How to use displacement maps to create realistic overlay effects in Corel Paint Shop Pro
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use displacement maps to create realistic looking overlay effects that appear to be actually painted onto the surface. Displacement maps simply follow the contour of any texture, and then produces natural looking distortion effects on the layer above it. For example, if you painted your name on a rock or tree in real life, the paint would follow the contours of the rocks or bark and there would be a natural distortion. However, in Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 if you paint text over top of a texture without using Displacement maps, the text wouldn’t have any distortions, it would just be Read more
How to add text to curved paths (or any path) using Paint Shop Pro
Here’s a quick little text tutorial that will demonstrate how to add text to curved paths (or any path) using Paint Shop Pro. You can create your own paths and/or trace a path on an image using the pen tool, or use the preset shapes built into Paint Shop Pro. Adding text to paths can allow for your designs and projects to become more dynamic and eye catching. We often see a lot curved text designs in company logos, movie posters, postcards, calendars, signatures, avatars, etc. If you haven’t discovered yet, how to add text path to your projects, then you may find this technique beneficial and/or fun. The path your Read more
How to create 3d textured text and/or just textured text in Paint Shop Pro
In this video tutorial you will learn how to create 3d textured text and/or just textured text in Paint Shop Pro. You can create textures for your text using photos of chrome, gold, rocks, wood, trees, grass, metal, water, fur, hair, skin, or any other type of texture you can think of. Basically, you can turn anything photographed into a texture. This tutorial only requires the use of three tools. The text tool, selection tool, and the move tool. We will also make use of saving and loading selections from the alpha channel.
I have received several text tutorial requests over the last few weeks. I will try to fulfill those text tutorial requests over the next several days, with each text based tutorial introducing different tools and methods. For example, we will soon cover how to form text to a surface using displacement maps in Paint Shop Pro. In another tutorial will cover Read more
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