PaintShopPro Tutorials by baycongroup

Paint Shop Pro Masks

A mask is a grayscale image. You use a mask to cover part of an image or to create a fading effect

You use the Preset Shapes tool to draw rectangles, squares, ellipses, circles, triangles, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, stars, and arrows.

You use the Draw tool to create Single Lines, Bezier Curves, Freehand Lines, and Point-to-Point Lines. There are a number of options available to you in the Tool Options dialog box .

You use the Text tool to add text to your image. You click on the tool, and then you click on the image to open the Text Entry dialog box .

Vector objects, unlike raster objects, can be deformed. You use the Text, Draw, and Preset Shape tools to create vector objects. When selected, vector objects appear surrounded with deformation handles.

Think of a layer as a transparent sheet on which you paint. Paint Shop Pro allows up to 100 layers.

You use the Flood Fill tool to fill an image or a selection with a color, pattern, or gradient.

You use Picture Tubes to place objects on an image without having to draw the object. You select a Picture Tube, click on the image, and the object appears. Paint Shop Pro comes with several Picture Tubes. The exercises that follow demonstrate a two of them.

On the "Background" layer, left-clicking causes the Eraser to replace the current color with the background color, and right-clicking causes the Eraser to replace the current color with the foreground color. The following exercise illustrates: