Ann Seeber

TWINS! 😉

I open PSD in PSP and save as a .pspimage to preserve the individual layer format.

LESSON 7 - SHADOWS - Assuming the light source is the top right according to the highlight on the top of the pins. Here's my attempt...

This is my Tortoiseshell cat, Brandy, who has been living in quarantine with us for 3 weeks until she had her final vaccination, microchip and de-wormer. I have kept her confined to my bedroom and Tuesday, Aug 20, Robyn Stuart from Dumped/Stray Animal Rescue came to the house, gave her the necessary treatments and said I could introduce Brandy to my other two cats on Friday Aug 23. Robyn said the vet estimated her age at about one year. I know she only weighs 5 pounds now and when she started here she was only 3 pounds so I've been stuffing her. Luckily, she's a good eater. She presented me with a large tapeworm so I know the treatment worked. She is rather exotic looking, with those intense yellow eyes and mottled coloring. I tell her she's ready for fall. She was one of the strays I was feeding so you can see her ear has been clipped for TNR when she was spayed but I wanted to keep her inside with me. She's not at all feral.

What a good idea, Rene! Very effective, too. And the advice to use an odd number of items. Excellent!

Outstanding, Corrie! I've been struggling with this challenge myself and IMHO you've nailed it!

Thanks, Corrie. I like the Open Book better than doing a double layout as it is easier to combine two separate pages into one display. I was a little unhappy with the way it cut off the bottom of the left page but it will do for now. The two pages were each 2550x3300 which should be correct for the script's 8.5x11" size choice.

I did a second page for their Salem adventure and used the Open Book script to bind the two together. I also used the hanging photos script for the second page.

@Cassel I have no idea! 😁

Lesson 3 - I did it two ways: the top one using cassel's script and the other by hand. I think I'll stick with the script!

You can start a list with me in the "Never A Camper" category. I'll amend that with one attendance at a Girl Scout event where I tried some bean dish cooked in a huge pot over an open fire for the first time and actually liked it. My parents were amazed since I was a notoriously picky eater and never tried anything unfamiliar. Daughter Debbie is an avid camper and I still don't see the point.

Yeah, I also love that tool. Just select the object that needs a color change. Open target shaped tool and use it as a brush to apply a different color. I don't even always select if the object is isolated. Play with it as it reacts to the original color in odd ways, sometimes.

speaking of zoo keeper, my granddaughter starts as a zookeeper at the Nashville, Tennessee, zoo in the large carnivores area on Sept. 1st. She's thrilled! Her husband will also be relocating his work there, hopefully!

Corel already has a relatively new AI plugin available for purchase for PSP. In fact I see it's now version 2.0. This is on my PSP 2023 Ultimate Home screen:

My granddaughter in San Jose, CA, had a birthday early in August and I played with one of the AI programs that was offered for free to create a birthday card for her. She is a fan of the ballet so that was the theme I went with. Now I used the card as part of the Lesson 2 layout for shadows. I filled the background with red and added a white layer above that and used my eraser with the bokeh bubbles brush set to 3000. I just pulled this back and changed the colors of the exercise to match the ballerina's tutus. I also found the "hidden layer."

Here is my first lesson. The instructions mention a string but there is no string visible for me. There is another raster layer at the top which was hidden. It had a completely finished page, including a string, but no way to shadow it. Also, there was another .pspimage file included labeled "Shadows-Lesson One-Tutorial.pspimage" which had the exercise Carole used for the demo but still, no string.

sames 🥰

Just curious, why do you call them T-cups and T-pots and not teacups and teapots? Is it a Canadian 😉 thing?

Honestly, that button is fabulous! ❤️

W = Whitewater rafting

Here's the first installment of daughter Laurey and granddaughter Jackie's vacation adventures in Salem, Massachusetts. I will be creating pages as they send photos documenting their Salem invasion. I used the cassel border script on the photos. The map of Salem background is from a Google search.

And here's my Week 32 - The full 2024 performance of the Italian Frecce Tricolori in New York's Hudson Valley. They appeared at the Orange County Airport last weekend. It's their first American tour in more than 30 years. I will also post this on our Facebook page so I can also post the video.

No, not really. The originals are really elaborate...

I'm working on Week 31 - this is a screenshot of a video produced by the Huguenot Street Historical Society and when I saw it, I was delighted to see my own name, Terwilliger. It seems my ancestor was a blacksmith in the New Paltz, NY, area. The photo quality was fair but I ran it through PSPs Effects/Photo Effects/Time Machine and chose the Platinum developing process which also added the frilly border which also shows up on some old photos I have here. PSP explained the Platinum process gave superior prints but because it was exorbitantly expensive was not used very often.

This says it all. The story font is Century Schoolbook. All the art is from Google image search.