Susan Ewart

Wow! Everyone is making interesting and really cool shapes. I did sign up but dont have affinity yet. Watching the videos and looking at the all the cool designs you are making.

Wow, these shapes are so cool and what I want to learn. Waiting for the sale. That is fascinating about the flower.

I love the hanging basket touch. so perfect for that layout.

Lesson 7 Thank you for this workshop Carole. I had some ah-ha moments and a lot of ones I forgot. Today I learned with the ampersand that I should have cut my lines to give space for a bead when it meets the next line (wire). I had to use the eraser tool to take some of the beads away. Some I wanted to take away but it was two bead overlapping and they were on the same layer. Better planning next time. I stop in and see how Affinity works this week. It will be awhile before I have it. I enjoyed reading the forum and seeing how creative everyone is.

OMG! that's hilarious. I cant wait till spring to hear the birds. If we lost all the birds people would really notice, it's eerily quiet. It's like that in the winter here. On one of the farms I was at, uppercrust rich people from the city decided it was cool to own and live on a farm. They complained to the city that horses pooped on the road in front of their driveway, on the way to the big park we could ride in. We were all like, hmmmm, this is farm country, there's going to be some poop.

It's hard to know what to shift and not shift. I just want to have a second copy (on a separate drive) of the scrapbook layouts and all my supplies, tutorials etc (can you imagine losing them and starting over again. UGH) and my photos/photography tutorials, those are the things I cant replicate again. If I lose my Excel Budget file I wont be crying about it. My hubby, who likes to play with computers, just "found" in his pile of stuff a 5TB external drive. I started to look at my files and think what could I lose and not cry too hard over and it's like I'm a file hoarder or something. Like, I haven't touched some files in over 5 yrs, but I have to have them...don't I? hahahaha. I have a lot of clean out to do. Wish I could hire someone to do it for me.

Those frogs are so colorful. I remember living on horse farms and listening to the frogs at night. I like to hear the night sounds.

I hope it made sense. I too have done the .pspimage and the 600 file only as well, but kept having to open PSP and make a bigger file for people or FB. MERG is just the flattened 12x12. I used to just do that and open psp to make any other files from it. Then I just started doing the 4 files. I have an 8TB hard drive so for now it's okay. Other wise I'd just go back to the same way you do it. Hard drives do fill up fast though.

thank you Sue, I can never tell. I need to better the lighting where my computer is, and I'm due for an eye exam. I have two ASUS pro art monitors, they are supposed to be good, but who know's I might have gotten the lemons. 😄

I sort of do that. Here's my files (the prefix number are just to explain this) #1 is the layered file, that I dont want to mess with so I Make a merged copy to do any copying from #2 this is the merged copy, I cant mess up my original file by accidently overwriting when I'm making copies, I've done this and lost work. #3 is the jpg of the merged full sized file that I'll upload to FB or send to friends #4 I re-open the pspimage merged file, resize to 600 and save as the jpg-600 for the forum. I used to make the smaller 600 file from the jpg and couldn't understand why my forum posted layouts were so blurry, when the big jpg and pspimage files were really sharp. So I did some testing and found it was a little sharper to make the 600 one from the pspmerged file (because it is bigger and has more information). That file I can go back to over and over again and never have to worry about messing up the original layered file. PNGs for me are great for transparency but I found they get blurry quickly if you need to enlarge. Also, for the wedding invites I tried using them, it was a blurry nightmare. I got advice from Corel who said to use a PDF because they are more stable when outputting the file. The pngs would print fine on my black and white printer but when i outsourced the printing they were super blurry. Even the png's in kits I might want to use them bigger and upsizing them is a blurry mess. the AI helps but it's still not great. It's probably just one of my many idiosyncrasies I guess.

Lesson 6 part 1 Such a fun one that I could lose a day just trying stuff out. I learned a lot like making sure the spacing is far enough on text and that the picture tube isn't too small to lose all it's awesome detail. these are the ones below that I think don't show the detail well or the word isn't kerned enough. The leaf like object, was from a previous Vector WS as was the little shape cutout (trying to practice this more). the yellow tag is also from a prev. Vector WS. Carole's picture tubes are so detailed look so real. I'm sorry I didn't do them justice here.

Lesson 6 part 2 playing with fonts ( must not forget to go to the pen tool and convert it). I love ampersands and wanted to see how it work with the serif, because it's so thin. And the Ornament frame was from a font that had ornaments (their high-end word for dingbats) that came as a separate .0tf file with the original font. This is such a fun lesson.

Thank you Corrie. I will try that. I do always save the pspimage full size, as well as a merged pspimage full size, then from that I resize and save as (600)jpg for the campus only. The reason I was making a separate MERG pspimage at full size was, a couple times I nearly lost everything by clicking on a jpg instead of pspimage and almost lost stuff. I cant mess up the layered psp if I'm not making jpgs from it. I"ve lost some and just today I almost lost stuff when my finger hit another button and it was all gone. thankfully I had just saved it prior and was able to recover it in the auto preserve. (stoopid fat fingers!). I like tiff because it's a bigger file and only if I was printing. the jpgs are just for the campus and FB. I learned about tiffs from some pro photographers that i like. here's what Adobe says. I have found PNG not to hold good resolution if I enlarged them too much. PS I did not bold that text below, the google AI did. I'm not yelling at you. I've compared Tiff to Jpg in photos and you lose detail in jpg in the blacks and shadows. As I tend to like darker layouts this makes a difference. I'm always surprised at how much darker the jpg is compared to the pspimage file. HOpefully soon we will have Heif and we will all rejoice. All hail the heif image file! 😅 What is the difference between TIFF and PNG files? Both PNGs and TIFFs are excellent choices for displaying complex images. But PNGs tend to be smaller in size, so are potentially better suited for websites. TIFFs, on the other hand, are often the best choice for professional use, scanning, and print options.

I totally agree. I also found if I'm using all upper case then it looks good on a basic shape such as circle, triangle etc. when I've tried using small letters on basic shapes the descenders (ones that go below the baseline ie. g, j, p,y etc) make it look weird and unbalance. I chose a serif caps version for my oval. But for the uneven wavy line I think that's a place where using a script with mixed upper and lower case can work. And you are so right, legibility is the main factor of font choice. I noticed on bottom of my oval one I should have kerned a bit more on some of the letters, they are too close.

Yes, that's awesome, i have just started doing that only in the last 6 months. At first I thought it was my eyes, so I started comparing files. Ideally if I was to print a file I'd want to use tff file as it's lossless, but some places dont print tffs or you can't upload them because the file is so big. When I posted what I do I thought people would think I was nuts for doing the extra work.