Suzy

Hi, all,

 

I want to do a storyboard array of photos of people wearing masks before a daffodil show.

 

It will look -- more or less -- like this:

 

 

Below is a close up of what I have come up with, but it's boring and too big and bordering on downright ugly...but I don't want metallic titles or anything 3-D. Just some kind of flat paper/cardboard tabs with the names of the people in the photos.  I'm not sure how members will be reading this newsletter -- desktop, pads or phones, but shadows can look murky and not like shadows at all. They are also usually "banded" where you can see each row of pixels.

 

I have eight of these photos, PLUS another 30 or so of the flowers at the show, so I don't want to get into anything I can't easily replicate using a script or copy 'n paste. Oh, and we don't sew, so stitches would be so very out of place it would be laughable. I could add a staple or a thumbtack...something nice and flat and small like that.

 

 

I have used this style for another newsletter,but I want to get away from that exact style for this newsletter.

 

 

I will keep what I have if I have to, but I thought there might be some other ideas here and wanted to ask around. :))

 

Thanks,

 

Suzy

 

 

Susan, that is WONDERFUL!  Cassel should have your LO in the Lab, it is so perfect! If you put a photo that, and I think you should, even if two or three "i love you"s are covered, that leaves 3 or 4 uncovered! Plus you could size it a bit smaller and tuck it under your eyelet ribbon.

 

Congratulations!

 

Suzy

Sue and Linda - WTG!!!  That is a biggie, so congratulations!

 

Colin, Nice Job!

 

So very nice to see these, Mary!  Really I thank you a lot. I have been wasting time today on some little "paper" caption tags, and I think the answer might be in the AI section of the Instant Effects.  I'm going to try it, anyway.  I have a request in the Feedback thread, but it is awaiting approval, so this gives me something to do in the meantime. (And I love the sprinkles on your LO! LOL!)

 

Suzy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi, Rjay,

 

Welcome to the group!

 

Suzy

Such attention to detail! Well done!

 

My across the street neighbor was a Dowling (no natural children tho).  He was a phenomenal person. Played tennis until he was 90, usually every day. I would come home from work and he’d be waving to me in his tennis whites.

Frank Stewart Dowling 1895–1986

Birth 12 DEC 1895 • Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Death 22 FEB 1986 • Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA

Father Samuel Dowling

Mother Margaret Dowling

MOST excellent use of accordions…. So very clever, while also being useful.

These are all just excellent,  but I’m going to comment on them all because they all deserve it.

I must say, that is pretty darn amazing! Well done!

Hey Brian, looks great!! We are cousins! (R1B cousins!).  ?  Sorry had to edit. The split migration path of mine is different from yours.

 

 

 

 

Help!

 

I’m transitioning all my PSP stuff to PSP 2022. Sounds easy,  but I have X2, x4, 12, 14, & 18. The files are all over the joint! The folder names don’t match up. There are brushes with all the free stuff you get for buying PSP. I have no idea what pixel size. When did PSP go from 999 to 3000?

 

One of the weird things I’ve run into are 8bf files, which I have filed under “Filters”, but PSP is not picking them up.  As far as I can tell, PSP is picking NONE of them up!  I can’t tell for sure, but by the names, it seems as if they are different things…some seem to be effects, and some are definitely textures. I have 100s and 100s of these! And I’m sure they are all so very, very cool! LOL!  In reality I never downloaded ones I didn’t like, so at least these are all fairly normal, and not psycho psychedelic.

 

Can anybody help?

THX,

 

SUZY

 

 

So perfect! That Christmas poster is wonderful! Thanks for the heads up on Hitachi and the blog post. I was able to figure it out just by reading, so that’s really cool, but I haven’t done it as yet.

I had Google help, too.

r=Red Roan

 

Yes, a lot of saved time, but not as unique a final product.  That is just gorgeous!   I think the telling thing, though is that you "thoroughly enjoy creating", while I am looking for the end product, and fast.  No one is going to say to me, "Oh, did you make that yourself?" or "Oh, did you just spend 8 hours putting that one graphic together? I can really tell you worked hard on that!".

