Suzy

I think the pick tool --> Shear (where it just deals with one corner of a rectangle) looks better - probably because my warp brush was too small, but deciding the size without a lit of trial and error is a problem.

I'm not sure this is worth a Q&A question. I bet other people already know all this.

Hi, Cassel, I'm going through old blog posts today -- I don't always read them when the newsletter come out.

We all know there are always a couple ways to do something in PSP, but in the case of lifted shadows, I wondered why you chose the warp brush instead of the (to my mind)  easier Pick Tool* set to Shear (instead of scale where it usually is).  You don't have to decide on the size, for one thing....which I find incredibly time consuming to decide on the size.  The Pick Tool -- Shear just pulls the whole thing out of whack for you.  I know it's personal choice, but do you find the push tool works better for some reason?  Maybe the bands of color of the shadow have more noise and are therefore less banded upon printing?

"An element that is away from a surface will always cast a wider shadow than an element that is flat on that surface. That means that the lifted corner will need to be stretched outward. Since the light source is typically on the top left, we will need to stretch the shadow toward the bottom right. ***The most effective tool to use is the Warp Brush, set to the Push mode. Then, you push the shadow from the bottom right corner very slightly. Just a little push will give the necessary effect.***"

https://scrapbookcampus.com/2023/10/creating-lifted-photo-effect/

* Pick Tool - For others reading this, the pick tool is the arrow which shares the second spot with the move tool on the tool toolbar.

This book is stellar!  Such a great gift! Such a great idea!

I know you weren't addressing me, but yes, I made 3 transparent frames around an image, each 30 px wide on its own layer...is there a way to make those frames I made into an adjustment layer(s). An easy way I mean LOL!

3 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

This one is a mask saved with the frames in various opacity of white.

This is especially interesting because it looks telescopic….i think because of the lightest frame in the smaller center and the graduated widths and graduated spaces? Something surely to play around with.

Those are really neat, Sue!

I don’t actually get how you make them, but I’ll look into the adjust class you mentioned. What I’m wondering is if you could save the adjustment layers on their own, by themselves, and slip a totally different photo in there?  In lieu of a script, having a reusable file would be really swell!  Or maybe you could just color the whole photo layer, say red, and save it all as a .psp file? You’d have to use the exact same photo size, though, I bet. Hmmmm.

Mary, those are beautiful! I might try to make those, but I don't understand why you need a mask -  can you just plop them right on top? - but then again, I never did see the need for a mask.

Ooops!  I'm finding it difficult to get the days of the week because I don't watch TV much any more -- you know, when Thursdays were Seinfeld & Friends? Plus my husband and I are retired, and all the days get mushed up.

Do NOT subscribe to Katie Pertiet's newsletter!  She has a sale on Tuesday, "Template Tuesday", and the emails for it come out on MONDAY morning, subject line "Template Tuesday!"  Then she has "Thrifty Thursday", and you guessed it, the email comes out on Wednesday morning with a subject line of "Thrifty Thursday"!!

I'm lucky I can get the year right!

On 11/1/2023 at 4:08 PM, Mary Solaas said:

My mojo has escaped again and so I've been playing around,  This summer I took a snapshot of a wall covering that I thought would make a good background.  This morning I took a square of it and make it a pattern.  Then I worked on the pattern and made it an overlay and reduced the opacity to 50% and then made a copy of it and put it in my Textures file.  Then I made a paper of blue color and used effects>texture effects and this is what I came up with.

Mary,  Beautiful!

How did you line up all those lines & squares?  I do this and the lines both vertical and horizontal show distinct edges.

And then I might as well ask, what November Calendar? Where did you get it?

IMHO, The two with the green look like they came from one of those AI generator websites, so I bet it’s nothing Chitra is doing. HOWEVER PS has a thing that allows you to adjust the level of compatibility when you save. And she might have hers turned low so it’s less compatible with outside (other than photoshop)  sources, but that’s only if she needed to save it.

Wow! All these books are so awesome! (also counting the one by Mary in the travel theme thread).

Here is what I've been up to today in preparation for tomorrow's planner class.

And finally, the answers you’ e been waiting for….it is a bad way to make cards, calendars and scrapbook pages. I think they get their money from printing maybe? Not sure. Everything looks like it was from 10+ years ago, and nothing that doesn’t already come with PSP (say a square, circle, hex shape) or that people on here couldn’t make themselves, after Bootcamp, and it might take a Diamond membership, LOL

Ok, so this is sort of funny -

I *did* get it, and went through the shopping car, etc. On the download link page, I get the link, PLUS this notice:

Hi, all, I received this in my email just now from My Memories

The free copy is My Memories 8 (My Memories 9 was just introduced)

I'm kindof tempted to download it just to see.

Here are some random thoughts from me.

There should be several chapters on photographs.

one for disguising bad photos,  but  the others could be something like cropping, and getting rid of photobombing things…we were just at the Andy Griffith of Mayberry Museum in Mt Airy, NC, and the 1966 Mayberry patrol car was leaving the parking lot. I snapped some quick photos because it was leaving. The houses in the background were old, but there was one modern SUV in the photo I want to get rid of. Something lIke that.

