Sue - but plaids are so much fun to make!!! LOL Thanks for the tip on the block photo.  Just downloaded the Block Photo tutorial.  Thanks.  Interesting.  Watched the video.

One thing to remember is that a lot of older plugins were 32-bits and PSP2023 is only 64-bits so all those old plugins won't work in that version. That is the reason many PSP users are keeping an older version, just to use those old plugins. AKVIS has several plugins that work with PSP2023. Eye Candy can work although it is not 100% compatible with PSP: it won't add the effects on separate layers like it should (and does in Photoshop). Topaz also work for photo effects. Filter Forge is often my go-to plugin since it includes so many filters. In general, except for Filter Forge, I rarely use plugins. Others might chime in with additional plugins that work. But in the meantime, see if you can keep an older version of PSP to use those older plugins.

The only plugins I got to work in PSP 2023 are Particle Effects, which came with the download of PSP, and Filter Forge 3. I have a folder full of plugins I used to have working in my old version of PSP.  I followed a few tutorials on how to get them to work in 2023, but to no avail.   Can anybody name some of the plugins they have working in 2023, please?  Thank you! 🙂

Cheers!  Several little  details, which doesn't over crowd, or make the layout appear busy, to distract from the photos, yet makes the viewer's eye wander, to absorb the whole page.  Although the Masterclasses are great, and I love them. I  have always and still do prefer the tutorials in what was the creative scrap, and now   called the Lab.  Even though  a greal deal of the tutorials are available as scripts.  I enjoy creating my own elements. Even though I rarely use patterned papers, I have created templates for all of the  paper template tutorials in the  creative scrap and Lab.  My least favourite patterned paper is plaid.  The Robins are still here, I doubt they  will move on until the  weather is more favourable. 

Not here,  temp dropped last night to-13c.  Still high winds with blowing snow.  I've not long come in from taking pics of a lo several  Robinsl cwtched  up under the lilac hedge.