Susan Ewart

Well said Rene. I did not know that about the Styles. I have downloaded some in the past thinking I could use them. I'll have to find them and see if they have png files.

Did anyone get the Corel's new Discovery Centre email? Carole has a great tutorial in it called, "Make a custom calendar in Paintshop Pro". It's very good.

Since it's about scrapbooking why not make it based on either the Bootcamp or the Basic Scrapbooking course. Or a mix of the best of both. I'm thinking if the reader has never scrapped before, but also what if they've never used PSP before, so that's why I thought a blending of the two courses. When you are making your book think of how you told us you make scripts. First get the basic outline, then add in the detail parts into the sections as you think of them. Or reverse engineer it, start with the end products you want to have and then write the lessons on how it was done (This is for you to help organize the layout of the book, not how the reader would use the book). Mind you in my bookbinding books I learned from, some would have the book you would make ( photo) then the supplies, then the directions with lots of illustrations and written directions for each (drawn or photo - in your case it would be photos and screen shots step by step). It's quite an undertaking. Will this be an e-book or physical paper book? I also have bookbinding books where the chapters are (for example) the type of binding, so I also like your idea of having chapters on different aspects that you listed. As well as Supplies and subcatagories for supplies like Papers, elements, Alphas. What about "ready-to-use" masks and templates and how to use them? It's a pretty complex task and figuring out how not to go with too much ideas or not being thorough enough.

Sue, you've helped me in the past and I want you to keep on doing it. I want you to do you! I'm the one who benefits from it. We don't see the mistakes in our own work. It's like proofreading but for layouts and not words. (unless the words IN the layout are wonky, then it really is proofreading, and I'm probably not making sense). It's 2:15am and I just got home from work, hubby will get up in 15 minutes for work. And I'm back at work in less than 12 hours. I cant wait for Black Friday week to be over.

Where did you find your lost text....perhaps my lost money is there too! 😁. a really stunning calendar.

I was lucky to be handed down cameras from my parents and grandparents. They were casual photographers, family stuff mostly and my grandfather probably did more than my parents. I have bought a few on my own to add to the collection but like everything else they have gone way up in price lately. I used to be able to pick them up very inexpensively at thrift stores. I have the worst camera on my 8 yr old cell phone (that has no data *GASP*). The newer phones take amazing photo's. They are not great to make large prints from due to the small sensor size. I'm sure that will change in time though. That's also why current cameras have gotten so expensive, less demand as more people use their phones and less buying camera and equipment/accessories. I started collecting because I thought they were interesting looking, in doing the magazine workshop I had to do a little research about them and now I've become interested in learning more about the ones I have.

Day 7 Calendar cover. This cover is to go with my Magazine cover from the Magazine workshop. I added the black frame as my Mag. cover has a red frame. I think I need to fill the black empty (negative?) under the word camera with something and the below the cameras. Some kind of words tying it to the magazine. And of course going back and adding the extra touches to the rest of the Calendar. Carole: once this workshop is over, should we post are finalized calendars in What Are You Working On forum?

OOps, my bad. Your granddaughter will be blown away. How lucky she is. What a great photo. I cant imagine the experiences she has on a daily basis. Like I've said before. BEST. JOB. EVER.

Ann, this is a beautiful calendar. Your daughter is going to be blown away at how professional it is.

Good to hear you are back up and running. I would be needed a break after going through something like that. It was probably your provider. We've had that, where something stops working and then randomly starts working even when doing nothing about it. Recently, it was the modem we got from our internet/TV/phone provider, it had to be re-booted 3 times then everything started working as normal.

No, I got them with my ON1 Raw editing program. they are called Two Little Owls - Autumn Whimsy Textures. They are actually presets but they also included JPGs so was able to use them outside that program.

Thanks for the heads up on the video. I watched it and it's really good. I think I'll be getting the script, what a time saver for making Calendars.

Here is my revised September and my remaining month; December. The original photo I was going to use was too wide so this one became the stand in for December. the 3rd photo is the one I couldn't fit. I had wanted a festive vintage movie camera shot for December. I was painting with light. 20-25 second exposures in pitch black and using a very small flashlight to highlight areas. Best with no background but this was on my wall unit so I left it as it and my flashlight is that horrible blue color, but it was fun to to experiment with the technique. I made 4 shots, and used lighten blend mode in the layers. Tomorrow I'll get to the cover. I still have lots to go back and polish in the previous months and text to add and research to do about the camera. (I collect them cause they look cool, not because I want to know about them. Now, I'm getting more interested in getting some knowledge about them....yup, a sign I'm getting old 😔) .

I hope your caretaking isnt too onerous and you remember to take time for yourself to re-charge. We will all be here when you have the time.

I use this one too. And you can make your font folder (in Explorer) be a "watched" folder so it updates when you add new fonts to the folder.

Oh wow, this is FABULOUS! I love the graphic.

sometimes I just post twice so I can use the max size. One thing is weird. When i resize in PSP then 'save as' and make it 450-ish or 250 ish for two uploads it is actually smaller when I upload them. I had three yesterday that were well over 500KB total but I was able to add the third one and the sizes it said didnt total to 500KB. I took off the third anyway and posted separately.

I love your use of color. what a good idea to use birthstones and the Vector Stroke. Wait till you get to November, it's a deco-looking frame, do you think?

The feeling is very likewise. My heart is singing right, and glass is breaking!

Thank you so much Cristina. That means a lot to me, Carole, you and most everyone else in the Campus are my mentors with PSP. It is amazing the changes in cameras. I do collect them. Mostly because I received my parents old cameras and then my grandfathers. It appears he did a lot of photography in his younger days. I started with photography in high school and it was a hobby for many years. Then I put it down while doing glass work (fusing and lampworking) and silversmithing. That actually led me to pick it up again to photograph what I was doing. I found I like doing it more than the current arts I was doing. I love the really old cameras, they are beautiful. And ones from the 80-90's from when I first started. Wish I had kept my first ones. I'm reshooting that awful September month. the Polaroid SX70 isn't my favorite so it's no surprise the photo didn't turn out. Well, clearly I am a Fontaholic and I will tell you the font name is hopes to convert you 😋. It is called Creative Vintage which I believe is from Creative Fabrica. It has regular version and a draft version which is the one I choose for the end bit. I lowered the opacity on the months(along with changing the backgrounds) to make it older looking. I'll be adding the changed ones once I get them all done with the text I want to add, holidays etc.

Lesson 6 November I like the feathering technique in this lesson. I added a small photo of the camera closed. It looks rather like a brick, hard to imagine that this is a camera. I will be adding text above it, to fill in the space. Oh boy, not being able to right click and move the selection is a real bummer. I'm just not that precise and I rely on that. I hope that gets sorted out soon. November's template is really nice.

lesson 5 - September & October I darkened the boxes on these two. I like the effect and will go back and do that to the other ones too. I will be reshooting the September camera. What was I thinking with that background..YIkes, it's seriously ugly! I did try changing the date boxes grid lines and then decided to keep it all black.

You can never go over the top with December! Beautiful layouts. I like that technique of images in the date boxes. It's a nice touch.

Oh, is it a blend mode? That's the only spot I see luminance. I'm getting mixed up with PSP and ON1 who does use filters and also has blend modes (same ones as PS) so I was looking for something that says Filters. Incidentally, PS also has 'filters' as a drop down menu and I watch a lot of PS tutorials, so I think filters in that term. I'm going in circles with all these programs using different names for the same thing. ON1 calls "merge visible to a new layer" a "stamped layer". I prefer PSP's name. Stamped layer doesn't rely imply "merged" in any way to me.

I'll look for it and give it a try