gwen jewitt

Lesson 7 Thank you Carole for another great workshop in Vectors using Affinity everyone has had some amazing results, it's all a learning curve no matter if you are a novice or experienced . Here are my efforts for lesson 7, the letter B on the inside has a photo of my begonia from my hanging baskets which I have just hung up outside. The last one is me playing around with the pencil tool in desinger and making this flower, I added a gradient to it and an elipse in the middle which I bevelled. Thought I would add this one to my post I had been working on it earlier and forgot to add it, unfortunately when I added my shadow I didn't notice that it showed up the line underneath the beads until I posted it dah😁

Lesson 6 I did the same as Carole for the rectangle shape and I changed the colour of the beads around the letter G and added a paper for the fill.

This is all I could manage for lesson 5 it took me far longer than it should have I think my brain was scrambled. I used Triangles to draw the kite shape and tried to give the top and bottom of the kite a smooth rounded curve to make it easier for my text. I added the ribbon later and put it underneath the text. It is now 1.30am I think I should go to bed now😁

Oh! Monique I just love the image you have used and what you have done with it and a great choice of colours too, lovely work on both of them

Lesson 4 teacup with cutout , I have kept the stroke visible and added a pattern layer for the fill and a coloured ellipse at the top with the bottom of the cup to match it. the one underneath is the original tea cup.

@Cristina You hsve made a superb job of the Parrot Cristina well done your leaves are excellent too.

Lesson 3 I used 3 different leaf shapes the first I followed the steps that Carole did in the video, the other to leaves I used the brush tool to draw veins on them and added an inner shadow { I think, sometimes I forget the steps I use if I haven't written it down} I also added a yellow border around the holly leaf.

When I saw your shape Linda it really made me smile It's great I love it.

Day 2 Preset shapes. My first one I used a rectangle and kept on adding nodes until I got the shape I wanted, it took me a while to do. I selected the image and placed a picture inside the shape so that you can see what the Angel of the North is, it is 66ft tall with a wingspan of 177ft. My second preset shape is an ellipse with a fill and a stroke I used three circles for the iris and the pupil and played with some of the effects to give me the finished result, I saved both shapes to assets.

Sorry didn't see your qustion had been answered looks like mine was a long winded way round it.😁

yes it is possible you can click on any of the sizes and tpye in the size you want make sure you have it on pixelas and not mm. move along to colour and you can make it transparent by clicking the box next is the margins knock these off. You can now save the size in presets to use again. I took a screen shot the red area is where your preset is.

@MoniqueN.I don't think it matters too much Monique after all the lessons are all about doing what feels right for you.

My day 1 lesson in affinity photo great fun.

Me too.

Day 7 followed Carole on the first one just added a paper by Jessica Dunn and added a border. I chose the letter F and added begonias to one side, hanging basket from vecteezy and not sure about the background paper.

Day 6 enjoyed using the vector script ,thank you Carole for the free script. the frog was a font (EFON) the diamonds around it were from Janet Kemp digital scrapbooking. The font Unicorn Monogram was used for my Initial I used the rope from Carole and changed the colour, finally the flower with Caroles rope tube I made myself.

Day 5 I was inspired to use this photo that my son sent me on the very day we were asked to do this lesson, he snapped it on his phone while riding his bicyle up to the village hall. The photo used for the text around a circle was from unsplash by Daniel Lincoln.

@Gerry Landreth Beautifully done.

@Susan Ewart I love the shape of your tea cup Susan and a great job on the tea pot.

Day 4 , learning more every day.

Day 3 I found this one easier to do having a shape to draw around and tweak the nodes.

'What version of PSP are you using? Starting with version 2018, there is a way to get larger nodes. Check this article. Carole everything is as large as I can possibly get it, hopefully things will improve when I get my cataracts removed .

Day 2 vector shapes struggling with seeing the nodes a lot of the time but persevering Made the tea cup with circles and ellipse I know it not great but gave it a go I'm sure I will improve in time.

Not sure where to post this hopefully someone will put it in the right place. Here is the result of my heart and arrow, it took a lot of zooming in and out to connect to the nodes but finally managed it. Gave the white wavey shape a texture and added text to fit to path, flower is from digital scapbooking Maris Lerin. The arrow I just played around with the nodes and filled the shapes with a pattern.

@Cassel Okay thanks I might give that a go