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The Changing Web

4/24/2015

Just lately, I have run into several sites that have either changed almost beyond recognition, or have ceased to exist completely. I don't know about you, but I do not like change. Well, I don't mind changing a design of a website for the better, but when it changes for the worst, like the one I'm thinking of, well, that's just not something I want to deal with.

And then there's the wowmeter - the one I posted about before this post. It's just plain gone. No explanation, just a notice about closing on April 9th (I believe it was April 9th.) It was a simple site and I liked it.

I think I'll go watch a movie.

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The WOW Factor!

12/10/2014

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I just found a site called WOWMeter.com. I thought it sounded a little funny and it's one of those little sites where you can get a banner for people to click on and it just counts your clicks. Sounds simplistic, right? Well, it is. I'm putting my link here on my blog in hopes that you might click it and give me one more "Wow". (which I think sounds really funny!)

Oh, and here's my banner, in case you'd rather click it:

*** Well, I used to have my banner here. The whole site (wowmeter.com) has gone down. *sob* ***

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Childhood Memories

8/3/2014

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I grew up in a very small town that did not have any restaurants. We did, however, have a general store. My mother used to send my sisters and I up to the store to buy a loaf of bread or carton of milk. My father used to work at the gas station which was just a stone's throw away. My uncle owned the farm behind our house and was a dairy farmer. I remember many days sitting in the backyard watching the cows graze out in the field behind out house. They would munch their way from the barnyard all the way up to the fence bordering our backyard and then slowly turn around and make their way back. Yep, that was usually the highlight of every summer's evening. Of course, we also caught lightening bugs and put them in quart jars. Now, that was fun!

Of course, there were also attractions in the front yard as well. The porch, for example, was the hotspot for many car counting escapades. I had three sisters and we would all sit on the porch, pick a color that would be "ours", and wait for cars to drive by. If the car was "our" color, we'd chalk up one point. You can see how exciting this activity could be in a small town with hardly any traffic, I'm sure.

As I said, there were no restaurants, but that didn't mean we didn't eat well! Oh, no! On the contrary, we ate very well. Watermelon and corn on the cob were my two favorite summertime foods. My father eventually build a nice grill - made it out of brick so it would last! Then we would have family cook-outs - they were the best! My mom could bake a pie like no other. And did I mention she was the best cook around? Well, she was. Yummy foods were always being baked, cooked, canned, or frozen.

Childhood memories are a thing to cherish. Everybody should be so lucky as I to have such a blissful childhood, one free of the worries and cares of the world we live in today. Free also of stress and heartache in the home. I thank God for my childhood days.

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PSP Level 1 Lessons 7 - 12

7/6/2014

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OK, I got some more Paint Shop Pro lessons to show everyone! I already showed you lessons 1 - 6 so here comes Lesson 7:

Which looks like this when you put four of them together:

This is a simple swirl design, but then we had to make it so it "tiled". You can use images like this for a background on a website and it will tile "seamlessly" so you can't tell where one image stops and another begins. See this web site for an example of seamless tiling: The Flower Game (And I made the background for them!)

Now for Lesson 8:

OK, this one looks nicer than the swirls and some of the others I've done so far. The flowers were already provided, so I can't take credit for them. "Checking in!" is something we have to do every month at the school, so that's why the wording. Now, what we had to do here is use the brush tool, which is the three lines and the corners. And, actually, it made the orange marble looking background too, if I'm not mistaken!

Lesson 9:

This is just using one of the effects in PSP - the mosaic effect. You basically just take the same picture (the ladybugs) and do the efftect on them and then place a duplicate of it on top. I really like the effect!

Lesson 10:

Lesson 10 uses the Clone tool. It's sort of hard for me to describe, but you can see what you can do with it here. And below is another picture - there was only one windmill in the picture at first, then I copied (by using the clone tool) that one to make another. Looks sort of neat.

Lesson 11:

This one didn't turn out the way I would have liked it to, but I guess you can sort of see what it's supposed to be - a combination of two images. You use the "Image Arithmetic" dialog box - not sure what to call it. I doubt I'll be using it much.

And, last, Lesson 12:

This was mainly to teach us how to do that twirly thing with the squares. I think it's pretty cool and I could see where I might use it sometime in the future. (I don't care for the colors of this one so I had to do something so that is why you see the pretty rainbow background!)

So, that is all of the Beginner Lessons for Level 1. Next time I post my lessons it will be from Level 2! Bet you just can't wait, huh? =D

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Very Cool Fish!

