Susan Ewart

Here is my redo for Day 9 project 4.  I managed to get the flood fill to work.  At first it was a bit translucent on one.  I understand now that you need to be precise where you put the tool.  In the end I got it.  turns out I didnt like overlapping the pictures.  At least for this project.  I spent a lot of time with shadow settings and didnt find that it was shadowing properly, still looked like it was possessed and floating to high above the paper.  Thank goodness for the downloadable PDF that comes with the Basic Course!  I used shadow on another layer and at first tried to use the warp brush and found that was a hot mess.  So then i just grabbed the shadow and pushed it up closer to the letter.  I'm not sure you can really see the shadow.  But hoping it looks better.  Made the pictures bigger too.

Thank you Cassel, I see the shadows on "Bees"...I think the word is possessed! that's why it's levitating, kidding of course.  Please continue to be picky about shadows, like you and Cristina said, it's about the little details.  I never noticed it, too much time looking at the layout made me stop "seeing" it.  I will do a re-jig tomorrow and try changing the pictures too.

Corrie, thank you, I will look up Creative Fabrica

 

Ann, I did buy PSP 2021 for the same reason.  My image file size is large (5100x3400 approx.) to start with and I tend to crop in camera (with a bit around for what you lose in making prints).  Years as a photofinisher showed me all too well about enlarging and loss of resolution.  I'm hoping the new AI in 2021 is as good as I want it to be. thank you for the warning about the install, I will stay calm and carry on.  Okay, probably not.

 

Do you still leave the match mode (hope this is the right thing) to opacity?  I had tried doing that but I am sure my clumsy over-excited clicky fingers messed it up.

Martin this is really nice.  I agree that I would like to learn to make my own elements/papers.  It's often hard to find what you need.

That looks good Dennis, the plants at the bottom really feel like they are swaying in the tide.  I love Aquariums of any kind.

 

Corrie, I keep coming back to look at your succulent page, it's so pretty

 

Hank, those photo's are interesting, I'm going to guess you are a musical guy.  Really love the middle photo.

Oh, Ann, you gave me a heart but best of all a CAT!  I love all animals and grew up with dogs, but have cats since I moved out (waaaay back) and am looking forward to my next career as a crazy cat lady.  How do I get paid for that?

Here is my Day 9 project 4.  I'm not happy with it yet.  I think the pictures need to be bigger, and maybe overlapped like Ann did with the bees ( I love that).  I put the butterfly in to show that time flies fast at the golden hour.  I made the "Bees" text another Vector layer so I could shadow it without shadowing the words around it.  I love the fonts everyone else has, where do you get them?  I used what is with PSP 2020. (side note: I had some amazon GC's and used it to buy PSP 2021, hoping it comes with more fonts).  Everything came from Pixel Scrappers. The photo's are mine.  I never think to overlap the photo's unless it's in the lesson.  I hope to do more of that, it looks really good.

 

I agree with Ann, I had forgotten about the white borders and I think I will use them a lot.  This is also why going through the bootcamp more than once is really helpful.

 

Question about borders:  What are the settings for putting borders outside the photo as I don't like to lose from the photo as I did in these ones.  Can I add another border to the photo that has a border for two colors, like a thin matt and the frame.

Oh my gosh Ann.  Yes, I meant you and I'm so sorry about the faux pas on your name.  No excuse for that.  Not only do I need to pay attention in PSP (what tool is active, what layer is active etc) I need to pay attention PEROID!

Janet, loving memory perserved.  It's beautiful.

 

Neala, what a beautiful page and a beautiful way to honor your memories of Twinkie.  It's hard losing them.

 

Nonie, your candy page looks so delicious!  I wish it was Christmas.

 

Everyones pages are so awesome, it was nice to come home from an unpleasant evening at work  and see these images before I drifted off to bed.  Now i must get to my project!

 

 

Anne, that is STUNNING!!!!

