Daniel Hess

@Jannette Nieuwboer Thanks. I wasn't thinking about the existing shadow or the sun in the original picture. Although...the statue was cut out of another photo just pasted into the middle of that one and as such I just wanted it to "stand" out from the rest. I'm going to leave it for now and try to remember in future projects.

Here is my day 5 submission.

Day 4. I did these for the October Tourist Spot challenge. Used Text on Path, Reverse Contour, and adjustments in Leading, Kerning, and Offset to get the effects. Also showing the project.

Select the face using freehand, then apply Gausian Blur to it in whatever strength is sufficient for you.

That backdrop for the text on the Mentor's Muse project was from the below photo, taken while we cruised rapidly through the "Red Sea" near Egypt on our way to the position from which we launched 23 Tomahawk missiles at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I did some cropping, duplicating, mirroring, and flipping along with some blending to achieve the result in the project. I guess it was "sort of" lights but actually a reflection off the waves in almost perfectly calm water as the ship sliced through it.

For the day 3 project, I am going to resurrect my day 3 project from the Scrap Bootcamp. I did some serious selection area shaping using the add/delete selection functions. I think I've got that technique down pretty well at this point.

Project #2.

The moon photo with the "beaver" silhouette was taken by myself and I added the beaver for this project (that one was "actually" the October Super Moon). The main November moon photo with the branch was the original photo that I took in early morning with the moon behind some very tall trees in my back yard. I had to keep moving around to get one that wasn't overwhelmed with the tree silhouettes. (See below). These photos were actually taken with my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra cellphone. The camera on that thing is amazing for a lot of things.

Hello everyone. Here is the first day's project. Hard to spot the "wave" in the title at this resolution but it's there.

I think what James was saying is applying to my situation. I'm running an inspiron 3650 (OLD) from Dell and don't have the extra robust graphics processing that Vision FX apparently requires. I don't even think I can upgrade my motherboard or circuitry to bring it up to snuff with this PC.

It's a plug in. Shows up in the list for my 2022 after I did the installation. However it doesn't work. Gives me some kind of error whenever I try to load up the plugin with an image.

I got the Vision FX with the Humble Bundle but it gives me some kind of insufficient resources error whenever I try to use it with PSP 2022. I don't have 2023 (yet) although I have a license now for the "plain jane" version (not ultimate). I've been waiting to get 2024 or 2025 Ultimate when and if it ever comes out.