Espresso for June 20 :)

[kim]

Morning! :)

Our Espresso for today is:
Free Weave QuickClick (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2828) for chatters this morning (June 20th, 8AM EST) only
http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2828
http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/images/templates/06_T_Weave.jpg (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2828)

Use this quickclick with the Vintage Reds Backpack (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2832) to create a layout :)

http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/images/backgrounds/06_B_VintageReds.jpg (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2832)

Post to the Digital De*Lights Gallery by next Tuesday for a posting bonus. :)
Digital De*Lights Gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=940)

[elizabethlmccoy]

oh kim i just had to rave about the vintages reds back pack!! it's truly inspired...wonderful work!!!!

I'm working on a layout with one of my parents wedding photos and the colors in the backpack are perfect!!! sooo sooo beautiful...thanks!!

[scraplikecrazy]

Kim, I want to know how you get your text to curve like that. I do the text curve thing in PSE 4.0, but not like that. I'm talking about on the sample quick clicks

[elizabethlmccoy]

text on a path! it's a new featured introduced in pscs2 it's sooo lovely.

[Just Jan]

I was coming to ask about the text myself. So I guess we can't do that in PSE4?

I have another question. I have all my layers done for the QC but now when I try to add some other elements my qc layers are all moving around and it won't let me move the new element. Should I merge/lock my layers before trying to add something new?

Thanks for any help :)

[elizabethlmccoy]

sometimes i find that easier first i link my paper/photo layer to the matching white space layer from the quick click then I'll lock those in place if i still find i'm having trouble by accidently picking up the wrong layer.

If you have opacity turned down a bit it sometimes has trouble picking up that layer...i usually turn back up the opacity to move then lower it once i've got the element/photo, etc where i want it.

[elizabethlmccoy]

CHECK OUT THIS TUTORIAL FOR PUTTING TEXT IN A CIRCLE IN PS BUT IT SHOULD WORK FOR PSE:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/university/tutorials/ps_textincircle_mb.shtml

if you do the same text over and over you can make it in a circle like this and then just make the circle large enough to run around the edge of the paper and it can run right off the page.

[dathamary]

Did anyone else have trouble downloading the back pack? I got the zipped file, but when I tried to unzip it, I got a prompt to insert a disk. What can I do?

[Just Jan]

Thanks Elizabeth - I will try your suggestions. :)
Suzanne - mine downloaded without a problem. Somebody will be able to help you shortly.

[elizabethlmccoy]

did click save to disk? You just need to pick a folder on your harddrive.

Did anyone else have trouble downloading the back pack? I got the zipped file, but when I tried to unzip it, I got a prompt to insert a disk. What can I do?

[loonyhiker]

Here's mine!
Graveyard Fields

[Just Jan]

Pat - your link isn't working :(

[sammdc]

will definitely grab these 2 from the store after work today and have a go.

[dathamary]

I downloaded the zipped folder and saved it, but when I tried to open it, a prompt came up that said "Please insert the last disk in the collection"

[cybergram]

Here is my weave & Vintage Reds layout, what fun this was. Our dear grandson & his friend having a cookie after a rough afternoon of playing!!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107786&cat=940&limit=recent

Nancy
aka cybergram

[Ms M]

Here is my LO using the two kits, plus a few other things Kim has made over the past months!! Love the backpack and I never know what to do with reds... but I felt good about these papers. Thanks Kim!!

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107801&limit=last7

[mrichar383]

My lo:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107802&nocache=1

[paulaoneil]

I keep forgetting to link in the forums! Must be my doddering old age! Here's my layout for this weeks lo

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107613&cat=500&ppuser=11546

[sammdc]

wow had problems deciding on a picture for this one just made everything look faded and dull.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107895&cat=940&limit=recent

[loonyhiker]

Sorry guys! I don't know what happened to my link! I think it went....LOONY!

Graveyard Fields (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107721&cat=940)

[jpysgrl]

I really love this BackPack...:) and of cource your QC's.
Here's mine..
Falling Asleep (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107902&limit=recent)

[cheecheongfun]

Here's mine.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107913&cat=500&ppuser=13309

[cheecheongfun]

Hi this is my layout.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107913&nocache=1

[oydiegirl]

This is mine
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107925&cat=2571&limit=recent
It's in a different gallery, is that all right for the posting bonus? It's doing triple duty :)

*edit* OK I just moved it over to this gallery so it's in the right one now :D

[kim]

Hey Maria,

Just make a path and then when you click on it with your text tool, don't click inside...click on the line :) then type. :)

Kim, I want to know how you get your text to curve like that. I do the text curve thing in PSE 4.0, but not like that. I'm talking about on the sample quick clicks

[kim]

Dathamary, Just try deleting that file and downloading again. :) If you still have trouble, try opening in another zip program.

