Suzy

Sorry Rene, looks like I took so long with that post I overlapped you. I don’t think I knew you were an accountant. I have never used a spreadsheet as a spreadsheet with numbers…I have no idea how to even add columns, but my daughter is an ace at it. Tracking stuff, now that I can do, but as soon as I add pictures, it gets messed up. We all have our daffodils on a spread sheet…that is about 900 lines for me. And maybe 20 columns. But it’s ok because it’s not numbers, LOL!

Who was interested in doing a planner/journal/record of life happenings? I would have sworn it was Corrie, Marie-Claire, and another person, but I can’t find it. We showed a pic of Maria’s Lerrin’s Journal, but hers is an actual planner, with things like nap time, and field trips. (Not that we don’t have nap time and field trips here, too, ROTFL!, but we don’t schedule them.) not a planner, like “dr. Appt 11:00”, but more like what happened at the doctor’s, maybe the name of an assistant you want to remember, or a vitamin/supplement they recommended. Or if your grandkids came over, a pic, or a short blurb on what happened. Power went out. You went on a bike ride. A weekend away. You helped somebody. Just little stuff. I’m finding my perception on how long ago certain things occurred is really bad, and I’m also finding I need to know when something happened if I don’t write it down. When I had COVID, we couldn’t even remember exactly when it started! (Not that I was able to journal THAT on the day it happened, LOL!) in addition to that, there are habit trackers, where you color in a circle for drinking water, time walking, number of steps, whatever is important to you. Maybe doing Campus Labs! then there are just reference pages. All the doctors and their phone numbers + receptionist/nurse/PA names and numbers. maybe a List 10 minute tasks if you need a push, also see “pomodoro method”. A page of speech bubbles so you can record things your husband won’t remember he said, along with / / place for the date he said it! future Dinner planning/meal prep/grocery list/changes (this is reusable) Family measurements, birthdays, whatever. Quote of the week. Weekly goal, e.g. catch up with an old friend, put something up on EBay to sell. I would want to use regular home copy/print size, not 12 x 12. Maybe rectangular. Some days, no text, just a pic.

I agree, those were really cute labels!

Monique! This happened to me, too, yesterday or the day before. I freaked out because I didn’t have my Layers palette. No matter what I tried. so I redid my workspace using preferences and a saved workspace I had, and now I have to practically start over because I hadn’t kept it up and tons of bound scripts did not make it. So sad because I thought I had saved it all! And so sad because I could have saved the existing as a little back up, but I thought, “Why would I want to save this when I can’t find my layers palette?” [Answer: because you could ask Cassel for help to find it and keep all your bound scripts and other specialties”] sometimes I am such a dumb bunny!

I LOVE these!! ??Hahaha, they’re mine, but I still love them!

Rene, I can’t imagine working on a spreadsheet with more than, mmmm, 200 line items? I’m not even sure, but 1700 is absolutely out of the question! But good for you, because in genealogy, pouring through those old books and reading every entry is super time-consuming! Having it on a database is sooo very fast and helpful! I hope you’re cleared for surgery, they have figured out exactly what’s going on, and all goes well and according to plan!

I had to go back to a lesson 1 ? Part of the reason is my monitor stopped working so I can’t do anything but re-listen to the videos because I can’t get past Lesson 4 CRAP-P. I’m doing it right, but I’m using a vector from a font, no stroke, so maybe that has to do with it. I just feel like I missed the boat. On Lesson 1, At the 1:00 mark, which is the ONE minute mark, LOL you can see I didn’t get very far!, Cassel talks about a layer effect for vectors. Is there anywhere on the campus that talks more about those? In which version of PSP did they show up?

Yes, Carole, thank you so much! I have two questions yet. Why does that edit icon look like a half-eaten fish from a Tom and Jerry cartoon? What is it supposed to be? and what does that tilde (wavy line) sign mean when editing?

