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Minka, to answer your question, I am using an old Wacom tablet. It is set on my desktop, and I have no mouse plugged on that computer (other than the mouse that CAN be used on the tablet, but I NEVER use it). My suggestions are these:
– find a comfortable place to set it up. I have tried putting it on the right of my keyboard, but it didn’t feel comfortable or natural. I ended up setting it right in front of me, on the drawer that is supposed to hold the keyboard. I find that it feels just like writing on a piece of paper in front of me. Then, I moved the keyboard on the desk itself.
– hide your mouse for a while. Force yourself to use the tablet for a while. It can be used with PSP for sure, but it can also be used everywhere else: text documents, surfing the net, etc. It can take you a good week at least to start getting comfortable with using the stylus instead of the mouse.
– get acquainted with the options of your tablet and stylus. Some will have a way to replicate the right-click, some will have a button for Back (like when you navigate on a browser), some will need you to touch the tablet others allow you to just hover. Check what settings you CAN adjust also to make it more comfortable.
– practice!
Good luck!
So glad you liked my puffin Lynda, thank you. Your Arizona page is lovely and the meli-melo background paper turned out beautifully, well done Hon. <3
Thanks Dorothy! And, thanks also for the lovely pages you have created … a pleasure for me to peruse! <3
Paint Splash. coudnt get this working right, but finally there. Think my brain needs recharging xx
Thank you Annie, Pop Art interesting to do, but dont think I will do anymore, bit like my one and only grandaughter, my son said did it once and dont want to do it again xx
Trish,
I’m impressed. This photo of your granddaughter is perfect for this effect. Tell your son he did such a good job the first time perhaps he should give it another go. This little girl looks old enough to help out. Just sayin’ 🙂
Ha Ha Lyn thanks for the compliment, she will be 26 in a couple of months and living in London , bit scary at this time.
he would rather give birth to a racing bike, loves getting his knee down as he seys.
Well another project done, I Blueprint, I have the script, but I think this has come out better than any I have done by the script, although I use that on older, complicated buildings, so might make a difference. will have to try it on this photo.this from the script, only took 2 minutes
This is a very rough draft of an attempt at northern lights.
You can’t really see the starry sky with this thumbnail, but if you click on the pic, you can see it. I did the sky by adding noise to a black fill, then adjusting the levels (Adjust>Brightness/Contrast>Levels) to get more black & a random scattering of stars. Then for the northern lights, I used the Ionized brush in the Particle Shop plug-in (which came with my PSP2020). I then added a motion blur, but it didn’t do exactly what I wanted, so I added more blur by using gaussian blur.
(I don’t think I know how to use the motion blur correctly. What I was trying to do was blur the brush stroke in a vertical manner. It did it a little, but not enough, which is when I added the gaussian blur as well.)
Anyway, this is just from playing around & it’s not good enough to use a paper yet, but I wanted to post it here because I think the Ionized brush is really cool.
If anyone has better ideas on how to do northern lights, please let me know. 🙂
P.S. I watched a Photoshop tutorial on how to do the starry sky. Using PSP, I had to play around more with the levels, but the tutorial gave me the gist. If there is a tutorial here on how do a starry sky, let me know, because I would much prefer to follow Cassel’s PSP tutorials, not Photoshop.
I just posted a comment with a pic, but now I can’t see it. Can anyone see a post from me right above this one?
Trish,
That’s funny…. It never crossed my mind that this was not a recent photo. I imagine she grew into a beautiful young lady.
BTW I really like your Pop Art too.
Colleen,
This came into my e-mail but I can’t see anything posted here although I clicked on your link in the e-mail. Very strange!
Nice job with the paint splash effect Trish. I hope your granddaughter is safe and well in London … terrible times for all. Stay safe my friend. <3
Hi Colleen. I cannot see a post from you and unlike Lynda I did not receive an email. A similar thing happened to me a couple of months ago and I figured that it had to do with 2 people posting at exactly the same time. One post seems to go through but the other misses. Just my observation Hon. <3
Thanks Lynda! I’ll post it again…
This is a very rough draft of the northern lights in a starry sky. (You’ll need to click on the pic to see the stars).
I couldn’t find a starry sky tutorial for PSP, so I looked at a Photoshop tutorial, just had to make a couple adjustments for PSP. I did the starry sky by adding noise to a black canvas and then adjusting the levels (Adjust>Brightness/Contrast>Levels) to get more black & less white, for scattered stars.
Awhile ago, I was playing around in the Particle Shop brush plug-in that came with my PSP2020 and loved what the Ionized brush did, to me it looked like the start of northern lights, so I wanted to try to create a paper.
After creating the northern lights, I added a motion blur, then a gaussian blur. Sidenote: I’m not doing the motion blur correctly, because I wanted a vertical blur, but couldn’t get it right, which is why I added the additional gaussian blur.
This was just practice and not good enough for a paper. I’ll have to play around more.
P.S. If anyone knows a better way to do a starry sky & northern lights, please let me know. And/Or if there is a tutorial for either of those in here, let me know, because I obviously couldn’t find it when I did a search 🙂 .
Let me know what you think, if you think it looks like a good start.
Thanks Annie! It’s happened to me before also, so I’ll try to remember that as being the possible reason.
I went ahead and posted it again.
Thank you for the tips, Cassel. I’m going to set it up right here … but I can foresee a bit of frustration coming on! LOL Now might be just the right time as we are already frustrated. Be a good diversion. Thanks again.
My niece and nephew contemplating the Covid 19 situation. He is working from home; she is taking online classes. Mom took the picture…while they were walking. Actually, I don’t know what they were thinking but this was just 2 days ago and we are social distancing.
Colleen,
Your Northern Lights look pretty good. We get them here (Illinois) every once in a while and your colors look good. Ours are not quite as vivid but that doesn’t mean they are not in other parts of the world.
Understated and beautifully done Bonnie … the photo speaks for itself. I love what you have done with this, well done Hon. <3
Most of the month was spent hunkered down in Lab 5. Tonight I finished Module 11I guess I was a bit slap- happy tired because this is what ended up as the fun font..
I should have called in monster mash after mixing a metafile with a vector with a picture tube and an old paper.
I hope you all get a smile out of this one LOL
(LOVELO is the font.)
I made an alpha following Cassel’s tutorial in Master Class for Monogramming in Style. I created a patchwork paper and then went to work. Boy oh boy … it did take an age to create the full alpha. I am just glad that the font I used (Oliver) did not have lower case otherwise it would have taken another couple of days, lol! Thanks for takin a peek!
Michele, thank you very much!
Lynda, thank you! You’re so lucky that you’ve seen them! I live in the Indianapolis area, so I have yet to see them. It is on my bucket list. Oh and yes, the ones I made are too bright, but once I feel comfortable w/the blurring & placement, I’ll play around with the opacity.
Annie, thank you! And I love the alpha you made!
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