Daniel Hess

11 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Daniel maybe I'm going to say something you already do, but when drawing a shape you have to hold the shift key on your keyboard. In this way the shapes stay as you want them.

I usually do that.  I didn't turn on grids to make the chess pieces all proportional to each other...I just put up a small canvas and put 'one each' of the shapes onto it.  AND I did fix the anomaly.  I had to delete the shape file then re-export it.  After that everything synched up.  Good thing because I had wanted to have the "default" width for the strokes a bit larger than I had when I originally exported/saved the file.

Among other things, been playing around with creating pre-set shapes (vectors) a little bit.  The last one was one that I converted from some I found that were listed as vectors (I think psd format?...for photoshop?) but really weren't so had to work on it in PSP.  I'm hoping I saved the chess pieces as pspimage because I did something wrong...the shapes in the preset shape drop down do not match up to the shape that gets drawn .  When I do the shape, the names are correct in the vector objects so not sure where I went awry on that.

Egg (Hard Boiled)  ... or even "Easter" with colored shell.

OK..this one was fun....  Note: the background is a combination of two papers from Merisa Lerin and the crayon border was from Janet Kemp.  Got all three at digital scrapbook.com. 

I have posted 7 projects in the Gallery under the Workshops/Masks Workshop after I got motivated and did the workshop a couple of weeks ago.

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.

On 8/21/2024 at 1:47 AM, Cristina said:

Julie, I love the cat's name! Your lovely layout faithfully tells this touching story.

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.

5 hours ago, Cassel said:

Let's give it a try. Make sure to compress the image enough. Even 500KB can add up when we have dozens of participants and several lessons each 🙂

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".  

2 hours ago, Cassel said:

Can you download the 2022 again on this link? I don't think there is an "end date" on that page.

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.

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

Can you download the 2022 again on this link? I don't think there is an "end date" on that page.

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.

3 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

I don't know, Daniel. I cropped it from a poster at the tournament. I'll reach out to the person who created the poster. 

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

7 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

I'm sure how much we ran rings around our opponets but we did have fun. 

Template by SCR (Scrapbook CrazyCreations by Robyn) August, 2024 AL4T blog train.

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.