To Cassel: Thank you! With only two days of tutorials, I was able to take a template I downloaded from the loulou site, make four masks (for the water and the three head shots) AND add the striped background paper. I’ve used the texture part of the color palette, but not the pattern part until yesterday when we made plaid paper. I was amazed and delighted to find out that I can open any paper I want in my work space and it will appear in the pattern part. All I have to do is choose it and then “pour” the design onto the background layer. More digital magic!
I was really happy to find out that I can use templates in PaintShopPro. I’ve grouped the pictures I’ve taken of my grandchildren over the past eight years by subject, e.g. swimming or riding bikes, and then I have put them in chronological order–I think it’s fun to watch them doing the same thing at different ages. I want to make each grouping into cohesive scrapbook pages and that’s where I’ve run into trouble–the cohesive part. I veer all over the place in my designs. I think using templates and sticking to a limited number of papers and embellishments–and a consistent font–will help me reach my goal.
About the kind of weird-looking pictures: When the photos I take aren’t up to par, I sometimes play with scripts to see what effects I can get. These were done with a comic script I had loaded into one of my earlier versions of PaintShopPro.
Barbara
