I've finally saved up enough to buy PSE8 & it should be arriving in the post sometime next week.
I can't wait!
Up until now, I've been using a free program,
paint.NET, which does quite a lot.
For anyone starting out digiscrapping, it's a great tool to learn with.
It has layers (you can make them transparent for overlays), a magic wand selection tool, lasso's, etc.
But I've been drooling over PSE for simply
ages...
So
of course I had to go and buy some gorgeous actions to play with (I've played with the trial version of PSE already & need more toys).
I bought five actions from
Atomic Cupcake, because they were really good, and also if you buy 4, you get 1 free... and I'm a tight bee. ;)
I figured the five actions I'd most use would be
puffy felt,
stitching,
heavy crumpler (for paper),
chipboard and of course everyone needs a
paper tearing action.
I lingered over the scallop actions, but am going to make do for now with my own hand-drawn scalloped edges. - Twenty dollars was enough of my hard-earned paypal account to splurge right now.
If you want to try out the quality, Atomic Cupcake has a different freebie action to download each month, and for June it's a
pencil sketch edge action.
Hopefully, we'll see a *huge* improvement in the quality of my creations from now on.
- I'm sure you'll see more of them, at any rate, as I spend 18hrs a day playing with my new toys!
