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 Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro 7 is a powerful graphic image edit work program that lets you capture an image or part of an image in another window. It can acquire images from a scanner or a camera. When you have edited your work, you can save your work in a multiple number of various formats and convert your files from one saved format to another even if saved previously by another program. You can build stunning - fantastic - fantasy artistic pictures and graphics:
All you need is your imagination!

This is a condensed help file so I have not covered all the options within the program.

The following topics are available in this help file:

Contents

 Overview

 About this help file

 Opening Paint Shop Pro

 The Main Window showing word document capture

 The Tool Palette explained briefly

 What's New In Paint Shop Pro 7

 Capturing an image or part of it

 Importing from a scanner

 Copying and Pasting

 Selecting an area of an image to edit, recopy and
     paste within Paint Shop Pro, or to another program.

 Sharpening a Photograph

 Copying - Layer Pasting on to another image or photo

 Adding Text to a Picture or Graphic

 Repainting a Photo or an Image Area

 Zooming in for a closer look to edit

 Resizing the image

 Flipping or rotating the image

 Mirroring the image

 How to send photos by e-mail

 Important Tips

 Saving

 Using The Batch Process to Convert Files

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Overview

To learn about the author and conditions of use go to About this help file. See Contents to learn about the various features covered in this brief help file.
This is the Main Window in Paint Shop Pro 7.

Paint Shop Pro is a PC Windows based program. It lets you capture the whole screen or part of an image from one document and transfer it to another.

With Paint Shop Pro you can edit a photo/ image changing its characteristics completely, copying and pasting areas of one window and layering into and on the other, you can sharpen, blur, enhance and adjust coloring, brightness and contrast.

It lets you resize, mirror, flip and rotate images: A wide range of tools are provided for this type of work in the Tool Palette.

PSP 7 has been redesigned with new buttons and menu names, and is full of new features.

With PSP you can select an area of a picture with either the rectangle selection or freehand tool from the tool palette and then paint a new color in that area.

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Copying - Layer Pasting on to another image or photo: This photo was edited by copying the monkey and layer pasting it into the Rolls Royce. Text was added to the picture also. Paint shop Pro lets you copy part of an area of a picture image so that you can paste it as a layer within another Paint Shop Pro  window. By doing this, you can repair and edit old photos, remove unsightly creases and personal markings whatsoever.

Click here to see a brief explanation of the Tool Palette.

In important tips I have recommended the use of the JPEG format. You can however, use the Batch Conversion to convert a BMP to a Compusave Graphics interchange *.gif. This gif format reduces the size of the colors to 256, and therefore the size of the file likewise. The gif format is excellent for e-mailing due to its reduced file size.  See Picture formats explained. A really fast option is using The Web Toolbar.

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About this help file

About this help file
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This is a condensed help version it doesn't cover all of the many features in Paint Shop Pro 7. However, I have included those that I thought to be some of the major ones in the program. Paint Shop Pro 7 is a wonderful user friendly program to use full of useful tools.

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Adding Text to a Picture or Graphic

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Adding Text to a Picture or Graphic

You can add text to a picture or graphic.

Before adding text SAVE your picture then copy and paste a new image of it into a new Paint Shop Pro window.  You must close your original picture if you want to save it with the same file name. Use this new image Window to add your text to. This way you will retain the original intact.

To add text to a picture or graphic do the following:

1. With the picture window highlited, click on [image] the letter A text tool  in the tool palette.

2. Drag the mouse with + cursor over to the position you want to insert the text and click the left mouse button; The Text Entry dialogue box is displayed.

The Text Entry dialogue box lets you choose the color and the style of the text.

Rapidly clicking on Fill when your text is highlited displays a color palette: Use the color palette to color your text.

3. In the Text Entry dialogue box type in your text; as you type, the text appears on the picture.

4. Click on [image] to confirm and return to your picture; the text appears inside a text resizing area.

Note only when you finally close your photo window will the text be permanent: See Below!

This is a picture showing you the text (regarding OCR) added to a picture.
The text is bordered with handles for resizing or moving it.