4/3/2014

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Found these fish swimming around on a friend's blog and liked them so much, I thought I'd get some for myself. OK, it didn't turn out like I thought. I wanted (and said to have) 10 fish. I also gave them each a different color - sort of like a rainbow swimming around, but all I got was the normal orange which is the example. Not sure how to get it right. I didn't even get the background color I set it for. Hmmm.

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Lessons - Beginners!

3/27/2014

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OK, so I have started back taking lessons for Paint Shop Pro - I think might have mentioned that already. Now I've decided to show you a few of the things I've learn (and in some cases, relearned!)

First, making a banner. Very simple, but a nice banner. Here's mine:

That was Lesson 2 of Level 1. Lesson 1 was an overview of Paint Shop Pro and also things like how to take screenshots.

Next, we had to resize an image. I'm not going to show that here, so on to Lesson 4 - a Frame:

Lesson 5 is called "Easy Reflection" and looks rather cool - and more difficult than it is, if you ask me:

I don't know if you could tell, but I messed up on this one. I used a font that had a capital "Y" that went below the "line" and so when I went to make the reflection, it didn't quite look right. Oh well, you live and learn, right?

I decided to put six lessons up at a time, since there are 12 lessons per level, at least for the Beginner's section. Next, and last for this post, is Lesson 6 where we had to make a watermark. This was so we could use it on all of our lessons. That way another student could come along and say the image was their work and then they could go through the entire school that way. That wouldn't be right!

Here are my watermarks and you will see them on all of my lessons. One for dark images:

And one for white, or light, images:

I would have linked to each Lesson, but you have to go to the School for PSP and More and be accepted. These are their Lessons and not mine to share, but I'm sure they would love to have anyone come and take them! Maybe I'll see you there!

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Mondo Photo Contest! Please vote!

3/11/2014

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This beautiful photo a a seahorse has been entered into the weekly Mondo Zoo photo contest by my friend and the leader of the group I belong to. Please vote for it if you feel so inclined and many thanks to those of you who do!

I will be posting some of the images I have made from the PSP lessons I've been taking in the near future so be sure to watch out for them!

Post by Mondogames.

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Weekly Contest - Please vote!

3/3/2014

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Please vote for my friend's photo! Much appreciated. Voting ends on Thursday /06.03.14/ at 19:00 GMT +2.

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Please cast your vote!

2/24/2014

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THIS CONTEST IS OVER!

OK, on Mondo Zoo, a close friend of mine has started entering contests to try and win Mondoz to help her with her zoo. I wanted to help her out by asking all my friends and visitors to this site if you would please vote for her photo too! Here it is - but I think you have to sign into Facebook in order to vote. We'll see how that works. (Looks like you can just click the "Like" button here! Someone let me know, OK?

(I'll be posting more of her photos so if you're wanting to help out, check back. Not sure how often the contests are though, so I'm not sure how often to tell you to check back.

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The School for PSP and More!

2/16/2014

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Boy oh, boy! Wait till you hear what I've been up to lately!

First of all, a little background...I went back to collage to learn about computers and how to make websites back in 2005 and I graduated in 2008. Well, during the course of taking all those classes, I took one that has remained with me a long time and that was the class of beginning web graphics. (Not quite the real name of the course.) The program we learned was Jasc's software, Paint Shop Pro (PSP - now owed by Corel).

I loved it - absolutely LOVED it! I went on to take advanced web graphics - that was PhotoShop - but I always thought PSP was so much easier to use, so I stuck with that! I got a copy from a friend of mine who also told me about a MSN group that taught people how to use PSP. I thought that would be really cool to learn more about this program I found so fascinating, so I joined. The group's name was The School for PSP and More and have since moved to yuku.com. I started back in '08 and went up to the Intermediate levels, but then stop for some reason - I really can't remember why. However, I always remembered the group and have recently rejoined. I just completed the three Beginner's Levels. Here are all there of my "badges" for passing each level and then my certificate for passing the Beginner's level altogether!

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Just a person interested in playing games. Usually slower type, non-violent games. I like collectable games. Even thought of making a game myself, but I wouldn't know how to code it. So, I play other people's games and enjoy them. This site shows you most of the games I play - there have been a lot more in the past, but these are the ones I am still playing, with the exception of Creature Breeder, which I visit once in a blue moon, and UniCreatures, which has changed so very much. I'm not sure I want to start it all over again. And then there's My Mini City. I miss it very much, and visit once in a while, but time - time is always a factor. It's always against me.

The Changing Web

The WOW Factor!

Childhood Memories

PSP Level 1 Lessons 7 - 12

Very Cool Fish!

Lessons - Beginners!

Mondo Photo Contest! Please vote!

Weekly Contest - Please vote!

Please cast your vote!

The School for PSP and More!

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