Jeni Simpson

Template 3 Still using Affinity Photo. 5 kilometres from home is Triflor New Zealand, an agent for Triflor Netherlands. Many farms dotted around the area grow bulbs for Triflor. I noticed one field just outside our village yesterday, with bulbs recently planted. https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/people/how-a-southland-tulip-farm-grows-a-blooming-business/ The great advantage of living in a rural area is the community spirit. Every year, in October, the local Presbyterian Church holds a Tulip Day out at Triflor in Edendale. Triflor donates the bulbs, and the church takes the orders and payment. The customers pay around 80 cents per bulb, which goes directly to the church. Kit used is Jessica Dunn Spring Day mini Fonts are High Tower Text and Bargetta Script

Template 2 I thought I posted this one last night and I've been back on the pages and haven't seen it, so here goes. Apologies if it has been posted before. Using Jessica Dunn's kit Coastal Spring and the font Gabriola. I probably could have placed a white frame around the photographs. This young penguin wandered close to me, although I did zoom in a bit, so not this close. They are an endangered species, so I quickly left after snapping this photograph of the wee soul. It is the tiny Yellow-eyed Penguin, supposedly the tiniest of penguins. They are nesting on the Catlins coast, about 1 hour from where I live.

Deana, it took me a while to work it out, but once I managed to 'get' it, I found it helpful. I used another one for years that was brilliant, but unavailable now.

Thank you, Christina, I too, love Lynn Grieveson's style, I have been looking at her work since you mentioned her.

Euka, I keep Nexus font open, and the fonts all show up in Affinity for me. I open the viewer each time I open Affinity, so that they can show up.

Do you export your project to a jpeg? You can go File > Export and there you will resize to 600 pixels and choose jpeg. Then you are able to save as a jpeg.

I love the kit you have used here. It is great to see Olivia smile in this photograph.

That photograph is beautiful, so clear, so shiny. The colours you have used look so good, too. When I lived in Sydney, in the 80s, I got a great view of the Opera House out my window, where I lived, in both Cremorne Point and Kirribilli.

Template 1 Diamond Using Serif Affinity 2.6 This photograph shows our village taken from a nearby hill with about as much snow cover as we would ever get. We are heading towards Winter down here. I left the white dots as would be snow. Kit is Jessica Dunn - Snow Place Like Home from Curio Pantry, I used 3 of her papers, the other two were recoloured, to match the papers used. Fonts are Cute Rita and Magical Feather.

Carole, I did the Affinity Bootcamp, and have followed a few Affinity tutorials. I am finding the Bootcamp tutorials helpful here, also there are Serif Affinity and YouTube tutorials and I joined Affinity Revolution. If I'm unsure what to do, I research, hence opening those Bootcamp tutorials again, and opened Serif's manual for Affinity.

Oh, yes, I watched a video on YouTube. I had not heard of this sport before you mentioned it in these forums. Sounds like fun I see we have a pickleball association in New Zealand, probably in the North Island.

Template 1 extra, the Facebook Header I have used another photograph from Maple Glen gardens. One time I was there, a Black Swan stomped across this bridge, angry that I had ventured too close to his mate's nest with her cygnets. Luckily, this wasn't the case when I took this photograph For this template, I have used the papers of Marisa Lerin's blog train kit for DSA February 2014, suggested by Carole, and re-coloured the scattered blobs to suit. .

Bonnie, I am curious, what is Pickleball?

Template 1 Using Affinity Photo 2.6 About 5 kilometres from where I live, is a farm where Muriel, the farmer's wife, started creating a garden during her pregnancy in the late 60s. The land was farmland, and Muriel wanted something to do whilst stuck at home, so she created Maple Glen, a beautiful garden, nursery, and bird sanctuary. For this template, I have used Elegant Autumn kit by Jessica Dunn and her Autumn Dew mini kit. Itsadzoke and ItsadzokeS01 by Gluk are free [PU & CU] at 1001 Fonts.

I'm looking forward to this, and I will be using Affinity Photo.

Module 7 I found a kit from LouLou called de souenirs de vacances. The colours were nice and bright, while the photograph is very earthy tones. The Moeraki Boulders are a mysterious and weird group of 50+ boulders on the coast about 3 hours north of my home. There are many stories of their origin, some quite wild, some scientific, yet the wild ones get lots of favour. The elements in the cluster came from Sand & Beach kit from Elif Sarin of Digital Scrapbook.

Thanks for that idea, Carole, I checked, and it must be the font. So, instead of using Kristen ITC, I chose Memories, and it worked fine.

Module 6 Thank you, Carole, it was the font. I tried a different font, and it worked immediately. I used Jessica Dunn's Cherish mini-kit, I wanted something a little vintage, and this fitted my idea of what I wanted. The colours also blend in well with the photograph. Font is Memories, and Gill Sans MT Regular on the tag.

Thank you, Carole. I will try moving the stroke layer. I have redone this three times in x8, and tried it twice in PSP2023, same result each time, so I don't know whether moving it is the problem, and I will take extra care with it to see it doesn't get moved at all.

Module 6 I need a bit of advice here. I am trying to get the alpha sorted, and, although on different layers, the black stroke appears to be out of place. These are my layers currently, I added a paler grey layer so as to be able to see better, I hope. I haven't moved anything yet the black line looks like it has moved to the right a bit. Any suggestions, please?

Module 5 'This was a challenge, I'm not sure whether or not I managed to get all the shadows right, but hey, it was fun . I chose a photograph of butterflies in the Butterffly House at the Otago Museum, in Dunedin. It is an amazing experience to walk amongst butterflies; they will land anywhere - on your shoulder, your head, your hand, wherever they choose I tend to be reminded of the changes they go through in their lives, from the caterpillar to the stunning creatures they become. The kit I used was Jessica Dunn's Crafty Evening mini kit and the alpha is Brooke Gazarek's Distressed Alpha Tan. The kit didn't have a dark paper, so I chose to select a rectangle and, on a new layer, poured white, and bringing that layer's opacity back below 20%. I didn't want the text to be dark, so chose white in Garamond on a white paper.

Yes, I agree, I have also found out about some Affinity tutorials through the last bootcamp.

Susan, I need a notebook to write the tips in; they are invaluable. One with my laptop would be useful. I have the books Carole has available, in Kindle format. The participants in the Bootcamps also give out great tips.

Module 4 Using the kit supplied by Carole, Fire and Ice, I wasn't sure how this would work with any of my photos, however, I found the perfect match. A bright, colourful photograph of a lighthouse, possibly a child's play hut, such a fun structure, on the road alongside the estuary outside of Invercargill. I think the colours match beautifully, like this kit is so uplifting. The screw is mine, from one of Nanson's tutorials from the days of PSP8. The journal font is Gill Sans MT Regular. I have loved Eric Gill's typographic work, since studying his font designs in 1994.

Thank you, Carole, I am enjoying these. I am also learning great information. I have never bound a script before, and, although I have customised my workspace, I hadn't done any customising a layer palette. So, no matter how long I have been playing in PSP, I'm learning so much more now. As I said earlier, using alphas is new to me, too. Thank you.