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Whew! Pant, pant. I am uploading the last one and didn’t do a couple of the things you suggested and probably screwed up or found another “creative” way to do them. A million thanks for all this and might do this all over, again, but this really cut into my sleep time, especially since my son or one of my friends would call and want to talk 4 hours. I learned many things about just doing the most basic things and what I learned about layers will keep me busy for a long time. Still confused when it comes to text on vector or raster layers for text and certain actions to take with text. Text color is still hit or miss and often jumps back to the prior settings and colors. You definitely got me started and I am grateful for all that.
Information about the picture. It was one of the zombie movies I was in and while waiting in the tent between scenes, we were all fooling around and made a zombie last dinner. That might explain the hanging rope. I was out of crosses. I haven’t been in church much since my preacher threw me out of the church when I was in high school. Some of my other pics in other projects were on other movie sets.
BTW, I just clicked on one of my pspimage files and PSP opened up, but complained it couldn’t open the file. I have opened them from inside the PSP program, but not this particular one.Looks like you just turned off the lesson area. I was just trying to start the 5th lesson. Now, I have to take it all over, again, I suppose.
To Cindy Harris,
Believe me, you are as good as anybody else in here. Everyone has gone thru what you are going thru and worse. Ask Carole questions and she will give you so much help. Look in your heart and just fly with it. don’t worry about copying, but let yourself feel it when you do things. Ask anybody else in here and I bet most of them will pour out their hearts to you. Keep going over Carole’s videos and watch carefully for little tiny things she does that you might miss and make notes. Live by the F word….Flexibility and be persistent. There will be ups and downs but eventually the ups are more frequent and higher. Every woman I know is so strong she won’t let a little thing like this defeat her. Go, Go Go!Weirdly #4 went really easily after I figured out that one thing (shift, not 6). I had to try a number of the steps over many times, but at least the whole program (PSP) didn’t come crashing down around my ears or freeze up. I didn’t get too creative and pretty much followed your design and I did all the text on one layer, but it worked and I may never understand that. Maybe it is starting to make some kind of sense and that is very frightening.
Hi Carole,
Looks like I’m stuck again. For some reason, when I put my pictures onto the colored paper, I have to use a resizer before I can even put them into PSP and finish resizing with the pick tool. Then I got to the frame and had to turn up the tolerance to 152 to get more than bits of the frame to turn white and it still has a pixel or two I couldn’t whiten. Finally, I tried to deselect that pic and go to the second, but each time I clicked on the second image, it would go back and restore the ants around the first picture, even if I moved the layer behind the colored paper. Help! I don’t want to send another monster video like last one.
I guess I was feeling cocky about getting the last episode done relatively easily, so this one gave me a good kick in the pants.
I have no idea how many times I started over completely as by the time I would save a step, errors had crept in, but I think I did learn quite a few techniques. As our first three shot, I managed a lot of problem solving, as in how to get around all of my errors that PSP had it’s own ideas about. One cute thing I learned was how to do point to point to encircle the images and saving that to flood. There are a whole pile of other things, but my mind is so numb, now, I can’t think of a thing.
It seems every time I get desperate and try making a loom video to show the steps to crash, Loom gets to be an issue and doesn’t work right until the first time I manage to get thru the project (more or less). I could publish the link to my latest in here, but since it is an hour and 41 minutes long, I will send it separately and let you trash it.
My apologies. I have to take it back. I was just looking in the wrong place. It was just a little tired out at that time.
Thanks for the tips about the leaves. I wasn’t thinking about the ‘proper’ placement in the layer pile, but trying out effects and kind of liked having them in strange places. Granted, some of my things might end up looking ‘funny’. I have only managed to download one kit…the “Summer Symphony” one, or whatever it is called. I haven’t gotten either fabric/glitter.
Ok, Just changed my photo to one slightly better and cropped it pretty heavily. The shot is only about 15 years old and I burned up the bike a couple of years ago.
I also went and figured out how to put a photo in my profile. I’m the guy in blue. The little girl graduated from college along with her mother a couple of years ago. Not a good pic and I tried to use some fill light on it, but it changed so much if I used too much that it isn’t much better than before. Unfortunately, I am behind the camera normally, so there are very few pics of me.
bcj
A hunter killed a mountain lion mama and she fell on one kitten and it died. The hunter went out the next day and got the other two kittens and brought them to the Wildlife Center and it turned out they would never be releasable, so we raised them and they finally went to a zoo when they were old enough. They have greyish blue eyes because they are blind for several weeks after birth. They were explorers and loved petting and cuddling, but not as much as a bobcat. They did sound like a chain saw when they purred. I accidently hit the send button a second time and the computer told me off.
I hope it gets thru this time. I had to add the picture, again and add some text.
A hunter killed a mountain lion mama and she fell on one kitten and it died. The hunter went out the next day and got the other two kittens and brought them to the Wildlife Center and it turned out they would never be releasable, so we raised them and they finally went to a zoo when they were old enough. They have greyish blue eyes because they are blind for several weeks after birth. They were explorers and loved petting and cuddling, but not as much as a bobcat. They did sound like a chain saw when they purred.
If I’m going to eat a sandwich, I’m going to EAT A SANDWICH! Dagwood knew what he was doing.
In retrospect, there was a lot more I might have done with your kit, but didn’t . There is a lot of creativity going on in here.
For lesson #3, I borrowed from a couple of kits. My color ring in materials never got color and I had to use the blocks, but only did the text, anyway.
You were absolutely correct, it is a really good way to learn new techniques and tools. I just hope I remember most of what I am learning.
I seem to have finished episode #3 without exploding or melting down. near the end, I did find I spelled my small letters wrong, but couldn’t get in to correct my spelling. I put e’s instead of o’s. duh.
I hope my file isn’t too large.
I thought these would be art or whatever layers, not rastor. Anyway, the sandwich turned out so hard, I bent the tines on the fork and got my knife stuck in the goodies.
It seems my first posting didn’t stick. For lesson #1, I set PSP as follows:
Complete; Untabbed; Start PSP in edit and I had three tabs, Manage, Adjust and Edit, so I turned off Manage; Work – light grey, background – medium grey; Palettes, layers, materials & tool options; Tried Classic materials, but couldn’t see a difference right off and toggled it back; all are subject to change.
Don’t know what link and unlink, or lock and unlock mean, but found I could dock palettes by dragging them to center screen and clicking the proper arrow on the box that appears. They undock if you left click and drag them, again.
Even though PSP defaulted at 200 /square in. What I saved equaled close to the original plus the layer in Mbyts
Brad
