Daniel Hess

Well I took the plunge and decided to replace my PC with something that will support any challenge that software can throw at it...robust video capability and memory, expandable to 128GB RAM, etc. etc.into the future. I fully expect this will be the last PC I ever buy. Currently finishing the FULL backup of this one. Already did the setup and backed up the new one. In about 2 or 3 hours I'll be starting the migration software that is supposed to move all my software and files from this Windows 10 system to the new Windows 11 machine (seamlessly) and that will probably take a LONG time. With any luck it will be done in time for me to join you all in the master class tomorrow evening but if not, that will be the reason I didn't make it. Take Care. - Dan

Here is my attempt at this challenge. The musical War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne is AWESOME and this is one of the songs in it. Scan the QR code to go to youtube and hear Justin Hayward (from the Moody Blues) perform this song as he did for the musical. PS..it's essentially a "love song".

I've got a license with the Humble Bundle but haven't downloaded or installed 2023. I just keep hearing about it's quirks and bad joojoo, including in this thread. Looks like its making @Susan Ewart (Congrats on the Gold Star Award Susan !!) crazy on one of her projects.

Is that a 2023 thing? I'm not finding it on my 2022.

For the day 7 project, the photo I used as background image for the text was this one. It was a larger image and I believe I applied a Fade Correction to it before dragging it into the template.

I have done this. I looked at all the settings for the one I wanted to change. Then "found" the PspTube file for the picture tube and opened it. If it's not one that you saved or purchased and added to the "documents/Core lPaintShop Pro (your version)/Picture Tubes folder, you might have to "find" it in C:/Program Data/Corel/Corel PaintShop Pro (your version)/Corel_10 or one of the subfolders under Corel_10. After you open it, use the Hue Saturation Lightness tool (or your preferred color management tool) and after adjusting it to what you want, you can export it (make sure you change the name) to the "documents" tube folder as a picture tube making sure you keep the same settings.

Here is my submission for Day 7. Another "fun" one.

The image with the older couple and the one of the deer with heart shaped antlers both showed up on my feed in facebook from different friends. I had put them into my "Workshops" folder because wanted to use them in something (there are ALOT of images in there). Using layers I combined them, then dropped it into the mask for this project. These copies are reduced to less than 600 pixels and saved as jpgs.

Make sure click the arrow on the side of the layer to show the object(s), then select the object, then select the text tool. Should be able to click at beginning of your text to display the blinking cursor and then drag/highlight the text. Once highlighted, change the font, font size, fill color, etc..

Here is my day 6 project. This one was fun.

Just reminded me of a "photoshop" I did several years ago to make a pun meme even MORE "punny". I actually used one of the PSP plugins, can't remember exactly which one. I applied the effects to a van, then inserted and blended it in and changed the caption.

@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.