Susan Ewart

I do love "naked" tree silhouettes. In "Tree Architecture" is that moon I see peaking through the tree on the left. AWESOME!

I think your magazine needs become a hardcover coffee table book. What beautiful photos and the architecture is like large permanent art installations. My hubby's parents were from Denmark.

I did a drafting elective in high school and penmanship was one of the things we had to learn. I love architecture. But I sure bombed at drafting. My Calligraphy teacher has the most amazing handwriting and printing. Calligraphy is considered drawing letter and not writing, that's probably why I was so bad at it, that and I was a heavy handed lefty.

Me too! Some came from my Grandfather and some I've collected. I was shocked to see the vintage (yikes, that's my era) SLR's are gaining in value. I used be able to get 70's or 80's SLRs at thrift stores for less than $15, now some are in the hundreds.

Day 7 Working more with blend modes with the same background paper. I might see if I can use that paper throughout. In the coming week(s). Work is still needed on this one (and most of the rest) but I wanted to get it up tonight. Tomorrow, back to my scripting homework and work on these layouts in between. Thank you for a wonderful workshop. I learned a lot about manipulating masks and really liked Day 7 mask technique.

Day 6 Thank you to Sue and Rene for giving me some ideas using the blending modes. I used a white layer above the paper layer (Brook Gazarek, DigitalScrapbook.com) and used a blend mode (I forget right now, sorry) and then reduced the opacity a bit so I could control how much of the layer below showed through. The red kodak word is a bit overpowering (as Red tends to do) but is the color kodak uses - perhaps I should have desaturated it a bit. The yellow frame is the other Kodak color. On to Day 7. I think it will be one page though. I didnt photograph enough cameras and the night is coming to a close. For practice, I did do the lesson where we made it one mask. here I used all 4 as it was better suited for this layout. I'll try and get these posted on FB in the next week as I finish them all. I see blurry Kodak and Cover Story, but they are arent blurry in the full sized image.

it has been such a pleasure to see your art. Your layouts are so consistant and the project as a whole is beautiful and cohesive.

WOW! Ann, this is really beautiful. What a diverse artist Debra is. And an architect, she must have beautiful penmanship as well.

That's why I want to get back to it too. But it's too laggy if I have more than one large photo open and my project open. Soon I hope to be using it again.

STUNNING!

these are really good ideas for me to try. going to copy/paste these posts so I dont forget.

I was flipping back and forth and they do stand out more. I do need more contrast in the background and the mask layers. I will try all the suggestions I'm getting...probably next week if I get all the workshop days done and caught up on the scripting. I'm quite behind now.

Thank you. I'm not sure why it didnt even occur to me. I was playing with opacity with the gradients that I tried (with white below or black below) but always seem to forget about the blend modes. I will play a bit with them...probably after the workshop since I'm a bit behind.

Excellent idea. Thank you.

My first camera was a Ricoh KR10, that my brother gave me for Christmas (That's his Nikon F3 in the photo - he just gave that to me for my collection this year), but what I really learned on was the Pentax K1000 in high school. In fact that camera was in many high school photography classes. It's a real workhorse and all manual, no Auto or Program modes. I got that one this year as I had wanted one for my collection for a long time. I'm thrilled to hear your dad had one and that you (and hubby) used it for many years. I sold my Ricoh years ago and am now trying to find one for sentimental reasons. The Minolta, Canon and Ricoh (KR5) came from my sister-in-law (married to the same brother who gave me the Nikon F3) as they cleaned out all their old photo gear and only use their phones. My sister-in-law was a manager at a camera store for years. I had a number of other SLR's over the years (I worked in a Camera Store for 7 yrs as a photofinisher) but you always remember your first (first owned, first learn on).

Day 5 This is the one I tried a gradient (it's a light one) with a Effects>Texture Effects>Texture it's a bit bland, okay, A LOT bland. I tried dark ones too, but the photos were too glaring. Looking at the two of them, the darker version is better so i think I will explore a darker background version. Thanks for the help, more sets of eyes are better

Thank you Carole. I did play with backgrounds on my day 5. I think I tried every gradient I have and I textured them and left them untextured. I ended up with a background paper. I also played with red color in the small type of the logo as well (Red) but in the end the black seemed better. Would have like a letter with an O or if there was S, L and R in the lower case I could have just did those letters for a little surprise pop. anyway, I used a paper for Brooke Gazerak for this one...for now.

These are so beautiful. I love the watercolor one.

Look at that beautiful blue sky. Did you get a look at the moon tonight! Wowzers, it's half a moon, and tipped over a bit...must be drunk.

I also shot mainly slides, the color is what the color is. With print, as a printer it was my interpretation of what the negative should produce. I rarely shot film once I got into photofinishing because it was cheap for me to buy slide film. although we had to sent it to our head office in Ontario. bummer, I would have loved to learned that aspect.

I was thinking of ways to separate it. that is a good idea and one I had not even thought of. I could try, but not sure how the filers would reacte as they are transparent. But I am intrigued and it's worth a try for sure. Or I'll put a black border or green to match the swatch around that mask group.

that's awesome. I was lucky enough to print black and white in high school. The school had a huge darker with 10 enlargers and a central station for the developing. A far cry from when I worked as a photofinisher. But that training winding film into cannisters came in handy when customers came in with the leader of the film sucked in, or it was wet and I had to open the cannister and wind the film into these little single light tight boxes so the film could be processed.

Wow, that would make me dizzy, looking at the ceiling.

Day 4 Right off the bat I see I forgot to take the stroke off the title. I was going with the yellow-red color on the pouch of the light meter but changed my mind. I like the way we changed the color of the (rasterized) font. It's a neat effect. Still cant decide on a background as anything makes the left photo look dull and grey. Unless I go for a very dark background. My "virtual" editor of my "virtual" magazine would faint of the cost of a full color page! ?

Look for Zentangle, or ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art). it's very relaxing thing to do. I used to do ZIA. Actual Zentangle has rules and rules aren't relaxing so i went with ZIA. Google Zentange and you'll find Rick and Maria's site ( i knew of her only from Calligraphy), but for lots of freebies and how to do the tangles go to Tanglepatterns.com