 To move the text, center the four arrow cursor centrally on the text and holding down the left mouse button and drag with the mouse.

 To rotate the text, place the mouse on the center handle extension, and holding down the left mouse button drag the handle clockwise or anti clockwise.

 To resize the text, place the mouse one of the bordering handles and holding down the left mouse button drag the mouse inwards or outwards.

ONLY when you close the window and re-open it - does the text becomes permanent!

You can still delete or edit the text by clicking the [image] The Object Selector Tool button, and dragging it over the text, then clicking on the [image] to edit your typing.

Secondly, until this window is closed and re-opened other tools are not available for use you can still click on [image] Undo to cancel.

Note this is the reason why you use a second copy of your photo not the original one.

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Area of image selection

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To select an area of a photo with the rectangular selection tool do the following:

 Left click on the rectangular selection button (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the area of the photo.

 Left click once and drag the mouse over the area, then left click again; the area is selected for editing, or copying.

Below the rectangular area selector is 'the Lasso Freehand' selector you can use this tool also. Click here to see an area copy using the Freehand Selection Tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Freehand selector tool do the following:

 Left mouse button click on the palette Lasso Freehand tool and drag the mouse pointer that looks like a lasso over to the perimeter of the area you want to select.

 Left mouse button click and while holding down the left mouse button (Don't release it yet!) drag the Lasso cursor around the area you want to select, and then release the button; the selected area will be shown in your window.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over: Tip zoom in on the area first for an accurate selection.

If you intend to Layer paste your selection into another Paint Shop Pro 7 window see  Copying - Layer Pasting on to another image or photo.

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To cancel your selection, left click on the Selections menu and Select None; the selection is cancelled.

 Left click here to return to: Copy and Paste the image into another window or program.

 Left click here to return to: Repainting a Photo or an Image Area.

 Left click here to return to: Sharpening a Photograph.

 Left click here to return to: Flipping and Rotating the Image.

 Left click here to return to: Mirroring the Image.

To Undo, click on the Undo button in the icons.

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Capture Setup dialogue box

This is the capture set up dialogue box, you can choose various capturing options.

The Capture Setup dialogue box lets you choose how and what to capture.

You can select either a keyboard Function Hot Key or the mouse button to activate the capture.

The Capture Now button

sends you back to the previous window/desktop you were in ready for capturing.


Capturing an image or part of it

Paint Shop Pro lets you capture an image or part of an image, or an object, or the entire window with or without the cursor being shown. (Before attempting to capture, see Important Tips.)
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To capture an area of the screen or an image do one of the following:

 Left click on the large camera icon [image] in icons; you are back in the previous document window/desktop, or

 Toggle to the window that you want to capture from by pressing Alt and Tab together.

 From the File menu, left click on Import and Screen Capture and Start; you are back in the previous document window/desktop or by toggling to the window that you want to capture from by pressing Alt and Tab together.

If you want to change the capture setup do it now:

You may need to use a hotkey say F11 instead of the mouse to start the activate capture procedure: There are times when this is a necessity!

    See Capture Setup [image] and its dialogue box.

2. Place the mouse arrow pointer within either of the dead page scroll bar areas
    and click on the [image] right mouse button;

    the mouse cursor becomes a flashing on/off [image] Cross-hair-Gunsight capture tool.

3. Move the [image] to the outer upper left hand - side perimeter of the image

    you want to capture by dragging the mouse. (Don't hold down any of the mouse buttons!)

Here you can see the Cross-hair-Gunsight capture tool
 at the upper left hand - side perimeter of the image.

4. Click once the left [image] mouse button and drag the [image] over the image (Don't hold down any of the mouse buttons!); as you drag the mouse a measured area oblong line box is displayed.

Anything inside the oblong area line box will be captured and appear in the PSP window.

5. Click again the left [image] mouse button; the captured area appears in Paint Shop Pro.

Click here to see another example of a captured area in Paint Shop Pro.

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Copying - Layer Pasting on to another image or photo

Copying - Layer Pasting on to another image or photo
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This photo was edited by copying the driver and monkey then layer pasting it into the Rolls Royce. Paint shop Pro lets you copy part of an area of a picture image so that you can paste it as a layer within another Paint Shop Pro window. By doing this, you can repair and edit old photos, remove unsightly personal markings whatsoever.

