Ann Seeber

Michele: Wow! I always love your designs; they usually have lots of WOW factor. ;-)

 

Tell me, what is a "text cutter" that you mentioned? Does it give the text that raised, 3-D look you achieved?

Carole/Cassel: Thank you! It turned out to be the Blend Mode was set to Color. When I put it at None, then it worked! Hooray! :-)

Carole/Cassel: I've been tweaking this so much I thought I'd post it again, especially since I have a question. I have tried to select an area where I want to flood fill with a different color but the flood fill does nothing. I had to resort to the paintbrush, which worked, so I don't think there was something wrong with my selection. So, what gives with my flood-fill? It happened with 2 separate designs. Here's the revised Flower Bros. - I had forgotten to put an element in the top corner of the photo frame. So here you go..

Bootcamp-Project 5 ~ Here are my Flower Bro grandsons, the infamous dancers who strewed flower petals at my granddaughter's wedding in June. (The wedding guests were laughing out loud!)

 

I used the same background and frame from the previous layout for the wedding preparations. The flowers are Tubes and I reduced the saturation. The title font is Dingo Nursery (shh-don't tell the Bros!) I liked that font because though the letters are bold they aren't solid and you can see what's behind them.  The brads came from one of my wedding kits.

Susan, I have used hex codes in the past when I was creating web pages with Adobe Dreamweaver and of course in PSP's color wheel, but for Hue/Saturation/Lightness the codes are different and they are on that chart also. Enjoy!

Susan, I found this chart on the web that gives the values for Hue/Saturation/Lightness. I keep it bookmarked on my browser under Classes/Resources. Otherwise I was stumbling around trying to arrive at a color in a hit or miss fashion. PSP is very good with precise directions. ;-)

Thanks, Susan! I appreciate your kind words. I did apply a PSP frame. I use them all the time. In fact, any time there's a frame in a kit I pull it into PSP and export it as a Picture Frame. This one I also used the Adjust-Hue/Saturation/Lightness for the first time to make it match the blue in the maid-of-honor's dress.

My turn. I used 3 photos from my granddaughter's recent wedding that were taken before the ceremony and reception. I snagged a photo on the website of the wedding venue: Silver Birches in Mt. Arial, PA. I made it my background and while lowering the opacity I also used the Luminance (Legacy) treatment on the layer. Well, now I had something similar to Grayscale so I went with it. The headline is actually Word Art from a wedding kit. The top photo is the bride and her sister who was her maid of honor. The left hand photo shows: l-r My daughter (mother of the bride), my granddaughter (the bride), the bride's sister (maid-of-honor), the bride's brother and last but not lease, Riley, the ring bearer (dog). On the right are my grandson and myself. I made the striped paper using a selection from the photo with me in it. I used the directions for making a plaid but stopped halfway when you have stripes. Enjoy!

I haven't had time to create a new layout but here's my granddaughter from last year. She's a Speech Language Pathologist in a hospital in Palo Alto, California. The details are on the layout. She is still working with Covid-19 patients who lose their ability to swallow and talk after enduring intubation for weeks at a time. She's my Hero!

 

I just did a double-take! This is the same as the current layout we are working on in September's Bootcamp. :-)

Sue: I like your clean-limbed layout. That tag is beautiful! I know you can correct the spelling on Juvenile but other than that, your design is perfect. Unfortunately, I think I've seen the last of my hummers though my feeder is still up till the end of September to catch any stragglers from Carole's neighborhood. ;-)

Project 3 - The Three Musketeers [Revised]- my great-grands. Whereas both girls, Magic and Sonya, are walking now. Logan is only 7 mos. so we have that to look forward to. The animal totem silhouettes and the mandala were my idea when they were born and I have used them before.

Oh, feel better soon, Wanda (Sue) McGuire! That sounds awful; praying it's not Covid as there are too many stories about lingering effects...take your time, this Bootcamp goes for awhile yet.  Tea and toast and all that.. ;-)

Anita: I used to drive through the Hamlet of Wallkill on my way to SUNY New Paltz when we lived in Warwick. I was dipping my toes back into school after many years of working and since I had never finished the first time around I was determined to take it up again. I did finish my AA degree in Visual Communications/Graphic Arts in 2000. I used to go to the Galleria Mall, especially to the AMC movie theater there which now has 16 screens. After enduring lockdown for the last 18 months it all seems like a dream now. I love  your design using New York City; one the the greatest places in the world, in my opinion!

Cassel: I've never heard you mention Edit/Copy Special/Copy Merged. I've found it to be very useful when I have a layered file and want to transfer it elsewhere but don't want to merge my original.

Anita: Your page is very effective. I do love NYC; we used to go there weekly for film screenings. I live about 60 miles north of that city in Middletown, Orange County. Were you nearby?

Bootcamp Project 2 - Adventure. On Monday I looked out my kitchen window and there they were, my neighborhood Striped Skunks. Their fur looks positively luxurious! Luckily my little iPhone XS takes pretty good photos in the middle of the night (3am), Following Cassel's style for this layout, I used parts of my Animal Kingdom kit (papers and embellishments). I felt I needed a border around the photo so I used Select/Modify/Select Selection Borders set to 20 px. and flood-filled it with white. The headline font is Foglihten No 7 that I duplicated in black and in white and offset the white. The font on the right is my old standby Copperplate Gothic Bold.

Sad to say I had to do a revision for my Siamese Fighting Fish Red Wolf, the Betta. He jumped to his death while I was  out today and it was too late when I found him :'-(

Bootcamp Project 1 - I ran out of new great-grands so I've moved on to wildlife and pets. Here is my Eve, who doesn't sing. The song "Soft kitty" is from the tv series, Big Bang Theory, which is my go-to show when I don't have anything else to see or just want to relax and laugh. I made the background paper with an addition of fur texture, the white strip is from the famous linoleum pattern that Cassel teaches. The headline font is Curlz and the text on the right is Copperplate Gothic Bold. I had used the musical notes in a layout last year. At that time they were not available as a PSP Tube. They are now, though, with a special tutorial on how to use them.

Mary Solaas: Ok, you got me. I only have one napkin and decided it was too distinctive (see, YOU remembered it!) plus the colors didn't work, so I left it out this time. Here it is if you need it... ;-)

Great work, everyone. Now that you have all made me hungry I'll break for dinner. See you tomorrow!

Sue, I got an email with the layers exercise today. Check it out.

Here's my table and sandwich layers exercise.

 

As I've done several of these each one gets more elaborate!

 

I still don't like my pickles ON my sandwich. ;-)

Nadine: I find your designs to be very striking and effective. A wonderful example of what can be done with our own creations. Je suis tellement désolé pour vos pertes. :-(

Cyndi: I had a new experience the other day; I found a neat tool. Under Edit/Copy there is Copy Special and one choice is Copy Merged so you get everything on the copy but don't have to merge the original file and can then paste it where you want. Isn't that neat?

I'm here, too, for the 6th time! ;-) I have new photos to showcase and these layouts always give me a good start. Here's Logan, my newest great-grand, now 7 months, wearing his peas. :-)