Where Have I Been Lately???

Hello out there! (waves from a dark room), I haven’t been around because I have spent all my free time messing around with paintshop pro.  I wanted to get the latest Adobe Photoshop but I don’t happen to have 600 moolahs to spend, so there it is.  It’s taken some time getting used to it, but I think I might be getting the hang of things.  I’m looking for some good tuts to learn more, so I continue my search.  Below are some examples of what I have been up to the last couple of weeks.  The pics that are done in a box type setting are my favorites to do.  I found a wonderful tutorial from Lady-Dementia over at Deviant Art, and I thank her.  Was a very easy to follow tut, I would like to figure out how she does the blood on people, however, she uses photoshop, and I haven’t figured out how to adapt it to Paintshop Pro.  I do have Photoshop Elements 2.0, but I don’t have it on my puter any longer since I got this new one, damn!.