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That would be great. FAIRS can take different forms depending on the part of the world so we can even learn something about how they are in your area.

I am sorry Jannette. This will surely be a difficult time for you. Take time to care for yourself, and your family. We are all here for you if you need us.

Thanks @Rene Marker. You beat me to it!

As of 2025, we will be adding tutorials for Affinity Photo, in the Campus. To help you get started, we will offer a bootcamp with basic tutorials and projects you can create. This first Affinity Bootcamp will start on January 13th. Once it starts, you can post your projects (and questions) in this thread. Remember to resize your images to about 600 pixels AND save them in jpg format, before uploading them to the gallery (check this tutorial to upload to the gallery) so it won't slow down the site when we have lots of your masterpieces. Try to follow the tutorials at least enough so that we can recognize what lesson you completed. Now, let's get ready! If you missed the registration link or if you found this thread before I announced it (some people are very observant), HERE it is. Share it around if you want. Remember that Affinity is available for Mac users so if some friends might want to jump into digital scrapbooking but could not join the Campus before because they could not get PSP to work on their computer, this is the time to invite them. Although this Bootcamp is mostly meant to help beginners, we won't exclude anyone for "excess experience". If you have previously participated in the Scrap Bootcamp (using PaintShop Pro), the projects are the same BUT the steps will be different since both programs have distinct sets of tools and commands. It will be a good way for you to compare both! The 7 tutorials will be spaced out over almost 2 weeks. This should make it easier for participants to follow without feeling stressed (it should never be stressful!).

In January, our monthly theme is FAIR. Most towns and communities will have some sort of fair, and they include rides, games, food, activities, and more. Let's find different words starting with the letters of the alphabet that would relate to anything about a fair. It can be the name of the actual fair, but it could be names of rides, food, or even actions that take place at the fair. I am sure we can find quite a few! If we we are stuck on one letter, after 24 hours, let's skip it, ok? Let's go!

It is a new month and new projects. Show off what you are working on in January be it a scrapbook page, a collage, a tutorial, or anything else you want. We are curious and want to see, learn, and get inspired. These threads are quickly becoming a fantastic source of inspiration, support, and friendship. Keep them coming! Remember to size down your image to about 600x600 pixels and save it in .jpg format before posting it (if you are creating a double page, you can resize it to 1000 pixels in width if you don't want to post the pages separately). Here are a few guidelines for everyone: when you post a project, give as much information on your sources or techniques used. It will help others who are curious and would like to do the same. if someone uses something that you like on their page, ask where they got it. Sometimes, you can go get it too and it will be better quality than trying to extract it (as it would have been resized to post in the forum anyway). if it is something that they did from scratch, ask how they did it. It would be so helpful to everyone! if you like a photo and would like to “play with it”, ALWAYS ask permission. Sometimes, there are some limitations and the person is not allowed to let others use it. Don’t get them in trouble. Usually, people are happy to say yes (if they can) when you ask politely. And if you get permission, you might get a better-quality image than the resized image anyway.

The theme for January is FAIR. Even though there might not be too many fairs in winter (for the northern hemisphere), we might still have photos or stories to share, whether we visited the fair recently, or decades ago. You should have some photos of those visits! and if not photos, you might have some stories to include along with stock photos. Remember that you can also share older layouts you already made. You don't have to create a brand new one! Let's go! Post your project in the gallery.

Have you ever created an album that tells the story of your life, one chapter at a time? For 2025, I’m inviting you to embark on a year-long creative challenge to document your personal timeline in a unique and meaningful way. We’re calling it the Timeline Album Challenge! The idea is simple: divide your life into 12 periods (the length of each depends on your age) and create one scrapbook page for each. Whether you include photos, memories, or simply words that describe those times, it’s up to you! By the end of the year, you’ll have a complete album that reflects your journey. For example, let's assume you are 72 years old (it just makes it easier to calculate): 0-6 years old: you can talk about your birth place, your first tooth, your first day of school 7-12 years old: you can remember some birthday parties, friends, places you visited 13-18 years old: those teen years! what were you doing, your first crush, your high school years 19-24 years old: maybe your dates, or wedding (if it happened in that time) 25-30 years old: maybe when you moved town, when your kids were born, when you purchased your first house And so on. You get the picture. Here’s how it works: One page every month: Start with your earliest memories or your childhood, and work your way to the present. You can also document specific milestones, achievements, challenges, etc. You can pick and choose any element to document. No pressure: Share your pages with us as you create them. There’s no strict commitment, and you can always catch up later if life gets busy. Make it yours: Add photos if you have them, or create pages without photos by focusing on stories, quotes, or embellishments that symbolize those moments in time. Include what was around you: seeing how some world events (or local ones) can relate to us can be interesting. What there a new fashion trend? What were the newest inventions? Any famous people that you might have heard of (or met) during that time period? This is your story to tell. Whether you want to focus on key milestones, favorite memories, or even everyday moments, it’s all about capturing what makes your timeline unique. Who’s ready to take on this creative timeline journey in 2025? Let’s make something amazing together! Who’s in?

