 Yes, it's working. Wow. I'm so happy. I don't know how to adjust the camera settings, but I'm happy. Let's see. Let's turn off the... Maybe I should leave it on. Oh no, because I don't want to hear myself. I don't know. Somebody's watching. You have to tell me if you hear me and if you can see me. I don't know how to adjust the camera settings. I have no idea. I just plugged my new computer in. I don't even know how to find the camera settings. I have no idea. There's nine people watching. Holy cow. I look like crap. I'm sorry. The lighting is horrible. It's like the middle of the night. Okay, good Wendy and good Kitty Jo and Donna. Hey you guys. I'm just... It's not frozen on my end. Is anybody else having a frozen picture? I don't know how to adjust the focus or anything. I don't know. I don't know. I just literally just plugged my computer in. So I don't even know. I don't know. The lighting is good. Oh, well, see. It's... I don't even know what time it is. It's late. Oh, seven o' four. Nobody's home. It's just me. Oh thanks Jo. I just, you know, I started plugging the new computer in and, you know, nobody's here to help me. Yeah, you know, if I turn those lights off behind me, I'm like I'm in the dark. I'll show you. So now it's going to be like I'm like in the dark. You'll see in a minute. I'm going to... I'm going to actually... Let me try this one. Let's see. I don't know if that helps at all. Maybe. I don't normally do these at my desk as you all know. Again, it just turns those back on. Let's see. Yeah. It's going to be just like really bright behind me. It's black outside. And anyway, so I'm home alone. I was plugging the new computer stuff in. I looked terrible. Had some issues. Right now I'm copying a bunch of files off the old external hard drive, which it seems to be doing very well and the files seem to be able to be opened and looked at. So I seem to be doing it right. Of course, I got halfway through this and my old search protector pooped out. So I had to go find something else to use. But you know, I got the webcam hooked up and I'm surprised. My voice is a little distorted. Is anybody else having that besides Cheta? And hi by the way. I didn't expect anybody to be on. I just thought I would like do a little test and like play back. You know, it could be because hold on. You know, I know why. Hold on. I know why that it might be weird. I have a bluetooth speaker on. Let's turn it off. She designed that disconnected. Is that better? Is anybody else having that besides Cheta? Holy cow. And hi by the way. I can hear myself. I didn't expect anybody to be on. I just thought I would like do a little test and like play back. You know, it could be because hold on. You know, I know why. Hold on. Hold on. I know why it might be weird. Let's turn it off. So the bluetooth speaker is off and the sound is down on the computer but now I don't know if you can hear me at all. So if you're seeing my waving hands, can you hear me or do you hear nothing? That's worse. Okay. Let me turn the bluetooth back on. See, it's good we're doing this. Testing, testing. Let's see. Come on. You can hear me. Okay. So some people can hear me and some can't. Oh, thanks Kathy. Okay. Hold on. I gotta, you know, I don't know any of these settings. So it's going to be a learning thing for all of us. Right now we are just using the sound on the camera. If I turn this up, it's going to, let's see, I don't want to turn that one up because then I'm going to hear myself. It's going to be crazy and echoey. And that reads 60 percent. No. It reads 60 percent. Now it doesn't want to, um, connected to Gene's iPad. Now it's connected to my iPad and not my desktop phone. I don't even know. There's my iPad. See it's right here in front of me. I'm so discombobulated you guys. It's just connecting to all the devices. Disconnect. Gene's iPad disconnected. Okay. You need to pair. No, I don't want to pair. There we go. Okay. Connected to Gene's iPad. All right. So now we're reconnected with the Bluetooth. Okay. So now we're now we're reconnected with the Bluetooth speaker and the sound is down on the Mac desktop. So we're just using either the webcam or the Bose speaker. So hopefully that's okay. And Kitty, Joe, you're absolutely right. And yes, and yeah, trial by experiment. I totally agree with that. It's totally a trial by experiment. I did discover because of this whole little sound thing we just had where to turn the sound down so that when I am broadcasting, I'm not, I and you guys are not hearing echo of my own voice because I got to tell you, I like to you know, do the whole art and art on YouTube and social media thing obviously. I really can't stand the sound of my own voice. I don't know if it's just me. I don't know. And I'm not looking at the camera. I'm looking at the screen. I'm sorry. I'm having yeah, so because I'm looking at the comments. I do have to figure out how to fix the camera resolution because I don't know how to do that yet. So I have to figure that out. I don't know. Thank you. Okay, good. Yay! I mean, I think I did pretty good for being a PC user other than my phone and my iPad, other than for being a PC user. This is going to totally date me since computers were invented. And see, I'm not the only one. Kitty, Joe, and Donna, you both hate hearing your voice too? It's not just me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when I have to, you know, I have to say, when you guys ask me a question about a video, especially an older one, that I don't remember what I did exactly and I have anxiety disorder. So that's kind of thing happens all the time and I have to go back and watch my own video. