Suzy

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Regardless, I dont see Particle Shop on the list at all, just PainterEss8

Susan, i bet you have Particle Shop. Go to effects > plugins > and Painter shows up, right?  Click Painter and one more fly out has Particle shop. I’m not at my computer now, so I could have made a mistake, but if you can find Painter from within PSP, click on it. That’s where you’ll find Particle Shop. They couldn’t have hidden it any deeper within the menu system if they tried!
And yes, the flower I made took 20 seconds and I used the fur brush in Particle shop. I didn’t have any dog or cat pics handy, LOL.

I would never have guessed that in a million years! Thank you, Jenifer!

25 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

WOW!  this is a stunner!  it looks like the fur brush, is it?  You look like you've been doing it for years.  Do you think a tablet would be better to use?

Yes, a tablet and a pen gives way more control.  Do you have that? Mine works, but it is from last century, and this was a mouse and my desktop. Change the size and it will hide the imperfections, not on'y of my terrible “mousing” but also jaggy edges (assuming you can find a brush that’s small enough.)

Well, THANK YOU for this! I saw the cost of the brushes (admittedly the most expensive were at the top) and never went all the way down to the bottom! AND I got 10 Free brushes on top of the 11 it came with! And this is with PSP 2022 Pro 

Here is my new hybrid - a double furry daffodil.  Made with a mouse in case you can't tell because Susan is right - controlling it is next to impossible.

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

Susan, the Haze tool is not a one shot deal, there are several sliders to adjust.

Nooooo! I know I’m not Susan, but I love one button to push. ?. 

1 hour ago, Susan Ewart said:

Just wanted people to know it can be done without the tool in case they arent going to upgrade to 2023.  

A certain person might want to know the steps to take on this because all her photos are kind of hazy. Also the difference between the haze removal and one step photo fix (the end result, not the differences in the tools used).

22 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Suzy, from what I've seen, Particle Shop is mainly specialized brushes. There's a guide to it here.

Ann, You are absolutely right. So easy! So Simple. Thank you for briging it up -- I hardly remember even downloading it. The brush (out of 11 as long as we're counting, LOL!)   I chose to work with first was "grunger" I slid the size to way high and went to town messing up a picture of a daffodil with little specs. Another one makes the kind of smoke you guys had on your tea cups in the vector class. Another one is the art brush and it looks like it mixes some colors. There are some settings, but I would probably use it to add texture to some background papers at least at first.

But 5 free extra brushes would be fun, ;)))))

P.S. Broadway engraved is at Dafont

Shoot! It really does work, doesn’t it? Last week, as late as Thursday, I could buy PSP Ultimate for $39.99 USD.  Friday it went to 59.99 and today it is 79.99!

I’m fairly sure this is because of the addition of Particle Shop as a freebie, which I already have from PSP 2022  (but not the 5 free brushes, LOL!) I need to see that video you found because I don’t recall ever opening a particle Shop. I’m not even sure how to access it!  I do want the artistic effects scripts, but once again, like the fonts, I’d like to know what they are!

And the winners are:

Monsterrat whole family

Bowlby

Yard Sale

Cafe Rojo

intimate

Butlers + Butler Stencil

and insolent 

Cassel, I think it’s like cleaning out your closet when you need new shoes. You buy the shoes first so you know how hard / deep you need to clean. ???

Here is a list of mine, but this is after years and years and years!  Cactus Jack was from 1996. It has Western Fonts.

Retro is divided into 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s. (meaning a separate Vintage on the list is a mistake)

Script is a world unto its own.  When the novelty script fonts and girl-ish novelty fonts first came on the market, the big boys like Bitstream, Linotype and Monotype didn't quite know what to do, so they added a bunch, but they didn't sell. Adobe was starting to go great guns and making inroads that way, too. Adobe was able to sell the more girly fonts, why couldn't they? (The answer is that Adobe hired more women and had more fonts designed by women)  So the big houses would have these contests, and I might have been the only person who entered because I won a whole bunch of them, week after week. :)).  The commercial advertising houses didn't like them, but people like me did. But people like me were not going to spend $25.00 a font -- well, maybe I did, but not enough to keep a type house in business!  So companies with desktop publishing software like Microsoft, Word Perfect, PSP etc, bought them in bulk to offer as "free if you buy this program".  At the same time, fonts were being offered at Best Buy and Office Depot on CD Rom, 1000 for $19.95. All the CD Rom people had to do was scan the font and put it through the software. Skip any kerning pairs or alternates and give it a similar name. Voila! You now could own your very own Gill Sans. Fast forward to today, and that's why most places don't allow you to make alphas from their fonts.

