Using Plug-Ins

I investigated the plug-ins on the Adobe site and found a number of interesting ones. I also did a search and found a lot of interesting frames and background textures.  When I tried to load them into the Adobe -->Plug-ins folder I ran into trouble.  The folder has many subfolders such as filters, presets, etc.  I didn't know if the plug-ins were to be uploaded to an appropriate subfolder of just left in the plug-in folder.  The instructions weren't clear on this. After putting a few in, I couldn't get them to work.  One set said to load it into the presets folder.  After fooling around with this I finally got one to work.  It loaded a bunch of text-styles, so I used that in my plug-in example.  I'll come back to this topic since there are a lot of neat add-ons available. 

Use of a plug-in to style the title

For my image, I took a photo of a rhododendron my from garden (which also appears on my website) and selected just part of the image and placed it on a new background. I then used the watercolor filter to create the water color effect.  I really enjoy Impressionist school of painting.  I was hoping to use one of the backgrounds I'd found, but I couldn't get that to work, so I used just a plain green background.  I then added a title and used the downloaded plug-in to creat the shadow effect on the title.  I like this since it sets off the title nicely without being garish.