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When I try to use Syndee's Retro Photo Action this is what happens: (I installed the pattern that came with the action in the following folder - Program files (x86)/Adobe/PSE11/Presets/Patterns)

When I put my photo in the work space and hit play I get a window with a pattern showing and another window that says Pattern Fill: Scale 100%, Link with layer, Snap to Origin. I click OK.
Then I get the message that says drag your photo on top of the photo mask. I can do that, but the pattern fill layer is over top of the photo mask so after I drag the photo over, the pattern fill covers it.
Then when I hit play again, it will let me change the date. I do that and hit play again, but then all I have is the pattern fill layer.

If I drag the photo over the pattern fill layer, the action adds a date to the photo and I can edit it, but when it finishes, it is the same photo as before I played the action with just a date added. No frame or changes to the photo.

I hope my explanation is understandable!

Oh, I use PSE 11 and Windows 7.
Thanks in advance for any help.

I just downloaded and unzipped the SS Club this month and I love it. There were no marketing sheets in my downloads. Did I miss something? I went back and looked and didn't see any on my download page. I use the marketing sheets in my organization system and really like them.

I truly hate to complain, but I am feeling really frustrated right now! I just tried to take advantage of the great sale for printing pages on the ProDigitalPhoto website that has been advertised in the NL and blog all week. What a frustrating experience! When ordering you have to hover over your uploaded image to pick the size and type of print you want. First of all, the two types of print were Press and Photo. I don't know what these choices meant, but I guessed that they meant paper like you would have in a photo book versus photo paper. I couldn't find an explanation on the site. You had to hover over each uploaded page to pick your choices. Pretty time consuming. Other sites I have used allow you to choose the same things for all pages at once. Then when I got to the bottom of the page, the bottom of the window that popped up when I hovered, and where the choice was that I needed, was below the bottom of my computer screen. No matter what I did, I couldn't get that window up high enough to chose what I needed for the last 4 pages I had uploaded. I even uploaded them all again using another browser and the same thing happened (after it took almost 20 minutes more to upload them the second time). I called customer support. They are closed on Sunday, but did have a few suggestions if you were having trouble with ordering. #1 use a different browser - I had already done that. #2 make sure you have the most current Java - pretty sure I do, but by this time I was so frustrated, I decided the money I was going to save wasn't worth the time and aggravation it was taking! So here I am venting. I feel much better and am off to Persnickety Prints to place my order. I have used them before and was very satisfied. And they are having a sale too! Thanks for listening!

I have another question. I have never had a scrapbook printed before. I always print my own pages or have individual pages printed. I am working on a project that I would like to have printed in a book. The size of my layouts is 8.5 x 11. When I checked on Persnickety Prints, they didn't show that size for books. I've also checked some other sites and they don't offer that size either although I did find at least one that did. I was really surprised at this since it is a common layout size. Does anyone have a recommendation for a site they have used to get this size book printed?

Previously when I was downloading purchases, a broken line appeared around each file download button until I clicked on the next one. It was really great to help me keep my place. Yesterday and today, when I was downloading, the broken line did not appear. I really had to pay attention to what I was doing! Not a bad thing, but I am always doing 2 or 3 things at once, so really appreciated this. Any way to get it back?