Susan Ewart

I totally agree Corrie, the point about spending too much time on it excel. That's time away from what we should be doing .....playing with PSP. I am someone who can organize myself into not doing the hobby I was organizing for in the first place. I have to watch myself. I can take days to organize something and then not do PSP stuff. I'm trying to break that habit and create first, organize second. I spent most of today (after many errands) getting a new program loaded. It was super picky, took me (read: my husband had to do stuff to the computer - driver updates, turn off Norton, clean up some other techy stuff I never want know about etc) several hours to finally get it loaded. Now to learn how to use it. At least they have a supposedly good manual and lots of tutorials. (ha, they have nothing on the Campus...bar none, the Campus has the most tutorials EVER!)

This spreadsheet shows the lines, but i dont print the lines. It's a blank except the bolder lines.

I would set it up in Excel. I have a "Bullet Journal" but it's my own take on a true Bullet Journal. First is designing is determine what information you want and IF you want separate areas for it. Do you want catagories in a book, eg. Medical, birthdays, hikes, bike rides etc etc. or do you want to do it linear by date...that's me. There is drawbacks to that. If i had a Dr's appt and wrote the results and three months later I want to remember it, I wont. Well, okay, I also have that on a calendar, but other things I mean. Do you want to hand write it or make it electronic (it would give you tons of sorting/retrieving options that hand writing doesnt). Below is my bullet journa. you will see there is no verical border line by thurs/fri. that's where the page ends. this is two pages and I coil bind them (with a cover and when you copy on the printer you are putting the paper through twice, once to get the one side and again to get the other side on the back, so that the pages work in order. thing i do to set up (because the pages are generic): I put the date number beside the week (eg. MON 26) above the days of the week line I actually write the week (eg. June 26 -July 02, 2023) the first little set of rectangle boxes are my work days and hours....I have start times (which change often) and no end times so it's blank. the big section is where I write everthing I have to do that day or want to remember below is my workout stuff below that was when I had medical stuff or recovery physio stuff I had to do the second page is straight forward you can see what I use it for I make a small circle then write the task and when I'm done the task I color in the circle so i know it's done. Undone stuff get transfered to another day. I used a traditional bullet journal and it did not work for me at all, but I used it for 6 months to see what I liked and what I didnt and what wasnt working about it. This is more my style and I refer back to pages in it often. But it doesnt help if you want to remember when you last went to..(insert some place) but dont remember when. that's when maybe a binder with an overview month (1 page calendar) and then broken down into catagories using a binder. So you could look for what ever it was you wanted over 12 pages of the calendar and then from there you'd know where to look, whether by date or by subject. One thing I know is this kind of journalling is ever evolving until you find something that works for you. I have journalled my workouts (I call it a log book) for almost 30 yrs now. But the bullet journal is only about 5 years. I was a list person, but my lists were various little pieces of paper and I was always losing them. This book just contains them. You know yourself best, try to figure out the method that YOU will use. And you will have to tweak it to make it just right.

I remember you telling about your digi scrap spreadsheets. How cool to have all the info at a glance. I always think I will remember, or I write info on a piece of paper when I'm doing a layout. then of course I lose it, or recycle it. and it takes me right back to thinking, why didnt I set up one like you did. Originally I thought it would be an onerous task to go back and figure out what I used/did. But now I realize I should start from now and go on and not worry about what I did before. If at all possible, would I be able to see a little snip of part of a spreadsheet to get an idea of what info I want to collect and how to set it up. but not when you are so busy right now, when you are back to scrapping again. thanks

That's really cool. I like the shadowing on the cup/saucer too. I think I need to schedule in time regularly for Vector practice/play. This will also help me going forward with the LABS because they have Vector Tuts in them too.

I know what you mean about the job. Sometimes I wish i was retired, but then that means I'll be that much older. I still maintain to my friends I'm going to win the lottery...WITHOUT buying a lottery ticket (I dont buy them), then i'll have all the time in the world...I hope. ? Glad to see you carved out some PSP time. I took the day off today and finally going to choose the RAW editing software I will go with (Looks like ON1is in the lead - it's the most like Lightroom...but a standalone..and on sale!).

Hahahaha, that is hilarious!

Good to hear your husband is doing fine. That must be a relief. Hope you enjoy the Vector workshop. It was a real eye opener for me. I loved it...even the hard parts.

Lesson 7 Extra I used a preset shape and the Hue Map to change the colors of the beads. Added bevel on the wire part and shadows and placed on lightly textured background. Thunder and lightning, it's 1am and I cant sleep. gotta get up at 5am. I'm going to tired tomorrow. Thank you Carole, this was a great eye-opening workshop. I never thought I would understand Vectors and managed to bumble through them in the few labs I've done. This workshop has given me more confidence in using them.

Lesson 7 This is cool. I had only used the knife once before for a lab. I did have to duplicate the 'S' vector layer twice for each side of the 2. It is hard to grab the right nodes to peel back. I had less than 50% average for grabbing the right one. And sometimes had to make the only one I could grab (the wrong ones) shorter so I could see the other node. Is there another way to do it? I need to still make the multi colored beads. Might get it done tonight. I loved this class. I sure was clueless about Vectors before, now I'm a little more informed. One key thing I learned...when I want to "convert to path" I need to switch to the pen tool. I kept forgetting it and that option would be greyed out. Questions: in case they are burried in my text above and you miss them. Is there an easy way to select the right node after using the knife tool. what if the wrong one (the one you want to keep) is ontop? can I shorten it a bit so I can grab the node I want? Is this correct? when I want to convert to a path I ALWAYS need to switch to the pen tool?

I love the textures in this and how the wire for the beads is oxidized. Great background.

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. ?