Michele

I not only used guides, but I also used grids. I have OCD and I just can't bring myself to eyeball things.

Carol, will you be adding an album for this workshop?

Me, too, Cristina!

Having a black-and-white background really makes the other elements stand out!

Thank you so much, Susan. I think the beveled look is due to using both a cutout layer and a drop shadow. I use the 3D cutout effect fairly often without the interior fill. It gives what might be described as a drop shadow that is applied evenly inside an empty space. At least that's how I use it. If you go to Effects: 3D Effects: Cutout and click on the Help button, it will open a page in the PSP Help database showing you how to use it. I'm not a great teacher so maybe Cassel can address it, perhaps in one of the Q&A sessions.

K = Kebobs

Way to go, Bonnie! Congrats to you and your partner.

Playing with layers, cutouts, shadows, and Gaussian blurs. Sometimes creating something in the right dimensions for FB takes some work. The original painting is by Anna Ewa Miarczynska. The font is Black Chancery; I've had it so long that I don't know where it came from, but you can find it for free as it's in the public domain.

I always keep a pspimage file with all the layers. That way I can edit the font to reflect the new name.

I use 3000 x 2000 as the current FB posting size.

Those dinos are too cute!!!!! We want to see when everything is decorated.

I found a wonderful editorial beauty photo shoot that I felt was perfect for the theme; model Kristy Kaurova and photographer Jamie Nelson. The font is Spac3 tech. I had a happy accident while making this. I originally created a frame with the background paper and added a cutout layer. While playing around with the layers, I hid the frame and ended up with this look. I'm probably not the first to use an effect like this, but I learn a lot from my happy accidents. When I find more time, I'm going to experiment with it more.

B = Beef as in "Where's the beef?"

V = Vegetables. I absolutely adore grilled vegetables.

This theme is another rerun from 2016. I had originally found the title back then; I removed the background and tweaked it. The closest I could come to matching that font was, believe it or not, neon machine from Dafont. I was lucky enough to find a watercolor silhouette of Africa from Seekpng that shared the same colors on the background for the dancers.

I = Imu. In Hawaii, an underground pit lined with hot rocks. Kalua pig, a whole hog, is cooked in an imu. It is wrapped in leaves and/or wet cloth, laid on the rocks, and buried by covering the pit with dirt or sand. And, yes, I Googled it.

I went a lot less "razzle dazzle" for this one. I made the framed one back in 2016. Unfortunately, I didn't save it in layers and only had about an hour to change it up for this year. I managed to find the original stars and stripes and background in my files ~ probably downloaded from a free wallpaper site. Added a few solid papers with a bit of texture and the stars scatter (from Janet Kemp at PS). The fonts are Amaldemo (a free version of Amal) and Arista 2.0 Alternate Light (a system font).

C = Cajun Seasoning

W = Wood chips to add that delicious, smoky taste to the food.

Thought I would have fun with the theme today. I applied the mosaic weave effect to a plain background. The font is *TINTIN*; my Windows File Explorer is being finicky tonight so I can't search for it to tell you where I got it. Ron Payne posted a link on the FB page to a cool batch of seamless glitter patterns from CF. I used one for the text; it came along just at the right time! I found the flapper girls years ago by, I think, Mallory Carlson.