Paint Shop Pro X Tutorials
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Fixing Red Eyes Instantly
One of the most common problems seen in flash photography is red eye. Fortunately, Paint Shop Pro can fix this problem in one click.
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Photo Fixing Basics
If you're a new user to Paint Shop Pro, or someone who has it used it before but is looking for the fastest way to get work done with version X, the Learning Center palette is first feature you should get to know. This palette is designed to help all levels of users become comfortable and productive with Paint Shop Pro X. Consisting of step-by-step guides covering a wide range of common tasks as well as the program's tools and many of its commands, the Learning Center gives you quick access to all your favorite tools!
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Fix Photos the Smart Way
The Smart Photo Fix command is the best way to correct color, exposure, and lighting problems. You'll see how, with only one click, your photo is analyzed and corrections are suggested — you're then free to adjust the corrections to suit your tastes.
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Giving an Extreme Makeover
With Paint Shop Pro X's amazing set of Makeover Tools, you'll be able to remove blemishes, whiten teeth, and brush on a tan within seconds. Retouching portions your photos has never been easier!
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Removing Distractions in Photos
The Object Remover tool turns the task of removing unwanted items into a breeze. No need to work on a multiple number of layers or with different selection tools — with this new tool you'll learn quickly because everything you need is in one place.
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Removing Photo Backgrounds
The Background Eraser tool lets you easily remove unwanted backgrounds while retaining the fine detail in your photos. Learn how to either add a new background or move the isolated subject to a new photo.
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Paint Shop Pro 9 Tutorials
Add Ripples to a Flag (.PDF)
Paint Shop Pro 9 added the ability to create and use displacement maps. Similar to, but actually far more flexible and easier to use than similar features in other programs, displacement maps serve many different functions.
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Colorize Three Ways with Paint Shop Pro's Professional Strength Tools (.PDF)
In Paint Shop Pro, and most other graphics software, "colorize" means to convert an image or selection to a uniform hue and saturation while retaining its lightness. Done well, this is a stylish and subtle effect that can be as effective as it is useful. introduction of the realistic art media tools. Now you can paint with a brush, sketch with a pencil or chalk, create subtle pastel portraits, use markers to ink cartoons and line art, even create impasto effects with a palette knife. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to customize a toolbar to make all your art media projects a breeze.
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Create a Coloring Book Page (.PDF)
Why spend your money on coloring books for the children in your life, when you can create your very own coloring book using your digital photos? With Paint Shop Pro, making a unique coloring book is a cinch. Follow along with this tutorial, and we'll show you how easy it is.
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Create Your Own Picture Tubes (.PDF)
What can do you do if you don't have a Picture Tube with the kind of images that you need or want? Well, you could try the Jasc.com Creative Downloads. These Picture Tubes are the easiest to use, because Jasc has provided an installer and it's just a click to install and follow the directions! But, maybe you still didn't find what you needed.
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Create Pop Art Silhouettes
You've seen it on television, in magazines, and on the Web – that Pop-Art silhouette advertising look that's everywhere these days – bright, high-contrast colors, bold graphics, and a retro look. It's actually a lot easier to do than it looks. All you need is a photo, some clipart from one of those disks we all seem to have someplace, a Picture Tube™ or even a poster rendering – the only trick is in getting the details right and in getting the edges crisp and clean.
Creating Your Own Movie Poster
In this project we're going to take two photos – a decidedly imperfect photo of a face and an image of light reflecting on a local waterway – and blend them together artfully to create a movie-style poster.
Customize Art Media Toolbar (.PDF)
One of the most exciting new features in Paint Shop Pro 9 is the introduction of the realistic art media tools. Now you can paint with a brush, sketch with a pencil or chalk, create subtle pastel portraits, use markers to ink cartoons and line art, even create impasto effects with a palette knife. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to customize a toolbar to make all your art media projects a breeze.
Five Fast Photo Fixes
In this tutorial we're going to show you how to remedy the five most common problems that plague digital photos using Paint Shop Pro.
Get a Needle-free Tatoo (.PDF)
Want to see what mom would look like with a giant tattoo? Or what you would look like with your honey's name blazoned across your arm? Try it out first with your photos. We'll show you how to add realistic, dimensional tattoos in this tutorial.
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Using the History Palette Part 1 (.PDF)
With Paint Shop Pro 9's new selective undo you can change only the commands you need to, without having to disturb the things that are working.
Using the History Palette Part 2 (.PDF)
With Quick Scripts, you simply adjust the first in the series, save the commands as a temporary Quick Script, and one-click apply the adjustments to each of the other images.