To Layer Paste into the second Paint Shop Pro 7 window do the following:

1. Save a backup copy of the original photo image as a precaution against loss or damage to your original.

Note: you cannot Layer Paste into a condensed image Giff. If your image is a condensed image, you will have to convert your Giff file in order to do so.

 Use the batch converter to convert to a BMP file and then Increase Color Depth:

 In the Color Menu, click on Increase Color Depth, and then on 16 Million Colors.

To avoid this problem, use a new window saved as BMP and not the original photo.

2. Select the area or part of the area of the photo that you want to insert into the second Paint Shop Pro window.

To select an area of a photo with the rectangular selection tool do the following:

 Left mouse button click on the rectangular selection button (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the area of the photo, click once and drag the mouse over the area, then left click again; the area is selected for copying.

Below the rectangular area selector is "the Lasso Freehand" selector you can use this tool also. Click here to see an area copy using the Freehand Selection Tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Freehand selector tool do the following:

 Left click on the palette Lasso Freehand tool and drag the mouse pointer that looks like a lasso over to the border of the area you want to select.

 Left click and while holding down the left mouse button (Don't release it yet!) drag the Lasso cursor around the area you want to select, and then release the button; the selected area will be shown in your window.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over.

Tip zoom in on the area first for an accurate selection.

To Deselect, click on [image].

Continuing the procedure:

3. After selecting the area or all the window do one of the following:

 From the Edit menu, click on Copy.

 Left click on [image] button icon.

 Press either Ctrl + Insert or Ctrl + C together.

4. Click on your open second window that you want to paste a layer in.

5. From the Edit menu, go down to Paste and sideways and click on Paste As New Layer, or

 press Ctrl+L together; the selected area appears in the second window with a four headed arrow cursor on it.

(Although I used another window as a go between as shown here, it is not necessary.)

Note: if you are pasting into a large picture you will have to search for this cursor; as it lands in the second window at random.

6. Left click and holding down the mouse button, drag the new layer with four headed arrow cursor over to the required position, and line it up carefully.

7. Save this second window (by pressing on F12 on the [image], and Save as), then you must close it,

Note: Only when you close the window, the new pasted area will become permanently pasted in it.

To Undo click on the Undo button, Undo to cancel or close and save this window. You will have to close and re-open this window to continue editing it, or repeating the whole procedure. Also note that other tools cannot be used!

Sometimes I have found that I had to close Paint Shop Pro and re-open it again reopening the file once more.

Don't be surprised if you also have to close Paint Shop Pro and re-open it altogether in order to continue working with the program.

This is why you should not use your original picture but a copy of it!

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Copying and Pasting

Copying a Picture or a Graphic

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Click here to return to Resizing your photo Procedure 1.

Paint Shop Pro lets you copy your picture into another window within the program, excellent for saving the original and working with a copy. Also you can copy out of Paint Shop Pro and into your Office document.

(Note you cannot copy and paste your image directly into an Outlook Express message area, you have to save it first then either attach or insert the file.)

To copy a picture in Paint Shop Pro do the following:

1. Select the window of the picture and in the Main Options click on Selections and Select All.

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To select an area of a photo with the rectangular selection tool do the following:

 Left mouse button click on the rectangular selection button (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the area of the photo.

 Left click once and drag the mouse over the area, then left click again; the area is selected for copying.

Below the rectangular area selector is 'the Lasso Freehand' selector you can use this tool also. Click here to see an area copy using the Freehand Selection Tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Freehand selector tool do the following:

 Left mouse button click on the palette Lasso Freehand tool and drag the mouse pointer that looks like a lasso over to the perimeter of the area you want to select.

 Left mouse button click and while holding down the left mouse button (Don't release it yet!) drag the Lasso cursor around the area you want to select, and then release the button; the selected area will be shown in your window.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over: Tip Zoom in on the area first for an accurate selection.

2. After selecting the area or all the window do one of the following:

 From the Edit menu, click on Copy

 Left click on [image] button icon.

