Susan Ewart

Wow Everyone! Amazing work. Well, I havent even started yet. It might be one post at the end, waaaaay at the end. It's being an unexpected busy week. But I am inspired by what I see in the forum.

Love this RV Park. and weirdly I live on Sycamore Avenue (in Canada)

I checked my account and under the purchases where all my purchases with the download link and keys(it looks like the email I got). Same result as before, a pop up saying: Keys are expired, contact support at corel. that's where I went wrong. I should have used the keys not where I found them, but with the link Carole gave us. It all worked well with my "expired" keys. both PSP 2022 and 2023 (both Ultimate) are now loaded on the new rebuild. It will be some time before I get to setting it all up, but it's loaded and registered. And I bookmarked that page so I know where to go in the future.

I have learned to stay still when they are around me as opposed to my usual freak out with flailing arms. I've learned a lot from you, which I thank you. The natural world is very interesting and is probably the best therapy I can get. Well, retail therapy IS a close second ?. ...and insects, well it's a worthwhile work-in-progress.

I enjoyed our rounds in this post of the forum. and I've learned things too. Art that leads to conversation, very cool.

Very true. I've been stung when stepping on a nest twice in my life. I have a healthy (or maybe UNhealthy) fear of stinging bee/wasps. It's like the starlings in the lower mainland, they are invasive. You are a champion of the bug world and slowly I am being converted. To the point that I made a bug hotel and and ant spa, well a place for the ants that the birds use to dirt bath in or have the ant spa treatment. If I did come across a 1.5 foot tall Praying Mantis I'd be the one praying for my life.

18" LONG! YIKES! or....put a collar on it and call it "Spot". the big take away for me; A 1.5 foot tall CARNIVORE! this is stuff of nightmares.

See... they really are evil bugs. They are masters of disguise, I lived most of my life on the West coast and never saw one.....for that, I'm eternally grateful. thanks for taking the time to do some research, now I know just which areas to avoid. I can imagine if I was walking along and saw a "stick" move I'd jump out of my skin.

thank you. Yes I do. I will look at that. I should poke around there and get more familiar with it.

Actually Julie, I am the least technical person I know...and know at least 3 people! I bet you'd do way better than you think. I was thinking after the first and second lesson I might not get this and was not feeling confident with the 3rd. But when I sat down and follow both the written and video tutorials it was actually better than the first two. Not sure if it's because I am getting used to the odd words/language or not, it just seemed less daunting. I just read the lesson for lesson 4 and it seems very doable. And now I'm feel much more hopeful and learning to not think to far ahead. If I dont understand something right now, it might covered in the coming lessons (as was the case with the results of one of the tests we did as homework, soon as a started reading the lesson the explanation was right there). I think this really could be a doable course for anyone.

Too late. (I'm just kidding).

Yikes Ann! They are mutant bugs. They are freaky. I have never seen one, not even in a zoo. Of course we might even have them here, they are masters of subterfuge (SP?). See, they are evil....mutant evil bugs! kidding, it's really cool you get to see them. I must ask (with toes curling upward) how big are the invasive ones.

Thank you both. I think I wondered because I had bought 2023 and waited 6 months before downloading and the keys they originally sent me expired so I had to contact them for new keys. I couldnt find the page where you can enter your keys to download, and when I did find something and try i ended up having to contact them, they had to verify my purchase and then send the new download email to me. I thought I would have to do the same again, and I want to put 2022 on and wondered if I would have to jump through hoops like I did with 2023. Otherwise, in the past (2020) I had loaded 2019, 2020 on both my desktop and laptop with just using the original key and the page on their website.

Another note but regarding istallation: Hubby is building a new computer with all programs to be installed from scratch (years of Windows and MSOffice upgrades we think it's getting buggy in other stuff we do). Do you know if I can install my PSP 2022 and 2023 (both Ultimate) onto the new computer and still have it on the one I'm using now, until we know the new one is working well with no bugs?

