Susan Ewart

I bought some so I will look and see if I have a closed version. I did like what I made, even for an odd shape. I thought I could use it as a hanging piece and put screws where the loops are. There is an infinite amount of unique designs one can make with Vectors. And even what I thought was "ugly" turned out to be pretty cool looking.

The gimp trim is really interesting. I wanted to try a zipper but didnt because it's two parts. I should have tried anyway, but it was late at night and things were getting blurry. I can see I need more tubes, you can never have enough, right?

Lesson 6 This is a fun script to play with. And a nice low pressure lesson.

Lesson 5 Part 2 I liked learning how to do this. And I liked Deana's (Davis) post with the instructions, it helped me remember it. I am a serial flower decapitator, for the sake of art of course. It's the first time trying to grow flowers of any sort. I am very abusive and neglectful so I'm surprised to have any photograph. I used the same font as the Part 1 project. Not sure if I made mention of it in that post. It's called Mouse Memoirs and I think it's from Google Fonts that came with my font viewer. Photo is mine as mentioned, on grey so I can play with some textures and blend modes....when I get around to it.

Part One of Lesson 5 I caught the PSP possession bug that others had. Twice shut down unexpectedly -that's what it said anyway....if it's telling me that it's not unexpected then is it?? this image was from hubby and my walk Friday morning where we ran into a little friendly furry neighbour. I took my camera for photo friday and got some textures I've been eyeing up on the walks. The font is Mouse Memoirs, which I thought was funny. The shut down: it happened when I was typing my text on the path. my text did not fit and would have extended past (which I would have selected all and reduced the size). Soon as it came to the end of the path line PSP popped up with the "PSP has unexpectedly stopped working" notice. It happened twice. I have used text on a path before and extended past without issues. This is PSP 2022 Ult. I think it might have been my temp files, so I've deleted the temp files and did a disk clean up. I have 64 GB of ram, SSD drives, i5-6 core, 12 thread processor (all gobbily gook to me) but not a great video card at the moment. should be getting an i7 with more cores and threads this week hopefully. I'm chalking it up to the system working too hard (images open, video on the other screen etc) and not to PSP at this point. this is a fun lesson to learn. And a very useful one for layouts. On to part two after I do some adulting (read: housework).

Skip to lesson 5, it's Text on a Path. I think you've done that before. that might get you in win-win state of mind.

Beautiful Corrie, that wil make a nice card.

I hope you find out why you are coughing. It's exhausting to cough a lot. I hope your surgery goes well and wish you a speedy recovery (when it happens). You are very busy. My husband deals with those types of spreadsheets daily, 1000's of lines and various long macros and scripts and whatever else he needs for ways of sorting. I can do a very basic spreadsheet.

A girl can dream, right?

I hope you pull through Anita. We are all cheering you on. Once I got past the first 3 lessons it feels much better, and a bit less scary. Take a breather and do something unrelated to reset your brain and Carole will get you on the right path (no Vector pun intended). That is why I called them Vexing Vectors. I had to revert to 2022 because I had other buggy issues with 2023. Like I've said, if you are fighting your PSP while trying to learn it's only a lesson in frustration and futility. I have confidence 2024 version will be bug free (I hope some Corel programmers are reading this...BIG hint hint on that hope).

Poor kitties! I hope it lets up soon. Hope the kitties (no matter the age, I call them all "kitties") find a nice dark snuggly hiding spot. Mine are good with thunder, even the loud cracks. but soon as one hears fireworks, she's gone to ground (in the house, they are house cats). For that reason I am not fond of firework holidays, it's very stressful for her. My other one runs to the window to look for the noise. She's a weirdo.

They are really nice and symetrical. I am doing the same. Only doing the shapes and learning how to tame the nodes...a steep curve for me.

This is very pretty. Love that pattern.

The idea is all Carole, from one of the Vector masterclasses. I never would have thought of it on my own. ?

I'd buy the T-shirt for sure...or a framed print I can put right up on the wall beside the computer. Here is another one from Lesson 4. I made separate vectors for the cup and the saucer, then when all the cut outs were done I put the saucer layer in with the cup layer so i could export them as one file. When working on the liquid cut out at the top of the cup I thought when will I make it look even and smooth and then when I tested the preset shape it doesnt look as bad when it's much smaller. I put a little more nodes on the cup to see if it made smoother curves and it did in some instances and not in others. So I got some practice at merging today, I kept hovering over delete and remembered that's not the one. Much practice is still needed but I see an improvement since lesson one.

