Daniel Hess

Here is my entry for this one.

I took a stab at the Steel Diamond Plate Texture in Lab 11-2 Experiment 3. And a "stab" is about what I would call it LOL. Tough one.

I got 13 out of 15 on the quiz. Mehhhh...LOL. Need to go back and "study".

I strongly suspect that I missed completely with the blue pin but I think I did alright with the other three.

I did this one and it seemed to go more easily than I was expecting. Of course, I started out and in the 3rd iteration of the first element, I chose the wrong shadow...wasn't paying attention that Shadow 2 was on top of Shadow 1. But I Zeee'd out and started over and kept it straight.

Oh...I don't like the curled ribbons LOL. Here are the three from the lesson plus an extra that I downloaded.

My day 4 "bonus" flowers:

Here is my attempt at the tutorial flowers in Lesson 4. Gonna try out the bonus page now.

I lived in Spencer Iowa for a couple of my late middle school years and spent alot of time at the town's library.

I await with anxiety on this one LOL. I'm not nearly as good with finesse like most of you Diamond members. At any rate, here is my attempt at this concept. I'm hoping I got the "other" corners that weren't in the "assignment" correct at least in how they would present. PS, someone who would thumbtack important pictures to a corkboard and let them curl should probably be prosecuted LOL. I suspect the offsets for my thumbtack shadows could have been higher numbers.

OK. sorry. I'll delete that post if I can..... I deleted it. Everybody DISREGARD the iterations that are quoted in replies.

This one wasn't too tough. And makes sense. I hadn't been doing much with "reverse" shadow up to now, but can see where it makes a subtle difference to lift the element or paper off the background.

I moved things around a little bit before I turned it into a jpeg so mine is going to look a little different.

OK, I gave it the "old college try".

Woo Hoo. You are a "Lifesaver". Took 2022 completely off, then reinstalled it. Got both 32 bit and 64 bit now and ALL file associations are back with 2022.

I just downloaded it. Gonna un-install, then run that file. I moved copies of the 2022 folders in Program Data, Program Files, and Documents into a different hard drive first.

Curious if anybody has tried using Corel Paint Shop Pro Support at their website in the last day or more. I'm getting error messages when I select the product (PSP). Just to see, I tried the Video Studio support link and it worked fine. I've been getting all my old versions of PSP onto this computer and when done, discovered that X6 has hijacked file associations for about 30 or so file types and refuses to relinquish them. Windows not helping as it doesn't have 2022 in the list of programs with which to associate those file types. Most not significant but several PspFiletypes i.e. pspshape, pspmask, pspframe and pspbrush are in the list unfortunately. I actually think my 2022 installation was corrupted from the start...didn't realize it until this past week, but the 32 bit side never installed at all. Maybe if I uninstall and reinstall, it will fix the file associations (and the 32 bit side) but have to get Corel to reset the download end date to something that will let me grab the file.

It looks alot like the original movie poster. I'm betting it actually IS.

Is that a "Blazing Saddles" font?

I got my copy digitally (Kindle Edition) a couple of weeks ago and perhaps that is why mine doesn't say "Verified Purchase". At any rate I have left my review and I am posting a screen shot of it below. Very nice job. I've got all four of your books on my Kindle now.

Old school digital photography. Note: I forgot to add in above post that I also added bevel and shadow to the "cloud" border around the "opening". The dogs left to right were "Ginger, Rambo, Caesar, Miss Blue, and Titan".

Over the years, we have had several Doberman's, almost all, rescues. I have been working on a "Heaven's Gate" layout for all of them. I have left a "spot" to, in the future, add our current dog, who is starting to slow down. I have very few photos of a couple of them, and alot of the photos I have were taken before the current level of digital sophistication (anybody remember owning and using a Sony Mavica, complete with the "3.5 inch floppy disk" film?). I took a large "cloud" image and using the pen tool in freehand draw, created a "hole" which I cut out and made transparent. Before losing the vector, I ran the vector tube script on it using the built in cloud picture tube file. I ran it three times then single clicked a couple of clouds into the remaining gaps. Found a suitable heaven's gate image and put it behind the clouds. After that I added the dogs and used drop shadow with zero offset and high blur settings (twice on each dog) to make them "glow" just a bit. Font is Vineta BT at 150 pixels with some bevel and shadow. I did the font on an elliptical path after making a duplicate of the vector. I moved the duplicate elliptical path down, then ran the vector tube with the cloud tube again, added bevel and shadow and deleted the vector. (Note: going to add a photo of me and my Mavica from WAY BACK....in the next post LOL).

We pretty much showcase almost ALL wildlife as the seasons change but there are a few that have encroached from elsewhere. I'm good with the DILLOS....lets just keep the Killer African Bees and other dangerous critters that have been moving northward...AWAY from our borders.

@Ann Seeber We gave your "dish" a go for breakfast this a.m. Used Bolillo Buns and I must say, it was delicious. Thanks for the "idea".

I am reactivating a VERY OLD THREAD here. The GRFX studio plugin has quit working with all versions including the 2020 with which it came. Anybody else run into this issue in recent times. I keep getting Network Error: Application cannot continue. I THINK maybe they have discontinued it and shut down the URL that the plugin connected to when it was invoked. I HOPE NOT because if so, it is probably a permanent shut down. Curious.