Mary Solaas

Happy Birthday, Carole.

May your day and the coming year bring many blessings.

Love to you.

@Jannette Nieuwboer Yeah - at first glance it looks like an upright piano.

8 hours ago, Anne Lamp said:

PSP Maniacs challenge this week was shadows and I created it for that sight.  A peaceful walk on a summer day. adapted from "cass-FramedMask3" photo is mine.

Really cool!!! - a wonderful idea - well done!!

9 hours ago, Cassel said:

Did you ever watch a partial solar eclipse? Without glasses, it is not even noticeable.

But even without glasses, there are other ways to "see" it, like with a projection box or another way to project its light.

If you want some pictures of this recent eclipse, check these Facebook posts:

Photo from Marc Guitard

Photo from CJ Bernard

The Valley Eye Photography

 

I like the picture you posted that YOU took.🙂

4 hours ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

I started over with PSP with a very simple lesson, a diamond. Not worth showing. But more to see if I haven't forgotten how. It went pretty well. 

Glad to see you back. 

I'm lagging behind. Not going to try and catch up. Just one step at a time!

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

 

I'm finding that Win 10 is starting to mess with files and other things. Some files won't show up except as black squares, which I think MS is doing on purpose to push us to Win 11. I know I will have to get it before October, but I may do it sooner to get things back in order. But a mouse? That's strange.

I have Windows 11 - it just decided I needed it - didn't wait for me to chose it, just went ahead and did it!

That was what I had to do, too. Now it works for me. Every time!

All of a sudden, several days ago, my mouse wouldn't open my logon to my computer. I tried punching several buttons, but that didn't work until I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Which was crazy - right? Also, the pointer was beginning to jump around. The mouse was old since I had bought it several laptops ago, but it is only in the past few months that it has been acting up. My problems with the Balls & Bubbles cleared up after the mouse was replaced.

On 3/20/2025 at 6:53 AM, Mary Solaas said:

Balls & Bubbles problem in 2022 and 2023. I tried Donna's solution by removing the duplicate file locations - all except the ones I had copied into my personal file location and it worked. Unfortunately, after removing everything in file preferences>file locations, I closed PSP 2022 Ultimate and when I went back into it, it loaded all those file locations I had removed. So now balls & bubbles will not work again but just locks up the program. 

Evidently my old mouse was the problem. Since installing the new mouse, Balls & Bubbles now works. That mouse (the old one) had even messed up my login screen.

Balls & Bubbles problem in 2022 and 2023. I tried Donna's solution by removing the duplicate file locations - all except the ones I had copied into my personal file location and it worked. Unfortunately, after removing everything in file preferences>file locations, I closed PSP 2022 Ultimate and when I went back into it, it loaded all those file locations I had removed. So now balls & bubbles will not work again but just locks up the program. 

D is for Daffodils - they survived the last snowstorm and are coming back.

Lab 14 Mod 1. Requirements: quatrafoil 4 - background paper; Letterboard - Travels. The picture is from RougueFile, Bongo; the font for the title is Bodoni MT Black.

@Sue Thomas That is so beautiful. Thank you for giving us the words to the song - so beautiful - I lived for 4 years in upper Michigan (my high school years) and we definitely had much snow - I loved it - the first snowfall is so wonderful - the sound of silence!

@Cassel Love your remembrance of a fun time locally. Younguns do love the challenges. Imagine - an ice wall! the kids think that is something built just for them! What's not to like???

I did look it up and the Help folder said to look up in file location preferences under "File". It said that temporary files are located on the C drive under your user name folder, in App Data\Local\Temp\Corel Paint Shop Pro 2022 Temp Files.  The files that I had been working on last night were there (though unrecognizable names) as .tmp files. When I tried to bring them up in 2022, they wouldn't open as the file name (.tmp) was unrecognized.  So much for finding closed un-saved files!

12 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

D is for Dumbbell. something I've used for over 30 years now.  I got this one when I bought a group of dumbbells.  Someone had painted it gold and it was already rusty.  Since I have rubber hex ones (and some metal ones), and this little guy had no mate, I use it to hold open doors.  I'm letting it continue to rust because it will look cool. Why someone would paint a dumbbull, "dumbfounds me. 😁

This is a unique D!

Lab 13 Mod 12. Requirements: random stripes - I made it into a plaid; pattern of 4 images - I made several and used one on a small paper behind the pic. 

Lab 13 Mod 11 - make 6 small arrows and a page of multiple arrows. all the elements, papers and photos are mine.

