Hello from North Carolina, USA

[vickyday]

A little bit about me.....
I'm a Christian wife, mother and grandmother.
DH and I have been married for 36 1/2 years.
We were HS sweethearts.
Our 4 children are grown and married and have given us 7 grands so far!
DH is a pastor and I am blessed to finally be able to stay at home!
I've been involved in digital scrapbooking even before I found out it was called digital back in 2005 as I used to create pages in Word for Windows. It is definitely my addiction!

[Debb Cozzi]

Welcome Vicky. I'm so glad you are here. That is so funny that you started in Word! I actually did my first layouts in Print Shop which was a desktop publishing program. I had no idea that there was anything like Photoshop or Paintshop and was so excited when I found those programs.

[vickyday]

My first scrapbooking program I bought was Scrapbook Factory Deluxe. Then I got Photoshop Elements V5, then V6. After that I didn't really care for the updates so just stuck with V6, even designing with it. Then earlier this year, my son gifted PSCS5 to me but I didn't have time to learn it. So I took a break from designing to learn the program (which I have not started yet, LOL!) I'm having too much fun working on a CT again!

Originally Posted by Debb Cozzi

Welcome Vicky. I'm so glad you are here. That is so funny that you started in Word! I actually did my first layouts in Print Shop which was a desktop publishing program. I had no idea that there was anything like Photoshop or Paintshop and was so excited when I found those programs.

[Debb Cozzi]

I moved from Publisher to Paint Shop Pro. I used that for several years even as I had PCSC3 sitting on my desk. I was intimidated by the learning curve. But then PSP started getting 'glitchy' so I finally installed Photoshop and buckled down to learn. I love Photoshop-the effort to learn was so worth it!

[vickyday]

Debb, did you take any on-line classes to learn PSCS? I just recently bot PSCS5 for Dummies, but haven't taken too much time to look at it yet.

[SparkysGirl]

Welcome to DSAG, Vicki!

The learning curve for CS5 is huge, but worth it. I started out in MS DIP, but only for a very short while. I migrated to PSE. About a year later, I upgraded to CS5. I was very frustrated at first, because there are big differences. I forced myself to use CS5 ... even in a speed scrap (which was a HOOT!). It felt like it was taking me three times as long to do the simplest things. HOWEVER, it was well worth forcing the issue. I love CS5 and highly recommend that you take advantage of having it.

You can google to find some free tutorials online. I found that to be the easiest way to learn.

Good luck!

Lisa

[Debb Cozzi]

Originally Posted by vickyday

Debb, did you take any on-line classes to learn PSCS? I just recently bot PSCS5 for Dummies, but haven't taken too much time to look at it yet.

I started with online tutorials. Mostly for me it was translating what I already knew about Paint Shop Pro to PS. I was used to working with layers so I just needed to figure out PS's tools. We used to offer a class her at the Guild but it was written for a much earlier version of PS. I've always intended to redo that but I haven't had the time or the funds to upgrade from PSCS 3 to PSCS5.