Well
at least I got something tonight. It's 2:31 a.m. and I am figuring out
something with my Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 that previously has
been giving me trouble and causing much stress since I need to figure it
out so I can make the Christmas presents for my kids. The grandkids
have been helping me and without them the presents would be not presents
at all, totally unfinished...and really totally without ideas for
presents. This year the presents for my children are planned to be a
large series of portraits that the grandchildren and I have made without
their parent's knowledge...well they know that I took pictures but they
don't know there is a project in the works. So tonight I learned how
to extract one of the lovely faces of my grandchildren from one photo
and make it all ready to move into another picture so I can make digital
scrapbooks for their parents. Still have some bugs to work out as I
figure out how to work some things on the program as well as figure out
where part of this program is since I paid for the full program, I
should have it all. But it appears I am missing the Project Creator
that is part of the program. I certainly hope I don't have to buy that
separately. If so, I will need to do this all on my own and will take
longer. So now it becomes a fun time of using many of the graphic
designs I made as scrapbook pages while extracting t of their original
photos to place them onto the new scrapbook pages. Then I have to learn
how to tie the book pages all together to make the actual digital
book. And hopefully it can also be printed so that they can see it held
in their hands. But that will be at their expense. I'll be giving
them the CD. They can go from there with what they want to do with the
regular photos as well as the scrapbooks. I have just a month to learn
how to do all this, do it well, and get it completed to be ready and
wrapped for Christmas Eve. Wish me luck. I just overcame my biggest
hurdle tonight, so it shouldn't be bad from here on in. At least not
until I am ready to tie the project together and finish it.
I
will do my best to keep up here with the details of my progress while I
make these digital scrapbooks. Pretty ambitious of me to have my very
first digital scrapbooks become gifts for family members. Hopefully
they will like them. (I won't be able to show the finished pages here
because of their requests of which I am in agreement to keep their
children's photos and names off the internet unless it is a locked page
that is for family and friends only.) But I will write about the steps
taken and what I have learned with each step. For now, my sleeping
medication and my pain medication is doing their proper job on me so I
best stop typing now before you can't read anything I type.
~~Happy Thanksgiving One and All~~
