Have you wondered how people create images that have a transparent background? It's really not that difficult to do. But what makes them 'work' is all about the way you SAVE your image!

Note: While you get a much nicer image with a smoother edge if you save in the .png format, many browsers still don't support the .png transparency -- so I don't ( Read more... )

Would you like to create an image with rounded corners -- that includes a transparent background? It's really easy to make!

Important Note: This tutorial covers how to to create rounded corners -- but not how to Save an image with a transparent background. To find out how to do the Save, check this tutorial.We'll end up with something like this ( Read more... )

Have you ever wondered how people add text, frames or other 'static' elements to their animations? It's actually very simple to do!

First you need an animation to work with, like this one:

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How to colorize one portion of a pic, while leaving the rest of it black and white.

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The 'HOW TO' Series

Our Moderator (Kevin kevinr) agreed I could do a series of 'HOW TO' tutorials here. These are short and simple explanations of 'how' to do something (often BASIC) using Paint Shop Pro.

If you find these helpful, you might want to tackle my QUICK tutorials! You can find these via:

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We're going to make gold text. Doesn't that sound like fun? (smile)

It will end up looking like this:

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Let's take a black and white (or one color image) and colorize part of it! Not all that hard to do, really. (smile)

We'll start with this:

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The 'QUICK' Series

Our Moderator (Kevin kevinr) agreed I could do a series of 'QUICK' tutorials here. These are short and simple explanations of how to do something BASIC using Paint Shop Pro.

NOTE: Because these are short, I'll assume you know the BASICS of how to find things in PSP -- and how to use the various tools and palettes. These are designed ( Read more... )

It's very simple to create your own light textures -- also called light brushes and light images. (Generally you would save this and use it as an additional layer, rather than use it as a conventional PSP texture.)

If you wish you can click the following four images to see the full (200 x 200) size:You start with a solid black (HTML: #000000) ( Read more... )

I'm sure you've seen the popular effect that features letters entering the left of an icon and then seeming to strike and 'bounce off' the right side -- have you wondered how this was done?

Thanks to fellow moderator Brian, I've got a new way to do this myself that's both easy and quick! (Thanks, Brian!)

You'll need to use both Paint Shop Pro 7 ( Read more... )