All interesting ideas.

That is an interesting (and probably easier) twist on the P52 idea.

Making it through 52 weeks is quite an achievement for anyone who managed it. Whether you did or not, would there be interest in making another P52 for 2025 or would you rather have something different for that year? Maybe you had enough of one year. Or maybe you are just starting to enjoy it and want more.

I am really happy to read that the book, in itself, was useful even for someone who has access to the DIAMOND membership. Believe it or not, I always doubt myself, wondering if what I do is useful. You made my day!

Maybe the Campus gremlins are visiting you just like the Elf on the Shelf!?

That is interesting. The file generated at the time of the crashes, were not the full crashdump.

I remember that 2023 WAS very stable until the last update. I had even mentioned it to Joseph and wanted to send the crashdump so they could investigate but that is when I found out that crashdump is only generated during the beta cycle, and not once it is officially released, so that didn't help.

Now that you are getting more and more familiar and comfortable with your PSP, what other projects have you used it for? Do you have friends or relatives who ask for help? Are you making presents? Volunteer in your community? Aside from the typical scrapbooking and card making, what else do you use your skills for? Share examples that are new to us.

Moving a selection In PSP2023, if you have a selection and you want to move it, using the Right-click is wonky. Although it will move, you have no reference point as it will temporarily move the whole image, not the selection. Once you let go of the right button, it will have moved, and the image will be back to normal, but you won't be able to accurately move it like you would on previous versions. Solution: use the Edit selection, move it with the normal Move tool or Pick tool and Edit selection again.

Not necessarily. Just uninstalling it with the Windows Add/Remove programs should do enough. So you have the 25.1.0.28 version?

Yes, I find that it is not just on 2023, but the snapping is not as accurate when working with vectors.

Selecting multiple layers If you select multiple layers in the Layers palette, holding the Ctrl key, sometimes, additional layers will get selected and not just the ones you want.

Wrapped text gets unwrapped It might not always happen but once you have added wrapped text into a selection, when you edit the text afterward, it might loose its "wrapping" and go back to a straight text with no way to put it back in its shape.

We have concluded that PSP2023 will be the last version developed by Corel/Alludo. Unfortunately, it also means that the existing bugs might not be fixed. Let's make a list of the bugs you have experienced so far. As a beta-tester, I saw several reports of bugs but not all of them are consistent or affecting everyone. To start, make sure you have the latest patch for it, and the number is 25.2.0.58. If you happen to have version 25.1.0.28, you will HAVE to uninstall your PSP and reinstall it from scratch as that particular version will NOT upgrade to the correct version; it is kind of "stuck" there. Don't report bugs for that older version: they are very serious and were fixed in the upgrade. To make it easier to read and refer to, indicate, in bold, a name for the tool/effect/function, then describe the issue you are encountering. If they are actual bugs, I will leave them there. If they are just technical issues that should be troubleshoot, I will remove them from the thread into their own thread so we can address them separately.

Let's continue this new challenge. We might be the ones taking pictures but we are not the feature of our layouts, so let's change that since we ARE important and have lots to say. Every month or so, the layout will be about YOU, and a prompt will be given. If you have taken the Story Week Challenge, you will find some similarities but it won't be the same. For the December layout, tell us something about family traditions. Most families or communities would have traditions for various holidays or periods of the year. Of course, some are pretty typical like a Christmas tree for Christmas, but what about something that is less typical? That will be something that we want to read about. Something about decorations? About when something is done or how? Who does something and how is that person selected? It can be something major, or not. Little anecdotes are just as fun to read. Remember that if you want to create pages for previous prompts, those threads will stay open. There is no right or wrong order to share about YOU.

I might try to install it in the coming weeks. It came with the bundle, but I am not that much into AI. However, it might change once I try it. I'll let you know.

Do you tend to do holiday baking? Or maybe you used to but don't anymore? Do you have a favorite baking recipe? Would you care to share it? You can even make a layout with that favorite recipe! Let's chat.