 Press either Ctrl + Insert, or Ctrl + C together.

To paste into a document outside of Paint Shop Pro do the following:

 Open your document you want to paste into and select where to paste to.

 Either left click within that document on its paste button, or from the Edit menu click on Paste.

To use the keyboard to paste do the following:
Press Ctrl + V, or Shift + Insert together.

(For multiple items repeat the copy and paste procedure each time.)

 To toggle between windows, hold down the Alt key and lightly press the Tab key.

Click here to see a pasted image in a Microsoft Word document.

To Paste into a new window do one of the following:

 Left click on the Paste button icon [image] in the Main Window, or

 From the Edit menu, go down to Paste and sideways and click on Paste As New Image.

 Press either Crtl + V, or Shift + Insert; the selected area appears in the new window.

Click here - To Layer Paste your selection into another picture in Paint Shop Pro.

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Flipping or rotating the image

Flipping the image
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Paint Shop Pro lets you flip or rotate the captured image. You can even Mirror the image.

To flip the image do the following:

 First select your photo window or select an area of the photo to flip.

1. From the Main Options, click on Image; the image menu appears.

2. From the Image menu click on Flip; the image is flipped 90°.

       Each time you click on Flip the image is rotated 90°.

To rotate the image do the following:

 Select the photo window, or select an area of it to rotate.

 In the Image menu click on Rotate; the Rotate dialogue box is displayed.

 In the Rotate box, select rotation direction and the amount to rotate the image.

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Freehand selection Area Copy

This picture shows how the area was selected using the Freehand tool,

then copied and pasted.


How to send photos by e-mail

My tip on how to send photos via e-mail and save both transmission time by reducing the photo file size. You can with a little thought save space on the hard disk, also making the file size of the photo smaller. By making the file size of your picture less, you will save on e-mail transmission time, and therefore connection charge costs if using a normal telephone fax modem connection for e-mailing. Note: a 3 Megabyte photo file can take up to 15 minutes or more to send or receive, no one will thank you for this! Do take this into consideration when saving for sending.
Here are several options you can use to cut down file size.

 Scan your photos into Paint Shop Pro at low resolution. Do this using Paint Shop Pro to scan your photos at a resolution between 100 - 125 dpi then save each scanned picture as a JPEG file.

 Using this first option do the following:

1. Either copy and paste and/or Insert Menu insert them into say Microsoft Word or Open Office. For each picture, you will have to repeat the Copy and Paste or Insert from file procedure.

2. When you have finally copied/inserted all your pictures into your document open Paint Shop Pro.

3. Using Paint Shop Pro, capture each picture in your document and re-save each picture as a JPEG with a new name or an altered one.

4. Attach or insert the newly second set of photos in your new message into your e-mail message:

 A second excellent option available is: Reduce the size of file by converting the files with the Batch Conversion option from the file menu. This lets you convert a file to Giff format for sending see Important tips.

 A third option is to compress the picture the picture size.

1. Scan your picture into PSP, see Importing from a scanner.

2. Resize to the required size.

3. After scanning them you Save As and run Options (and Optimiser) to increase the compression level.

 A real speedy way to send images:

                   "The Web Toolbar"

With the window-photo in Paint Shop Pro highlited do the following:

1. Display The Web Toolbar by selecting Toolbars in the View menu then by ticking Web Toolbar (as shown above) and then closing the box.,

2. Now click on the Web Toolbar JPEG, or Gif arrow displayed.

3. In the displayed Compression Optimizer dialogue box choose the compression and click on [image].

4. Type in a file name and export the image to My Documents, or a folder of your choice.

5. Insert or attach the exported saved image into your e-mail.

(This is how images are prepared for the web.)

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Important Tips

Important Tips:
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Problematic Pop Up Right Menus when you don't want them to appear:

 To avoid an options menu unexpectedly appearing on

        the screen when performing a capture

        place the cursor arrow on a scroll bar

        before clicking the Right [image] mouse button

        and obtaining the [image] Cross-hair-Gunsight capture tool.

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  Disable Babylon Translator if installed on your computer its dialogue box is mostly likely to appear too.

