PaintShopPro Tutorials by baycongroup

You use the Paint Brush to paint on the canvas. It provides a variety of painting styles and brush tips. The exercises that follow illustrate some of the Paint Brush tool settings. The Airbrush works exactly like the Paint Brush; so we do not provide any Airbrush exercises.

Opacity determines transparency of the paint. A setting of 1 makes the paint almost completely transparent. A setting of 100 makes the paint opaque. The following exercise illustrates the opacity setting.

Paint Shop Pro has several painting tools: the Paint Brush, the Clone Brush, the Color Replacer, the Retouch tool, the Eraser, the Picture Tube, the Airbrush, and the Flood Fill tool. You use these tools to apply, change, or remove colors in your image. The following tool settings are available:

This lecture is on color: how color is determined and how to select foreground and background colors.

When you open Paint Shop Pro for the first time, you will be presented with a screen similar to the one shown here.

You use the Clone Brush to copy all or part of an image to another location within the same image or to another image. Right-click to select the image or part of the image to be cloned. Left-click to place the cloned image.

Before creating a new image, you must specify the image's width, height, and resolution. You do that in the New Image dialog box.