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Corel Paint Shop Pro

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Please Note* All of these tutorials are property of the artists who have created them, are copyrighted and may not be copied without the author's written permission unless otherwise offered for use from their websites.

Welcome to PSP 101!

Here we will discuss many things associated with Paint Shop Pro and perhaps other graphic manipulation programs that can greatly help you with adjusting your photos and images you share and or use in auction listings, website, banners, animations and or other places you may with to use and or share them.. The information provided her can be used for Corel Paint Shop Pro and just about any version or any other type of graphic program you may have.

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Aka PSP. Corel's, (formerly JASC's), program for creating GIF and JPG image files. It is quite a complex tool. The original version was primarily for creating images by painting pixels. The latest version is primarily about doctoring photographs, including removing backgrounds and smoothing skin.

Website Tips.com All About PSP

Michele's Paint Shop Newbie 101 SEO Tips

Siggy Piggy Nuts - A Group to make friends, have some fun playing a few games, and where you can pick up some very nice siggies and tags for free. Founded by Cre8.

Getting Permission from an Artist

http://groups.msn.com/DMATAWARDS

Please note DMAT does not accept private sites or groups for membership

Safe Tube Project's No No List of Artists that can not be used

Safe Tube Project's List of Useable Links to Images

If you own or manage a group

do yourself the favor of reading this

Add Depth of Field to Your Photos

All Corel Tutorials

Backgrounds Tutorial - Written fro PSP 7 and PSP 8

Change Colors in an Instant

Cool Tag Tutorial - Create a Cool Tag

Create your own Holiday Card

Easy Chocolate Heart - A Tye Tutorial

Gecko - Another great Ty Tutorial

Give a Makeover - It's Easy!

How to Save Transparent - The best way to save a transparent image using the optimizer within PSP.

Installing Fonts Safely with XP and Winzip

Learn How to Fix Photos the Smart Way

Make Your Own Vignette Frame

Making a Gradient - Think of this as the Polymer Clay Skinner blend. Use for your fill tool in PSP like a texture, or image.

Mini Calling Card - PSP 8 tutorial written by Tye. Create your own tiny banner, calling card.

Outlines Free For Non-Commercial Use - From Tye

Pixels 101 - Create with pixels by Tye

PSP Tips

PSP 8 Scripts

PSP and Porcelain Paste Flowers - Used widely by those who need a clay flower that will air dry. Eggers (people who decorate eggs) will love this. From a famous egger herself Maureen Williams. She used PSP to help decorate her eggs.

Put the Crop Tool to Work for You

Reflections - Create a nice framed image with a reflection

Reverse Text on a Path

Remove Distractions from Your Photos

Remove Photo Backgrounds with the Background Eraser

Remove a Solid Colored Background

Saving Transparent GIFs in PSP - PSP Gif Optimizer Settings

Squiggle Tree - Create a nice looking Christmas tree complete with a star.

Swirls and Wide Blinds - Nice background you can use for frames, textures etc.

Text Weaving - Nice tutorial to create text with an image like the stem of a flower weaved in and out of the letters of your text.

If you know of any good books or sites on this subject please do contact me.

ANIMATION SHOP

Animation Shop Optimized Settings - Adjust your settings in Animation Shop so you can get the best use from it for the best possible outcome of your animated images.

Beating Heart - Create a heart and make it beat (animate)

Sign-in-sig - A neat pop up animated tag that looks like the pop up window that comes up when a friend signs onto instant messenger.

This is a big question that we get presented with all the time. With so many products and suppliers out there competing for business ..you want to save in the beginning when first starting out but where should you be cutting costs? ! I will explain the do's and don'ts here.

Photo tips and free Image hosting sites

 TinyCraft's Photo Taking 101

 

How do I do that?

Download and Install Picture Tubes   Installing Plugins JASC PSP8 Faq's & Tips Paint Shop Pro's Very Frequently Asked Questions Suz's PSP Tips & TricksPSP Tip~GIF or JPEG?

