Susan Ewart

I am in a small city in Alberta, Canada. Close to a bigger city. Lots of rural areas close by though if I need a country fix. I'm not a fan of the big cities either. Where are you in the world?

It's a good trade off. But dragonflies are special arent they? Do you have a big property. I used to live on various farms (horse), but have lived in the suburbs for 20+ years now. I still miss living in the country. Hopefully we can see your layouts of your property and critters you get to see.

COOL!

WOW! This is cool and so easy. Hidden gems, I love those. Okay, right clicking is not really a "hidden" gem. thanks for the new discovery.

I didnt even know google did that until read someone on the campus using it. All this time I couldnt read the comments. One day the computer programs will know our own native language and translate autmatically. That would put the AI's to a good use.

I highlight the text, copy to the clipboard, then go to Google and type in Google translate, it's pops up with it will pop up and click to put your cursor on Enter Text (it's picky, I had to click right by the beginning of the E) and then paste. Hope I got this right.

Sue, where I work in an industrial area that borders natural areas there is a few empty lots (2 of which are in the middle of the industrial area). they are always grassy and that's where I picked my Western Salsify weed to photograph. a couple weeks ago we went to cut some more for me to photograph. I only took cutters and no camera. We get there someone had cut the long grass in the lots. What we saw was ground squirrels... a lot of them, too many to count...and no camera. I've worked there almost 10 yrs and never once saw a ground squirrel. My doctors office is also there and I parked by one of the empty lots a couple days ago and there they were again, not more than 10 feet from me. They are adorable. I had no idea they were there at all.

This is fascinting. The detail in the wings of the bigger photo is unreal. I cant imagine the patience and timing required to photographing these bees. The information you gave is very useful. I have made a bug "hotel" this year from some stumps of a tree that died. Next year I can add a log tower hotel. Do you lay this log down or have it vertical so no water gets in. Do you make a lot of holes in the same log? Very interesting indeed.

They are super cute. We need to learn how to make those digitally.....probably with Vectors, our new super tool.

What a cool technique with the white overtop and reduced.

That is weird isnt it. I wonder why some of us have and some dont. I have it for some versions and not 2023.

This is what mine looks like too. How I managed to find the downloaded extras and put them elswhere is beyond me. I must not have checked some box or answered some question I needed to answer to not get Set Up Files. At least if others dont have it, it might not be me after all. ? I think we all know...its ME!

Good idea. thanks for the advice. I need it...go check the scripting forum for my last comment and Carole's comment to me before that. It's hilarious. the depths of my stupidity runs deep. It's a good laugh though.

I buy direct from them too. I wish there was a better instruction for it. I too had not realized I was missing some brushes or preset shapes or something and couldnt do a tutorial. I think Carole, Sue and a few others (I think you helped me too, Rene) got me straight. I always wondered after that if what I downloaded was all I was supposed to do. I often wonder about tech companies, their job is technology...cant they make it idiot proof (or Susan proof in my case). I never really know if got it all. And well, there's the proof I didnt. Its like grocery companies, they send you a link to download this weeks offers. Why dont they just download them, they have access to my card. Why make me waste time logging in when they know I want them anyway.

Seems good to me. I just watched the tutorials for Lab 7-2 and all was well. I downloaded some pdfs for the scripting and it was good too.

10 more labs until I get there!

That ribbon was hard to do. i did it over and over to get what I wanted. I was using a mouse. cant wait to get a tablet.

I sure do have it in the same spot. You are quite correct on it's placement. I also have painter loaded as a stand alone. Or rather, that's how PSP did it. So if it say painter and flies out to particle shop, why does it say painter at all. And how would you use just painter, other than PSP loaded it as a separate program. I like that so that's okay, would even prefer particle shop on the desktop separately. that way I dont forget about them. Out of sight is out of mind for me. I agree, they hid that sucker well. Maybe it's a surprise gem we would be delighted to find. We were trying to figure out when we got Particle Shop, which version. Donna answered the question, it came from 2020 (ult). Is it weird I still have it but unistalled 2020 from this computer (it's stil on my laptop with 2021). I have 2022 and 2023 on my desktop (all Ultimate version). I thought it would have disappeared when i uninstalled it, I'm grateful it didnt now that I see what fun can be had with it.

I was having a weird issue when I went to put a photo over top of another photo (I was having them trade places in a grid). PSP wouldnt do it, then I thought I'll delete the layer, move the other one and re-add the layer back in. But when I went to move the layer with the move tool to the new location it disappeared (not in the layers palette but on the canvas) and left a lower opacity see through ghost of a layer in place. so I deleted that layer and ghost remained....like in those movies where ghosts cant pass over because there is something left undone in their life so they are stuck in limbo....then they get all evil. Uhm...YIKES! Is PSP going to come alive and haunt me? Back to reality, that's when I'd get a pop up from Windows saying PSP has stopped working, do I want to close or wait message.

Not to worry, take your time, deal with it after the weekend.

Sue! You're back! have you been out photographing or more likely tending to the stock on the farm? Hope to see some layouts.

Almost everything works. Well, everything except the Labs. There is just page but no labs.

What a cool technique. I love the colors too.

I am going to watch the video again. I did see the different tools for the different brushes too, but forgot about the jitter. At first on the big flowers it was fine. After that it went wild. So I changed a setting way too much, forgetting that it was the jitter I was changing.

Is it possible it didnt come with 2023 Ultimate? This is the downloads I got. Looks like I installed(and reinstalled it on March 19th and the fonts for some reason say July 26 - how bizarre). Regardless, I dont see Particle Shop on the list at all, just PainterEss8, Photo Mirage, Multi Cam Capture and the Highlight Reel. I've only tried Painter - it was a hot mess. I'm glad I have i though, what Suzy did with that flower is really awesome.