Continuing to Learn My Graphics-Arts Programs

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MORNING...!

​From Philadelphia....

   So here is a progress-report on My Usage of the Corel PaintShop Pro 2022 Version alongside the Corel Painter Essentials 8 graphics-arts programs by Corel.
   Lemme start by making it clear I AM NOT A GRAPHICS-ARTIST.
   I have ZERO TRAINING in the Usage of Graphics-Arts Programs, and to quote My Middle-Brother, because yes, I have MORE Sworn-Brothers aside from just Youngest-Brother now passed.
   Middle-Brother pointed out this weekend that when these programs first came out?
   We only used them TO TOUCH UP OUR FINISHED ARTWORKS, not to do ENTIRE PIECES OF ART ONLY USING THE GRAPHICS-ARTS PROGRAMS THEMSELVES.
   I've found it VERY INTERESTING as I've been going back-&-forth FIGURING OUT & READING UP ON, how ANY OF THIS WORKS.
   I've ALREADY MADE UP MY MIND that My Works will be a COMBINATION of Traditional-&-Graphics Arts, so of course the first thing I wanted to do was EXPERIMENT and do so WITH AS LITTLE FORMAL-INFO ON WHAT IS WHAT & WHY, now I DO NEED TO POINT OUT!!!!!
   I have USED photoshop in the past & I already detailed in previous postings that  used to have Adode Photoshop, one of THE VERY LAST DISK-BASED VERSION, on the Ole Desktop that got stolen by the Slumlady-&-Slumlord when I was renting from them at the Slumhouse!
   So I do have SOME LIMITED KNOWLEDGE of Layering, etc., where I learned all of that THROUGH TRIAL-&-ERROR, just as I am doing now.
​   So here is simply a Black-&-White of the MTA-1 that I am using as a guinea pig to test & learn these Corel-programs:

   So now here is the color version:

   Note that there is NO POLISH to the color-version like the B&W above it and that's because I didn't go in & clean the white-background using Paint-3D, like I did with the B&W, NOW!?
   Here is where I STOPPED, yesterday, again, using the Corel-Programs:

   So THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!!!
   It's 6:52am EST, so I have to HEAD OUT to the Dayjob!
   I'll be back TONIGHT TO POST MORE UPDATES!
   I'll let the Vile-Eye close out this post, be sure to check out His Youtube-channel here:

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