I’ve owned a lot of computers over the years.  My first was an Apple II.  I skipped over the whole Commodore craze.  Then came my Apple IIe, and then a Compaq Deskpro.  That silly computer lasted me some 14 years, over a billion words of novels and medical transcripts.  It was still working when I […]

I’ve been downloading some more plugins, some brushes and filters.  I like to play with images.  There are hundreds of great tutorials on the net and I found a few awesome ones to do so that I could practice my skills and learn what the different effects do.  Here are some of the results.  The […]

I drove my oldest to college this week.  She’s firmly ensconced in her new dorm room.  No failure to launch here.  Her room is empty, bed standing idle, waiting.  Most of the little mementos of her life are gone.  I drove her to school yesterday, stayed the night, got her all set up in her […]

Since my oldest daughter is leaving for college next Thursday and my youngest daughter starts K5 six days after that, we decided to go to the beach.  The little one had never been, I hadn’t been in about 20 years.  So, on Monday, David stayed home from work, we packed all our gear into the […]

I guess I’m on a roll.  *LOL*  If you go to the PSP tutorials page, you’ll find that I’ve put in two new tutorials: one for a nice piece of rope, and another for a sweet gingham.  Hopefully, in the days to come, I’ll be putting up a plaid tutorial and perhaps even a few […]

I’ve been trying to find the time to do a few tutorials. When I’m sitting and watching TV, I like to doodle with my PSP. Occasionally, I come up with something that actually looks cool. So, I finally got around to putting the details in a tutorial. The first one is for a ripped up […]