I finally have Paint Shop Pro 9 back and working! Makes creating icons and textures so much easier. These are some I've made recently, hope you like. I think I picked Pennsylvania and CIT because some astronaut or other went there, and then I needed two more to make a four - so I went with Harvard and Yale because I've been having a Frasier-fest ( Read more... )

I'm back to making school colours texture sets again. Didn't go quite as planned, but I think it's worked out OK. What happened was that I had the brush set at 40% opacity for ages without realising it, I just thought that's the way the brushes I was using were. But I think it makes for some interesting and slightly different results to what I ( Read more... )

I downloaded a huge number (thousands?) of new Photoshop brushes a couple of weeks ago, and I made another black and white base from them. Much the same style as before, some geometric shapes, hearts, stars, glitter, paint splashes, plants, art nouveau tendrils and curls. As well as the original black and white pic I made versions with some ( Read more... )

Have taken a bit of a break from graphics stuff to play about with Google Earth, tremendous fun, particularly Street View. Have returned to my graphics programs to find that Elements is still tempremental when it comes to adding text, thankfully IrfanView can help me out there, but I'm experimenting with a different layout for preview pictures, ( Read more... )

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