  Pre-select a hot-key F11 for activating PSP capture.

 To pre-select a key in PSP 7 click on Capture Setup, or the small camera in the main options.

Click here to return to Capturing an image or part of an image.

If the capture setup button is not in the main tool bar add the icon through View and standard toolbars.

While you are adding this icon also add the scanner [image] icon at the same time.

Saving Photos:

  Save photos as JPEG files. This format is a condensed picture type format. There are varying opinions as to whether there is any quality loss. You can even compress a JPEG file while you are saving it to reduce the compressed file further.

If you save the photo as a JPEG or even as Tif (Tagged Information File) you will save on size of hard disk used to save the image. (A Tif file of not less than 300 dpi resolution is needed for OCR text recognition by most OCR programs.)

For more information on JPEG, GIF's and PNG's see Picture Formats Explained.

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 To save even faster! See The Web Toolbar For a real cut corners - fast way to send images probably the easiest of all!

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Reduce File Size by Converting it:

 Use the Batch Conversion to convert a BMP to a Compusave Graphics interchange *.gif. This gif format reduces the size of the colors to 256, and therefore the size of the file likewise. The GIF format is excellent for e-mailing due to its reduced file size, or Internet Web pages.

The Batch Conversion in the File menu lets you convert heavy BMP or other files to other formats automatically exporting the converted format to a folder of your choice: It is very easy to use!

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Importing from a scanner

Importing an image from a scanner.
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PSP lets you scan an image and import it into the PSP work area.

A brief explanation about Scanners:

Scanners use the universal twain protocol, they are usually supplied with these twain protocol programs. The twain protocol allows programs like Paint Shop Pro and others to be able to open these programs and scan documents and images, then either insert them directly, or perform OCR optical character recognition for text editing purposes.

Note: If you plan to use the image later for OCR purposes scan at a resolution not less than 300 dpi and save the scanned text as a Tiff Tagged Information file.

To import the required image do one of the following:

 Left click on the Acquire Twain Image Button as shown here (providing the icon was pre inserted into the icon bar by you), or

 From the File the menu as shown below left click on Acquire; your scanner program will open then follow scanning procedures.

2. Once you have scanned your pictures exit the scanner program to edit your pictures.

Note: While your scanner program is open you cannot use any options within Paint Shop Pro, you must close the scanner in order to continue using or editing in Paint Shop Pro.

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Miriam and I

Miriam and I, area of photo shown in a Word document window.


Mirroring the image

Mirroring the image
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Paint Shop Pro lets you mirror a photo. This option allows you to either mirror a selected area or the whole window. You can even flip or rotate the image.

To mirror the captured image within Paint Shop Pro:

1. Highlight the image by clicking on it.

2. From the Main Options, click on Image.

3. From the Image menu, click on Mirror; the image appears mirrored.

To revert back to normal view,  Click on Mirror in the Image menu once again.

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Opening Paint Shop Pro

Opening Paint Shop Pro

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To open PSP do one of the following:

 In Windows 98, 2000, and XP double click on the Short-cut desktop icon [image] or

 In the Start Button program menu, click on the Paint Shop Pro shortcut.

You should if you have not already done so, add these three important Icons to the Main Window.

The Scanner Acquire Twain, The Capture Setup, and The Capture Buttons.

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Pasted image in a Microsoft Word document

Below is a picture of a Microsoft Word document

showing the main image of Paint Shop Pro 7 pasted into it.


Photo showing part area selection

Paint Shop Pro Window showing a photograph of the famous clock in Prague,

part of the photo area has been selected:

The rectangular selection tool has been used.


Picture Formats Explained

This is a brief explanation on graphic image formats.

GIF's are better for solid colours and text, Often used for cartoons and Internet webpages.

JPEG (JPG's) better for mixed colours such as photographs. (This is also a compressed picture format.) An excellent format for e - mailing.

PNG's are similar to GIF's but usually give smaller file sizes for same compression. PNG's and GIF's are often used for HTML. and web pages. Note compressed images are often degraded in quality!


Repainting a Photo or an Image Area

Repainting a Photo or an area of it

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To jump directly to the repainting procedure below click here.

