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That's really a cute LO, Julie, and such a cool fundraising idea! Bummer on the uncooperative weather, but ducks like rain, LOL!

Are you guys making notes on a .pdf file? How? OR are you printing them, and making notes on paper? I ask because I’m not printing out a telephone book (the size of which all of Cassel’s .pdfs combined would be) but if I can make notes on a .pdf ….edit a .pdf…without buying renting more software, I’m super interested!

And we are going to have HOMEWORK! So that means we *have* to practice what we learn!

I dunno…..we are really spoiled and it’s sort of fun having your undivided attention! ? One thing I do know, if English isn’t their first language, it is very hard to just start a post to comment or ask a question..and so much easier to read other people’s conversations, questions, etc. I have the utmost respect for Kasany, Libera, Corrie, Monique, Marie Clair, Jannette, Anja, etc. who jump in and post. We can read your posts just fine, BTW, even if they are not perfect, so go ahead and jump in if you feel like it.

Cassel! One hundred and fifty people are taking the vector class? OMG! Who are they? Where did they come from?

Party (barbecue can be something to eat, a method of cooking, or a get together or party) Libera, Happy Bastille Day! I’m sorry those Germans don’t celebrate it with you! ?

Sistahs, didn’t I hear you say? Hahaha. I didn’t even think of the last names! ??

I would do that cool cake with the M&Ms inside it! I thought that was awesome! If you use peanut M&Ms, they might be unhatched dinosaur eggs! I actually logged on here because I don’t remember reading the Thursday newsletter. Who is that from? Or the subject line? I can’t find it in new mail or in junk folder

I just did a little birthday card using Adobe Express and Unsplash (thank you all for that resource!). So how do I tell when somebody’s birthday is using Facebook? Can I just look it up? Where? How? Usually it only shows ON the day, but I need advanced warning to make sure I log in that day…I’m just not sure it’s available.

Grace, welcome to my world! Hahaha. I was just getting ready to post about Adobe Express….not sure how I got here!

Susan, that’s really interesting on the background remover removing it to a solid white color. Not useful for the bulk of our projects, except that picture of Magic’s tea party. With a white background, Ann Seeber could use the same garden background and set Magic’s pic to screen, I think, but maybe it’s multiply. One lets the background show thru white. I’m at the App Store, looking at Adobe Express, but being that shiny things capture my attention, I saw Adobe Scan + OCR in the same listing. “Oooh”, I think, “that sounds perfect!” Well guess what? I was looking for a trap because you had found one (IMHO) on that background eraser. You can do the OCR just fine, but you can’t *do* anything with it because it puts it in .jpg format - a picture of text. Might as well take a picture of it. Or .pdf format. Where you need to PAY MONTHLY for being able to manipulate the text. I’m thinking of scans I could take of text for my newsletter, but either thing, .jpg or .pdf would not be helpful since you know 99% of the time, it would be the wrong size for legibility, or too wide or narrow as a block for the amount of space. Plus I usually edit heavily because my contributors talk and talk… ooh, look how long this post it, ROTFL, !

Corrie, your busy layout is exceptional! I really love it, and I think, when time passes, you will be glad you spent that time. Sort of like forgetting about how much childbirth hurts a few months after the fact. ☺️

Holy cow! So much to talk about here! Nice job everyone. Michele, the shadow-frame really was a happy accident! Bonnie, congratulations, you really are a role model for us! I like the color one better, I think. And Donna, the gllitter and card are really nice. I especially like the fill you made on the text, isn’t that silly? With all the other stuff you did? But I am really into fills now, so that’s what stuck with me. Is Adobe Express for iPad or desktop? I think I supposedly have it on my iPad, but I do not recall ever using it or seeing it. Not the icon, not the tools…Nada. Well, you don’t have to answer, I can look it up. Adobe stock (stock market price) is ever-higher, which means their monthly models (software rental with monthly fees) are working. Which means I agree, I don’t need it for $10.00 a month.

Awesome!

Congratulations, Jannette, plus, you have to get those eyes better before the Vectors class next Monday! Stay well! Thank you Michele. I had no idea they would be that large!, so I’m surely glad you answered. I’m going to make some sort of a birthday quick pages this weekend. I’m goi g to have one ready no matter WHOSE birthday it is! (Maybe I can do some really funny ones for old highschool boyfriends!)

Very nice, Michele and Donna! I want to make some Happy Birthday Cards that fit the facebook posting template size (if that's a thing). In fact, I would rather do that instead of one of the cards in the card workshop if I knew the size (or the ratios?) I have a bunch of friends on facebook, but they come from separate and different compartments of my admittedly long life, and I could get by with one single template for 10-15 different people with no one the wiser, I think. On my desktop computer facebook, the best size is 600 wide x between 420 and 450 high. But I don't know if it's the same on an ipad and phone? Donna, yours looks square, and even a tall square, but Michele, yours is a horiz rectangle, flatter than my 600 x 415. Are yours phone size or maybe iPad (tablet) size, by any chance? Coming up in August is a dear old friend of mine who says "Don't send me belated birthday wishes. If you can't send it on the day, then don't send it at alll!" Yikes! I wouldn't mind knocking it out of the park for her. She loves Chihuahuas - those little dogs that need clothes in Indiana, LOL!

Susan, I bow down to you on this one! These are just gorgeous! (And I wouldn't get far in your game because I don't know the answers to about 3/4 of the questions! LOL! But I'd have a stylish token while not getting many answers correct! I'd just slink around with my tail between my legs. :(() 6-12 is the only Lab I didn't download, or even watch, because I knew I could never finish it, but I recently watched the game board video since you said you were working on it. NO WAY I could do it! My game board would look like a colon! The spinner is magnificent - the arrow and its material and shading are perfection! Congratulations!

In the “Vectors in Action” Master Class, at the 8:02 point, Cassel refers to an online program which will convert Jpgs to vector. She shows all the pieces and parts to an image in presets shapes like circles and squares. It sounds like she’s saying the program is called “con virtue”, but there is no such thing in my Google search. What is the name of the program, or has anybody tried to do this online for free with another program? It sounds really useful! also, at 18:58, there are two nodes at the end of the curve on the left. Cassel does something unseen to get rid of one. All she says is, “there”, and it’s gone. I’m not at my computer, but I don’t recall a “delete node” on the right click of the mouse, so how’d she get rid of it? This always happened to me when I make text paths - I always end up with two nodes at the end which makes for a wonky curve.

I’m glad you posted, Anja! I was expecting it to start this Monday, the 10th. I would have been sorely disappointed when no emails came to my inbox if I hadn’t seen your post about it starting the 17th! Now I’m all bummed out, tho. ? HOWEVER, it's possible that Jannette is talking about tomorrow’s Diamond Q &A, and Amsterdam is 6 hours ahead of NYC, so that’s 11:00 pm, at night. Consider me an honorary Dutchie! ?

Well, that *is*a gradient, Ann. (this is the post way back on the flower I posted). I think I need to learn more about using gradients, and choosing an appropriate gradient. Or maybe I don’t have the right kinds of gradients? No, I have a boatload, so that can’t be it. It must be I’m choosing the wrong kind. Or doing it wrong. Sounds too vague for a Q&A question.

Ah, thanks! I was using it on a vector line, but it wasn’t on the line, if that makes any sense. (I was using it the wrong way.)

I click the straighten took and a straight line comes up....am I just supposed to MANUALLY match my crooked line to that? This cannot be right! LOL! ?