Me, too, Ann! (Lesson 2.) But I have enjoyed all the over-the-top projects people have done. Really inspiring! Are you on PSP 2022? I’m going to reread what the others were saying about 2022 in case I have that problem too. I also need more screen shots in my written guidebooks, which I will be adding. Then I need to figure out why my CRAP + Paste (or whatever is) it isn’t working. My shapes aren’t appearing in the drop-down list. To all the peeps who did the vector curves …you can also save those. This would be the ones you made to go on a photo. They’re easy enough to make, but if you want to keep them, you can open a folder called “vector text paths” and add them in that. Then they are ready for when/if you need them. I have some I especially like because they are barely undulating and all text looks wonderful on them, IMHO. I think you just save them as a vector .psp file and change out the text.

Meh. I wanted to make a fish instead of a coffee cup. Here's my new idea - My Pen tool options menu has a button for Pentool presets - but I have no pen tool presets (it's empty). I need a circle preset for this eye because I cannot get a round smooth curve. Shouldn't a circle only need three nodes? How do I get some pen tool presets - maybe basic shapes? or even make some, because me trying to make one is NOT working! And I tried a bunch of times, and you know I have a low threshold for things not working right the first time. ISN'T THERE A SCRIPT FOR THIS? Or some preset pen tool shapes in the store? LOL!!!

Grace, these are both exceptional layouts…I'm sorry I just saw it, though, because it was a new (and therefore unknown) thread. On the “what are you doing thread”, or workshop threads, like “quick pages”, most of us monitor them every day or so, and see all the new posts. Some of the long-time members even get email notices when new projects are posted. I’ve only been on here about a year and it’s astonishing to me how much progress members in general have made.

Cassel, are you saying that you can open an image, in this case vector image, click on anti-alias if it isn’t already checked, and it cleans up the edges a little? After the fact? And same with raster? After the fact? this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Hey, Bobby, I’m not laughing! (Well, I did laugh at the Geaux Tigers thing you posted, but not your vector results). I’m adding this passage of yours to my guidebook!

Yes, AI would be wonderful for this! As I said though, I have a feeling a spreadsheet could have 500 lines, easy. This is hard for me personally to navigate, though I know it also has a search option. plus with so many lines, the text seems too small to read sometimes. But if you ever want a soldier to help you input data, I’m your (wo)man! Maybe I should just wish for a better memory! And better eyesight!

Jackie, Corrie is a Diamond member and we get guidebooks. You have to make your own with screen shots, but it can be done, and easily, too. You simply take screen shots of Cassel’s screen as she’s showing you the tool settings in the beginning, by using “print screen”. You can trim it up in PSP, and then use MSWord or your word processor to make the guidebook. Words will be the “meat” of what she’s showing, and you type them in. When she shows something, or zooms in, you take another screen shot and paste it on a new layer in .psp. You might have 12 of them at the end of one lesson. Trim them so just the video is showing and paste in the right order into MSWord. I’ve done this plenty of times and it’s easy to do, but now that I’m old and my kids are grown up, I have more money and also bought the Diamond membership. The good part of using MS Word is that you can add all the conversation here — whatever seems helpful - cut n paste. On Cassel’s guidebooks, they’re .pdf and you have to print it and then use a pencil or pen and do any comments by hand.

@Marvin Fojtasek your leaf is very, very smooth. I think that qualifies as exceptional because I think it’s hard to do.

Corrie, I wish I had done this on Day One! (Even though I already have stacks a foot high on my desk). This is one workshop where I will eventually need to know everything that’s being taught, and there have been a lot of helpful things in this thread, too. Durn it! Do I go back, or do I shrug it off?

