Daniel Hess

2 hours ago, Cristina said:

I need the way to blur someone's face who does not want it on the internet.

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

5 hours ago, Cassel said:

It is interesting that you shaped your text around the "lights".

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.

7 hours ago, Cassel said:

Did the moon photo include the silhouette or did you add it afterward?

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.  

39 minutes ago, Cassel said:

Vison FX was promoted after 2023 was released. I wonder if it would work with 2023 but has some limitations with 2022?

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.

On 11/3/2024 at 11:16 PM, Susan Ewart said:

Does anyone know what Vision Fx even is?

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.

13 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

then put it in Vision FX through PSP 2023 Ultimate

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.

Just a little "yuck yuck" humor...

On 11/3/2024 at 7:17 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Sorry to be picky...

LOL.  I guess I'll fix it, especially after it has generated that much conversation.  I had copied and pasted it from another source and didn't get around to parsing it or looking at it closely.  For everybody who has gotten in on this conversation....enjoy this music video.  Worth watching/listening to the end.  https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?si=YEhMbX2Ohq9bY14s   For what it is worth, I think I did pretty good on the actual SKETCH challenge part of it.

I was 14 when we lost my sister (who had recently turned 15).  At the time we lived in California.  In 2005, my mother passed away.  Her cremains are buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where she will be joined by my father when he passes on, (hopefully not any time soon, though he turned 82 this past February). 

When we lived in Virginia Beach, not long after we got married, my wife went to melt some chocolate for something using the microwave.  I can't remember actual times but where she meant to set it for something like 1 minute, she typoed her keypad entry and set it for 10 minutes.  Of course, she walked off and got busy with something else until the smoke detector went off.  Needless to say, the house didn't smell nice for awhile.  We put the microwave outside in back yard on a picnic table.  It sat out there for close to a month before I went to work on it and cleaned all the burnt residue from the insides and the bottom circular glass tray.  I was positive it wouldn't work after being outside, being rained on, snowed on, etc.  We used that thing for another 7 years LOL.

Almost forgot the "cover".  Here it is.

Here is my submission for this new challenge.

51 minutes ago, Julian Adams said:

I don't understand what promoting a layer does?

When you start with an image like a jpeg, it is a "background layer".  If you use the eraser tool, it will leave whatever color you have selected as the background color in your palette wherever you erase.  When you promote the background layer and turn it into a raster layer, if you erase, it leaves transparency wherever you erase.  There are MANY cases and situations where that is much more desirable then leaving a "color" behind when you erase, especially if you have added any layers "below" the original layer. 

On 10/23/2024 at 9:17 PM, Cassel said:

Although I plan on making written tutorials in the form of blog posts, you can check out the webinar that I hosted for Corel, a few years ago. Maybe I could revisit it as a Master Class? What do you think?

I used that webinar to "remake" all the calendar portions of your templates last year (2024 calendars).  This year I decided to use the ones provided with a few small modifications.  That was a great webinar and that was how I got "introduced" to you.  It was the first time I got the benefit of your expertise.

And here are the last three, October thru December.

Here are July through September.

Here are April thru June.

My theme for this years calendar is Kentucky.  Last year I kept it wide open for just about anything.  I established a basic layout and "pattern" that I was going to stick with and I think I was able to do that.  Before starting, I looked on internet to see if "months" have specific colors associated with them and found out it is totally subjective LOL.  I don't think I found two charts anywhere that matched or were even in the ballpark with each other.  I just picked one and used it. I incorporated each months birthstone into each calendar.  Fortunately NOT subjective, they are pretty much set in stone (pun intended har har !!).  Here are the first three.  I'll do three more posts each with three calendars.  They are all in the gallery and I'm linking to them there in these posts.

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

we do not have any variation of Thanksgiving at all! However there is a religious link;  on the first Wednesday in November there is a church service where thanks will be given for the harvest.

In which country do you live, Corrie?

Gonna try this one more time.  Papers PBS-Escale amoureuse- Talie and Flolinette-PBS-EscaleAmoureuse. Rest is original and off the internet.  

1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:

it asks  for a folded corner, and not a lifted corner.

I didn't realize.  Taking it down again.  Will repost after I get it figured out.