Some Common Frequently Asked Questions About PSP & Animation Shop

Anime - A style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes AS- Animation Shop Bandwidth Theft - Hot-linking; non-html files BP - Blade Pro Browser - A program that allows a user to find, view, hear, and interact with material on the World Wide Web. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of popular browsers. Bulletin Board, Message Board, or Board, Forum - An area of a Web site where users can post messages for other users to read Cursor - That little flashing vertical line ("l") Cut and Paste - The process of moving a section of text from one place to another. First, you "cut it" (by highlighting the section of text you want to move and hitting Control-X or Command-X, on a Mac). Then you "paste it" where you want it (by positioning your cursor there and hitting Control-V or Command-V, on a Mac). While you are doing this, the cut portion is stored on your computer's "clipboard." In some versions, if you make more than one cut in succession without pasting, the clipboard will store them as well. FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions GIF or gif. - Graphic Interchange Format Hotlink - A clickable word, phrase or icon which will connect you to a selected site. Text is usually blue and underlined HTML - Hypertext Markup Language~HTML is a mark-up language (versus a programming language) that uses tags to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, and links (like those seen on the NetLingo.com HTML Code Cheat Sheet). It tells a Web browser how to display text and images. You can see a Web page's HTML code if you select "view source" from the View menu in your Web browser. IMO or IMHO - In My Opinion or In my Honest Opinion IRL - In Real Life ISO - In Search Of Jaggies - The nickname for images on a computer screen that have jagged or stair-stepped edges along what is supposed to be a smooth, curvy, or diagonal line JMO or JMHO - Just My Opinion or Just My Honest Opinion JPEG, JPG or .jpg - Joint Photographic Experts Group~JPG is designed for compressing either full-color or gray-scale images of natural, real-world scenes. It works well on photographs, naturalistic artwork, and similar material; not so well on lettering, simple cartoons, or line drawings. JPG handles only still images Link - Short for "hyperlink." A link carries you from where you are on the web page to another file, which could be another web page, an image, sound, a movie, a database, an ftp site, a telnet connection, or a gopher, anywhere in the world MP3 - Digital music file that you can play on your computer Netiquette - The code of conduct and unofficial rules that govern online interaction and behavior. Newbie - Someone new to the group or new to psp Nodes - A node is a point on a contour that define the contour’s shape at that point. The Nodes have zero, one, or two control arms extending from them. The length and direction of the control arms determines the shape of the contour at the node. Click on the control handles to adjust control arms. The straight or curved line between two nodes is a line segment

Enter your search terms Submit search form Opacity - 100 percent (fully opaque) down to 0 percent (transparent). When a layer is partially transparent, layers below it show through. Phishing - Phishing is the luring of sensitive information, such as passwords and other personal information, from a victim by masquerading as someone trustworthy with a real need for such information. Pixel - The smallest unit of a picture on a computer screen. When an image's quality is poor, you will see a bunch of square dots, commonly known as "pixelization" resulting in a "pixelated image." PSP - Paint Shop Pro Resolution - On a computer monitor, it is the number of pixels (horizontally) and lines (vertically) on the screen SBP - Super Blade Pro Search Engine - A program that searches information on the Web by looking for specific keywords. SPAM - Unsolicited mass e-mail that is deceptive in its subject line and hides the sender or seeks to commit fraud or Unsolicited mass e-mail, even if it comes from legitimate or well-branded businesses Toggle - To switch back and forth between two modes TOU - Terms Of Use Tube or Picture Tube - The Picture Tube tool allows for painting with pre-made objects known as tubes. Paint Shop Pro comes with built-in tubes, but it is also possible tomake custom tubes, as well as being able to download tube sets from the Internet URL - URL - (Uniform Resource Locator) - The World Wide Web address of a site on the Internet. The URL for TinyCrafts, for example, is http://www.tinycrafts.com. Vector Images - Vector graphics or images use geometric characteristics—lines, curves, and their locations—to define objects. For example, a door in a graphic of a house is made up of a rectangle with a certain width and height at a specific location and filled with a certain color. In vector images you edit objects or shapes rather than pixels. Warez - Cracked versions of commercial software; that is, versions in which the copyright-protection has been stripped out Web Only - Do not receive board messages via email. come to the board to read and post messages.

