Daniel Hess

Here is my humble attempt at Project Two. Getting a little more comfortable with Affinity and forcing myself to stick with it even when it seems difficult.

I found that you can "group" layers. I think Affinity does alot that PSP will do but in different ways. Gonna be a learning curve.

Alright. It's supposedly fixed. Gonna post my Sandwich and Project one on this side of the forum now. Left the sandwich at bare bones...didn't garnish it like I did in the last PSP Boot Camp LOL. I have come back to edit this and will be changing the Project One Page. I had not added any shadow. Done now.

Here we go...whooopie !!

I pretty much set up with the dark background. I DID change the option for zoom to the mouse wheel, so it will be like my PSP experience. Haven't found a place to make all the icons and text descriptions, drop downs, etc. BIGGER for those with eyes that are weakening with time. I fooled around with the windows options and ended up with Layers and Color in a single group and haven't yet figured out exactly how to dock each one as a separate group in and of itself. I turned on the ruler. Attached is a screenshot of my "workspace" as it now exists. Also, I'm not positive yet but might use the other photo in one of the projects. I noticed that Affinity somehow took over the file associations for .ABR files when I was using File Explorer. Can't remember but ABRs might not have had an association before I uploaded and installed Affinity.

Janette, het spijt me heel erg om te horen over de gezondheidsproblemen van je man en wat jullie allebei gaan doormaken. Neem het zekere voor het onzekere en houd vol. We kijken ernaar uit om u te zien wanneer u kunt bezoeken, ook al is het niet zo vaak als de laatste tijd.

I wish I could have laid my hands on some of the EARLY photos but I had several from later years to add to the project.

43 inch monitor sounds awesome. I've thought mine was huge at 36". The new one will be smaller than that i.e. 27 inches...the little cheepie we got at the "junk" store is about 21 inches with crappy resolution so it will be a huge improvement for the second monitor situation.

PS...it didn't have a VGA input so I had the perfect excuse to upgrade my "2nd" monitor LOL. Have a much better one coming than the $15 one we found at the local peddlers mall.

WOW. I got a Cyberpower PC. Mine has (to start) 32 GB DDR5 RAM (upgradable to 128 GB) and I think video card is 16GB. 1 2TB Hard Drive. I still have to open it up to determine exactly what type of SSD it is (M2 or SATA). When you do the migration, make sure you use an ethernet cable between the two computers. I did mine wirelessly through the router and it took 32+ hours before it was done. I'm hoping I can take the 2 TB SSD out of the old computer and install it...if the motherboard will support it. I'm betting can put both M2 type and up to two SATA 2.5" SSDs into it. I'm only goiing to need one...its a Gaming computer but I wont be using it for that so I'm betting overheating will not be a problem. Windows 11 apparently has a built in migration capability...I didn't know that so I had bought a one time use migration utility for mine. I use McAfee with licenses for up to 5 devices and that didn't work right away...pretty sure the W10 version that migrated was wrong and I had to use a special removal tool from their website to remove the old one before I could re-install one that works. So far everything else has worked but I'm nowhere near to having tried all of my programs and apps yet.

I took about 28 hours to migrate (after a little over 24 hours to back up both computers onto a home cloud drive). Glad thats over. PSP 2022 seems to be working well. I had to RE-register it. I guess I'll have to do that with each one (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 X9, X6, X, and Jasc 9 as I open them in the future. I truly WISH the old "set" default file types under preferences still worked like it did with the original versions of PSP. It's a major Pain in the you know what to go in and do each one manually using the Windows version of doing it. I took care of the main file types I use (png, jpg, jpeg, raw, bmp, gif, tif, tiff, psd) but there are a ton of others that PSP can work with and I didn't feel like writing them down, then setting each one up. Actually after initial glitches with my Microsoft 365 (specifically finding and installing the original outlook vs. the "new" outlook) and setting it up, it seems that EVERYTHING is working well. I had to also go out and redownload and install the Character Map UWP app. For some reason it did NOT migrate. Also the OLD Microsoft Desktop Calendar is not included or supported in Windows 11 so I lost that one. I don't really like the outlook version. I missed the Master Class but I'll go in tomorrow and watch the video.

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.