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Getting to Know the Interface, Menus, and Palettes in Paint Shop Pro

These tutorials will help you get to know the interface (workspace), menus, toolbox, and palettes of Paint Shop Pro.

Customizing Your Workspace in Paint Shop Pro X - Part One

Get to know the workspace in Corel Paint Shop Pro X and learn how to customize your workspace. Part one of this two part tutorial introduces menus, toolbars, and palettes, and shows you how to personalize your toolbars.

Customizing Your Workspace in Paint Shop Pro X - Part Two

Get to know the workspace in Corel Paint Shop Pro X and learn how to customize your workspace. Part two of this two part tutorial covers customizing palettes and saving custom workspaces.

Bringing It All Back into View

Have you lost your toolbars, palettes, image, or the "marching ants" selection marquee? Here's some tips to bring them back.

Color Palette

An overview of the revised color palette in PSP7.

Customizing

The way you work with Paint Shop Pro 7 can be customized extensively by setting the preferences available via File>Preferences. In addition, the Toolbar can be customized by adding or removing buttons for one-click access to all menu functions

Edit Menu

The Edit menu contains most of the commands you will need to edit a graphic. If you are a menu-oriented person, you will access this menu frequently. For PSP 7.

Effects Menu

The Effects menu allows you numerous choices for altering graphics from Photo enhancing to deformations and artistic effects. For PSP 7.

File Locations in PSP7

How to set up PSP7 for managing the various files it requires such as filters, tubes, gradients, frames, brushes, patterns, shapes, and more.

File Menu

The File menu contains most of Paint Shop Pro's "housekeeping" and setup options. For PSP 7.

Installation

Tips for before and immediately after installing PSP 7.

Image Menu

Explains all the commands in the Image menu of PSP 7.

Preferences

An overview of each section of the preferences dialog in PSP7.

PSP7 Workspace

Descriptions of the main elements of the PSP 7 workspace.

The Color Palette

The new Color Palette in Paint Shop Pro 7 is easily the most confusing part of the new program to people upgrading from versions 5 and 6. But, believe me, once you get used to how it works, you will see that the new Color Palette has a lot more power than the old one.

View Menu

The view menu allows you access to many Paint Shop Pro features that will make your work easier and more efficient. For PSP 7.

Workspace

The workspace for Paint Shop Pro is the area of the window where you create and edit your graphics. Here's a tour of the PSP 7 workspace.

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