 

However, if you ever want to share the name of the font carrying the text "is like a" and "capture the good", and how you were able to add swashes as alternate characters in PSP, I am all ears.  I know Cassel has a class on fonts, but I am going to spring for a few more scripts and then join the Diamond membership (where the class on fonts and swashes is included) after PSP Bootcamp.

 

For today, I have ruined all my folders of brushes and scripts and am trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.  It is not going well.  :(   So instead of being creative, I'll spend my 8 hours trying to find all my lost and missing scripts and brushes.

 

This came in my email last Tuesday -- from a hipster photo editing software company. What's old again is new again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You all are putting me in the shade.  Sadly, I have upgraded from PSPX2 and am in mourning. I have upgraded three times prior to this, but it never "took".  I kept going back to my beloved PSPX2.  Now, to make it work, I figure I have to switch all my stuff. So here's what I'm working on, LOL! A tutorial. And it might take me til the end of June, too!  I have a lot of junk.

 

 

However I want to make some comments, and the first is about the BIRDS! Ann, we have Cedar Waxwings here, and they are dull -- more of a taupe? I'd say, and much thinner.  Your Merlin birds look like stuffed animal birds, LOL!  No, what I really wanted to comment on was the gradient. It's gorgeous, and I never  would have guessed it would look so classy.  Your plaid for the Scarlet tanager is classy, too. Veddy nice!

 

Marie Claire - Didn't you just love the Mamie Eisenhower bangs?  (And to think Jackie Kennedy was First Lady in Jan 1961  and everything to do with style changed in an instant!) I like the green lines that look handpainted on the embossing, too.

 

Colin, I really  like what you did with the dogs -- their little faces are still perfectly recognizable! That is either a fantastic program or you are really skilled.  (I just hope Picture to Painting is on my new version of PSP!)

 

Lynda, I didn't recognize that Word Frame 5 with the title that didn't match the frame!  I hadn't even thought of that!

 

And Mary, you're the one that puts me most to shame...I just buy something like a brad, or ask Carole for a script. In fact, if I had to make a circle with an arrow, I'd use her Word Frame Round script and a line of arrows I typed. The offset is nasty business.  One little number or two and it's inside the circle! LOL! I thought your little striped confetti added a lot.

 

Back to the salt mines of corralling 25 years worth of PSP brushes and presets into their new home.

 

 

 

 

Subway Art is one of my favorite scripts. https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_9&products_id=252

 

It's one of those where each outcome is a little different, depending on which fonts you have loaded into the script. Usually I just have 9 regular commercial fonts and one irregular font, but for Christmas or something I want to be special, I will load another batch.

(Cassel has given complete instructions in the readme.)

 

I can slip those exact fonts into the script when I edit, right from the list or I can make up a new list.  To switch between font lists, you just delete the # and add a # where you need it.

 

 

Here is how I typed the camera Subway Art into PSP:

 

Life is Like

A CAMERA

FOCUS

on what's important

CAPTURE

the good times

DEVELOP

from the negatives

and if things don't turn out right

JUST TAKE

another shot!

 

The script asks how far away do you want you text...I usually say 0, but it can be up to 10 px, so if you think the text is too close, it's my fault, not the script's.

 

It asks how many colors, I always say 1 (because I want to do it myself after the fact, and it's quick and easy for me to do)

 

If you want an image, just slip it in where you want it. The easiest way to split the text which is on different layers do this is with your keyboard -- use those up and down arrow keys + shift or + cntrl+shift because there is no margin for error.

 

I also usually use some texture - the ones right out of PSP -- blinds and noise, which you can see on the bike one.  This the last step.  In fact the bike one has been done a couple of time, the blue and black is the original from 2013 and the one with the high tech bike is from now. (It is a Pure Fix Commuter Bike, and I stole the pic from their website,. Mea culpa, but they offered me a HUGE photo 3500 px wide, so I took it.)