To select an area of a photo with the rectangular selection tool do the following:

 Left click on the rectangular selection button (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the area of the photo.

 Left click once and drag the mouse over the area, then left click again; the area is selected for editing.

To jump to the repainting procedure below click here.

Below the rectangular area selector is 'the Lasso Freehand' selector, you can use this tool also. Click here to see an area copy using the Freehand Selection Tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Freehand selector tool do the following:

 Left click on the palette Lasso Freehand tool and drag the mouse pointer that looks like a lasso over to the perimeter of the area you want to select.

 Left mouse button click and while holding down the left mouse button (Don't release it yet!) drag the Lasso cursor around the area you want to select, and then release the button; the selected area will be shown in your window.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over: Tip Zoom in on the area first for an accurate selection.

Continuing the operation:

Repainting the Selected Area
To repaint the selected area do the following:

First save your original photo and use a copy pasted into a second window!

Do not use the original photo!

See above and select the area with either the Freehand or Rectangle Tools.

The Dropper Tool is selecting the color

To select the color you want to replicate or paint do the following:

1. Left click on the (paint) Dropper tool (as in the picture above) and select it.

2. Drag the Dropper tool over to the color you want to replicate - rapidly left mouse click on it; the color should appear in the Main Window on the right below Styles. If it doesn't show - repeat the rapid clicking on the desired color.

3. Now select and use one of the painting tools:

The Flood Fill Tool excellent for large areas or either Sprays, or The Paint Brush from the Tool Palette.

 To use the Flood Fill Tool left click on it and on the selected area you want to paint.

 To use the Brush Tool left click on it and drag the brush around within the selected area, as seen in this picture.

 To Undo, click on the  [image] Undo button in the icons: The color change only becomes permanent when you close the window.

Always save your original photo and use a copy pasted into a second window!

Never use the original photo!

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Resizing the image

Re-sizing the captured image in Paint Shop Pro
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Paint Shop Pro lets you resize the displayed captured image. When you change either a height or width measurement of an image or picture, Paint Shop Pro calculates and makes the correct height for width setting proportions. Smart sizing automatically retains the correct image picture proportion.

You may work in metric, inch or point measurements.

To resize the image do the following:

1. Click on Image to be resized and copy and paste it to a new window: Use this new window to work on, do not use the original window.

2. From the Image menu, select Resize; the Resize dialogue box appears.

3. In the Resize dialogue box change the size of the image by selecting the size you want and click on it.

4. Clicking on the [image] confirms your choices and resizes the image.

Always save your original photo and use a copy pasted into a second window! Never use your original photo!

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Saving

 Saving a captured image
This is a short explanation on saving your scanned photo - graphic or captured photo - graphic. You should read it carefully, because file size especially when it comes to sending e-mails via a normal telephone fax modem is very time consuming and costly! Choosing the right format to save your photo or graphic in can save you transmission time and keep costs to a minimum.

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Paint Shop Pro 7 lets you save a captured image as a JPEG, BMP, and WMF and also in various other graphic formats. You can even prepare the image for use on a Macintosh. See my tip on How to send photos via e-mail and save on both transmission time and size of file, thus economizing! Because of file sizing I prefer to save photos as JPEG files. This format is a condensed type format. There are varying opinions as to whether there is any quality loss. If you save the same photo as a JPEG or even Tif (Tagged Information File) you save on size of hard disk used to save the image or, you can also use the Batch Conversion to convert a BMP to a (Compusave Graphics interchange) Gif. This GIF format reduces the size of the colors to 256, and therefore the size of the file likewise. (See below the section regarding The Web Toolbar also.)

The GIF format like the JPEG format is excellent for e-mailing due to its reduced file size. The Batch Conversion in the File menu lets you convert heavy BMP or other files to other formats automatically exporting the converted format to a folder of your choice.

Bmp The Bit Map Picture format usually retains all the quality of an excellent printable photograph and graphic, it isn't always ideal for e-mailing and can lead to sending large heavy sized files slowing transmission: If you and the receiver of the file have Broadband ADSL then fine by all means use it!

