Susan Ewart

I use Font Base. I use the paid version (I think it's about $50 a year) so that I can get the glyphs like you see on the 3rd picture, you just click the one you like and it's copied to the clipboard and you got back to PSP text layer, highlight the letter and right click and paste. Google fonts came with it, I think you can go to google and download a ton more of their fonts too. I usually have them turned off. In fact you can turn them all off and just click on the ones you want active. I always turn the viewer off when I'm not using it (it's always on the bottom task bar on windows using a short cut icon). You need to remember to turn it on when you are using PSP or you get a pop up saying the font isn't available. Actually, I forget to turn it off a lot and I haven't noticed a decline in speed or lags in my computers performance. There is more features I'm sure and a different view that shows more fonts at a time but I seem to forget how to get that view again. There is some tutorials on utube about font base if you want to see it in action. I do believe they have a free version too, but you don't get the ease of using the glyphs like in the paid version.

That luminance filter layer is cool. I never even noticed there was one.

Thank you Cristina. I found some grungy backgrounds I'm working with, hope they are too grungy. Yours along with everyone else, has such beautiful cohesive calendars. They are doing really interesting changes to them that I would never have thought of. I'm getting lots of ideas and inspiration.

They are so beautiful. Are they ragdolls?

Lesson 4 - July & August Not exactly a vintage camera in these shots but accessories to the cameras are important too. Okay, maybe not cases. Who uses them? I remember starting out and always used the case (on the SLR) and it would flop around and get in the way when I was taking pictures. They don't even give you those types of cases anymore, heck Canon doesnt even give you lens hoods unless you buy the "L" series lenses - after you mortgage your house to buy them that is!. The big case in the back is a polaroid 800 Land camera I forgot had. I might photograph it and switch it out with the other Land camera in month 4. I'm on a roll and having fun. Just got a text to head to work 2 hours earlier so my fun is over. Never enough time for PSP. Carole, as my teacher can you write me a note saying "Susan can't work today, she has important assignments to finish. Oh, and a question: In PSP 2022 if I open the calendar template and activate the Month vector it showed the size in points (32 points), and when I changed it to pixels is showed the correct pixel of 133. But, when I use PSP 2023 (which is what I'm using for the workshop) and activate the month vector is shows its in pixels and yet still says 32. Clearly it's not that size. Is it supposed to know and show the size in pixels once you double click on object ("T") layer inside the vector layer?

Lesson 3 - May & June I really like these templates (I mean all the ones so far).

Lesson 2 - March & April I am not keeping the backgrounds, they are stand-ins until I decide on a background I like. Since it's Vintage cameras I'll look for vintage or grunge type backgrounds. Hope it comes to me. I centered the months on the date boxes and add days-of-the-week along to the top. NOTE: yes, I see I posted the wrong March month before I centered the months. Oops. I'm leaving the boxes and will decide at the end if I changed them. I might add text beside for information about the cameras in the photo. And I might move the photos around to different months. I did change the size of the first letter in the Month like Carole showed in one of the videos (I've gone back and got the early months caught up) So many good ideas from everyone. I will be trying them out along the way. I especially liked moving the Month and adding days-of-the-week. Thank you all who did that.

I love your choice of background. I'm still deciding on backgrounds.

Heeeelp me....I need a 12 step program. Too much choice means not being able to choose at all, I know it's an issue. In some areas of my life I am analy over over organized and some, I'm a bloody mess. Your post gave me a good laugh at myself.

It's really too much to have, but I keep adding more. I am hopelessly addicted. I keep thinking I'll compare similar ones and pick the best and narrow it all done to 1000 or less....but I never do it.

I need to be more like you.

I currently have 12,492! Do I qualify for FA? (full disclosure - 5213 came from Google fonts that was on the font program I use)

Ann, very beautiful calendar. I love the Cape Buffalo layout and that you used white font/dates, the black is perfect and I never thought to go black. I'm so far behind. Busy week at work (Black Friday flyers, ugh) so I hope I catch up this weekend.

OMG! that is so sweet.

Shirley, this is a beautiful calendar.

I don't get that either. Film makers film the harshness of nature and do nothing. I couldn't stand by and just watch. I watched a show about a pride of lions and one the the babies got separated and they filmed in and kept saying if it doesn't reunite with the mother it will die (which I think it did in the end) and it was getting weaker and weaker. It was heartbreaking. I'm not naïve about the harshness of nature, but we humans created a lot of natures struggles so we should be trying to save, fix or help anything that needs it and quit saying that it's cycle of nature. I can believe that statement in a time long before mankind, but not now.

I watched a little bit of it. But dont have that channel anymore.

Oh Anne, that is awful. I just went through some computer woes that took my husband two full days and much research (just to talk to a human) to get it resolved. Once he talked to a real, actual human it was fixed in less than a minute! I wish you luck and a speedy recovery of your e-mail account and all other computer woes. Sometimes, computers are just plain evil!

It's called Creative Vintage. From Creative Fabrica. it does have glyphs and ligatures. I used it for the Magazine workshop and since the cameras are all 40+ yrs old I went for a Vintage style font.

I agree!

Wowzers! Both months are gorgeous! I love how you did the date boxes with the lowered opacity photo (is that right?). Did you make a mask out of the date boxes. What creative and wonderful ideas you have. Super inspiring. Have a safe trip, a fabulous time at home and I hope you are able to check in with the Campus so we know how you are doing?

Here is the start of my Calendar - Jan/Feb I mostly have portraits orientation on the cameras I did photograph for the Magazine workshop. So, I will be in the studio shooting again to get some in landscape format. I'm sticking with the Creative Vintage font I used in the Magazine workshop. I will add the background as the lessons continue. I like that we build on each one and then go back to the previous months to add the new techniques. Good practice for me.

T = Taco Bell

thank you, I wanted to know this too. It will help decide on photos. I do want to do the cameras and tie it in with my almost finished Magazine workshop. So some of the photos will be used again, but I wanted to add some more.

That's really nice Anne. the colors are beautiful and as always your gradients are radiant!