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
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How to make your own Paint Shop Pro scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks
What are Paint Shop Pro scripts? Paint Shop Pro Scripts are commands/tasks that you record while your working, and play back/execute them again later. They allow you to be more productive by saving you time on repetitive tasks. These scripts come in very handy for tasks such as embedding watermarks, adding titles/names/addresses, applying blurs/borders/frames, and/or any other commands/tasks you want to record. They are also a great way to save entire templates from your different projects. I use them all the time to recreate business cards, birthday cards, and/or Christmas cards. (I simply open a photo, execute my script, and it applies my previously created templates.) This may be common knowledge for some
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How to replace objects /make them disappear in Paint Shop Pro
In this video tutorial you will learn how to quickly remove/replace objects and/or make people disappear in photos using Paint Shop Pro. Alternatively, you can use the object replacer tool to accomplish this, however, I get mixed results with the object replacer. This holds especially true when replacing or removing larger objects in a photo. They almost always end up distorted. The method I am going to teach you in the video is
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How to create aging effects/wrinkles with Paint Shop Pro
My boys requested this tutorial. I’m really not sure what to call it. I suppose how to make someone look older, or how to create wrinkles in Paint Shop Pro will be sufficient. Anyway, they (my boys) wanted to see what their mommy would look like when she got older. I have never attempted any aging makeovers in the past. Most people request the opposite, they want to look younger. I decided to give the aging makeover a try, and you can follow the steps I used to achieve this effect/makeover. It’s by no means perfect
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Update on Paintshopblog and new changes
I originally created this blog to archive, share, and help others with Paint Shop Pro during my spare time. However, this site has grown tremendously in popularity in the last few months. I never imagined that this blog would have become this popular. Many visitors have emailed me asking why I do not update this blog more frequently. The reasons I have not updated that often is due time obligations required for the doctorate degree I am working towards, and also work and family obligations.
To satisfy the reader’s desire for new content, and preventing this blog from going stale, I am adding some new sections. I have already added User Submitted Tutorials Section. In the User Submitted Content Section, readers can submit/share links to other Paint Shop Pro Resources and Tutorials they have found on the web. I will also be posting links and descriptions there of tutorials I have enjoyed working through.
Basically the User Submitted section will be a place to find and
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How to change colors in photo with Paint Shop Pro using the Hue Saturation Lightness tool
In this tutorial you will learn how to quickly change the color of any object in your photo using only the Hue/Saturation/Lightness (HSL) tool. This process is much more effective and cleaner than using the color replace tool. In my experience, the color replacer tool doesn’t always produce a clean color change. More often than not you will not get a realistic effect with just the color replace tool. In my opinion, you can achieve a more
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Halloween Brushes for Paint Shop Pro
Here is a nice set of Halloween Brushes for Paint Shop Pro that you can use with all your Halloween themed projects this fall. The original brushes were designed by Anadyne. I just converted them to be compatible with Paint Shop Pro. This brush pack contains 14 different brushes such as, skulls,
black cats, bats, spider webs, vines, etc. If you are looking
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How to create a simple baby photo collage with Paint Shop Pro
In this tutorial we will learn how to quickly create a very sleek and cute looking baby photo collage. After completing this tutorial you should gain a better understanding of how to apply multiple images, background decorations, and
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How to easily add facial hair / beard / stubble / 6′oclock shadow with Paint Shop Pro
In this tutorial you will learn how to easily add facial hair / beard / stubble / 6′oclock shadow (whatever you want to call it) to your photos. We will complete this tutorial using only five easy steps in Paint Shop Pro. During this tutorial we will be using the Add Noise Filter, Curves tool, and the basic brush tools. I originally completed this tutorial using
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How to increase brightness and specular highlights of underexposed photos in Paint Shop Pro
In the tutorial you will learn how to create specular highlights and increase the brightness of your photos. Btw, specular highlights is a fancy name for light reflections. If you have taken photos at night, or in other low light situations, then there is a good chance that some of your photos are too dark and lack detail. In short, your photos suffer from underexposure. You may be able
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