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not good. So quick, since I'm on here and we're testing, quick FYI, I went to in my neighborhood. We got a new dollar tree that just opened today was its first day open. And I use the elastic hair bands from Dollar Tree to not only hold some of my journals shut, but I use them in like the traveler's notebooks to hold journals in and look at the colored ones they have there right now. These bright colored usually they just have like brown and black. So a dollar. So how many did you get? Six of them for a dollar. So I usually have them in a drawer down here. So a little stuff down there. All right, so we at least know how to get the camera turned on. I had the down, those of you who are Mac people. Okay, well I have a lamp in front of it, but it was, yeah, it was not good either. Okay, so we're going to try it on Monday for Monday with DecoArt. I'm not worried about when I'm just chatting with you. The picture is not that bad, but when, yeah, you know, when I look at the big pig, when I switch over to the Google Hangout window and I'm looking at the big picture, the resolution is not that bad actually. I mean, I look like poop, but you know, it's late at night and I worked up a sweat. I think it'll be okay. So it looks like I at least got the new computer system working enough that we can be back on Monday for Monday with DecoArt and next Wednesday for Watercolor Wednesday. Now I just have to figure out how to get video off of my camera and into the computer and editing. That's going to be fun. Okay, thank you. I appreciate all your guys's feedback and help with a little bit of settings. The first couple times we do live broadcasts, it's going to be tricky. Yeah, it's going to be tricky. And I got to figure out how to do iMovie and import royalty-free music into iMovie. My friend Jerry was trying to give me some hints. So I don't know, we'll see. I got all this junk on my desk because I just literally just threw mail on my desk because I picked up at the computer was here. So yeah, we'll be back live. I have a bunch of giveaway stuff. The giveaway drawer is overflowing and I need to do giveaways for the last DIY Watercolor palette video. And I haven't done the DIY. If you haven't seen who won, it's because I haven't pulled the names yet. So we have a lot of giveaways coming up including Webster's Pages sent me. Those guys are so funny. I ordered a five planner inserts and they sent me personal size. So that wasn't right. So I called them and said, I ordered a five. My invoice says a five but these are not a five. So they said just keep them and we'll send you the right ones out which I got today. I didn't even open them yet. And I said, well that's fine. You know what? I'll do a giveaway on the other ones that you sent me. So courtesy of Webster's Pages, I might not be able to find it. Oh here it is. Courtesy of Webster's Pages. We have a personal size, it's upside down, 2017 Insert Calendar Pack for a personal size planner. Of course you could use it like in a traveler's notebook or something like that too if you wanted. So that's going to be a giveaway we're going to have coming up too. I have to pull some of these names because the little drawer is overflowing. And there's going to be giveaways of some of my stamps, sentence and all kinds of stuff. So I need to get this computer up and running. So I can do that. Oh thanks. You know I'm kind of looking forward to it. I will tell you guys out there that I switched from PC to Mac and I'm you know it's going to be an adjustment for me for you know because I've always used a Mac other than my iPad which is not the same. But I'm looking forward to it and I do want to ask you all if you're Mac users and you have a really good app. I got to stop calling them programs because they're app right. A really good app for keeping an online address book. I used an old PC program that's not even like made anymore. I don't even think the company is in business anymore. But I used that program because I could print labels from it. I could print Rolodex cards. Yes my husband actually still keeps a Rolodex. And do my Christmas card list and all of that stuff. So if you have a good app for something like that. Kitty Joe you're so distracting me cat too. If you have a really good app for like an keeping an online address book. Maybe something I can print labels from. Send me a message over YouTube or over on Facebook and let me know. Because that would be one of the things I'm hunting for. And I'm going to try just using iMovie. I do have the creative cloud thing for Adobe. So I've got to log into that. But it's going to be a little bit of a process. But I'm looking forward to it. It'll be fun. He thinks the new computer I'm looking forward to it. It's been a long time coming and saving a lot of pennies here and there to get it. And