I made some background
swatches with Photoshop.
The carpet like ones have come in quite handy as backgrounds.

The middle bunch are specialty
backgrounds made with a Photoshop Plugin called Splat. there are links at the bottom of the pages
to pages of flower, food and
miscellaneous backgrounds.

Terrazzo is a plugin
for Adobe Photoshop,
which I used with Adobe
Photoshop Elements.

Bells
Frogs
Easter
Spring  Flowers
We first in the Playroom
learned to make graphic" quilts"
in which we  had our friends make little squares
with pictures on them on a set theme and we set them up on web pages
in little squares in tables so they would look like quilts.  My first one was using bells
at Christmas.  

I like to collect frogs so I made a frog
 quilt.  This was
the first time I drew something with Photoshop, did the frog at the top of the page.
In the spring of 2002 we worked on
 quilts a lot and I was able to add one for Easter
and one of spring flowers.



Links to Friends Websites
Some of my friends have websites also
and I made a page of links to their
websites.

Graphic
Gallery
These are some pictures I drew from scratch
using Adobe Photoshop Elements and a how to Draw book. Most are birds and other animals.


misc. graphic and other links

These are links to
my favorite sources
for graphics and other things.
Some of the sites linked to may be closed.


Photoshop Quickmask Tutorial(Photoshop 5 and later)
One way  isolate a part of a picture in order to
move just that part or delete it you can  fill the place where it was with something else.

Photoshop Horizontal Type Mask Tool Tutorial
How to make text that is part of your picture but is raised.

Snowglobes
I made my first snoglobes in Photoshop and put them on another page.
A "snowglobe"
is a circle or
other shape colored
to look like glass.
Onto that you put
a picture of some kind so it looks like it is inside the glass.
You can then add some kind of fancy
"base".

Armadillo
  Poem