Creating a textured sphere takes a little more work than the plain sphere from the previous tutorial but it adds a little originality to your buttons. Open up a texture image in Paint Shop Pro.

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Creating Gold Text with Paint Shop Pro.

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Masks are one of the most powerful tools a digital artist using PSP has at their disposal. New with version 4, and above, comes the ability to save your masks. This can greatly simplify the process of creating certain types of graphics such as buttons for your web pages. A mask enables you to create beveled edges on textured surfaces giving the illusion of 3-dimensionality. Masks can help you achieve other effects, as well, such as disappearing text and much more.

Along with some of the advancements made in masking with ver 4, and above, came just enough change to confuse users of earlier versions. The following tutorial will help users of previous versions as well as introduce new users to the "Magic of Masks".

As well as demonstrating how masks work this tutorial will give you a quick idea of how to use the built in textures to create your own, well... textures.

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Creating Yahoo!TM Style Buttons with Paint Shop Pro.

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The following tutorial will demonstrate how you can use a mask to create a complex selection. Using this selection, you'll be able to copy & paste an object, such as a person, from one photo into another. The results you get will vary depending on the photos used and other factors. Some gotchas to watch for include:

* The overall grain of the two images. You'll want these to match as closely as possible. You may want to add some noise to one of the two images to compensate for any differences.
* The direction of light. It won't be too believable if one photo has shadows going left while the other has them going right. You can always consider flipping one image so that the shadows match up.
* The color cast of the photos. Unfortunately, this last one is a little more difficult to handle in Paint Shop Pro than it is in Photoshop. If it's possible, you may consider re-shooting one of the photos, having the two photos re-printed with the merging in mind, or even seeing if the colors can be matched during the scanning process.


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The following tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a page curl effect without using expensive, third-party plug-ins. To demonstrate this effect we'll draw a yellow sticky note and curl up its corner. You can, of course, use this effect to curl up the corner of any image you'd like, including any photograph you'd like to use on your web pages.

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Creating a Steel Plate and Screws with Paint Shop Pro.

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In this Paintshop-Pro tutorial we will be Creating 3D Brushed Metal Buttons.
Another point we'd like to demonstrate is how you can work with mulitple image windows open at one time. Doing so makes it easier to draw certain objects. You can create portions of an image and copy&paste them onto the main image. This is analogous to an artist mixing colors on a palette. This techniques can even be used to replace the layers feature available on higher-end programs like Photoshop.

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PSP 4.1x has some pretty cool features that enable you to create effects that might not be immediately obvious. For example, you've probably seen some of the edges that artists add to their photographs and wonder how they do that. There are a number of methods, of course. One method that weI often use is the excellent plug-in filters from Auto F/X. These enable me to put samples together quickly for a client without blowing their whole budget. Even without the filters you can create some nice-looking edges. The following technique demonstrates how to do this in PSP without filters.

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Layers add so much power to PSP that it's easy to be a bit confused about how they work and what you can accomplish with them. This tutorial will show you some of the power in layers.

You can think of layers as well... layers. Imagine, instead of having one sheet of paper to draw on you have several. Better than paper, though, you can change some of the properties of the layers. Because of this you can do things like protect a transparent portion of a layer, change the opacity of a layer and apply different blending modes.

We'll use all of these features in this tutorial.

Okay, let's get started.

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