Whew, sorry I'm late in answering this post. I'm taking the scripting course and I think my head imploded at the new language I'm trying to learn. Here I thought I understood English, but it appears I dont. haha. Thank you for your suggestions. I did deadhead my other flowers and I will do so...with a very tall ladder...on the mutant sunflower. 2 are mutants and almost taller than the peak of the garage and 2 are smaller. Among them are some other "mutant" plants that are huge but came with mystery mix in the package and are yet to grace the yard with flowers. I wonder what they will look like. I have some Zinnia and Cosmos that have made many flowers and I did them from seed early in June (as I did with all of them). May is unpredictable and can be very warm or very cold and snowy...and the snow in the backyard is just finishing melting in May. Next year I will start seeds inside and thin them like it says in the instructions. it rather looks like a jungle in the space in the back yard. I did lots in pots too, that way I can move them to get the sun or the background I needed. Sadly, the neighbours cut 2 very large trees down and I lost all the lovely shade that works great to have black background with the flower in the sun. It's being a challenge as my two trees arent filled in enough, so there is some dappled areas in the photos. sometimes if the stems are strong enough I'll shoot them in my studio under constant light so I can control the light and background. but mother nature is a better lighting artist than me and has better, stronger equipment in her arsenal, so I employ her when I can. I have yet to learn how to use bulbs in planting but will try next year.

Sloooowly. I just made myself use it. Still much to learn, but it can wait. I can shoot and change setting easily now and that's the important part. Still need to tweak some user set up to stop some annoying things from happening. Nice to see you back. I was wondering where you were.

This has nice balance with the two arrows and of course always dynamic is diagonal lines leading you to the payoff in either direction (my eye tends to to go up rather than down), each end has a crawly payoff. I like those spring colors. Nice to see you back in the saddle.

What are the odds of this happening. It gives me goosebumps. A wonderful story. I have been with people who are visiting me (they are from out of town) and they bump into people from their town, not just once, but a couple times. I very rarely bump into people from my own town, let alone, if I was in another town.

Best of luck, cant wait to see what you make. Also, I love clocks, clock faces, the numbers the hands etc.

How exciting Jenifer! Congratulations. I love buttons. i dont know why, since I cant sew at all. I love old keys, vintage stuff. Old cameras (I have a fairly good size collection, yet to be photographed. I like flowers too, but recently I have being photographing flowers in my studio for extraction. Oh, ribbons too and bows. I'm sure i'll think of other stuff. I'll post if I do.

Wow! that double scallop is really nice.

That's so sweet! Contrats on the house.

I had this problem with 2022 when I first got it. It was set to save my .pspimage files as x8. x8 doesnt have the ability to save the text in a selection. Change it where Carole said to change it to X8-2021 and you will have no more problems. Some scripts will sometimes turn it back to x8. So if you get that message, first thing to do is check the compatibility. I learned the hard way and had only a flattened layout because I eventually saved in jpg before I knew to save as psd format. I routinely check before saving now, especially if I've used scripts. the one I know that does it is the Open (a photo) and make it a copy. I forget the name.

This is fabulous. right up my alley. CF Spark was made for you. I was fairly new at the time, Annie was still posting. I was in awe of her layouts...as I was with pretty much everyones layouts.

Here is my take on the DIY. I should have called this Pink Power (or rather...Magenta Power in my book). I went outside one morning and this stem was all wrapped up in spiders nest. It looked like it was holding it together. I've learned these are Cosmos. I grew some in pots which turned out to be a good thing. Then i can move them around for photos. I have some in my tiny flower bed too. Please dont think I actually know how to grow flowers. This is a first for me. I put a lot of stuff in the flower bed. The packages all said to THIN THEM OUT, when the seeds come up. I thought NO WAY, what if I thin them out and ones left dont survive. Well, it looks like a jungle, the little LBJs (little brown birds) love it. I also tried growing sunflower. the package said 6-7 feet tall...mine is reaching about 9 feet and still no flower. It's a mutant. Here's the details on the supplies Font: I love Myself (Creative Fabrica) Paper for Scallop strip: DiHiller PSSep20 Paper 6 Paper for bottom straight strip: Espy Background 2C (Espinoza Paper for top strip: cpjess-campout wood paid paper 08 All papers from Digital Scrapbook Photos: mine PSP techniques/tools etc: graidents, bevels, texture (from Effects>Texture Effects>Texture and Texture from the Materials Palette), lowered opacity. I like the DIY challenges. They are hard but it's nice to come up with a plan and make it different than everyone else's (that's quite hard when there is a lot of layouts).