Sistah, if you're still collecting them, then they need to be put away as you acquire them!

 step one is to put in 20 folders of broad categories. Start with categories on the Font Squirrel chart above, maybe? This takes some time, but not more than 1/2 hour, I bet. (It's boring, so just struggle though)

You probably already have a folder called Fonts, just add a folder for every category they list in that chart.  Don’t put serif with slab serif, put them in different folders. I think of Novelty as being code for “teen aged girl” so anything with an i dotted with a heart.  ?. Decide for yourself what is Display and what is Novelty. I put high tech and industrial together. 

Every time you download, put the file right in the folder where it belongs. Unzip from there at your leisure and have a separate folder for each font. (I didn’t do this for my first 20 years!) tYou need to mark or otherwise flag the Creative Fabrica fonts. Those font licenses are just for as long as you are a member.  Not sure how they can enforce this, but that’s what it is. 
 

One thing I started to do is download the thumbnail pictures they have with the font at Creative Fabrica. This is the picture where they entice you to buy it. I add that to the folder because I’m adding so many new ones, and so many similar ones, I forget when they look like! Plus it looks nice in the folder.

5 hours ago, Cassel said:

Someone told me that you might be able to select more than one font and right-click to get the option to Uninstall. Worth a try.

Yes, this is what I sort of ended up doing because the CF way was tragically slow. It was torture to get just one deleted, much less go on to the next!

By going right into C:Windows/Fonts, you can select 25+ at a time, too. Then hit delete. The deletion is a little slower than deleting a zip file, for example but not too bad. They’ve fixed it (probably a long time ago) so you can’t delete system files.  Which is about 100 or even 150 fonts. 

 How you count fonts. I believe fonts are counted by the number of fonts, not the number of files. So I went from 635 to 509 last night. The 1335 I quoted in the other thread was the number of files I had.

Bitstream fonts are a pain in the butt. BT extension is Bitstream, which is what all those fonts that Cassel showed when she did the screen shots of the 50 fonts. (And I already own all of those, so I still question if they are the 50 MODERN fonts.)  You have your BT fonts with the font name, say, BroadwayBT, but then you also have your numbered fonts, something like tt0168.ttf which might be code for Broadway So I might have 2 instances of Broadway on my computer and not realize it. I have to go through those numbered fonts, maybe today. There is some sort of marriage between Corel and Bitstream, so those New Modern fonts might indeed be the bitstream fonts she showed, BUT if they are, they are misrepresented by being called New and Modern.

5 hours ago, Cassel said:

I still use TheFontThing with Windows 10. That is my go-to font viewer when I want to use a specific font for a particular project without installing it.

It's funny you mention that program. It was *right* when that came out that I decided I wasn't going to get another viewer again. I had every one before that, I think, and decided to forego it (I mean I decided not to get it) and never got another one again.  I also didn't like the name; it seemed ill conceived.

Oh, wait, Cassel, you didn't think I loaded and installed all those fonts I've been showing above did you?  No those are screen shots.  I'm trying to choose the best two, maybe three.

2 minutes ago, Cassel said:

 Why do you keep installing those interesting fonts instead of just using a font viewer? That would allow you to keep all your fonts organized, in folders if you want, and only use them when you need them.

The first several font viewers I got all went belly up. Either they did not make the jump to Windows 7 or the program belched and went bad or the company went out of business or whatever.  Remember Font Monster?  I loved it!  The thing is, you have to load your fonts. You have to flag the (decribe them) you go to a LOT OF TIME CONSUMING WORK to get them to run -- see? I'm getting all fired up just thinking about it! So I decide to expend my filing system so I am in control.  If my computer goes phoey, then I have backup. @Font Navigator is the only one I have that is still good, but it's not that great. Now a Corel product I understand, LOL!

