And here is something to keep you busy with over the weekend !

If you participate in the February template challenge, you will receive a 9 page Candy Kisses 6×6 mini album. The basic page layout is done and ready for you to add your photos, journalling and any extra embellishments that you would like.

Download today’s template

This will explain how the Template challenge works.

Keep smiling !
Mitzie

This is an easy way to add some pop to a photo.

open your photo
duplicate layer
on the layers palette change the blending mode from “normal” to “screen”. You may have to lower the opacity a bit to make it look right.

I love the look it gives on plant and flower shots.

Play around with the other blending modes. You can get some really cool effects that way.

If it looks bad you can always undo.

ShanB
DSSA

Hi all
As we get many posts regarding the functioning of the forum and site I thought perhaps to add some help here.
This 1st one is straight from the online documentation, if it is still unclear shout….
The best advice I can give to ensure success though is to pm directly from within the forum and not search for a user as there are many obsolete users and you may have the wrong user, use the pm icon below the users message that you want to pm (not the one below your post )

Private messages allow users on a board to contact each other out of the public eye. Private messages can be described as a cross between email, instant messaging, and phpBB 2.0 forum posting.
To use private messaging, you must be logged in to the board. Look at the top of any page, and click You have X new message(s). This will take you to your private messaging center.

4.3.1: Sending
There are three primary ways to send a private message. First, you may go your private messaging center and click New Post. Secondly, you may click Post Reply from a private message you are reading. Finally, you may click the PMlink on any user’s profile or post.
The posting form is identical to the normal posting form with a few exceptions:
Username - The username of the person you want to receive the message. If you are replying to a PM, or clicked the PM link in someone’s profile, this field will be automatically filled for you.
4.3.2: Receiving
There are three ways that one may be notified of a new private message. Most obvious is the Private message link at the top of every page. It will display You have X new message(s), where X is the number of new messages you have. You may click this link to take you to your Inbox.
You may be informed of new PMs by an email sent to the email address your username is registered to. You may also be informed of a new PM by means of a small window that pops up while you are viewing the board. Email and pop-up notification will contain a link to your Inbox. Email and pop-up notification may be enabled/disabled in your Profile (for more information, see 4.7 Profile Settings)
Sometimes you may be informed of a new PM, but when you go to your Inbox, there is no new message. This is not a bug, it simply means that the sender must have deleted the PM before you read it. For more information, see 4.3.3 The Outbox.
You may delete messages by selecting them and clicking Delete Marked. Alternatively, you may delete all messages by clicking Delete All. You may also sort/display messages by age by using the dropdown list box in the upper right corner.
4.3.3: The Outbox
When you send a PM, the message goes to your Outbox. It remains in the Outbox until the recipient visits his/her Inbox, at which point it is moved from your Outbox to their Inbox. While the message remains in your Outbox you may edit or delete your post if you like. The message remains in your control until it is received.
4.3.4: The Savebox
The Savebox is provided as a place to keep important PMs. Often it is used to save valuable messages from the Inbox, and then you can use the Delete All function to discard the rest.
You may save messages in your Inbox by selecting the messages (with the checkboxes next to each message) and clicking Save Marked.

Hope this helps….
Fionab

I opened the Blog to see what exciting post is waiting for today … and then I realized that it is my turn to post !!
LOL, just as well I had a look otherwise there might have been no template today !! I wonder if it is because I need a weekend … or could it be the excitement of meeting up with our very own Bev in a few hours ?

If you participate in the February template challenge, you will receive a 9 page Candy Kisses 6×6 mini album. The basic page layout is done and ready for you to add your photos, journalling and any extra embellishments that you would like.

Download today’s template

This will explain how the Template challenge works.

Keep smiling !
Mitzie