[Corgi Lover]

Here is my layout! Thanks Kim! :) :) :) :) :)

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107934&cat=940

[dathamary]

I finally got it to work. Thanks everybody for all your help. I think it was because I was saving it to a disk. When I just put it on the hard drive, it worked ok.

[alamodedesigns]

Here is mine:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108054&cat=940

[scraplikecrazy]

Okay, here is mine, I don't see too many other links here but see posts in the gallery, am I posting in the wrong place, I'm ususally pretty good about that, but have been known to post in twilight zone.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108091&cat=940&limit=recent

[Mountain_Eyes]

My layout Brother & Sister (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108347&cat=940) using Kim Liddiard's Weave Quick Click (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2828) and Vintage Reds Backpack (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2832)

[moog25]

Here's my layout for this week:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108359&cat=940&limit=recent

[kthisted]

oops 1 Just realized i hadn't put a link here. Here is mine with Weave and vintage reds (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107767&cat=500&ppuser=35551).

[MaureenH]

I did a two page layout with one photo from 1962 (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108484&cat=940) and the other from 2001 (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108485&cat=940) with Weave Quick Click and Vintage Reds Backpack

[Many Feathers]

Here's mine for Weave QC and Vintage Reds Backpack:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108653&cat=940&limit=recent

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108654&cat=940&limit=recent

[ballykissangel]

Here's my Weave QC using the Vintage Reds Backpack:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108757&cat=940&limit=recent

I haven't had a problem with a QC yet but this one just isn't working right for me. It is so very washed out. I tried 5 different photos and they all looked faded. The one in the layout example is very bright and colorful and the other postings look good. I can turn off the overlay on the 2nd layer to fix the washed out look there but can't do it on the top layer. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? I don't like this faded look at all.

[loonyhiker]

When mine looked like that, I realized I had the overlay in the wrong spot. I think I had to move it below the weave. I hope this helps.

[Many Feathers]

Bally, I think the difficulty is that the shading on the overlay...in order to get the weave look, cuts down on the brightness or saturation of the photo. Just up the saturation or contrast in your original photo and then it will show through. Perhaps that should be added to the instructions on this one... Will look forward to Kim's comments...

[moseycat]

I hope I can play even if I can't attend the chats...work you know! Here's my layout"
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109106&cat=940&limit=recent

Karen

[flrebareba]

here is mine the M&M cookies
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109011&cat=500&ppuser=39480

and another one too the humming bird
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=108013&cat=500&ppuser=39480

[LisasMom]

I think my layout may be a little different usage of the word art with the weave and kind of picture than most but it fits so perfectly! My son used to be afraid of **everything**! Then one day, it just all ended; he wanted so badly to see what was at the bottom of the hill in the woods next to the river, that he went hiking down there with no fear of spiders or snakes or anything! It was such a blessed day!


http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109131&cat=940&limit=recent

[Just Jan]

Here is mine for this week. I really love this one but am frustrated trying to add some little details. I am putting it aside to try again at a later date.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109168&cat=940&limit=recent

[alamodedesigns]

Beautiful layout and use of kits.

[scraplikecrazy]

By the way, I didn't get my posting bonus, usually get it by now. Did I get missed, or is it not out yet?

[elizabethlmccoy]

here is my layout I finally got it done....thanks to tina's great word art.

I used the weave quick click and the focal point quick click along with the vintage reds back pack

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109323

[kim]

You are right, Many Feathers. :) Bally, If you have photoshop or photoshop elements, you can change the blend mode on that layer to multiply and it will just darken and lighten with less of the grey shadow effect. :)

Bally, I think the difficulty is that the shading on the overlay...in order to get the weave look, cuts down on the brightness or saturation of the photo. Just up the saturation or contrast in your original photo and then it will show through. Perhaps that should be added to the instructions on this one... Will look forward to Kim's comments...

[kim]

You didn't miss out :) I have been away for a funeral. Please watch for them later this week. :)

By the way, I didn't get my posting bonus, usually get it by now. Did I get missed, or is it not out yet?

[Pam]

The papers are beautiful and the template was easy to use - a fun combination! My page here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109399).

[maliaperry]

here's my layout. Loved the quick click! This was my first time trying them -- pretty cool!

My Layout (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109324&cat=500&ppuser=34460)

[shintze]

Sorry it's late Kim, had major computer problems. Finally got it done.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109430&cat=940

Thanks again, I just love your chats and your work.

Sue ^i^

[penelapop]

Dear Kim,

I am sorry I cannot do your Quick clicks but Bally just sent me a tutorial with step by step instructions of doing it she made it herself and it is very good. I still have to figure a few things out but excellent for people who know more about Photoshop.

I uploaded my disaster so that all could see that I tried. It has a queer sence of appeal
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109301&cat=500&ppuser=41572

Here are my LO s for this week

Alhttp://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109932&cat=500&ppuser=41572so


And the second one is
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=109933&cat=500&ppuser=41572