 

I do not have examples of all the ways I've used SubwayArt over the years, but if I run into them someday on my hard drive, I'm coming back to this thread because they were awfully cute (White Elephant gift tags for Christmas, Greeting Cards, Valentine's cards, also a card for college graduation present that was pretty cute, maybe a fb post or two somewhere in there.  I think the cover for a Valentine's Day Coupon Book for my husband, where the coupons were all written on the vertical.

Brian!  That's amazing, and it all goes together so well! The colors, the styles, the font -- it's just perfect! I never would have thought about weaving anything with the text.  I think you should move those examples to the new "showcase thread" https://scrapbookcampus.com/Community/forums/showroom/store-supplies/. Each element posted separately under the name of the script.  I had never even heard of Copper It!  And I wouldn't have expected the results you were able to get, and same with Brushed Metal 1.

 

Ann, it was smart to just leave the spaces open...no way you could get all that text in!  But it makes a nice frame for all that information, doesn't it? And the little Chimney Swifts at the top are inspired (educational as well as beautiful since they show the silhouette in flight). I went to the Merlin website. I'm going to get the app as soon as I find my phone. (I have a house phone, so the mobile doesn't get the respect it deserves here. For that reason (that it's not joined to my body as another appendage) I'm a little worried about accidentally leaving it out in the garden. It would be a few days before I even missed it. I think I have an alarm on it, but that only works as long as it has power...but I'm going to man up, take responsibility, and try to identify some of these bird calls. And owl calls, er, hoots.

 

Libera, Cassel meant I was invoice 24 in the store, so her 24th order (and 30th, and a few more) was to me. So, not her very first sale, buy early on.

 

That's all from me. I am on house cleaning duty this afternoon. :((

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi, again!

 

Edited to add Note: It took me so long to type this out, Cassel had posted before me!

 

I had trouble logging to respond to the comments -- I think I have it set now, but only on my big desktop computer.

 

Yes, I am an old veteran with PSP in general, my first version was JASC freeware, and all I ever did with it was open photos with about any file extension, even ones I had never heard of. The program would open anything!  So many years using it, and yet I doubt I know 1/20 of what you know, Cassel!

 

Yes! Cassel, if you would set up a main tab, we can add products and samples as we use them, or as we find them (on our hard drives).  Posters should be sure to link to the product because the store search by name will yield lots of choices.  I have examples of about one-third of the scripts in the store because, well, they're fun. and it's fun to see how far you can stretch them beyond the obvious.  As Susan already noted, you don't need any serious expertise, and in fact you don't even need to use full concentration.  I also have a lot of fonts, and I like seeing them in circles and other shapes and determine their legibility, but I really don't like setting text paths and/or working too hard, LOL!  (I am a gardener, not a computer person. It just so happens I am more of a computer person than most of my fellow daffodil gardeners!)

 

Christina, I agree - more sales, but also a heads up to users on the value of less glamorous scripts.  Some of my absolute must-have scripts are ones you might never give a second look at, so I would probably start with those.

 

I prefer this to facebook I think.

 

Suzy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi,  all,

 

I'm sort of new here -- and sort of really, really old here. :)   I use PSP and Cassel's scripts, just not for scrap booking, so I'm not around much, but I want to tell you all about her newest script, Word Frame 5!

 

I had asked her to make it for me so I could use the script as captions in some daffodil newsletters I edit. So the name of the collection would be in the frame - they would all be the same, and my newsletters would look awesome. Readers would think I'm a super star, not realizing Cassel did all the work. See?

 

The second pic was just for fun.  There are more on Facebook, but there are multiple choices in her script -- text on the side, top (as shown) and bottom, thick frame, thin frame, with a rounded corner, or not...I can't think of all the choices, but take some time to think about the font you want to use....

 

The last pic shows what we in the daffodil world consider a serious thing -- the Awards Table, yet the babyish Garden dingbat I used didn't really show what I wanted it to show -- so I will redo it and use that frame for something else because it's adorable just mot for that pic. so font choice is important!