Using the Rectangle Tool
You'll probably be pleased and surprised to learn about all of the "un-boxy" shapes the new rectangle tool can create. First we'll examine the toolbar options, and then we'll do a project to create a basic organizational chart using the new vector object alignment and distribution controls.
Create Your Own Holiday Gift Tags (.PDF)
Add your own festive touch to all your holiday packages this year, by creating a unique gift tag. With Paint Shop Pro you can create tags, print them out on Avery labels, and stick them to every gift you give.
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Make Handmade Paper (.PDF)
Whether you are a traditional artist or illustrator, a photographer looking for elegant ways to showcase photos, or a corporate user who is seeking a background for a PowerPoint, you may find this technique very effective.
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Making and Using Picture Frames (.PDF)
There are lots of big, splashy improvements in Paint Shop Pro 9 like Digital Camera Noise Removal and Art Media, and then there are the quiet, little things that don't get a lot of applause—they just make our work easier and open new areas of creative opportunity if we manage to notice them. One of those things is a little-noticed new option in the Picture Frames dialog that reads "Frame Current Layer." Since nothing much else changed in Paint Shop Pro 9's Picture Frame effect, it would be easy to let this one slide on by—but you'd be missing something nice.
Remove Digital Camera Noise (.PDF)
Now you can get rid of those grainy specks that might mar your otherwise perfect photos. With the Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter, you can smooth your photos while maintaining the photo's texture. Follow along with this tutorial and we'll show you how to use this amazing Paint Shop Pro tool.
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Trace Images with Art Media Tools (.PDF)
With Paint Shop Pro 9 you can paint with a brush, sketch with a pencil or chalk, create pastel portraits, use markers to digitally ink cartoons, create impasto effects, even create the nostalgic look of a child's wax crayons – (But you'll never have to worry that the green crayon rolled under the desk or your little brother broke the point off the red one!) At this point, about half of you are excited and ready to dive in, and the other half are saying, "I'm not an artist! I can't do that stuff!" If you spend a little time with J.P Kabala learning about some of the special features of Art Media, everyone CAN and WILL create some really wonderful images, even if you've never painted or drawn before.
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Use Balls and Bubbles (.PDF)
Introduced in Paint Shop Pro 8, Balls and Bubbles is one of the most exciting, versatile and powerful of Paint Shop Pro 9's native effects. More than just a particle effect generator, Balls and Bubbles creates sophisticated multilayered spherical objects.
Paint Shop Pro 8 Tutorials
Add Captions & Journaling to a Scrapbooking Template (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to add your own journaling so your layout reflects your thoughts and emotions.
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Add Drop Shadows to Text or Embellishments (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to add a drop shadow to your text to give it a 3D look.
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Correct Photos Using Adjustment Layers (.PDF)
What if you could correct your photos without modifying them permanently? With Adjustment Layers, you can! Adjustment layers allow you to play with up to nine types of photo corrections without having to commit to any one of them.
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Arrange Embellishments within a Scrapbook Layout (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to move the elements of your layout to fit the design you had in mind.
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Change Background and Layer Colors in a Scrapbooking Template (.PDF)
One of the greatest benefits of digital scrapbooking is the ability to change colors to match other elements in your layout with just a few clicks — no more last minute jaunts to the supply store! Using Paint Shop Pro you can easily change the color of any scrapbooking template from the Paint Shop Xtras - Scrapbooking Edition.
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Remove Unwanted Elements from Your Photos (.PDF)
Is there something marring your otherwise perfect photo? An elbow in the way? A trashcan that's distracting? This isn't a problem with Paint Shop Pro. Using the Clone brush, you can remove distracting or unwanted elements from your photo, leaving you with the beautiful, idyllic scene you wanted to capture.
Crop and Frame Your Photos (.PDF)
Paint Shop Pro's Crop Tool gives you total control over your photo compositions. Cropping allows you to turn busy portraits into professional prints. And when you have a nicely cropped photo, what better way to display it than in a custom frame? Your cropped and framed portraits are bound to become family favorites.
The Deform Tool (.PDF)
Paint Shop Pro 8's Deform Tool lets you turn your photos into all kinds of artistic creations. You can quickly resize them, rotate them, and stretch them to simulate perspective.
Create Depth of Field (.PDF)
Professional photographers know how to decrease the focal length on their cameras to make the foreground subject stand out against a blurry background, creating depth of field. This tutorial shows you how to create a similar effect.
