Creating Popular Special Effects in Paint Shop Pro

Protect your photos and images by adding a translucent copyright watermark over them to identify them as your own work. Here's step-by-step instructions for adding a watermark to an image in Paint Shop Pro.

Several variations on 3D spheres.

Create the ever-popular horizontal scan lines overlay effect in Paint Shop Pro 7.

Use line art with the cutout filter to create engravings on a texture or pattern.

Use new features in PSP 7 to create an aged newspaper. Includes variations with burnt edges, torn pages, and multiple pages.

How to create cutout text and graphics.

Use layers and effects to add a glass bubble over another image. Can be adapted for other glass effects. You can download the working file used in the tutorial. Version 6 and up.

Use tubes to create various glow effects including a hand holding a glowing star.

Add a grid effect to any image. Beginner level for Paint Shop Pro 7.

A very striking inlaid wood effect using alpha channels.

An excellent overview on using shadows in your work. Additional pages includes tutorials for creating shadow effects in Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop.

Two pages of techniques for creating a variety of lines including faded lines, textured lined, grids, TV scanlines, and dotted lines.

Create a lightning effect in PSP 5 and up without the use of plug-ins.

Give a photo a neon look by using the solarize and colorize commands in PSP 5 or 6.

Use the new sculpture effect in Paint Shop Pro 6 to give images dimension, apply a cartoon effects to photos, make cutout effects, and create wood textures.

A somewhat advanced tutorial for a stitched leather effect. PSP5.

Fill text with an image and add a horizontal line screen texture. PSP6.

Learn how to convert a square textured image into a sphere with PSP6.

Put a mark on your images to identify them as your own. For Paint Shop Pro 7.

Learn how to create a digital watermark to protect your images.

Transform a photo into a wood engraving in PSP5. Nice effect.