Rene, we are talking about general topics of what you learn in the classes, ideas, labs, workshops, masterclasses and blog posts, newsletters, and misc. here in the forums. ***Because even if we check it off, it doesn’t mean we remember it! ROTFL!!!*** That little flower video Carole made spur of the moment is a hidden gem. So, making that leaf in class 3 of the vector workshop, gets its own line item, but the heading is vector, and also leaf? Preset shape? Well, some other stuff. and then it has “where to find it again” which is “Class 3 Vector workshop”. Yay me, I got the first one! or maybe we do it the opposite way. We have “Vector Workshop” and under it all the stuff we learn in sub headings. Some of which might also go under different headings, like labels or preset shapes. I’m not sure, for right now I’m using the search engine, but it doesn’t help for newsletters and workshops. Er, I don’t think does. I just wanted a little list of my own, but I think it would be a big, long, unwieldy list truth be told. Dorothy, you *have* been a maniac! Good for you! Michele, yes, that overlay was inspired!

It would be nice to have chapter headings. I can’t think what they would be, but it would be nice, LOL! We have newsletter blurbs, very short, usually from Carole’s book. Then we have blog posts. Then we have misc posts here in the forum. Just a LOT of places to look. So vectors would be one chapter. And taking an idea from the workshops, paper patterns, elements, tags and journaling (and right here there is a problem….so many tags are also vectors!), well, if you can figure out the chapter headings, I am willing to start a Google spreadsheet we can all work on!

Cassel, on Day 3, why don‘t we just select all the nodes and make them all symmetric at once, straight off, from the very beginning? It would be quite a bit faster, and when we get to an interior node, we can change it to cusp right away. As an alternate to that, what about control Y? (As an alternate to that, can The new Corel make it easier to get to the node types? It’s too much scrolling and clicking and not user friendly!

I knew exactly what it was, Art! Do you do this curling? I have always wanted to! (But mostly I wanted to do it in the Olympics, LOL!)

All these overachievers on page 5! They quite put me to shame with their fancy work and creativity!! ?

Hey, Jen, Welcome to the group! I just logged on to say the arrow was is very difficult - for one thing, my colors went back to the heart colors, even though I changed them from red to blue. Secondly, I always, always have trouble getting the line to LET GO. STOP adding, whatever the term is. It won't stop adding segments. So my arrow looks more like a Japanese kite or an origami bird than an arrow and I have to start over. But you'd be proud Carole, I'm using those Guide Lines! I want to remind people that they can save their hearts and arrows to their presets shapes so they can use them again and again. File--> Export --> Shape or Preset Shape. If "shape" is grayed out, get rid of any raster layers, like the one on the bottom. Then steer the save to the proper folder where you stash your psp shapes. Also give it a name, one that makes sense, like your first name and then "first heart", "broken heart", "glitter heart", "bio heart", or whatever. My first name starts with an S so it's way down there, alphabetically speaking, so I use ASuzy to get it up top. (And Carole I'm sorry if I stole your thunder from a later session, but my heart is world class & I wanted to save it - I thought other people might want to save theirs, too.) Edited to add -- Monique, We are having poor air quality days here from the Canadian wildfires, and have to stay in - well, let's just say I'm not outside for any length of time. We are not forbidden to leave home or anything. I know how to do this in theory, but the very beginning gets me frustrated every time. I keep forgetting to change to the pen tool, and then my nodes never show up. Maybe this session will fix that for me.

So Sharon and Ernie are brand, brand new!? Welcome! Ernie, I feel for you. I came from x2, which was probably 20 years old? Right into 2022! Cassel had to hold my hand and the other people on here were quite nice and helpful and accommodating, so being here in the Campus has really worked well for me, and probably will for you, too. Sharon, maybe you can scrap a page about paper beads!? We like to learn about all kinds of things on here!

I use my iPad (to see the videos) and sing play along on my desktop. Then I turn and stop the iPad because I can’t go fast enough. BUT I already have a desk full of paper a foot high in most places, so printed .pdfs are out of the question. Have you ever listened to the tutorials on 2x speed? Carole sounds a little different! ? but they go nice and fast! ?