Design Your Own T-shirt (.PDF)
Wear your creativity proudly! With Paint Shop Pro, T-shirt transfer paper, and your printer you can make personalized graphics to iron-on to T-shirts. By combining your photos, text, or graphics you can design one of a kind T-shirts for everyone you know.
Capture Memories with Digital Scrapbook Pages (.PDF)
Preserve special moments and events by exploring the latest in memory preservation — digital scrapbooking. With ready-to-use templates you can add your own photos, journaling, and embellishments, to create a masterpiece that's uniquely you.
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Get to know Paint Shop Pro: The Freehand Selection Tool (.PDF)
Selecting parts of photos for use in collages and other compositions is one of the most common tasks for digital photographers. Paint Shop Pro's Freehand Selection Tool gives you a wide variety of ways to select objects, each tailored to the object you want to select.
Speed-Up Your Web Site with the GIF Optimizer (.PDF)
On the Web, beauty is not only skin deep. Your graphics also need to load quickly to keep visitors from losing patience with your site and trying another instead. Paint Shop Pro 8's GIF Optimizer can help you create graphics that not only look good, but load quickly.
Make Greeting Cards (.PDF)
Send the very best greeting cards — ones created by you. With your photos, a little text, and Paint Shop Pro you can send greeting cards that are uniquely you. Now when you send a personally crafted greeting card to family and friends, they'll know just how much you care.
Customize Holiday Cards (.PDF)
You can create holiday mailer cards by adding personalized text and embellishments to your photos. In just a few minutes you'll have a printable holiday card you can send to your friends and family.
Insert Photos Into Scrapbooking Templates (.PDF)
Using the Paint Shop Xtras – Scrapbooking Edition series of CDs you can quickly and easily make your own scrapbook album pages by dragging and dropping your photos into one of the hundreds of layouts.
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Layers (.PDF)
Do you ever wonder how graphic artists produce such stunning effects? Chances are, in Paint Shop Pro, the answer includes the use of layers — the digital equivalent of tracing paper. This tutorial shows you how to combine independent layers to create one beautiful whole.
Get to Know Paint Shop Pro: The Magic Wand Tool (.PDF)
The Magic Wand Tool lets you select areas of blue without selecting clouds in just a few clicks of the mouse. And it doesn't just work on skies. The Magic Wand Tool works great for selecting all sorts of irregular areas.
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Create the Perfect Sunset Shot (.PDF)
Capturing the beauty of a sunset (or sunrise) is sometimes a little trickier than it appears. The easiest way to get the perfect sunset photo is to take two photos, one exposed for the darker foreground and one properly exposed for the lighter background, and combine them using Paint Shop Pro.
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Organize Your Scrapbook Layout (.PDF)
Once you drop your photos into the layout though, you'll want to rename your layers, to make sure you know what each layer contains. With this tutorial we'll teach you how to organize your scrapbook layout, to make creating your layout easier than ever.
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Repair Old Photos (.PDF)
Warped, creased, ripped, or stained photos are no longer a lost cause. With paint Shop Pro and this tutorial you can fix all these things and more!
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Reposition Photo Layers in a Scrapbook Layout (.PDF)
Once you drop your photos into our layout, you may need to reposition some of the layers so everything stacks up the way you want. With this tutorial we'll teach you how to adjust the layers in your layout.
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Resize a Scrapbook Album to Fit Your Album (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to resize a scrapbook album to fit your album.
Resize Photos & Embellishments within a Scrapbook Layout (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to resize your photos within your scrapbook layout so they fit within frames or photo mats.
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Rotate Photos within a Scrapbook Layout (.PDF)
With this tutorial we'll teach you how to rotate your photos within your scrapbook layout so they fit within frames or photo mats.
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Straighten Tilted Images (.PDF)
You don't always have the time to carefully line up your compositions before pressing the shutter, so your photos might come out tilted. Don't worry. With Paint Shop Pro 8's Straighten Tool, you can easily fix tilted photos.
Create Vector Text Effects (.PDF)
Creating eye-catching text is one of the most important skills in the graphic arts world. From business cards to billboards, text is often more prominent than artwork—sometimes it's the only artwork on a page. The good news is, it's easy to create professional text effects with Paint Shop Pro 8.
Create Unique Web Buttons (.PDF)
Paint Shop Pro 8's selection of more than 75 ready-made buttons makes it a snap to create a Web site with style and panache. Using the Preset Shapes Tool, you can choose your favorite button and modify it to suit your site's design.