 I started fonts a lot before any font viewer came into being.  I have my fonts organized by Foundry, designer and style and within style there are perhaps 30 folders...Scripts has 15 subfolders for example, but Dingbats has probably 50 subfolders. 

Since I bought a lot of these, or in the case of Bitstream, bought and also won in contests, I actually KNOW what they look like and only need the thumbnail in Windows Explorer to have it go ding-ding-ding that's the one.

It wasn't until recently that I started downloading by the bushel.  (Liar, liar)

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Google Butler Font (it's a whole family, but the Butler black is the heavy.)

Also Butler Stencil  Both at DaFont. Both good for anything - personal or commercial use. Donationware. and it

It's so easy and so cheap to get on somebody's good side by sending $5 -10.00 via Paypal if you love the font

Thanks, Rene!  I LOVE Cafe Rojo and Yard Sale, so thanks for the list!

I just realized why I always stop deleting fonts when I'm still in the A's -- I keep worrying about PERMANENTLY deleting them.

I am pretty sure that I have an extra copy of most if not all. In fact, the original copy from when I installed them.  The difference is that some programs --  programs from Microsoft, Corel -- will directly install the fonts - not put them in a special folder. This means when I delete them, they really are gone. I think I might make a copy of the ones in my system fonts folder, just in case. maybe put it on a thumb drive.  The only reason it would even come up is that somebody on here will have the *cutest* LO and name the font they used and I don't have it!!!  If I start deleting without backup I will always assume that cute font was one of those I deleted! LOL!

I have 1335 fonts installed. My computer is old.  Is this too many?

Does anybody know of a nice round number of installed which would make a nice target for me to try to hit?

Just call me The Instigator!  ?

No I didn't get 2023 ....yet...Still deciding.

There were so many bugs and it took me soooo long to get 2022 the way I wanted it that I didn't want to rock the boat. I had come from X2, so it was like a whole new program for me.

It doesn't sound right that those are the 50 new fonts. They specifically say, 50 new MODERN Fonts. Most of those you have are from typefaces over 100 years old!

Ah that's what I was looking for! Thank you!  I can't believe I'm even saying this but 1001 fonts and Dafont (and Creative Fabrica) have waaaay too many fonts for me to scroll through. LOL! 

HOWEVER, Font Squirrel (and I got the name from a scrapbook designers forum) you can use commercially. Most if not all are just public domain or completely free-do-what-you-want-with-them,  and you can use them to make alphas.

Plus, they have a logical search IMHO.

Here are some I found.

 Abril Fatface is a lot bigger...I messed up on that one. Otherwise they are true to size to one another.

Which ones do you (all of you - anybody reading this) like best?  Chime In!

Cassel, Are the names a secret, or can you do a screen shot of the folder for me?

Donna, No, This has nothing to do with the upgrade. This is me wondering if I need to upgrade from 2022 to 2023.

Sorry, it is PSP 2023 Ultimate

https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/standard/?currency=en-US&sourceid=PSP2023-xx-ppc_pla&x-vehicle=ppc_pla&skuId=UG&trial=big&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=psp-dd-all-adwordsppc&utm_content=&utm_term=&utm_id=19617155216&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuNemBhCBARIsADp74QTyp0PAzza5OI3Ie7fi2PNzO3guQolLTHSz9ugdek3VpNq9kZCIvEYaAnK-EALw_wcB
 

scroll to the bottom and then go up 2 sections.

or search for NEW 50 free modern fonts

I found one at Creative Fabrica. Intimate. It might be too plain, LOL! Photo to follow.  And I added Groove Galaxy. Is it too Retro 70s?

What are some you use?

Hi all,

Cassel does these millions of workshops, tutorials and classes, and inevitably, she needs a thick display font, usually on the plain side. A normal looking font which is thick. By normal I mean, not hand drawn with a thick magic marker.

I have the regular ones…Broadway, I think, but it really does look like Ethel Merman will be belting out “There’s No Business Like Show Business”. So many I have are dated, Blackoak would be great for an Annie Oakley LO, otherwise, not so useful.

Are there any cool new ones you could suggest? I am getting dizzy looking at Creative Fabrica, only to find they don’t have many after looking at 100s of pages of listings. (Or I’m looking in the wrong place?)