Gail Kavanagh's Blog (4)

Here are some cool things you can do with PSP. The image below is a tube, created from a photo of Stonehenge. I erased most of the background so I was left with a couple of powerful looking structures. Look closely, and you can see I used the Smudge tool to create a `face' on the block on the left.

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The idea for this digital collage came from the quote - I read it in a novel and it stayed with me. To illustrate what the quote meant to me I wanted to create a chessboard world, and I saw it floating on a bed of clouds. That was fairly easy - I had an image in my stock folder that wo… Continue

There have been many versions of PSP, and finding tutorials can be a complicated task. I use PSP 9 these days, but I think started with Version 5. PSP 10 (or PSP X) is available now, and there are some tutorials becoming available. You won't find much of use on the Corel website. Paint Shop Pro was intended by Corel to be a photo editing program, not to compete Corel Draw or Corel painter. But any artist could have told them that a house paint brush or even a pastry brush can be wielded on canv… Continue

Paint Shop Pro is usually regarded as the poor cousin (or poor rip off) of applications like Corel or Illustrator. But I have been using it since its first release (admittedly at hat time because it was easier to learn than Adobe and a bit more creative than MS Paint.) Still,I had discovered that even MS paint can be extraordinarily flexible (mainly through the experimentation of my son Chris) and so found PSP to have many unexplored possibilities. Since then, PSP has grown exponentially into a… Continue