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To save the captured image do one of the following:

1. Press F12 on the [image]; the Save As dialogue box is displayed, or from the main options, click on File; the File drop down menu appears.

From the File menu, click on Save as; the Save As dialog box appears.

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 (Note if you want to, you can compress further a  JPEG image. In the Save As dialogue box, click on Options and optimize it; (see dialogue box displayed) Slide the slider to maximum compression as shown here, and click on Run Optimizer and follow the procedure in the JPEG Optimizer dialogue box displayed.

   Shown two preview images, you can now set the amount of compression and click [image] button; you are returned to the Save As dialogue box.)

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3. Continuing in the Save as dialogue box now displayed once again,

browse the folders and select a folder to save the file as a JPEG file in.

2. Type in a file name and click on Save  [image].

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A real cut corners - fast way to save images for sending!

"The Web Toolbar"

With the window-photo in Paint Shop Pro highlited do the following:

1. Display The Web Toolbar by selecting Toolbars in the View menu then by ticking Web Toolbar (as shown above) and closing the box.,

2. Now click on the Web Toolbar JPEG or Gif arrow displayed.

3. In the displayed Compression Optimizer dialogue box choose the compression and click on [image],

4. Type in a file name and export the image to My Documents, or a folder of your choice.

5. Insert or attach the exported saved image into your e-mail. (This is how images are prepared for the web.)

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Sharpening a photograph

Sharpening a Picture or an Area of it
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Click here to jump to the Sharpening procedure below if you have already selected the window or its area for sharpening, and are using a copy of your photo.

To select an area of a photo with the rectangular selection tool do the following:

 Left click on the rectangular selection button (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the area of the photo.

 Left click once and drag the mouse over the area, then left click again; the area is selected for sharpening.

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Below the rectangular area selector is 'the Lasso Freehand' selector you can use this tool also. Click here to see an area copy using the Freehand Selection Tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Freehand selector tool do the following:

 Left mouse button click on the palette Lasso Freehand tool and drag the mouse pointer that looks like a lasso over to the perimeter of the area you want to select.

 Left mouse button click and while holding down the left mouse button (Don't release it yet!) drag the Lasso cursor around the area you want to select, and then release the button; the selected area will be shown in your window.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over: Tip Zoom in on the area first for an accurate selection.

(To cancel your selection, click on [image]; the selection is cancelled.)

Sharpening a Photograph

You can sharpen (or blur) your photograph or an area of it (they are similar operations).

First save your original photo and use a copy pasted into a second window! Do not use the original photo window!

See above and select the area with either the Freehand or

Rectangle Tools in the Tool Palette.

Continuing with the procedure after area selection:

To Sharpen the photograph or an area of it do the following:

1. Left click on the Effects Menu, go down to Sharpen - sideways and  down to Unsharp Mask and click on it.

The Unsharp Mask dialogue box is dispayed.

In it you see two preview boxes (Before and After). Decide the sharpness strength, and click on [image] to confirm; the picture is sharpened.

The Historical Prague Astronomical Clock - Sharpened picture

To Undo, click on the [image] Undo Button.

Always save your original photo and use a copy pasted into a second window!

Never use the original photo!

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Showing the Main Window.

Click here for a close up of the Color Palette.

Click here to return to Repainting the picture.

Click here to return to Sharpening the picture.


The Batch Conversion - Batch Process

This is the Batch Conversion dialogue box in Version 7

You can convert file formats saving the new format file in the folder of your choice.


The Capture Button

 By clicking here on this, you are sent back to the previous window you were in ready to capture it. Follow the instructions on To capture an image do the following.


The Freehand Selector Tool.

You use this tool to work freehand to select various types of areas.


The JPEG File format

JPEG is a condensed image file format, saving in this format can and does save considerably the size of a photo or image. This is particularly useful when sending an e-mail. There are varying opinions as to whether there is any quality loss whatsoever: I personally prefer to save in this file format. See Picture Formats Explained to get more information regarding JPEG's, GIF's and PNG's.