Lab 13 Mod 10. This was a memorial statue in front of the Cary, Illinois Fire Station that caught my eye on my annual visit to my cousin. The lab module called for a newspaper paper and a line pattern: circles, straight lines and dots. The fire truck is a watercolor from Free Clip Art. The Fire Station logo is also from Free Clip Art.

PSP - Lab 13 Mod 9 - requirements: Chicken Wire Pattern (put it on the background layer); Chevron ribbon (on the left side). I used the chevron stripes for a plaid paper and for a stripe paper - which I used as a pattern for the small paper and for the fill on the main title. The grill cluster is from PS - Jessica Dunn (one of my favorite designers); the title of grill master is also from PS - Elif Sahin. The title font is Comic Sans MS. The main title was inner bevelled and shadowed.

C is for Cameras

3 hours ago, Cristina said:

I created this to practice the lessons from the Lab12-M05 (Random Dots2  --  Triangle Pattern 4  -- Embossed Pattern).

I kept it simple so it would not take too much time.  I saw this layout years ago on the Internet and have since created other pages using the same style.

Credits:

Cassel's Adhesive Tape Script.

Papers: freebie from DiHiller PSJuly2021.

 

@Cristina I can't believe it. I posted this to you just about 15 min. ago and it disappeared. Well, anyway. I really love this. It's a stunning way to interpret that module. Way to go, girl!

This is the result.

I did a B&W photo with color showing through early last year. Not sure what discussion in the forum prompted it, but this was my take on it. I started with a photo from Laurie (a duplicate of course), made it into a black and white photo, erased the portion of the flower (I see that there is a portion I didn't erase in the middle of the flower). In my pspimage the color photo is the bottom layer and the black and white photo is the next layer. Since the 2 were together, I then just started erasing the flower on the top layer. The completed flower image wasn't accepted so I will post it next.

2 hours ago, Cassel said:

Oh... CorelDRAW is something i only use when I need to convert .eps files, and even though I got a "private" lesson from Roger Wambolt, and he gave me a copy of his book, I never did anything with it. I think I will have to concentrate on Affinity for now.

@Cassel Thanks anyway.

On 1/29/2025 at 3:31 PM, Suzy said:

Sue Thomas, would that be uninstall-but-don’t -uninstall PSP? Surely not Windows Explorer?

Ann, I went through all of view, I checked and unchecked everything, even “options” and “advanced”. Normally I have it on “view extra large thumbnails” because I can’t see as well as I used to, and I'm having trouble getting really good readers. (Eye glasses for reading).  The cheap ones won’t do it for me any more.

Rene, this is how it’s always been for me, too! They always showed up.

One thing I did and I might have to undo it  is I installed “sage” to see photoshop thumbnails. I might uninstall that to see if it brings back psp.

But  first I’ll wait to hear back from Sue and then try Carole’s link. The website looks a little dodgy, but it is CNET approved, so I’m going to try it. Janette, I’ll let you know.

Thanks, everybody! I’m having way more issues on all things, BTW.  Winzip takes two extra clicks to unzip. Print screen, I don’t even know what is up with that, just that it is twice as hard and four times longer than print screen, flip to PSP, control+V Voila!  Just everything in my workflow has become more complex, and therefore takes more time.

On that Affinity, I already didn’t like that it didn’t have some of my most favorite things from PSP - shortcut keys and other things, but the thing that sent me over the edge is when it pasted new layers in the corner!  Once I saw it pasted in the corner, I decided it was not for me. I use the paste command as the absolute middle way too often. It’s how I make borders & frames. Circle rims, a bunch of stuff.

Carole, what about some rudimentary things like changing color, size, and raster-to-vector in Corel Draw?  I could use a class on the very basics! I (like probably most the people reading this) bought it at Hungry Bundle, so I own it, but it’s pretty hard for me to use.  What if I wanted a vector with a stroke?  Or a vector with colors to match my kit instead of black? Or a vector flower where the petals in front are a little lighter than colors in back?  Or vector brushes that look a little wobbly instead of vector-perfect.?  Will it accept/import/use Illustrator or procreate brushes?  Well, that’s just today’s questions..I have a bunch more that could fill a class! . Like when I have some old Dover B&W images I want to fill with color, but they don’t quite close. Is there a thing that will “close path”? Plus they are in B&W so the color stuff doesn’t even show up on the menu! (I think).

 

 

@Cassel YES - how about some instruction in Corel Draw! That's the next program I would like some instruction in. I really like the Corel stuff (including their word processor - I have it as well as Microsoft's Word).