yeah the I needed it. The art business needed it. So yeah. And it's okay. It's not like I'm not easily distracted. Hello. So cat. Yeah. So we're going to be having an update giveaway for it. I'm going to film something and it'll be one of the new things I film and post to YouTube using the new system. So look for that. And it'll be pretty soon. I probably won't schedule it too far out. I'll probably schedule it pretty quickly. And Kitty Joe as far as the stamps. Look I have a bunch of wood mounted stamps. They were some of the original designs. And I will be giving them away probably in little sets. So that again that'll be another video going into the Christmas season. We're going to have quite a few giveaway videos to celebrate the holidays. To celebrate my love for all of you guys. To celebrate art and creativity. The book release all of that stuff. So we're going to just have you know three or four months of celebration. Why not? And you know people like Webster's Pages are giving me things and we're going to give them away. That's what they're giving them to me for. And JP Graphics they gave me the coloring books. So most of them will be raffle copter giveaways. So look for that. I can't think of anything else right now. My brain is on overload. I can't believe I got the computer plugged in and files are copying over. I'm so happy. As soon as they're done copying I need to make sure I can open them and then I need to do the scary thing and reformat the external hard drive to be workable with the Mac. That's going to be scary. I might wait until the daughter and almost son-in-law are here tomorrow because they're Mac users and they know what they're doing. I don't know what I'm doing. See I love Webster's Pages too. You know I know somebody out there is going to watch this either is watching it live or is going to watch the replay and say well why you know you have all these planner sets in your Etsy store. Why don't you just print calendars for and things for your planner. I really and I could do that. I really like Webster's Pages and I'm lazy. So you know I I really like Webster's Pages. They're a good company. They make really nice inserts. Yeah I could print my own and I put my own artwork in there besides. anyway yeah well and my brain yes so I'm going to not format the hard drive probably until other people like are here because yeah that's not gonna it just seems like a bad idea to do it by myself. I know I'll screw something up. The number one thing is to make sure all the files are copied off of there because I have um video on there. I have the files original files from writing the book that I just released and published scans of artwork um the original files for everything in the Etsy shop like all that stuff is on here and it's copying right now. So we need to make sure that copies over nicely before I do any formatting of anything and then it is going to be as backup storage and um you know I want to be able to put things on that hard drive but it needs to be made Mac friendly. So I think I might need an expert for that and yeah so I don't multitask well and learning new things is challenging as you get older especially if you have any mental health issues. It doesn't help. I'm lucky that I'm married to a computer guy but he's a PC guy so but I will say that we have uh very good friends Shelly and John. Hello if you're watching I don't think they watch but we'll say hello anyway. John is a um programmer and um some kind of big wig over at Apple so um so he um you know he can you know help me out so I mean I'm sure he can answer questions for me um and I know my daughter is in advertising and um photography and she's been using a Mac for a long time so she's already said to me mom I'll you know you just let me know I'll give you some tutoring um and I have cousins who use Mac and I'm actually going to be taking I'm going back to school but I'm only taking two classes don't get excited but still when you're over 50 going back to school is a big deal and I'm taking two Mac classes so no it doesn't help a change doesn't help with anxiety new new technology doesn't help with anxiety um thankfully I have a mild case uh but um that being said it just doesn't help I mean what you know it's still not great but I'm just challenging myself um I can do this I know I can do this and yeah she's a great kid and um her boyfriend the almost son-in-law he's a great kid too um and um they're gonna give me a hand so I'm just glad I got the camera working I got the files copying the computer is on I had Pandora on a few minutes ago before we went live I got Chrome loaded so that I can do the YouTube live because hey here's a tip okay if you're going to do YouTube live from a Mac desktop probably it's the same for a Mac book you need to download Google Chrome because if you're going to do it the easy way download Google Chrome and then um use the event settings to go live and do it quick with Google and that's Google Hangout and that's the easy way um so um there's lots of other hard ways downloading encoders and everything don't do that it's just especially if you're like us here in the chat right now and you have you have issues you'll have issues right so just use the quick Google Chrome option I mean