Susan Ewart

The big question is.....how did the crane do at the pickleball clinic? and who got to partner with him/her...the badger? or maybe a giraffe, both having long necks and all? 🤣. All kidding aside, good choice to leave the background a textured yellow and great touch with the little foot prints. Beautiful photos.

Gerry, your flower photos are beautiful, I love the rose. Really cool effect with your plaid too. That's a neat way to use it, especially the top green one.

It looks great to me! Such sweet sweet photo subjects.

Same happened for me too

I am a compulsive note taker. Sometimes, I take too many different notes on one piece of paper that I cant make sense of them, later when I come back to them.

Mask WS Day 1 I used the .pspimage mask from the Extra1 folder. And it tipped it over and moved/resized the other two masks to fit the image. Here is a before and after of using the new Creation Cassel PencilSketch2 script. I had fun with it and if all goes well with my photos I will probably use it for the whole workshop. Background paper is from Creative Fabrica called Vintage Paper Textures - Apothecary. The font is Maraton, from Creative Fabrica as well. I also duplicated the larger mask group and hid it and merged the copy layers so I could add a texture to simulate the texture in the background paper.

Love this! Great photos.

Thank you ever so much Mary. You have done such amazing work with the Labs. Undertaking a long project is daunting to say the least, and no doubt your energy for it ebbs and flows. I love that metal plate you did and can see lots of cool applications for it. Maybe placing a colored layer above it and using a blend mode would add some cool interest, or try using a grungy layer above it, although you want to keep that nice brushed metal texture you have now. And you could have a debossed letter or symbols in the middle. One day you will know exactly what to do with it.

I have but I have forgotten it. Thank you for reminding me, that is a good idea. I'm glad there is other more supple minds in the Campus to aid my stiff one.

I am going to play more too. Thinking of what type of photo works best and doing two different edits maybe. Also, I would like to further learn about masking from a layer. I would actually like to have a full black layer then bring back what I want (with white). Using the Mask from image made a strange looking mask that wasn't either white or black, so I need to play with that some more too. it's hard to see the little thumnail of it. Either way, I did something with masks that I've never done and was really happy that I might be on the cusp of learning something new. It's kind of what PS does in the tutorials I watch (usually I'm watching a photo tutorial and then they do an edit of the photo afterwards ; lightroom then in PS to use layers and masks). I know there is a way to do it in PaintShopPro, just need to learn. More than that, I really need a good understanding of it. It's easy to say; black conceals and white reveals, but to really understand it is what I'm after. Teachers always make it look so easy don't they.

Ann, this is so sweet.

Wow, this is INCREDIBLE! This is the perfect shot with the perfect background. Awesome, just awesome! I also agree about the creativity of the posts here.

It does, doesnt it. I have been thinking of other possible photo projects aimed at using the PencilSketch2 script as an end result. There is much to be discovered in this script.

Here is made a mask from the layer (which I've never done before) with the darker (photo1-script1) one as the mask and use white to reveal the edges that was lost on and black to conceal the darker parts. On the second one I had the lighter (photo2/script2) on top. I'm getting confused at what I did now. when I look at the mask group, there is white on the group top layer the actual mask has black on it. It's all a learning experience. I did try and manipulate the layers the script makes but it seemed to lose detail and the composite way and mask way, gave me better results. I must try and understand the how the "Mask" from image works because it's pretty cool. All in all, this is really nice script. I did not change the background because I wanted to keep everything the same to compare. There is so much potential in this script and for further tweaking. I'm going to play with it some more.

So I put the two together in layers with the light one (script2 using photo2) on top and used a blend mode of screen and opacity at 73. then I put the darker script1(photo1) on top and use dissolve and 40 opacity.

The darker photo 1 resulted in a darker end product and the light photo resulted in a lighter end product. the dark was too dark and light was too light is some areas where I lost detail.

I managed to salvage some of the day (now late night) to try the PencilSketch2 script. Since I tried a few things I'll have to post a few times. here's the two photo's. It's the same photo, and I originally edited it darker, then went back after the first run of the script because it was too dark. Also here is photo 2. the next post will show how the script ran on it's own with these two images. Photo 1 is the dark one, Photo 2 is the lighter one. these are just the edits before the script.

Nothing so far, my day off, and I wasted it on trying something that didn't work out. 😪 Hopefully tonight I will get to try it out.

I love the quote!

Thank you for the tips. I had planned on playing with the script tomorrow.

Possibly this: but I thought there was a different (more modern) name for it. (the bold part below wasnt me, it was from google, it's like it's yelling at us). What are the characteristics of cloisonnism? (from Fr., cloison: 'partition'). Style of painting associated with some of the painters who worked at Pont-Aven at Brittany in the 1880s and 1890s, characterized by dark outlines enclosing areas of bright, flat colour, in the manner of stained glass or cloisonné enamel. Or possibly this one? Toon style, also known as cartoon style, is one of the oldest and most recognizable comic book art styles. It is characterized by exaggerated, simplified, and often caricatured characters with bold outlines and vibrant colors. Or Pop Art often features hard, defined edges and thick outlines, which can be achieved using stencils or masking techniques. These edges give the paintings a graphic quality, emphasizing the flatness of the image.

Doska, your frames are outstanding. I look forward to seeing more of your postings here in the forum. How sad that in your other forums they are so focused on little details and seems they've totally forgotten about the art that is being created.

I really like the look of them. This could be fun. I just bought the script Mosaic Maker and I think it would make similar type layouts. I'm inspired to play with it.

That is a monumental achievement Rene. It looks wonderful. And that template is really nice. Did you do the alpha as well, or was it part of the template? It's very nicely done with the clusters. This is like a contact sheet of a group of layouts, a person could do that for all their layouts or themed layouts. I was thinking of posting a 13 layout wrap up every 13 weeks for the P52 challenge. I had envisioned doing 12 layouts around/beside/under/over (in other words, where ever) the 13th layout which would be, maybe, the favorite of the first 13 with a little title on it. this idea has never made it past a passing thought stage, but this layout is motivating me to consider it.

You will do well, Carole teaches it so thoroughly and you are a Diamond member so you'll have access to it afterward too.