I started with PSP 5 in 1998. I started to study PSP in PSPUG group till 2004 maybe. Even wrote them a couple tutorials.

Later - Artistry in PSP
(http://webspace.webring.com/people/ub/bituke/mustuke/artists/index.html) and German group Tutaholic.
Also belong to Tutorials writer group.
My baggage isn't so large, - only 11 tutorials :-)

Later I studied CSS, Flash, have created two groups for beginners and intermediate levels and managed them..

Nowadays I am very interested in vector graphics, because I am painting genealogical trees with Corel Draw and pixel graphics don't suit for it; thefore times to time I am trying to learn something with Adobe Illustrator.

Now I retire but work with many websites: create and manage them in CMS version. With HTML finished about in 2004.

So, as you see, I am crazy with Internet and computer since those times when they appeared... I am from Lithuania and English isn't my mother language.

In 1960 I married my soul mate Mary, who was my work colleague at the time. She was then ordered to leave the company as married couples weren’t allowed to work together those years. That infuriated her so much that she took up law and fought for Women’s Rights. She remains my best friend and critic and always views all of the creations in the Groups.

In 1969 we moved to Australia and settled in Sydney, where I worked as an Accountant, and which job I found so boring. In 2001 I decided to retire and from the Internet I selected Bundaberg in Queensland as a “new home” to settle. Never thought I would enjoy a small town after living in big cities all my life – loved the place.

I did a course at U3A learning to draw in word when Ferne Fyfe our neighbour introduced me to Artistry PSP. At first it was daunting to do the courses, but with a great moderator and tutorial writer like Jamie I soon fell in love with creating in PSP, and it revealed my artistic side in life, which I never developed in my youth.

Four years ago we moved to Toowoomba to a cooler climate for Mary’s health sake.
We have grown to love this city with it tree lined avenues and gorgeous parklands.
The winters are a bit tough, but the four seasons really a delight.

We have traveled a great deal around the world, and enjoyed many interesting places.
We have no children and were both very much “career” folk. We are godparents to a delightful 10 year old girl in Sydney, but her older brother and sister feel they too are our godchildren, so it has developed into a wonderful little family. Mary’s niece also has 3 children in Africa so we are much loved “oldies” and certainly don’t lack the love children would have brought us, and it is always good to say “goodbye” at the end of the day LOL.

My life in a nut shell - enough of this!.
Cheers, Brian

My other hobbies are painting, both oils and acrylic....some knitting (not too much..so much psp to do!)

I share my home with my little Yorkshire Terrier.......Abby. All 4 1/2 pounds of her!!! She's my little baby!!!!

I really enjoy the AIPSP Masters...so much to do and lots of kind and generous folks to help out whenever you need it.

That's about it for me!
Blessings,
Debbie A

As well as all my hobbies, I look after my grandchildren 2 or 3 days a week. Their mother works 12 hour shifts as a midwife and depends on her dad and I as back up since her marriage broke down. This is my greatest pleasure! Being a granny is the best.

I've used PSP since version 7 but it wasn't until I came across Jamie's brilliant lessons that I could do much with it. I make greeting cards and have now a dedicated craft/computer room crammed with all the equipment I've bought over the years. I can't fit in everything I want to do as I find multi tasking a problem nowadays.

We've been doing quite a lot of home improvements this year which has reduced the time I have for my hobbies but that is hopefully coming to an end soon.

I love being a member here and really appreciate all that Jamie and the moderators do.

I was born in Great Britain and moved to Canada 9 years ago when I married Ray. Ray met my late Husband Dennis when they served together in the British Navy during World War II. It was after the war that I first met Ray and his Wife and we all became very close friends. Ray was best man at our wedding 65 years ago.

Ray & Audrey decided to emigrate to Canada in 1956 but we always kept in touch. Eventually we both lost our dear partners.

And now here we are, very happily together in Canada. Ray has 1 Son and 1 Daughter, 5 Grandchildren and 8 Great Grandchildren. I have 1 Son, 1 Daughter-in-law, 2 Grandsons and 1 Great grandson.

I visit with my lovely Family each year in England. But I thank God for modern technology when I can keep in touch so easily.

I am definitely a PSP addict and am so delighted to have been accepted in this wonderful group.

My name is John. I am 85 years old.

Back in 1951 I was an Army soldier and just a few weeks before being shipped out to Korea, I married the love of my life. That union lasted until she passed away March 26, 2007. I suppose I can say that union has never ended, because every time I visit her grave site I always take a dozen red roses. I have always been told that a red rose is a sign of life and to me she is still here.