Google Hangout option you have to download the Chrome app though um otherwise it doesn't work it doesn't work in Safari I did notice that from the iPad also it's harder from the iPad like I would just you know I did a couple tests from the iPad it's just not don't do it you can do it with the iPad there is an app called live now um for the iPad um I had limited its success with it but I know a lot of people that have great success with it so I would try it for yourself here are some tips okay so if you're on an iPad you can do YouTube live I can you're right Joe um so here's some tips if you're going to do YouTube live from an iPad download live now that's the name of the app and it's got a red icon um go into your YouTube app sign in um with your channel name and password then go into Chrome not Safari Chrome and you're going to need to get the little key code there's really good instructions in the live now app what code I'm talking about and where to find it but go into Chrome and get it not Safari and get it put the number in where the app tells you to and then follow their directions and you'll be able to go live don't do anything with Safari it doesn't work with the live now app and it's not YouTube live friendly so there you have it um I had limited success mostly with um the strength of the signal and I'm not sure why that was I didn't have any other devices on in the house that day and I don't I don't know but um but I did have success just limited success all right I can't believe this is working I'm so shocked all right so you're right Joe I can do anything I set my mind to so can you if I can do this you guys can do this trust me on that um all right so I am probably going to be on and off for the next couple of days will um I may be doing some testing I may pop in to you know play with a few settings and then come back so watch for me if you want to be in one of these I don't know what time of the day they'll be here you know the husband's at a football game tonight he's going to another one Saturday he's going to be gone all day you know we're empty nesters so you know nobody's around it's just me they don't care what I do all right I think I can relax now and maybe get some art made that would just be shocking my iPads like going crazy um and it's been going crazy since the book release I do want to say one more thing thank you all who are watching the live or the replay who have bought the book who have favorited the listing who have shared even if you haven't bought it if you've shared the link if you favorited the listing um and you've and or you've sent um messages of support I thank you from the bottom of my heart very much the first shipment of um books is almost completely gone I have five copies left I have to tomorrow now that I've passed the whole computer thing I have to tomorrow email the printer and tell her um can you print me some more the stickers are listed in Etsy the link is in the description below the link to my Etsy shop there is one listing where you can buy you know just one of one design and then there's another listing where you can buy all of them the stickers are large vinyl full-color gloss label stickers so they're not you can use them of course in your journal and on happy mail that sort of thing but they're kind of pricey um but they're that great kind of label for like the back of your tablet the back of your um macbook um something like that I'm of course I'm going to use mine in my planner they're fabulous and they would make great bookmarks and something like that too if you stuck them to some nice paper paper I'm out of breath um I am going you know you didn't miss it I didn't say so I'm going to a mac for the ease of picture and video editing you can do that sort of stuff on a pc now it's not like it used to be but it's still easier on a mac I prefer the clean lines of a mac um I went from you know piles of spaghetti cabling to three cables um and the the you know things are a lot of things are easier on a mac um some things that aren't would be like you know spreadsheet kind of things they do have apps for that I don't do that kind of stuff anyway I do need to see if I need to download quicken for apple because I do use quicken for bookkeeping but um I really need to use when I was doing video editing on my pc I used premiere elements and photoshop elements for video editing and still image thumbnail editing and they yeah um they um both suck up a lot of juices with a pc you really can only have one of them open you can't do anything else while it's running because they suck up a lot of resources and with a mac with this mac that I ordered that's not going to be the case I'll be able to have you know video editors open while things are downloading while things are saving um I got really tired of you know having it take you know all day to edit three video um so it was really time to go to a faster system and one that's more geared towards video editing so that's that's a long answer to it but yeah that's that's why plus you know it's kind of a fun challenge to go to mac uh apple and it's yeah I'm I'm happy to give back and share my experiences and you know I think I'm going to really like this new system but anything that I find that's a detractant I