Mary Solaas

Had fun with this one. My daughter and I have enjoyed our trip. This year we went to Chattanooga, TN. This is a picture of a rest stop on the way there. All the papers are my own; the frame is a polarized version of the freebie Cass so generously gave us of tickets - this one for fall. The watercolor cluster in the lower right hand corner is a freebie from Creative Fabrica. The background layer I played with using various layers and blend modes with the paint brush over a picture of vibrant fall leaves, and then twirling the result. Lots of fun.

Lab 10 Mod 1: crochet lace pattern, clock face numbers and hands. Nice Ping for Cinderella, staircase and shoe; the coach is from Pixaby. The title font is Storybook which was a freebie with this module. I forgot what the journal font is.

And now I have to comment on all the wonderful postings here. Everyone has been working and looking good with what they are posting.

Susan, that is really cool with your Lab 6 posting. I could never get that gloss on my puffy paint, but finally accepted what I had done. Yours looks quite good. Maybe my letters weren't thin enough to be able to show the gloss. Like the picture too. I also love photographing the moon.

Jannette - love your Autumn.

Shirley - wonderful - - I also like the moon.

I'm on vacation in Chattanooga, TN with my daughter and yesterday I took a "zillion" pictures. We looked at them last night (we had gone to the Aquarium yesterday) and decided what ones were good enough to post on FB for friends and family. Knew I needed to work on them in PSP. So this morning I did some work on them. One I have to show you although it is not of the Aquarium, but a picture taken from the windows on the top level. This is of the only drawbridge here. I will how you the before and after. I had never really worked with the Adjustment Layers before and had ever even tried the "Tone Mapping". But, WOW, what a pop of color. I used it on this picture as well as a few others with just slight adjustments. Here are the results.

You all are so inspiring that I just had to try my hand at this. Explained in the What are you working on forum that I had trouble at first with it, but I got an answer from Carole and I muddled through to finish up with this.

I may have solved my problem. Let you know later. I've got an appointment now!

Well, Carole told me where to look for the smooth.

This is my result.

Corrie Kinkel - thank you.

 

I have a problem with the Create a Watercolor Effect with PSP. Every time I start to brush over the picture, my PSP dies...immediately when I start brushing. Anyone else have that problem? I know several of you have shown what you have done with the watercolor brushes - I'm at a complete loss. I've restarted the computer. I have cleaned out the temporary files, etc. with my Dell tools. I have closed out everything except PSP2022 Ultimate and the file I'm working on. ALSO. What in the world is the "Edge Preserving Smooth" effect and where is it????

Susan that is real cool. I read the tutorial and downloaded it. I do have some watercolor brushes that I got as freebies from Creative Fabrica sometime ago. Might try them out on a photo before I leave on my September travels. Like what you do. This photo reminds me of when my husband and I used to go fishing.

Neat, Jannette, its making me hungry!

 

L is for my favorite book(s) - Lord of the Rings.  There is so much in them - Tolkein was a really great writer - there is a lot of "meat" in these books.  The papers and the large letter L are mine.  The pictures are from various web sites.  The ring is from Nice Png; the button next to the L was developed from a picture on the web.  The font is Old English.  M is the next letter and is in the middle of the alphabet - it will also be in the middle of my album and it will be at least a double page - M is for Memphis - the town I have lived in most of my life.

 

The journaling on Lord of the Rings is really a very MINIMAL telling of the story.  Peter Jackson also did a minimal telling of the story even though he did a wonderful job in 3 movies.  My MINIMAL telling of the story tells base bones and misses a few bones. OH-OH - left out that there were 2 hobbits left after Frodo and Samwise took off. So they had to be added. They are in the 2nd LO.

Well, Suzy - yes you are right! this is the one I did above, but I did do rotating mirror and set it to 90 degrees. I compared it to the one I had done before and there is a definite difference - a finishing touch. Thanks.

OK - did it Rene's way and this is what I came up.

I tried it the way Rene did.

I couldn't find the same choices under rotating mirror that Pirkko has shown - I think it is from another package. I worked it out using the method described above about reducing the first 45 angle of the striped paper and then putting it in the upper right quadrant of a new paper and then duplicating it and putting the duplicates mirrored or flipped in the other 3 quadrants. I came up with 2 different bulls eye papers as shown below.

