How we did this

We were asked how we created this picture.

Suzanne Dunaway has left a new comment on your post "Mandog and Gander Monday":

How does your mama get such nice photo edges and special effects? What system app does she use? 

We used a program called Coral Paint Shop Pro X, it's an old program and we are not sure you can still get it. It actually came with a scanner we had years and years ago. The scanner bit the dust but Mommy kept the program around.

This picture was sort of blurry to begin with Mommy selected halftone for the picture. and then she picked a frame for it, from the frames the program has available it's very easy. The "frame" created the photo edges. We wish we were more knowledgeable about it, Mostly what we do is open a picture choose a special effect if we don't like it we undo it and choose another one until we find one we like and then sometimes we pick a frame out for it the same way.

For the scrapbook pages we make we use Serif CraftArtist 2, we aren't sure you can still get it either. Mommy got it for a bargain when Daisy Trails was shutting down. You may be able to find it on Amazon as they did have it there for awhile.  And lots of people make kits and provide them for use for free, teach you how to make your own kit or still sale them on Etsy.com . If you are able to get Serif CraftArtist 2 let us know and we will provide you with the info for our Flickr group and Facebook group.

If you can only get one of the programs we would recommend Serif CraftArtist 2 as it has a Photolab that will let you do the same stuff and more as the Coral Paint Shop Pro X. Mommy just uses the Paint Shop as she is more familiar with it.

 The coloring pages are done on Mommy's phone, it is an Android App called Recolor

Miss Suzanne, thanks for reading our blog and we hope we were able to answer your question.  ~ATCAD

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