PSP Tube, Frames, Masks, Plug-ins, Fonts, Filters, Updates

TUBES:

Jasc® Paint Shop Pro™ Additional Tubes

Paint Shop Picture Tubes

PSP Tubes - Free tubes for non-commercial use.

The Safe Tube Project - Large resource for free and safe tubes

FILTERS:

Almathera - A series of plug-in modules for Adobe Photoshop ® and all other programs that support Adobe Photoshop ® plug-ins.
 

Alien Skin      Fantastic Machines      GrafoManiac       Ulead

FRAMES:

Jasc® Paint Shop Pro™ Additional Frames

Paint Shop Frames

MASKS:

PLUG-INS:

Blade Pro Presets

Super Blade Pro Explained - A great explanation of the SBP Control Panel

UPDATES:

Jasc Now Corel Software Updates

Jasc® Paint Shop Pro™ Additional Download Resources

FONTS:

6500 Free Fonts - Over 6500 free fonts you can download to your computer and use for free. These are all totally free TTF fonts made to work with any PC or Windows Operating System. Use them at your own free will.

Acid Fonts - The ultimate free font archive.

AbstractFonts - Currently there are 11,223 free fonts on Abstract Fonts.

Blue Vinyl - Typography clipart and More.

Dingbats - Dingbats and Regular Fonts by Darrian.

DaFONT - Excellent free resource for fonts. Nice previews before you download.

Easter Fonts - Part of the Specialty Fonts Free Font Collection

Ænigma Fonts - Another excellent preview before download font provider of free fonts.

Famous Fonts - Ever want a font from the title of a movie or TV show you saw.

Fontastic - True Type Font Archive

EXTRAS:

Desktop Wallpapers:

IMAGES:

Animation Library -This site may contain some copyrighted images.

Black and White Galleries - with more art that you can color or use for stationery, stamps...you name it.

Color Galleries - full of digital art you can use for commercial or non-commercial websites free of charge.

Free Pictures - Provides a large amount of free high quality pictures in various categories. Our goal is to provide users with any pics they may need for design or entertainment. All the pics are free to use as desktop wallpapers or a part of any design.

Ulead - Free Gif Animations. Have fun and make your Web site come alive with free GIF animations. Create your own GIF animations with Ulead GIF Animator, the industry standard for creating GIF animations.

ARTISTS WITH IMAGES:

*Disclaimer* The following artists may be listed here for your convenience as known artists who may allow use of their work with permissions and terms for their images use. Please do not abuse the privilege and or assume that because they are listed here they allow such use currently and or without terms or further permission. It is your responsibility to check with each artist and their site for their terms of us [TOS] before taking any image(s) to be used no matter what the reason you wish to use the image(s) for.

Josephine Wall - Allows non-Commercial use with terms. Commercial use with permissions and or purchase of license. Inquire through her website.

Meilin Wong- Allows use without asking but does have terms. Please read them and make sure you understand them before using any of her images. She may allow use on commercial websites with permission, you do have to ask her for such use.

 

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How to create PDF files  Learn how to create PDF files using a variety of programs and techniques. The PDF tutorials in this section cover both basic PDF creation and ways to enhance your PDF files with links, bookmarks, and other options.

TinyUrl Are you tired f having your links that you post into message groups and forums break up because they are to long and then they become unusable? Need a shorter web address for your ebay listings, home pages or other sharable links that are way to long to type out, remember, click on successfully or all the above? Then this my friend is for you.

Now there is another free to use service called  SnipURL.

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