roobear - What a wonderful, generous thing to do.
I will definitely be taking advantage of your hard work.
Thank you so much!

Don't want this to get lost in the shuffle :-)

Thank you Roobear! This is super nice of you. I'm going to be working on this over the weekend. :)

Roobear,
This is great. I have downloaded the first 4 videos and have gone thru 1 and 2. I have already learnt a few things that I have been struggling with. I am so excited to try all these videos and learn this program even if only a bit.
I can see I am not going to get much housework done today.
I will let you know how I am doing throughout the day and coming days. Thank you so much for your work in all this.

I will save these to download while recovering from surgery. thanks for your generosity. stay warm up at the North Pole!

Roobear,
I've been looking at sofas on-line, and am going to "shop" them into my LR photo. Thanks so much for this!

Thank you Roobear, BTW you have a lovely voice.

Roobear,
A question. I have downloaded all the videos but Video 6 and video 18 were both very short downloads.
Video 6 took 30 seconds and video 18 took 52 seconds
whereas all the others were between 3 and 12 minuites to download. Is this OK?
Thanks

Thanks guys for all the Thank You's, it was my pleasure.

Lyban, your right, I went back and checked 18 is ok but 6 is not, I'll fix it and have it reuploaded in a few minutes, thanks for letting me know.

roobear,
It might be OK. Because even though it only took me 30 seconds to downloaded when I watched my downloaded video it went on for the whole time.

Lyban, Ok, well I replaced it just in case. LOL. I appreciate you letting me know how these are working. :)

Roobear,
I have finished downloading all the tutorials and have quickly looked them all over. They play well and your instructions look easy to follow. Now, I know this can be a very frustrating program so I will take my time and keep referring back to your videos.
Thanks again,

Ok I must be the only one that's goofy here.

When I clicked to download either link it's telling me I need to upgrade to pro and register at that site? Am I to be downloading them individually?

Shee, you can try selecting more than one to download but you may have to download them one at a time. I think they take only take like 2 min to download per video, so maybe just put on a movie to watch while your downloading.

You don't need to register or upgrade to pro, I think if you do then you can bulk download. No rush though, I'm leaving them up for a long time.

Hey Roobear you beat me back to it. Thanks! I should've tried to only load one at a time before posting. I'm on #12 now. :)

I too just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to put something like this together. I wasn't able to check the forum this weekend, but I was certainly delighted to see the tutorials when I checked this morning.

I can't wait to really take a look at them this evening. Thanks again for your generosity.

Joining the thank-you chorus :)

Wow, roobear, what a generous gesture on your part!

I've had Gimp on my PC for years but always drift back to my preferred PaintShopPro and a few others. The nice thing for anyone learning this is the knowledge can be interchanged to some extent. After getting the hang of one photo edit program it makes the jump to different software much less painful. ;)

Would be great to see roobear's students dive in and try your hand at virtuals here if you've got some free time to play! Wish I had more time to doodle and play, it's a nice diversion. Anyway, encouraging you lots! It's always nice to see a variety of visions!

roobear,
Another question for you. After I use a tool, sometimes it just follows me around and I cannot seem to get rid of it. Do you know what I mean.

Hmmm, Could it be that you still have the tool selected and just don't realize it?

For example, I select the paintbrush tool and do some painting on my butterfly image, then I go up to the menu at top (the mouse cursor will change to an arrow) and open another image to copy something from it into the butterfly image I'm working on.

When I go back into the project work area (big space where my butterfly image is) I will still have the paintbrush tool selected unless I choose a different tool from the tool box.

I can have a tool selected and with my mouse go to a window or the menu at top and the mouse cursor will change from whatever tool I have selected to an arrow. However when I go back to my project area the mouse cursor will change back to show the tool I have currently selected.