Here is a video tutorial of how to change eye color and add eyelashes using Corel Paintshop pro. For this demonstration I used a beautiful photo of my wife. To complete this tutorial you will need to download the Lips and Eyelash brushes. Click here to download, and get brush install instructions. If you are using photoshop there is a link available to download the photoshop .abr brush set as well.


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Suzieqspsptubes has nice collection of psptubes available free for personal use. They literally have hundreds of quality tubes to fit about any of your personal photo projects. They have animal tubes, hoilday tubes, nature tubes, sports tubes and variety of other tubes that you may find useful.

To install the psp tubes:

1. Go to Suzieqpsptubes and browse to the bottow of the page and you will see a number of categories for available tubes.
2. Click a category and then click the tube you want to use.
3. Once the tube is download you will need to unzip it in your psptube directory.
4. If you don’t know where your psptube directory is located browse to File > Preferences > File Locations > Picture Tubes
5. Restart Paint Shop Pro and your tube will be available under you tube tool.

Enjoy!

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This tutorial will demonstrate how you can easily smooth skin, remove blemishes and wrinkles from a photo subject. You can watch the video of the process featuring a photo of Senator Hilary Clinton. Hilary looks 10 to 15 years younger after the makeover. To make the makeover more dramatic, I brightened up the teeth, added some eyelashes, (BTW, you can download the lips and eye brushes here), added some coloring, and sharpened the final photo. Using the steps below you can follow along with the video. This tutorial should work for versions 10-X2

* Duplicate the original layer. Select the duplicated layer by clicking on it. (This step is optional, but recommended because you want to be able to toggle visibility on and off so you can see the results as you work).

1. Select Freehand Selection tool: Selection Type: Point to Point
2. Draw a selection around the face/area that you want to de-wrinkle and/or smooth out.
3. To remove areas (such as the eyes and lips) of the initial selection simply hold Ctrl while selecting with the selection tool.
4. After the selections are complete, go to Adjust > Skin Smoothing. I set the amount to 100. You may need to decrease
the Amount depending on the amount of wrinkles or skin smoothing needed. If you are satisfied then press CTRL + D to deselect.
5. If you don’t achieve the skin smoothing results you desire with the first pass - then repeat step number 4 on the whole
selection and/or just select the problematic areas. For example, in the above video I had some wrinkles still left around the eyes and jaws after the initial skin smoothing pass. Because the rest of skin was already smoothed, out just select the areas around the eyes and applied the skin smoothing tool to those areas.
6. If you installed the eyelash brushes then go ahead and create two new layers by right clicking on the duplicated layer and selecting new raster layer twice.
7. Select the eyelash brush of your choice, set the foreground to black, and resize them to fit your photo subjects eyes. Place an eyelash on each layer. One layer for the right eye and one layer for the left eye. All the eyelash brushes you downloaded have a left orientation. To give an eyelash a right orientation simply mirror the layer that you used for the right eye. Image > Mirror. If the eyelashes do not line up correctly use the move tool and/or warp brush push tool to align them perfectly.
8. With the duplicated layer selected select makeover tool > toothbrush and brighten up the teeth. Then create a new raster layer and select the makeover tool > Suntan - and set the strength to around 15. Paint the areas you want to apply the tan.
9. Create another raster layer and select a round paint paint brush. Set the size to around 50, the opacity to 6, and set the foreground color to red. Now make a couple of passes across the nose and cheeks to give the photo subject a slight blush.
10. Create another raster layer and select a round paint paint brush. Set the size to around 50, the opacity to 6, and the the foreground color to blue (or color you desire). Now make a couple passes across the eyelid to give the photo subject some eye color.
11. Save the image as a pspimage just in case you want to make future adjustments.
12. Make sure the original layers visibility is turned off and Right click the top layer and choose Merge > Merge Visible.
13. Now select the merged layer and choose Adjust > Sharpness > Unsharp Mask. Settings Radius = 2, Strength = 100, Clipping = 5. Applying the effect will make the image more sharp/crisp and really brighten up the facial features.