OK, I'm registered. Like Sue and Cristina, I am going to be out of town before this workshop is finished, but, I, too, am planning to complete it at a later date.

 

Thanks, Carole, for all you do!

Shirley - have enjoyed seeing some of the book you are developing for your daughter.

 

Colin - Fishing was my husband's favorite pastime.

 

This is lab 9 Mod 12 and the finish of Lab 9.  It is a rework of a Christmas layout I did some time ago.  Just changed it up a bit to include the elements developed in this module: mitten - did put the shape in the shape directory; created both red and green mittens and decided that they would look good as a streamer so that is how I am displaying them (and I saved the streamer also); snowflake - this is the 3rd one created and the best in my opinion; circle of dots - tutorial described how to do 3 colors so I decided to do 4 colors.  The paper is from PS.

Unique and lovely Julie, Corrie and Pirkko.

 

This is my take.  Picture is of one of my granddaughter's wedding - all papers and elements are mine.

Wow!  Didn't make the class, but it looks like it was a lot of fun.  Liked your "Hello Chicago" Lynda and I'm headed your way the end of this month to see my cousin in Algonquin.  We visited Chicago several times on my trips there.

 

This is Lab 9 Mod 11.  Whew! Don't care for the kidnapped alpha even though it could be fun.  But this is what I came up with - not a photo but a composite of a picture of a house from the school kit, the fence I made for this mod, and a stand of sunflowers to put in front of it with a quote I like.  Also made a number of circle stitches after creating the line. The sunflower on top of the circle stitches are from a freebie from PS.  I did not do shadows - this is a poster!

Lab 9 Mod 10 - Games, Games: Quatrefoil paper (made several - 2 are shown as background papers for Board Games and Video Games); staple back (I overlayed them with Filter Forge Brushed Metal - 'cause they're steel staples) - frankley, I would have preferred front of staples, but I followed directions!; Bingo card - winner in this game.  Overlay of the background paper is from Corel Video Studeo; Marios, minecraft figures are from Nice Png; the little boy playing video games and the scrabble board are from a png site, but I'm not sure which one; the board game "Game of Love", spinner, and tokens are my creation and from a previous Lab Module; the title "Board Games" is from PS - Elif Sahin; and the other titles are created from it; the stitching on the cream paper is from brushes from Carole; the Title are scrabble tiles I made in aprevious Lab module.  Background frame I created.  The card game is Bridge - my brother, my dad, and my husband - 1983.  They have all since passed away as has my mom; I'm lucky to have most of my children near  by.

So - what exactly is "focus stacking"?

I finally finished K is for Kitchen.  I know I'm way behind in the alphabet challenge as most are in O already.  I liked the circular word phrase from the previous lab module I did and so I used it here also.  The mit and hot pad are from Pixel Scrapper - Violet Insovna as are the "together" and the 2 buttons. The apron, bowl and spoons are picture tubes.  The stitched K is from Lab 6 mod 2 and the font used is Arial. The paper background is from my stash.

 

Ann and Corrie - beautiful layouts.

Wow, Sue!  Really great #80160. Is that your dog on the kayack?

Pirkko, love those 2!

 

This is Lab 9 Mod 9. Circle of words; multi-layered flower; metallic word.  The Memphis Botanic Gardens again.

Looks like this has been a great bootcamp.  Sorry I missed it this time. Everyone is doing beautiful work and I am glad to see several men joining in.

 

Gerry - Huntsville and the Space Camp has been my very favorite site.  My family and I have been there numerous times with and without the youngsters - one of my grandkids I did send to Space Camp many years ago.

Lab 9 Mod 8: Outlined text (title); Halftone Brush (made it and several papers with it - background paper is one of them); Fancy wheels (one colored in gold gradient and inner bevelled - upper left; one colored in desert tones gradient - upper right); all the other papers and elements are my own.

 

I can't believe I called this the Oregon River - not true - it's the Columbia River - the boundary between Washington and Oregon. I must have been really tired when I thought I had finished it. And now that I have corrected it, I think I misspelled it! I think I'd better get back to my birthday cards since all my daughters-in-law have their birthdays in August!

So here is (I hope) the corrected copy.

Thanks Shirley - glad to see you back - you do some awesome work for your daughter's album.

Thanks April - I enjoy your work too.