Susan Ewart

Love the "Scrap with me" section.

This is beautiful. I love the watercolor effect around it too. What a great design. The text is well done (you could have another career in writing children's books!). This will be a treasured book.

Oh that's sound like a fun place. I remember diners like that when travelling with my parents. I love the home cooked type diners over the chain restaurants. I was wondering how you would print a double layout, interesting that you can do that. There is nothing more impressive than turning a page to see it fill both pages. That's the WOW factor. Hope you can take a photo of the book and some the inside pages when it's done.

What an accomplishment Mary. 45 double pages is, well, 90 pages, that's incredible! I really enjoyed arm-chair travelling along with you and reading about the locations. What are "throwed" rolls?

Wow! Very well said. I like the way you organized it and the words you've used describing to us already makes me want it. I really love that you added #6 Making it special. Great titles for the chapters. So...the question is....can I have it time for Christmas? 🤣 (You gotta know I'm kidding, right?)

I will usually get a test print done, 1 print to see how the outsource photo printing company prints the photo/layout (I'm using London Drugs Photo - Canadians may recognize this company). Usually it's too dark so I'll add remarks, like lighten, or watch the whites or I'll even tell them the correction to make eg. take out 1 cyan and add +1 density etc. Then when I'm okay with it, is when I make the full order. I'm not talking Calendars, although when I do try a calendar I will test out 1 month probably, just to see if it's worth printing or if I need to make changes (before I commit to 12 months and a cover only to find it's too dark). Prints always come back darker, simply because it's on paper and not a backlit screen we are used to seeing it on. And then there's the blacks and inherent issues with JPG not having the latitude a TIFF file has. I have meant to save my pspimages as a jpg and tiff to compare. But not much sense in doing that until I start working from a RAW file then converting and comparing. so much still to learn in the digital post processing for me.

Your photos through the whole calendar area really beautiful.

I like the dark one. I tend toward shades though. Both are really nice, but the darker one stands out and catches my attention.

Great idea making the snow lady out of buttons!

I have not seen anything like that. How cool to have creative dreams. When i was trying the scripting I was dreaming about it. I hope you find it so we can see it.

I wish to print them too. It sure is a conundrum; to print or not to print. It's a huge expense. I was thinking of print them as 10x10s or 8x8s to save a bit. would be neat to have a revolving art wall where I can change out the pictures (I'm not talking the WHOLE wall, just a little cluster). Would be nice to see them other than looking at them on the computer. We had Epson in the past and liked it. It seems now that stuff just isnt made like it used to be. It's hard to know what is reliable and well built and what isn't.

Thank you Julian, this is very helpful. What I've been reading is about jamming issues and the print heads in the Epson's (I was looking at the eco-tank 8550 (13" wide paper). Now looking to one of the Canon models (ImagePrograf). Of course I'd like the 1000 or the 300, but probably as a first good inkjet printer I'll have to settle with the basic model 100, still I think it has 8 colors. I didnt know that about the print head. Does the ink last long?

I have heard that, it messes up the heads or something as well. we tried a no name ink in a very old printer once, didnt go well. lesson learned.

Thank you, I am looking at Canon and Espon. Leaning a little toward the Canon as the one I want has 12 colors. but wasnt it expensive and was there shipping. Usually that's the killer for me. The price I'm usually okay with, the shipping is was gets me to empty the cart.

Oh, Mary, thank you for the compliments and putting me in good company with Sue and Ann. It's not the camera, it's the person behind the camera that makes the photos great and interesting. I love to look at all styles and learn from them. I really enjoy your travel photos as it's not a strong suit for me. Types of photography I don't do, I tend to find fascinating. And I never get tired of seeing old cameras, I loved them before I even thought of photography as a hobby. Prior to this new camera I got (also a Canon) I was shooting with a 10 yr old camera, then was given another 10 yr old camera. It's cool that you know who has your first camera. I laughed at "antiques", most of us in the campus would qualify...I hope we dont get snatched up and put on a shelf, and if we do, I hope they are better than me at dusting regularly!

If they were in Canada I'd use them. You told me about them before, they use photo paper, not the stuff that gets scratched easily. I liked their mandate (at time I checked it out) and was very impressed. I need to find a Canadian version of a company like that.

Oh, dont forget a section on clusters. that seems to be used a lot

and it should be! The more people that find the campus and the store and Corel will only benefit us all and hopefully you really will, because you put tireless effort into all the great resources you've given to us. You should be well compensated for that. I'm a book lover, I'll be buying no matter what.

That's how I want to be doing it. My cards are handmade, although I do have to have the prints outsourced then I make the rest of the card after that. Binding is a no-brainer and I did bookbinding (by hand) for years and am feeling the desire to get back into it again. I've done cards in the past with pamphlet stitches (3-hole and 5-hole). It's a lot work but in a way, quite relaxing as you must find it when you are creating by hand as well. I keep thinking I shouldn't buy a printer because my hours at work are now 1/3 of what they were. My husband keeps telling me to buy one. I just don't feel I contribute enough to the family income to warrant such extravagance. Silly isn't is?

This is good stuff to know for me too. I like total control over my printing, for example, I'm doing a square card this year, and thought I'd save time and get it printed, no one local offers that (without going to a professional print company-$$$). A printer would be the way to go. They are so expensive, as I want one that has 10 inks! I wonder if I'll have enough use for it to warrant the cost and dealing with jammed ink heads from lack of use. That's why I've always outsourced. I am however lucky that I have a coil binder, that's the cheap part of the process though.

I never had. I have always wanted a color printer, but the ones i want are too expensive for a hobby. If I was making money, that would be a different story. I too would like to find a good outsourced printer. I used to be a photofinisher so I am picky and have had to compromise over the years in what the local photo place prints. I get a test print done and have had to actually tell they what to do, eg. -/+ density, take out Cyan, add Magenta, etc. Now I just think; can I live with this, it's just a Christmas card people will eventually throw away. I really want to get some layouts printed (outsourced), just to see what they are like. And go from there. I'd like somewhere good though. I should bite the bullet and test some out. I'll have to put a little money out for testing. However, I just looked up a local printing place I go for Calendars, they are insanely expensive, even for tiny 6x8 ones. I think it actually would be cheaper to buy a printer (even the expensive one) and print my own. I will wait for the big reveal after Christmas, when you have given the gift and can freely paste on FB like you do every month. I look forward that!

A section at the end for where to find supplies listed by category Like: Fonts - then a list of some current free and non free places Kits - list places you can get kits or elements etc Other supplies: eg. like textures, brushes, scripts Tutorial sites - yours, Corel Also: section on "making your own supplies" (papers, flowers, elements - just some basic ones ) Also, somewhere in there explaining what CU and PU and Scrap-for-hire mean...I didnt understand that for some time.

Wow. So much awesome ideas. I have loads of old family photos of my parents and no clue who anyone is (other than my parents and grandparents). They are all gone now. Wish I was into that sooner so I could have asked more questions. I guess that's why I never actually scrapped physically, because I come from a photo arts background (and handmade books/paper) so I was more interested in the art aspect of layouts...as I am now. The only family members i've digitally scrapped is my cats. Yikes eh!

I was able to read the Badger and Caracal text. How interesting about the Badger, they must have a way to digest and filter out the poisons. Unreal. Ann, I'm so blown away by this Calendar. I'll head to FB today and see if you have posted them there so I can read the rest. The information is very interesting.

Looking forward to seeing them. I'm still tweaking too. Had a busy week so hoping I get some PSP time in this weekend. Happy thanksgiving by the way!