Stick with it, I had the exact same problem. For me it was the edit mode wasnt toggled on. I get the frustration, especially when you dont know where it went south. I had many do overs, and didnt want to end on a bad note. Having said that, sometimes you need to walk away for a bit and come back later. that works too.

Thank you Carole. RE: Queston 1, I was getting a start node if I clicked anywhere on the canvas. This clears up why. Good to know about multiple shapes in one file (if I want to delete). I would not have thought of that. Keeping the shapes I make in the workshop might be good (based on Question 3), because it's the .pspimage file. I didnt know I could re-edit it. I might clean them up once I am more proficient, saves time from having to start again.

Is it wrong to say you have beautiful curves?

Lesson 4, Whew I made it through! I used the written instructions for CRAC - PASTE, seemed easier as I could read and go slow. I once had the top shape cut but couldnt get the 4 "move" arrows, they didnt just appear like they did with the handle. Wonder what I did to get them for the handle. So I deleted that vector layer two more times before I slowed it down by reading the written instructions. Then I had no bounding box to move that shape on the cup. I didnt know what to click so I finally clicked on the edit button up top and sure enough there was the box and the 4 arrows. Then I saw on the video that you had the Edit toggled. Question1: Was I supposed to have "edit" toggled BEFORE I started with the CRAC - PASTE steps? Question2: I am saving these all as presets for practice, if I want to delete them, do I just go to the windows file where they are (in my case D-Drive>My PSP Resources) and delete them, or do I delete them from the preset menu (insead of the other or do I do both). Question3 (sorry): The working files we are using when making the shapes, do we need to keep them once the shape is Exported as a Preset Shape? Thank you for your help, I really need it and appreciate it. I'm going to practice more CRAC-PASTE, having problems with it means I need more practice. I will continue to stick with the basic shapes until I "get it". I wont be making anything pretty, but I sure hope others keep doing it as it's quite inspiring to see what to do with these shapes once they are made. Thank you to the people who got it nailed, it keeps me keeping on.

Lesson 3: wash, rinse and repeat. (emphasis on "repeat") Okay, no washing or rinsing went on but I wanted to get more practice after a good nights sleep and a day that I dont have work(job work) looming over me. First thing I did was put the node size back to small after I read the comments that you need to be in the middle. Wow, that really helped. sure it's hard to see those little suckers, but I had way better aim today. I did have that "freakout" moment when I opened the leaf and thought...Duuuh, what do I do? Got over that with a quick check in with the Lesson 3 video which set me straight. So here's another leaf I made. It went much easier this time, I could edit and move nodes and even merged some too with better control. Some of my crazy out of control "clicking" was partly due to my wireless mouse's battery dying. Now I can head on to Lesson 4 and practice the 3 P's I learned from my Calligraphy teacher: Practice, Patience & Perserverance! (pretty sure I spelled that wrong) side note: I sucked at Calligraphy- heavy left hander

Wow! this is beautiful. I collect tea cups (dont drink out of them-too small ?) and I'd be proud to have this one in my "virtual" cupboard.

This image showed the LAYERS property box, you need the MATERIALS properties palette on the upper far right of the Edit screen (complete workspace). You will see two overlapping boxes. Hover over them and you will see the foreground/Stroke Properties and below is the Background/Fill properties box.

They aren't intuitive to me either. PSP was a steep learning curve for me. Thank goodness I had the Campus was able (after some time) to join the Diamond Membership. I started with the bootcamp and then went on to the Basic Scrapbook Course and now all the Workshops (that are free but only available for a certain time when they are offered) are in the Diamond membership to use when we wish (as well as all the Lab tutorials and Master classes). It's perfect for giving you something to learn when you dont know what to do next.

Yup on all accounts. It sounds like a mountain we dont want to climb.

Vectors will definitely be a heading. I would put all things Vector in the heading, maybe even Fonts. that way if you know it's a vector you are looking for then there is one place to look. Other ones could be: Extracting or something dealing with all the Selection Tools Blend Modes Frames and Borders Actually in the tutorial section it's grouped, we could look at that, but mostly do we want to have headings that deal with tool use? Argh, this is really hard. Maybe it hasnt been done, because it too complicated to be done. We need an AI computer we can tell it what we want and it just pops up. eg... all lesson involving Vectors, selections etc etc.