will definitely share with you guys if you know and we do still have a pc in the other room um so if there is something I need to do um on a pc that's easier for me to do over there I'll just turn the husband's computer on he's always going to have a pc so that's not going to be a problem hi mama cats no we're just testing the new computer it's in and I've got the webcam on hi and I hooked it up all by myself I'm home alone and I got it to work I'm very happy about that and I'm going to make myself a note here because I'm going to forget I know I am I need to do quicken elements my scanner mouse and cat I need to find camera settings thanks all right I'm making myself a note of the things I need to find out how to do or where they are on the computer oh uh the desktop picture all righty and I was just telling everybody we're going to have a bunch of giveaways coming up um one of them's webster's pages they sent me um the wrong see my drawer so full I can't get it open they sent me the wrong planner inserts I ordered these which I got today the right one but they sent me this one this is obviously not the right one so they said for me to just keep it and um I said well I'll do a giveaway on YouTube for you guys so I'm going to do that put that up there all righty I think I'm I'm going to go eat some dinner now if you guys have any mac tips those of you who are mac users um let me know if you um um I did not have any luck going live to YouTube for my iphone I'm just going to put that out there nobody asked but I'm just going to say um I did have limited success of my ipad again download the live now app and follow the directions when you go to look for your key code for your youtube live for your youtube channel go look for it in chrome download google chrome and um um don't use safari yes I'm very happy um and I'm so glad that I got it in and plugged in um halfway through the process my old search protector died but we had a plug strip out in the garage and I'm probably going to have to do something about that this weekend the plug strip is okay for right now but yeah that was interesting really yeah so follow the directions and you know I think you just have to have I had a probably a crappy connection that day or something or I had too many bluetooth devices on or I'm I'm sure I'm sure it was user error like let's be honest I'm sure it was user error um you know it but it worked okay I mean it was all right the picture wasn't um that great but I think it was because I was um I don't remember now if I was using the back way camera or the front way I might have been using the front way camera so try it both ways but I would recommend using the back ways camera because it's usually always better on either the ipad or the iphone um you what you're going to have to do is have another device like a phone to watch your broadcast on so that you can see the chat and have the other one that's just doing the filming that's honestly that's what I do I do the filming like with the hd webcam from the desktop and I usually use my ipad as what I watch my own broadcast from and I do the chat and see the camera is doing the autofocus thing so I've got to find out where those settings are because that's going to drive everybody crazy including me thanks it's so much better than the other day right the other day it was really poopy because I was doing it with the ipad it was really bad and I was getting very frustrated and welcome pig all righty I think that's it I don't I just came on to do a test the next few days are going to be interesting I've got a lot of programs to download some of them are on disk so two things those of you who are mac users if you have an app that you use to keep an address book online um let me know and if you have tips for putting I almost forgot what the other one was see tips for putting in um royalty free youtube music into iMovie let me know I like to keep my editing simple I mean I will load premiere elements if I can't get iMovie to work but if I can get iMovie to work I'm good um all right that's it I'm gonna go have some lunch now because it's like almost 7 30 I should probably eat something because I've had very little to eat because I couldn't you guys all know me by now I couldn't get very much artwork or eat well or anything else until I got the computer in I got it plugged in I at least got it copying things over like you know I don't know what to tell you it's an anxiety disorder thing you just you get on a track and you just can't get yourself off of it so now the it's plugged in it's working live it's working those were my two things getting the files copied and getting live working the formatting of the drive for backup I'm gonna let somebody else take care of that as long as the files copy over where it's all good I'm not gonna worry about it all right I will talk to you all later thank you all for helping me out I gotta look for those camera settings but otherwise we're all good I will see you Monday at noon for Monday with DecoArt like I said I'm gonna be popping in and out over the weekend probably testing settings so if you want to know make sure you've clicked on the little notifications thing for my channel all right see you all later bye guys there goes my thing again