Wendy, that is an adorable page.  thank you Cassel for clearing up the materials palette for me.  It's nice to know when it matters  when you use the foreground vs. background and when it doesn't.  I'm going to also try the flood fill again with the setting you suggested.

 

 

Euka, the story of your PSP getting "stuffed up" sounds like me.  Generally technology doesn't like me.  I am determined to tame my PSP.  I've had to scrap the page I was working on before, hoping I don't ever have to re-install PSP.  I'm finding the second time through the bootcamp I'm noticing more stuff that I had forgotten or didnt realize was as important as it is.

 

Hi Wendy, I'm your provincial neighbour to the West (Alberta).  Your sandwich looks yummy.

 

 

Thank you Cassel.  I will keep this note about the flood fill on my cheat sheet (thank goodness for cheat sheets).    Another question about that dastardly materials palette.  Does it matter which one you use, foreground or background?  Do you use only "foreground" for certain things and never for other things, same applies to the "background"?  How do I know when to use "foreground" or "background"?  Foreground and background in photography are very different things so that's why I'm confused.  In PSP it has the same names but it doesnt seem to mean the same thing.  Sorry for all the questions. I previously had lots of problems even making the materials palette work, it's coming along smoother now.

 

About the linking and merging.  I knew one was not the one I wanted to use and I suspected it was MERGE.  But I couldn't remember how to LINK 4 layers together to make the move I needed to make.  Glad I'm finding this out in the classroom setting.  This is the best place to make these mistakes, while you (and everyone else) is here to guide me.  I'm really glad I am going through this course again.  I was like a deer in the headlights for the first one and now I'm a little more comfortable so the lessons and what I need to pay attention to are sinking in more.

 

 

I'm from St. Albert, Alberta, Canada for the past 8 yrs.  Most of my life in British Columbia in various cities in the Fraser Valley just outside Vancouver or in the Thompson/Okanagan areas (Kamloops, Chase, Kelowna, Vernon).

Neala, thank you.  I'm not sure what float/deloat is but will endeavor to find out.  It's a cool effect

 

Marvin, I really like your layout, love the warmth from the glitter frames.  And beautifully white snow, not always the case with snow photo's.

 

Nonie, your layout is heartwarming and I love the design of it.

 

Ravin, thank you for the compliments.  I totally feel your pain, the same thing happens to me.  In fact on the yellow flower, when I "thought" I was done I looked a little closer and saw 2 letter "k's".  I have no clue how I did that.  But I suspect I am on one tool and then go to "pick" something (thinking I'm on the pick tool) and then I get into trouble that way.  First I do CTRL-D to deselect....just in case (not because I think it's the right thing to do, figure it doesn't hurt to do it), then undo or delete the layers and start again.  I'm interested to see if it can be determined what we are doing.  I probably need to slow down and talk my way through it so I don't forget steps or what where I am (tool-wise).

Here is my day 7 project 3.  I kept the reddish background paper hidden until the end and worked mainly with the green background.  It was neat to do that because then I could see what background I liked best.  Probably the green one still.  I had some problems with the flood fill procedures and was crazily clicking away and it worked...only i have not idea how it worked.  I'm still unsure about those two boxes in the materials pallet and when you use the top one or the bottom one.  More practice needed when there isnt a deadline. the bottom right corner needs something but I couldnt find anything I liked that would fit my theme.  the fonts are Wide Latin and I used an inner bevel (settings from the cheat sheet - thank you Cassel for the  Basic Scrap Course).  Both background papers and the yellow flower is KMRD Steampunk kit, Green flower is Sahin Designs, Wires and glitter paper Marisa Lerin, light brown paper Digi Dewi, dk brown paper APJess.  All from Pixel Scrapper.

 

Glass art and wood plinths are a collaboration of Melanie Rowe (all glass) and myself (wood plinths and photography). Goddess quote from Marion Zimmer Bradley.

 

Ravin, love the fur paper.  Porthos - friend to all, love it.