Jannette is right - the one thing about what is going to be important in 30 years.   It’s the people. And pretty much only the people. Their names. The date (as close as possible) the location. A caption at least of what you’re looking at, but more text the better.  (More text, fewer clusters.). My kids like the text the best in their baby books. It is descriptive text on their lives from my perspective…how much they cried, what  outfit  of mine they spit up on that day. what they ate, the color of their poop, presents they had gotten, that they pulled the dog’s tail or cried when they saw a certain person….minutia, really, but they love reading about it! Still! 

a caution…..where there are so many junky elements with giant flowers bigger than the heads of the people in the photos…. Where so much junk is there itks hard to figure out where there even are any important pictures.

there could also be a chapter on genealogy. Easy Sharing is one of the most important reasons to do genealogy digitally.  The other thing is not having enough actual photos of an old great uncle, for example - but the person might know he had a yellow Lab dog and the address of his house and his occupation. Without a whole lot more, they could put together a page with a little story.
(I am STILL selling copies of a genealogy book I wrote in 2008.  personally for me, figuring out how I’m going to print and bind BEFORE doing even one LO was a Godsend.)

A chapter on embracing the decade.. maybe they have a photo with 1960s color  Cross processing?, I think that's the term. They have a choice to make. Fix it or embrace it?  And you can show them how to use period text and the sepia colors for old photos,  then how the colors change per decade or generation. Because that would be really groovy. Er, da bomb. I mean hip, baby!

Be sure to touch upon the idea of scrap every day of the week, or 365 or 52 week, or whatever, to show their actual lives and what they do and how they do it. Show pics of their bathroom sinks, kitchens, including wall paper and maybe even the inside of their refrigerator, maybe you could two pages that have 365 prompts in tiny font of everyday life?  Riding in the car…facing front, backwards, car seat?, big booster seat?, whatever.  Wouldn’t it be fun for me to have that from my youth?

Well, I have 1000s of ideas, I’m just not sure this is what you mean.
 

I'm just whining - we leave for Thanksgiving in a few hours and I'll be on the road for any Black Friday sales and I don't know what I want to buy at any store! Sweet Shoppe Designs has their biggest sale of the year on Black Friday, but other places, have smaller sales, too. Well, like the Creation Cassel store, a lot of places have only hinted at a sale.  I'm starting to worry I won't have time to actually shop since it's a family holiday.

I use Edge Magic a lot - how is Edge Magic2 different? Actually, I can't find it in the store using search. Did you pull  it? It's a tool script, right?

Oh, Rene, I wish it hadn't happened this way! Fingers crossed and heartfelt prayers winging your way! I hope you get some really good answers - along with a good outcome!

Hi, all, I'm getting confused on my scripts = If I have triangles 4, do I need Triangles 2? If I have Glitter B, do I need Glitter C?  Edge Magic, I have, but what is Edge Magic 2? There are just so many of them with multiple choices!

What are some of your go-tos?

I love the tool scripts especially - circular element, mitered corner frame, element stacker, and Whitener!  Plus guidelines which I had to be brought into kicking and screaming but now I use them ALL the TIME!  Plus those word frames (1-5) I'm still learning about.

That’s the same girl I found on Facebook, Cassel. The one still in Tasmania.

https://www.facebook.com/sharon.philpot.37

That is wonderful, Emerald! YGG!

I’ve been here a year and am still thinking about it!  

No, those are her kids. You have to log into fb, then click on “photos” to see hers. She looks fun! Lots of freckles as a youth if I had to guess.

Sharon Philpot is probably married with a new last name by now, but in case that isn’t true….try this lady.  https://www.facebook.com/sharon.philpot.37

I joined Scrapbook Campus instead of Ancestry.com, or I’d offer to look it up for you. (it being her marriage to get her new last name)

My parents were born in 1915, so they would have been trick or treat age at the very, very beginning,  but they said there was none. My mom in Chicago said nobody did it when she was a youth. She had hardly heard of it in terms of good things like candy until she had kids in the 1940s. She did say that bad teenagers would vandalize and the RC church stepped in with parties for them to keep them off the streets, but she was too young. Then C.Y.O.* Started and they had parties all the time. ….the way she segued into it, it was as if the beginnings of C.Y.O. had to do with Halloween? As of those original “Keep them off the streets on Oct 31” parties were so successful they decided to make it an official program? (Catholic Youth Organization)

My dad was in Pittsburgh, and he said it was a time for usually teenagers to vandalize anything. He intimated it was a bigger problem in terms of destruction in the rural areas. Things like burning down an entire barn, for example. At the time, he assumed they dressed up to conceal their identity. (Notice here how “they” is used….he never said he was among “them”, but I don’t think I asked him outright.).  He said it was the early 1940s before he ever heard of any door-to door children doing trick or treating, but he conceded that the late 1930s he was in college and things having to do with kids were not on his radar.

That is the extent I know about the beginnings of Trick or Treating in the US, and it’s a very small sample of the US territory, but it supports the American wizardry version. Hahaha.

I just though the Canadians would appreciate the story.

It was taken with an iPhone 15!
Yes, lots of predators here.  We can’t hear them, but often see the shadow cross over us when they swoop down and get a little (and sometimes not so little!) critter and fly off with it in their talons. The whole thing is entirely visible and sometimes the prey looks to be as large as the bird. 
We hardly have any rabbits here. I’m pretty sure they are a delicacy. 

Here is something I learned today. The term Trick or Treat originated in Canada, specifically Alberta and Saskatchewan, circa 1920s. Source: Historyfacts.com

Here ya go. In the city.

Barred Owl n my neighbor's patio yesterday late afternoon.  (I had a Hawk up in a tree on my patio last week during chipmunk time (4-6pm)  but alas, no camera.)

In both instances, my neighbor and myself, we were sitting under a patio umbrella reading on our ipads.  The owl was clacking its beak menacingly (and noisily), but the hawk was doing something with its feather which made an unusual noise, not loud, just something I couldn't place.

Big Welcome to all the new people!  Good to see you here!