Paint Shop Pro Basics and Tools: Tutorials for Beginners

Create an easy digital scrapbook in Paint Shop Pro. Chronicle a year in a child's life by taking a new photo every 2 weeks. By the end of the year we'll have a complete A-Z yearbook with 26 pages and a record of the child's growth!

Use the PNG optimizer in Paint Shop Pro to save a transparent PNG file.

Corel Paint Shop Pro X has a couple useful new tools for straightening a crooked photo and fixing skewed perspective. This illustrated tutorial will show you how to use them.

Paint Shop Pro X has a new Red Eye tool to help you remove that unsightly, unwanted red eye. You simply select the tool, adjust its size, and click away on top of the red pixels, until you are happy with the results. This illustrated tutorial shows you how to use this new tool.

Red eye, which occurs when you take a picture, is a common but frustrating problem. If the Red Eye Remover tool in Paint Shop Pro doesn't do the job for you then you might want to try the second method in Paint Shop Pro: The Red Eye Removal command on the adjust menu.

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.

With the introduction of the Pen tool, Paint Shop Pro is becoming a serious vector graphics tool. The Pen tool performs the work of the old PSP7 Draw tool in creating paths and contours, but it also serves as the node edit tool and has introduced easy to use vector transformation. Tutorial by Ron Lacey.

The smart edge option for the lasso tool detects the edges of an object, easing the task of making complex selections. It's not perfect, though, so this example will show you how to refine the selection using the painting tools in mask edit mode.

These basic functions are the first steps for preparing your photos for the Web. Learn how with step-by-step instructions from your Guide.

An explanation of the differences in bitmap (or raster) images and vector images and how it relates to PSP.

A closeup look at channels in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. Learn what a channel is, and how you can use channels to enhance images and create special effects.

Make your own brush tips from any selection in PSP 5 and up.

Create a template for a sphere that can be used to create spheres in any color you need, or download a ready-made template.

The new lights effect in PSP 7 allows you to illuminate an image with up to 5 lights. By applying the effect to a new layer, you can enhance and make modifications to the effect.

Learn about the new sunburst effect in Paint Shop Pro 7 for adding lens flare effect to an image. By applying the effect to a new layer, you can enhance and make modifications to the effect.

Learn about the many ways you can use the flood fill tool for filling with solid colors, gradients, patterns, and textures. Provides several examples for using the flood fill tool and creating custom gradients.

Learn the basics of working with gradient fills in Paint Shop Pro.

An introduction to the various types of lines that can be used in Paint Shop Pro 6.

Descriptions of the arrow, zoom, deform and crop tools in PSP 7.

Learn what the opacity settings are in PSP4 and how to use them.

Paint Shop Pro gives you an exciting arsenal of Paint tools to work with. The paint tools covered here will be the Paint Brush, Clone Brush, Color Replacer, Retouch, Scratch Remover, Eraser, Airbrush, Flood Fill and Picture Tubes. For PSP 7.

Save yourself some frustration my learning to make precise selections with the cropping tool in PSP5.

Explains the difference between resizing and resampling with visual examples, and tells you how to do it in PSP4.

What is it? What's it good for? How do you use it? All the answers are here with easy to understand explanations.

Demystify the User Defined Filters option in Paint Shop Pro with these rules of thumb. Also see Edge Detecting UDFs and Sharpening UDFs for more on User Defined Filters.

All the basics are covered here... from creating a new file, to saving in different formats... with descriptions of all the tools in between.