Peaceful -- Ohhhh, yes, just what I needed, another tutorial !!  It looks like you found a good link.  I'll print it out and maybe try it over the weekend.  It took me long enough to try the Ommadawn Slats tutorial.  I have to be in the mood.

 

The first sig -- the one with the purple fairy -- I just followed the slats tutorial from this link

and used Toadie's Ommadawn and Xenofex 1.0's Baked Earth.  On the text, I used Baked Earth and Eye Candy's Glass.

 

On the Siamese Cats, I'm not exactly sure but I think I also used Baked Earth and Ommadawn, mainly because I like that effect.  To get the effect where the background cats look like they're lighter than the main cat graphic, I just lightened the background on that particular layer (using that sliding arrow thingee).  To get the glittery noise effect, I used DSB Flux's version of Noise (it's done using 3 layers and you apply a different version of the noise to each layer -- but you also need Animation Shop).  The circle around the cats is from Filters Unlimited.

 

Those plug-ins are fantastic, aren't they?  I had so many plug-ins loaded into Paint Shop Pro, I finally just put some into a temp folder because I can't deal with all of them at the same time.  I want to get to know a few at a time so I'm only keeping the ones I use regularly.  My favorites so far are:  Eye Candy, Filters Unlimited, Xenofex 1.0, DSB Flux, Toadies and Visman (also called VM).  But I know there are others that I'm forgetting ... I'm at work, so I'm doing this from memory.  There's a new one I just downloaded a few days ago -- I think it's called Unplugged.  It looks promising.

 

Check out the Good Morning thread.  I have another slat tag.

Peaceful -- Thanks for that link.... they have a lot of great (and short!) tutorials, if anyone is interested.  I can't wait til the weekend so I can have time to play with some of this stuff.

 

Free Filters!

 

 

 

 

Peaceful -- That's really cute!

Peaceful -- I never got a chance to copy the graphic you put on here the other day, and now with all the problems, all I see is a box with an X.  So when we're back to normal, I'll copy him.  In the meantime, I wasn't sure if you ever joined Paint Shop Stop.  They're an MSN group and they have a LOT of resources, plus this separate website.

 

Thanks for the link Diane. I'll check it out.

Brent -- You win the prize.  That's fanatastic!

 

 

 

Uh, that would be "fantastic" not "FANA-TASTIC" -- I'm not Italian, lol.

Good job you two.

If anyone is still up to playing with graphics, here are some to tackle.  I tried to put in something different for different tastes.  The only problem I'm having is that in order to get a transparent background (and I sure hope that that's what you'll get when you bring these up on your screen), I have to sacrifice some sharpness of color.  If anyone wants a sharper image, just let me know and I'll post it, but it will have a white background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still like this idea but don't have time these days to play.  I'll jump back in when I can.

I'm still not sure if you're going to get a transparent background on those graphics, so here are some other versions of them to work with, if you choose.... some may be transparent and one might be white ... I just can't figure out how to get it to be the way I want it to be!!!  It's so frustrating.  I've attached the files, rather than posting them.