Note: Certain OCR Optical Character Recognition programmes cannot open and read this file format, therefore you may want to save images/photos that are of text in the Tif Tagged Information Format, which is another type of condensed file format. You may want to scan and save in this format.


The Main Window showing word document capture

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The Resize image dialogue box

You can resize your image or photo by selecting

the options in the "Resize dialogue box" displayed here.

Smart size retains the proportion of the image/photo.

Clicking on Pixel lets you change the size according to pixels

Percentage lets you alter the image size according to percentages.

You may use metric, inch or point measurements.


The Tool Palette explained briefly

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The Tool Palette can be viewed either vertically or
horizontally under the main menu items.


The Web Toolbar

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What's New in Paint Shop Pro 7

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Copied from Paint Shop Pro7 Help:

We have added several great new features and enhancements to Paint Shop Pro 7.0.

Photo Enhancement

 Automatically adjust color balance, contrast, and saturation.

 Remove red-eye on people and animals.

 Restore damaged photos with Scratch Removal tool.

 Adjustable Histogram enhances details without loss of information.

 Automatically improve video, scanned, and overly compressed images.

 Automatically remove noise, scratches, dust, or specks and improve crispness and impact.

Business/Home Graphics

 Vector shapes, lines, and text now support gradients, textures, and patterns on the stroke and fill.

 Brushes now support gradients, textures, and patterns.

 Align, distribute, arrange, group and resize vector objects.

 Create and save custom-styled lines with dots, dashes, and end-caps.

 Create and save custom shapes for reuse.

 Position more precisely with snap-to grid and guides.

 Experiment with over 25 new artistic and lighting special effects.

Web Design

 Create professional-quality GIF animations with Animation Shop 3.

 Preview graphics in various Web file formats in up to three browsers.

 New PNG optimizer for high Web performance.

 An Image Mapper and Image Slicer with JavaScript rollover creation support.

Productivity & Ease of Use

 Save and retrieve workspace arrangements to manage projects.

 Quickly identify and select with thumbnail previews of Picture Tubes, Gradients, Textures, and Preset Shapes.

 Navigate more easily while in Zoom mode with the Overview window.

 Protect critical work with customizable Autosave.

 Repeat last command feature.

 Easily view your adjustments with proofing, autoproofing, and reset options on most dialogs.

 Vixen of Verbiage

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Zooming in for a closer look

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Zooming in on the Image

Paint Shop Pro lets you zoom in to examine, or, zoom out of a captured image while editing it. You can increase the zoom size or reduce it by zooming out. You can return to the normal original image by clicking on normal in the view menu at any time later. Note: zooming in on an image for viewing it does not resize it!

To resize an image see Resizing the image.

To zoom the image in Paint Shop Pro:

1. Capture your image into Paint Shop Pro first, or select the window that you want to zoom in on.

2. From the View menu, go down to Zoom In By and click one of the times options, or click on the magnifier [image] in the margin and drag it over the picture then click again to magnify, or

 press Ctrl and + together, each time you do this you will zoom in.

The magnifier cursor is shown on the zoomed in image.

To Zoom Out do one of the following:
 Left mouse button click on the View menu and click on Zoom Out By item, or

 Press Ctrl and - (The Minus key) together; each time you do this you will Zoom Out.

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Several Photo Insertions I am included


How to add Icons


Rectangle Selection Tool


Miriam and I - Head and Shoulders Photo


The 2 Selectors


The Color Palette in the Main Window


The PSP Version 8 Text Insertion Tool


Using Batch for Converting Files

Using Batch for Converting Files
You can convert file formats saving the new format file in the folder of your choice.

To Convert a single file or several files do the following:

1. Click on the Batch Conversion in the File menu.

2. In the upper section of the Batch Conversion dialogue box as shown here you look for the source folder and file to convert.

In the lower section you browse for where to save the converted file and the type of file you want to save. In both sections there are scroll down lists of various file types for you to choose from.

3. If you have only one file to convert when you have found it, left click on the file; and it will make a new converted file in the folder of your choice.

If you have several files to convert of the same type, left click on the Select All Button; all the files will be converted and saved to the folder of your choice.

4. Click on the OK Button to confirm completing the process.

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