We are the parents of five children, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. In 1991 I retired from the company that I had employed for almost 30 years as a graphic communication worker. Starting off as a janitor, serving two journeyman apprenticeships put me in the position of being the swingman. The factory was scheduled to be retooled and I did not want to go back to school to learn how to maintain a computer.

In 1998 I purchased my first computer. In 1999 I built my first computer. I don't remember the year, but the first edition of Paint Shop Pro that I owned was PSP 6. I didn't learn anything about how to use it. Later on while attending one of the local community college I got into a conversation with one of the instructors. I don't remember what the conversation was all about, but I do remember him giving me the link to a class for beginners. The link was to Artistry in Paint Shop Pro.

That's the story folks. LOL

Hello Masters.

My name is Kay Turley. I am 66 years old and I live in Beautiful North Idaho, USA on the banks of the St. Joe River in the middle of a wild and scenic area. I love it here. I have lived in this area all my life. I am married to hubby, Milt, who like me, has lived in the area all his life.  We went to the same high school. He was a senior when I was a sophomore.

I have 4 grandchildren. Twins, Mattie and Michael, Rachel 8, Sophie who will be 3 in November. Milt has 5 grandkids, Avery, Tucker, Dalton, Riley and Paul.  When we all get together we form a small town. And we all have white Ford Crew Cabs. Except me. I traded mine in on a black Jeep the day after Christmas 2011.  

Also, I would be remiss for not mentioning my two dogs, Darrtanean Michael and Thorne, the thorn in Darts butt. They are rescue dogs. I have raised rottweilers since 1977. 

The day Elvis died, my rott puppy that I had bought out of California died too.  I was devastated.  But I love the breed and my dogs are both meatheads. Nothing makes Darrt happier than a toilet paper roll, and nothing makes Thorne happier than to take it away from him.  And they like to ride with their noses out the window.  And they love all of our kids’ babies. 

We are outdoors people. We take our ATV’s on roadtrips through the mountains from spring til the snow flies and then we take snowmobiles where we can’t take the ATV’s. We are hunters, fishermen,and we are wildlife watchers. 

I am also a quilter. I have lots of quilts here, Sadly I can’t do applique any more, because I don’t see well enough to do those tiny stitches. But boy, I have some great Baltimore Album quilts that I have completed over the years. 

I was a nurse for 44 years. I retired in 2008 again. I retired the first time in 2001. But I couldn’t stay out of it. But when I could no longer see well enough to draw up insulin, I thought I could better spend my time picking huckleberries. A friend and I got run out of a patch of huckleberries in mid- August by a couple of brown bears. 

This picture of me was taken on March 6^th, 2008.
The day after I wrecked my pickup on the way to work. Pickup got fixed. I decided it wasn’t worth the hundred and two mile drive in the winter here. I retired September 30 2008. Couldn’t face driving another winter.

I have had PSP since version 6. Still have them all . But I never could get enough time working shift work to get going in it.  Then when I retired, I decided the time had come to at least try. I started in earnest with version 8, went to Stepping Stones, where I am now a mod, and then I got a letter from Jamie asking if I would like to try her classes.
(I had been snooping around the artistry classes.) 

I am not as active as I should be, and like other members, I have saved every tutorial and link. Jamie, you make it look so easy.   I’ll never leave.

I am 80 years young  - I was born in England and came to Australia with my parents ,  brother and sister in 1950 -   I live on the South Coast of New South Wales Australia. 

I married an Australian in 1952 but after almost 50 years of being happily married he died in 2002 so instead of feeling sorry for myself I enrolled in Photography classes at the local Senior College and am now doing a Professional Photography Course which I enjoy very much. 

I have no human children but have always had furry ones – at the moment I have two Maltese cross Poodles – both are boys and are almost two years old and they keep me on my toes. I also have a 17yr old cat  , seven goldfish and a few tropical fish. 

I’ve been interested in PSP since JASC 7 days and I enjoy doing the various tuts very much – although I don’t do as many as I would like because of my photography assignments – I also go to the Gym – to keep fit – go to line dancing and I love reading – I do tapestry & crocheting in my spare time.

I have been on quite the Graphic Journey since first joining AIPSP back in 2005 in a quest for knowledge on how to use my PSP 7 Anniversary Edition, which along with the computer and internet, was a huge mystery to me. I was overjoyed when Jamie and my Lesson Moderators happily congratulated me on becoming a very, very proud Master.

AIPSP was the doorway that opened into learning Basic HTML; Web Design; Tubing and eventually putting my own Web Site together which I just love to play in as well as sharing what was so freely shared with me along the way. Over the years Artistry remained within my heart no matter where I was or what I was doing and it is so nice to be home among like minded and caring individuals once again!