it and I suppose you don't know what your are writing, you don't write a curse or use bad language 🤣

Good question, Suz. I was wondering about file formats for layered creations in Affinity and what about .pspimage files, can they be converted to open in Affinity? For example, I have tons of templates that are layered as .pspimage @Cassel ?

The mirrored image looks wonderful.

You have 3 different letters that could be used... B - Bead, C - Crochet, N - Necklace. I've been making a list in OneNote of ideas for each letter. Some work for different letters. By making the list I can figure out which letter will work best.

You are doing fabulous at using the Anna Aspnes style. This if fabulous

I expressed that badly I think. I meant that I'm stuck because of a mindset, not b/c of any files. The rejection of the layouts was by me, not the Campus. When I have to "force" a layout, I find I'm not very happy with it. But I'm still working on them and will post when I feel OK with them.

I remember getting that game for the kids. At the time, they were 5, 6, and 7, so they would work as a team. The youngest one had the mouse and would do the clicking (he could not read). The 6-year-old would read the instructions on the screen, and guide the youngest one. He would then tell the oldest one some keywords in the clue, and she would use the dictionary to search for that word, which would typically lead to the correct answer. I wish I had a picture of them playing NICELY together!

Wow, you created a lovely layout and I can see clearly that you were inspirate by Anna Aspnes' style which I like too! style

And here is Day 2, the table set and sandwich.

Looks great, Ann!

Here is my Layers Lesson - Table and setting. I do like these components better than the PSP version. I played with my sandwich a bit... 😉 The table decor is from an African kit.

If you don't know, it means you can probably close it for now (to save space). If you find that you need it later, you will be able to reopen it, like most palettes/panels.

I commented last night AU time, but it didn’t show so guessing it was due to the hiccup.I’ve got Affinity Photo V1, with Publisher V2. I’m hoping I can still keep up without upgrading until a good deal comes out.

I will definitely send her an email today about all the challenges you are all facing. Hopefully, she will address that early tomorrow for everyone to catch up. I think it might be because I was negotiating something they don't normally do, so they didn't really have a process in place for it. She wanted to give something that their system might not have been set up to handle seamlessly. She is the Senior Account Manager, but some things might clash with the technical setup. Who knows? Maybe they will set something easier in the future.

I have been making a list also, but just an old-fashioned one on paper. In this manner I can quickly write it down if I think of something. At the moment I have nearly all the letters covered, I'm still missing the D, R and U and it made the decision which language to use much more simple. I'll be using English and give the Dutch names in my comments; you will be surpprised to see that certain words will be almost the same in both languages. That mirrored image works a treat!

Mary that is fantastic and genealogy researchers love such documents because of the wealth of data in them!

I believe I will give this a try. You have my permission to share my email for the 90 day trial.

Oh my, he is a regal fellow, very handsome.

Some time last year they had a six-month trial offer! I can't believe I dithered on that!

Mary, this is wonderful to read. It's impressive that so many people in your family documented your lives. I will enjoy reading this forum.

Mary, this is so cool to read. I love old B&W photos too. I have all my parents and some of my grandparents photos (since I was a teenager - when I should have asked my parents about who is who and where is that in the photos). It's so amazing that you have such details about your life. Did you start to chronical your timeline early in life or later? I wonder if there is hope for me, because I have zero time to do it now, it will have to wait until retirement. I am lucky my cousin made a book (hardcover) of my mom's side of the family.

Follow your own advice... scrap a page about it without a photo. Grab some images from the internet and make that page.

I used to have a ton of games in my younger years. About ten years ago, I tossed them all because I couldn't play them anymore on my computer because of incompatibility. Still regret doing that. I used to play Commander Keen. A nice 2D platformer shooter in 6 episodes with lots of levels. Also Ultima Underworld was one of my favorites. Its a 3D D&D game where you have to use your wits and talk to the creatures living in the dungeons. Ther are of course creatures that aren't friendly which you have to fight. I used to play lots of RPG games from Sierra and other devellopers too. Think before you act... These were mostly games for DOS and Windows up to Windows 98. So they don't run on a modern computer, but there are sollutions to that. Now I use game launchers like Launchbox and GOG Galaxy At that second website, one can find a lot of 'old' games. They are of course not free, but if you happen to still have an old game, you can use that in the game launchers to play your favorite games again.

The use of that new pattern script yields a great result and I love it. Seeing this it definitively goes on my wishlist.

Well, at 90, it would divide up into 7-1/2 years. I have 2 pages in 8.5 x 11 format that I created to fit on my physical album I made for my years up to the time I married in 1957. I will post the 1st 2 pages here that I created in PSP. The balance of the years are in my physical album which I will do something with later to be part of this challenge. These 2 pages are my birth in Newark, NJ to the time we left NJ in 1942. So that covers the 1st divide!

I had to try out my new pattern script from Carole, and I love it. The flower is from Adobe Express and was in black. I locked the layer and painted it lavender. The background is a texture from Carole called cass-crystal.