 

Neala, how did you get those rounded corners on the glitter paper?  I like your color choices

 

Janet, this is a beautiful layout, your color sense is inspiring.

 

Cassel, I linked/merged the photo's and glitter paper because I need to move it over, can they be un-merge to be separate layers again in case I want to tweak them?

 

Beautiful layouts from everyone.

Dennis, what a difference that makes.  It's nice to see the two versions.  I like how the leaves drape over the corner.

 

I meant every word Sue.  I have done photography since my black and white developing days of high school (film) and as a mini lab supervisor at Black's Cameras for 7.5 yrs.  I took a break from photography to learn lampworking (making glass beads in the flame), glass fusing and silversmithing.  It took me back to photography to photography pieces and others works.  Now I'm back to having lots of photo's and no way to showcase them.  And being from film processing days I had no clue how to bridge the gap to the digital world until the Scrapbook Bootcamp and the Campus came at the right time.  I feel very lucky this came across my computer.  I think your 3 hour workout is much nicer than my workouts ...that are of the iron variety.  I wasn't a scrapbooker either and wanted a way to present my photography in some way, other than making physical cards.

 

I do start with a photo.  Finding the right papers/elements that all go well together is the tough part for me.  Like you say, everyone here, is here to share, help and inspire and they do that brilliantly.  I am happy to be a part of this.  Oh, I haven't forgotten about the moth I was going photograph for your identification, busy couple weeks.  hopefully I'll post to FB when I photograph it this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ravin I really like that layout.  It's really ethereal.  It does seem like a the haziness (background) of the dreamland and yet the vividness (forground) of what dreams are like sometimes.

Hi Joke,

 

Can't wait to see your pugs and really curious about the  poison dart frogs.  How do you pronounce your first name?

Cassel, your day 6 email was like it was written for me!  I constantly open a paper or element to a page, dont like it, then delete.  I thought it was just me as looking at everyone's pages makes me wonder how they get it so right so quickly. I know experience and making many pages is the key too improving.  I started using "hide layer" so I could compare one element or paper over another so I wouldn't have to go back and look for it again.  Kind of like being at the eye doctor when he says, which is clearer, 1 or 2.  I think I will try the duplicate page too.  that might be easier than filling up the layer palette with hidden layers.

Neala, I love the monochromatic in your flamingo page and the touch of blue ribbon really adds that extra wow.

thank you Cassel.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sue Thomas's work.  I haven't really been a FB person until I joined your FB group.  She is brilliant!  her photography and her layouts are outstanding.  Can you tell I'm a fan?  Pretty much everyone here and on the FB group inspires me.  and I  simply love seeing anyone's photography.  I think I'm in the right place.

Dennis, that's really pretty.

Nonie, that is so beautiful and touching.  It's hard being left behind.

 

 

Here is Day 5 Project 2.  I thought I'd get in on the rodent action too.  This is from Manning Park, BC just outside the Lower Mainland (Vancouver).  it was only an 1.5  hrs to this beautiful provincial park (from my house in Chilliwack, BC) and we went camping there every year on my birthday so I could see the ground squirrels.  Manning park is also home to many black bears and I'd be laying down photographing the ground squirrels a there would be bears walking around the day use area.  I'm not too sure about the shadows on the 2 titles.  When the title color is dark it's hard to tell there is a shadow.  Also the flowers I wondered if it was too much shadow, they look like they might be floating to high.  I used the basic shadows from my cheat sheet (from the Basic Scrap Course).

 

The papers and the flowers are from Pixel Scrapper, KMRD Steampunk kit and the textured overlay was Merissa Lerin.  some of the papers and the overlay I reduced the opacity.  I forget what font it was (oops), the photo is mine.

 

I really enjoyed logging in to see all the new layouts.  They are really inspiring, thank you all.  thank you Cassel, I will start looking at works I really like and deconstruct what I like about it. I was taught that in Photography too.  Now, I'm off to work...sniff sniff (insert sad face me).