Thats about it. Have fun with your future makeovers.

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The free Luce plugin allows you to add advanced lighting effects to photos and text. Can be used as a standalone lighting plugin or used in conjunction with Animation shop to create animated light effects. You can download this free plugin and manuels at http://amicoperry.altervista.org/luce/main.html. This plugin is compatible with both Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. To install simply download the zip file and extract the luce.8bf file in your plugin directory.

If you are not sure where your default plugin directory is located then just open up PSP and Goto File > Preferences > File Locations > Plug-ins.

Download this plug-in free at http://amicoperry.altervista.org/luce/main.html

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With VirtualPhotographer you can save time and produce professional looking results with you photos. Literally hundreds of effects are built into this plugin. Click here to view some photo samples of the results you can achieve with this plugin. You can also create custom effects with this plugin that you can save for future use. There are just too many effects to show you. Download it for free at http://www.optikvervelabs.com. This plugin is fully compatible with both Photoshop and Paintshop. To install this plugin just click the setup.exe and select your Paint Shop Pro plugin directory.

If you are not sure where your default plugin directory is located then just open up PSP and Goto File > Preferences > File Locations > Plug-ins.

Download this free plugin at http://www.optikvervelabs.com/download.asp

Now go have fun applying new effects to your photos.

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I found a beautiful set of free Lips and Lashes brushes over at Devianart for Photoshop. However, the abr (Adobe brush file) was incompatible with all versions of Corel Paint Shop Pro. However, my wife owns a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 and I was able open them up in Photoshop and then export the brush set to a psd file. Furthermore, this then allowed me to open up the brush set in Paint Shop Pro and convert them to pspbrushes.

I have compressed them all into a zip file for your convenience that
you can download here.

Get Lips and Eyelash Brushes for PSP

To install these brushes:
1. Download and Unzip the file.
2. Browse to My Documents > My PSP Files > Brushes
3. Paste the files and/or the folder containing all the files in the brush directory.
4. Restart Paint Shop Pro.

NOTE: Alternatively, you can import them through Paint Shop Pro by going to File > Import > Custom Brush

Enjoy your new Brushes.

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Gimp is a advanced cross platform (Windows or Linux) open source (free) image editor that can be used as an alternative to Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.

According to Gimp.org (2008) Gimp has many capabilities.

” It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. ”

To see a full list of features visit gimp.org.

Click here to download the lastest version of Gimp for Windows or Linux.

Here is a Gimp Basics Video to give you an idea of the available tools and interface.

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Picnik is online image editor that allows you tweak your photos. It has a very easy to user interface that will allow you to do things such as crop, auto enhance, add special effects, fonts, frames, and shapes to your photos. It is completely free to use and supports the major photo sharing sites such as, Flickr, Facebook, photobucket, Picasa, and webshots. (Meaning you can upload your edited images directly to your favorite photo sharing from within the Picnik interface.

Noted features from Picnik.

• Fix your photos in just one click
• Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
• Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
• Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
• Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
• Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
• Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
• Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
• No download required, nothing to install

Picnik is not a replacement for Paintshop or Photoshop but it does offer quite a few basic editing options thats perfect for quickly editing your photos and/or when you don’t have access to an advanced image editor.

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Here is a video demonstration I shared on Youtube of how to quickly and easily change the color of a car using the colorize tool and the freehand selection tool in Paint Shop pro. For this demonstration I used a picture of a purple 69 Camaro. The steps are included in the video. Thanks for viewing.

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Here is a video demonstration I shared on Youtube of how to quickly and easily change eye color using the colorize tool in Paint Shop pro. For this demonstration I used a beautiful photo of my wife. BTW, I love her brown eyes. The finished results look surprisingly real. Take a look for yourself. The steps are included in the video. Thanks for viewing.

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