Pixey

There is a really bad dark shadow on the photo. Here is a link to a funny tutorial I had a play with your image and came up with this: Go to Adjustments - Black & White Use the Brightness / Contrast Use the Hue & Saturation Or - take another photograph

I too have never worked with a WebP file, so I download the Plugin that opens them in PDN. There could be many reasons for why you are getting a shadow, the only thing I can think of is that you may not be using layers. You should use a new layer for each thing you add. Don't forget to uncheck the box in a layer that you may no longer want before you flatten the image.

Yes, that is the correct .cs you have opened. Then you have to change certain things in the areas I show in the video. Make sure you can see the line numbers in the .cs Then you must change certain things in the code: 1. On line 10 ..... change false to true 2. Line 39 ...... put your name where is MadJik's name 3. Line 49 ..... remove the two green slashes // at the beginning of the lines of 49, 50, 51 & 52 then add your colors in the brackets (0 , 0, 0, ) etc; It IS a rather complicated thing to do @Seerose and it took me a while to understand it myself One needs a lot of patience

Gorgeous images @Seerose

Sorry this took so long @Seerose. My screen ware had changed since I last used it, so I had to relearn . I hope this video will help to show how the code lab works.

@welshblue I'm so glad you like the heart

Ohhhh - thank you everyone and congratulations to @MadJik and @lynxster4 Welcome on board @DrewDale and thank you @toe_head2001 for your work - after all - this was your brain child Lovely entries all round

That's one naughty and spooky dude

Ahhhhh - merci beaucoup @MadJik

Me again . Before I make a video for @Seerose I'd like also, to show how the actual Plugin works (I now understand the .png part) but I'm having trouble getting the color to change when using the actual Plugin. I have changed line 10 from False to True and then changed the colors, but it doesn't change from black. Obviously there must be something I'm doing wrong.

I did it! Thank you so much @toe_head2001 and @IRON67 for the help. Especially pointing out to use the Build in the File Drop down, and not the one on the Plugin. It's a learning curve. I will now make a video for @Seerose of how to use the Plugin using a .png.

Ohhhh - that's so 'purdy' @lynxster4

Congratulations to the winners. 1st Place: is @welshblue with 11 votes 2nd Place: is@BoltBait and @Pixey with 7 votes 3rd Place: is @welshblue and @welshblue with 6 votes I will contact @welshblue to pick the next theme. I wish you all adieu, as a Competition Host, which will now be taken over by @lynxster4. I've enjoyed doing it and a big Thanks to @lynxster4 for agreeing to be a Host

Okay - I'm baaaaack . Thank you @IRON67 I have managed finally to figure out how to get the path now However, although I am able to make my signature in the Plugin - I am having trouble pulling it up when I re-open PDN. This is what I've been doing. 1. I Unzip the Plugin to its own folder - as seen in below image. 2. I then open Code Lab in PDN. 3. Go to File - open the signature .cs from the folder 4. I make all the changes and my .png shows up in the right place. 5. I then hit Build and OK and close PDN 6. I go back to the folder and hit the Install signature bat and I see Success. 7. I reopen PDN and upload a new image, I then go back to the Effects, and hit on the Signature, hit OK ................... but nothing shows up . Just to be sure, I have two other Q,s in the image below: Sorry for being such a 'numkin' ...................... and thank you for your help guys

Many thanks @toe_head2001 @IRON67and @MadJik for your patience and help. I got it to work whilst I was in the Plugin, but I can't pull it up via the sig plugin when I'm on a new image. Tomorrow is another day and I will play some more then. When I 'ace it' I would be happy to make a video for @Seerose

Many thanks @IRON67 & @MadJik. My "path" seems kind of complicated. How can I shorten it?

@MadJik - I'm having trouble with the 'insertion of an image' into the code. 1. Do I save the .png image to my C drive in a folder? ( I see you have it (e:\pdnsig\sig18-02.png) so I presume you have it on an external drive?) 2. Does the code go into line 41 and, if so, does it go between the plus signs + User Name + ? 3. Or does the code for the .png go on one of the lines for 32, 33, 34? I think I can manage making the text in your sig-maker, but I'm using a Calligraphy font and it's ending up very 'jaggy-looking', so I have made my own and saved it to png.

He looks really good - and I like the poem too

An easy way would be to select the lower part, underneath the line, and then use: Image - Crop to selection. ^^ Clickable After that go to - Image - Canvas size and increase the height to 600 again. Then you can stretch it back to the original size.

Better to do this: 1. Open PDN 2. Make a New Layer - which will be transparent - add your Text here. 3. Use one of the methods @IRON67 mentioned. 4. Decide if you want the first layer, the background layer, to be a different color, or just keep it transparent by unchecking the background and then flatten your image Tip: save to PDN if you want to edit it in future. Once you flatten to .png, or jpg, etc, your work will be gone. ^ ^ Click to see larger image

Oooooo - I will definitely give this a try @MadJik and it will be quite an experience to check out using the Code Lab

Hi @mixmedia Actually there is a Plugin for this which can be found here. And, if you are not familiar with How to Install Plugins there is a nice tutorial here.

Thanks so much @MadJik A really fun tuto and a great lesson in combining all of those Plugins

It look perfect when it's small . But when big it has the jaggies ...... don't you think it looks better with some feathering and AA's Assistant like this;