Susan Ewart

WOW Cristina! What a great photo. That's looking like a real Magazine cover. Love the barcode too.

Thank you Cristina.

Thank you so much Jeni.

I wish the best for your husbands recovery, it must be a stressful time. Bundy is so cute and looks like he had a zest for life.

Here's my cover. I'm still deciding what to do on the right side. It will have what's in the issue but the background is still up in the air, as are whether I'll use the frames. I like what others have done with the frames so I'll play around and see. My calendar will be about collections of oddities. The color of the title may change but so far I kind of like the black and maybe even the white on the right. Of course the white will not show the edge of the layout, but you get the picture I'm sure.

I've been there (I'm originally from BC, fraser valley. Will I see Bridal Falls from Chilliwack perhaps? - I lived there until I moved to Alberta in 2013.

I love this Rene. Is this Chihuly. The blue frames look really good with this layout

Wow Corrie, this is beautiful. The layout and especially the plate. I love the backstory about it. the tablecloth you took the shot on would make a fabulous background paper! What makes the shot great is just where you have the split between the foreground and background (Red vs White). It adds to the composition bigtime. You are going to be shooting still life like a pro in no time.

I thought it might be too.

I can't wait to see what you show based on this giving you an idea.

D is for Dumbbell. something I've used for over 30 years now. I got this one when I bought a group of dumbbells. Someone had painted it gold and it was already rusty. Since I have rubber hex ones (and some metal ones), and this little guy had no mate, I use it to hold open doors. I'm letting it continue to rust because it will look cool. Why someone would paint a dumbbull, "dumbfounds me. 😁

Awesome Donna, this is fabulous.

Yikes! I got tired just reading all that you will be doing. We are in the same boat...I bet we will see more of our fellow campus campers in the boat too. Looking forward to seeing your pictures from your upcoming trip.

What a great use of all the elements. For us viewers there is much see and discover. and OMG that is a cute rabbit/bunny(?). The way you have explained how your choose colors for your papers makes what you think is busy, not busy at all. It all seems to flow together perfectly. Even your layout takes my eye around the layout from the big circles, down the 2024 to wonderland, up the two rectangles and across the upper squarish rectangles to the title. At least that's how I travelled through. Then I went back to take a look at your papers and wonderland cut out. I like that shaded edge on the pink paper. And I see the cut out around the two rectangles, it looks very cool.

Ann you had a good idea posting you Magazine from last year. I never got mine done, two pages and the cover to finish. So I will follow you and post it here since I had not even done the backgrounds when the class finished. I sure hope I finish within a week or two after the workshop. Oops, forgot to add that page 2 is not finished either. I am going to finish this up after the 2025 WS is completed. I also based my Calendar that year on this magazine so I'll have to finish that too as I used different pictures.

Don't be admiring too hard. I have only "watched" a few tutorials of PSE. Havent looked at Affinity though other than opening it to make sure it worked. Right now I'm trying to think up what to do for the Magazine Workshop. I'm zoned in on PSP. I hope I find time for it all. Also still need to figure out ON1. If you have some spare time...please send it to me.

I agree. I have been watching PSE tutorials and nothing comes close to the bootcamp. Nothing seems to be as progressive in start to finish learning. I have been watching the labs because I havent had time to use PSP lately and I cant believe how much I'm learning just from watching small tutorials. Some techniques are used often and I'm finding that I'm guessing (some times right) what comes next in a technique. I just watched one where the cut out was used but only one part of it (fishing floater) where I thought the cut out always had to have the two parts, so that's cool to see how a tool can be used in different ways. I am looking forward to getting back to the Labs. It's hard to fit it all in.

I cant wait to see your Magazine! I love Christmas lights.

OMG! You are hilarious. I love it.

What an interesting life you have had Ann. Going to the theatre was such a special event in my childhood (although I couldn't make through a movie without at least one trip to the bathroom). I like how you have the lower opacity background, with the overhead view of the drive in. The last time I was in a drive in was the early 90's. Gone are days of that big clunky speaker you hung on the window of your car (that was one of the coolest parts of going to a drive in). I just saw that the drive-in I used to go to in Langley, BC closed last summer due to property tax increase of 260%(likely this number is from the start of the business to the end). Where I live now there are no drive-in theatres and the local mall has "theatre" nights in the summer where they project the movie on a screen mounted to the side of a semi trailer. It's not the same as a real drive-in. Sitting in a mall parking lot in my car with the very busy road right in front of me while trying to watch a movie doesn't appeal to me (and no bathrooms!)

That's a good idea. I would have thought it would be low resolution but I had no problem reading the words even when you compressed it for the forum. usually if I want to wrap I open the file in 2022 and do it. I'd use 2022 but I really like the 2023 for being able to see the blend modes in real time. If PSP 2022 and 2023 had a baby (2022.5) it would be perfect. 😄

I just watched these tutorials. Isn't that lined paper pattern fabulous? It sure was a surprise how it turns out from what the tile is like. I love yours, you did a great job. Your newspaper looks really good.

Me too!

Sweet victory tastes so good doesn't it?

This is stunning Julie. You have really mastered this style (that I love so much).