William Overington

When one is trying to teach something, to explain something, the scenario is very different from demonstrating to an assessor that one knows the topic. It is important to give the learner time to take in what is being done. A teaching video should not be like being a contestant in a fast-moving video game. Winning with teaching is the quiet satisfaction that someone is now more knowledgeable than before the teaching took place. William

I understand that, but here is a link about filler text that might be of interest to some readers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum I did read once of a designer who used lorem ipsum text to demonstrate layout to a client, who was told firmly by the client "I don't want Latin.". So sometimes filler text in the customer's language explaining in that filler text that it is just filler text to demonstrate layout can be a wise move to avoid getting a presentation into a pickle! William

Well, Papier uses metric measurements. In fact the card size is expressed in metric measurements too, but they appear to be a translation from Imperial to metric. I was advised to use 3 millimetres, so I did. William

Mais non Madame. I have learned a new word today. A gentleman I worked for in the 1970s said "A day when you don't learn something is a day wasted." William

Previously I mentioned the following link. https://www.papier.com/portrait-photo-315 There is also a landscape full field customizable card template. https://www.papier.com/landscape-photo-313 There are other photo templates available. https://www.papier.com/photos/photo-cards More generally, there are other templates, customizable by the greeting, but a fixed image on the front. As cards can be sent direct to a recipient as an option, that is a very useful option for anyone who has difficulty getting to a post box due to the pandemic or more generally. https://www.papier.com/cards/all-cards/ William

Just for completeness, I managed to get the wifi on the computer fixed by downloading a new copy of the driver using the new computer, transferring it to this computer using a USB memory stick, then installing the new driver, then rebooting. Installing the new driver was straightforward as it was in a .exe file that upon being run, did everything that was needed to be done. This thread has been linked today from the following thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143812-informal-design-workshop-idea/ William

Here is the link. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/136552-bleed-area-issue-with-designer-bug-or-feature/ Actually I found it easily as it is in the first post in the following thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/ William

https://www.lexico.com/definition/paysage I had not met that word before. Please note the pronunciation. https://www.lexico.com/definition/paysagist Pronunciation? William

Because when I first started doing artwork for hardcopy printing using the greetings cards I did not understand how to do bleed areas. There was a thread and I may have got it wrong somehow but I did not seem to be able that way to get the colour into the bleed area. It was just before this computer went wrong with its wifi and I could not get on the internet until I managed to get a new computer and quarantine it. Prepandemic when I needed a new computer I rang Currys and a helpful lady there helped me choose a new computer and it arrived here the next day. This time I telephoned but due to the pandemic Currys was only accepting orders over the internet, but I had no internet access. When I got online again I decided that I wanted to get on with making the cards, so I built the bleed areas directly into the artwork rather than continuing to try to get it to work 'properly', if that is the way to put it. That approach worked and I now have various hardcopy prints that I have framed. I will try to find the thread and maybe I can make a fresh effort to learn how to solve the problem, if indeed it can be solved such that the colour goes into the bleed areas. William

So draw the rectangle, then use the transform panel as follows, with measurement based on the top left corner. X= -50 pixels Y= -50 pixels W= 1671 pixels H= 2271 pixels. Mix the Parchment colour and fill the rectangle with that colour. RGB 223, 209, 190 William

So where to begin. How about Parchment as the background colour as the white of the paper is not in the palette. https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/13-0908-TCX/ Start by producing a portrait format Affinity Designer document 1571 pixels wide by 2171 pixels high, measuring in pixels, at 300 dots per inch. Save as bucolic_art1.afdesign. Thus if I so choose, the artwork could be used to produce a hardcopy card using the following customizable template, with details of the artwork in the greetings section of the card, the greeting probably typeset in 18 point Garamond with letter spacing of 1.0 and line height of 1.2, with black ink. Using the artwork directly instead of a photograph. https://www.papier.com/portrait-photo-315 That artwork size is for a 7 inch high by 5 inch wide card, with a 3 millimetre wide bleed area along each edge. So I need to make the filled rectangle greater than that size so that if I export a jpg file of the artwork for the purpose of ordering a card, then the colour will cover all of the card and all of the bleed areas. I may well need that rectangle to be in a layer of its own so as to avoid it moving if I try to draw upon it. For images in this thread I can export png files 400 pixels wide. William

https://www.lexico.com/definition/bucolic https://www.lexico.com/definition/bucolically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_St._Louis_and_Western_Railroad William

Please note that the email arrived at 13:29 pm. I did not read it until some time later. I then had a look at the Pantone article, then thought of having this thread and then wrote the text and posted it. So no time to have produced anything before I posted the first post in this thread. Had I thought of an idea and produced an image before posting then the thread would not have started when it did. William

Yes, I will try to do that. I did not do anything up front so that I did not have a start on anyone else. I am trying to think of something to produce. William

I received an email today from Pantone. It is basically advertising products, yet has a link to an article too. Here is a link to the web version of the article. https://www.pantone.com/articles/colors/bucolic I appreciate that if this post were just about the article that it should then have been posted in the Resources section, but the reason that I am posting here in the Share your work section is in the hope that readers might be inspired to produce and post in this thread something made with an Affinity software program using one or more colours from only that palette. I know that the colours in the palette are displayed up front using the Fashion and Home nomenclature, but each of them, upon clicking, gives RGB colour data, though with a caveat that may or may not be important here (discuss?). Pantone often publicise a palette and a few are liked from that web page. I wonder to what extent people use them. Does anyone here ever use the palettes that are published by Pantone, whether for real work, or for fun, or maybe just to learn and gain experience? William rr

Maybe recording a video from using a 10 inch screen would produce good results? William

A different choice of gold. William

Is this a better gold to use? William

For me it is not a question of resolution, it is that it is just too tiny. I always use Affinity programs with the light background. It appears that this is not the 'hip' choice, that using that black background is mainstream. People seem to go move pointer click speed speed click as if answering an examination question for an examiner who knows the answer rather than giving people learning any time to take it in. I have tried watching some of the videos and basically have sometimes just given up. For me it needs close ups of the cascading menus and going slowly so that I can take it in, and not go fast jumping here and there. It would also help if the pointer were done much larger with the pointer glyph in the counterchanging mode so that the position of the pointer is always clear. William

I have now loaded the file into Microsoft Paint and used the colour picker and it displays as a dark yellow. William

> Does the digital archive of the British Library in your link accept PDF for upload? Yes. I have deposited lots of PDF documents over many years. I do not use the portal. From some years before the legal rules were implemented, The British Library had a voluntary system. That system involved sending a file as an attachment to an email to an email address. The practice that if the sender asked fr a receipt then an email receipt a sent. I have continued to deposit by that method and The British Library sends me a receipt each time. Not an automated receipt, but from a human. For example I deposited each of the PDF documents of my first novel upon publication. Here is a link to the novel once I had completed it. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/novel_plus.htm From June 2016 to February 2019, the period of writing the novel, there was as sort of diary page that was updated each time a chapter was published. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel.htm After I had finished the novel I missed doing it, so there is a sequel being written and published as chapters are completed. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/locse_novel2.htm The invention in the novel is real. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_research.htm I have also deposited other file types, including .TTF font files and images. > – Their website for digital archive ("Publisher Submission Portal", linked from here) is currently down, it shows a maintenance message. The screen in their introduction video seems to offer "EBook" and "EJournal" only, which might be different file formats, possibly not suitable for content with spot colors. I do not use the portal. > Do you have a link to detailed file descriptions for their upload? No. ? – Or do you want them to pick up a PDF from your website with their yearly, automatic scanning & collecting crawling procedure?> Well, they do do that, but I send in a file as an email attachment so as to ensure that legal deposit takes place and so that my work is not lost if my website were to become unavailable. William

The idea is not to gain legal protection. In any case, copyright exists automatically. The 'job' is that my original design is conserved and available to be printed even though I cannot get it printed with Pantone 8363 at the present time due to me doing my artwork as a hobby on a limited budget. So I am thinking of producing a pdf for conserving the design and a CMYK print for me to frame at home to become part of my art collection, putting a note about the pdf version and The British Library as text in the greeting section of the card. https://www.bl.uk/legal-deposit William

Can you clarify that please, as I was thinking that as the pdf file would contain the Pantone 8363 information that that would do the job. I am thinking that at a later date that file could be use to produce the desired metallic print. William

The conversation topic about typography. http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1080 William

In the artwork for greetings card thread to which I provided a link, there are artwork designs that I have produced. I found a business that supplies personalized greetings cards. There are various such businesses: many f them supply a glossy card. The business I use supplies them matt. There are various templates available to use. Some have a fixed image, and one just changes the greeting on the inside using text. Yet others allow one to customize the front of the card, mostly by adding one or more photographs to a preset template. Yet two of those templates allow total customizatiom using a full field image - one portrait format, one landscape format. Although the business advertise it all as photographs, the image does not actually need to be a photograph, as long as it is a jpg file that their system can treat in the same was as a photograph. Their staff have advised me on what I needed to do. Thus far I have got cards printed for eight different pieces of artwork. Seven ar now framed using frames that I get delivered with the grocery. The eighth has been received here and is awaiting framing. I already have the frame. The artwork is based on things that I have produced in electronic format over the years. Some relate to one of my inventions. I suppose it is what is termed 'outsider art'. I have not trained as an artist, I do not need to convince anyone that my artwork is worth printing. As long as the image is legal and I pay the fee, the image is printed for me. The present image is a confluence of several topics. I am hoping to produce a pdf, publish it on the web, and legal-deposit it with The British Library, then reference that legal deposit in the greeting text of the printed CMYK card. William