PSP 5 has got some new, and very powerful, features. With this power have come some changes, though. Today we will show you how you can save a GIF image with the transparency feature active under version 5.x of PSP. So here's how it's done!

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As Paint Shop Pro becomes more powerful so do its tools. This power comes with change, though. Certain tools, such as masks, must, necessarily, change their behavior.

Changes, such as these, can be a little disconcerting to users especially with tools as complex as masks.

In version 5.xx, masks have changed quite radically. Part of this change is due to the fact that PSP 5.xx users now have the capability of using layers (for more info on layers, see the tutorial "PSP 5-Layers Primer").

Masks in PSP 5 are now more like masks in the higher-end programs such as Adobe's Photoshop and Corel's PhotoPaint.

The basics are still similar in that a mask is grayscale and where the mask is white you won't see any change and where it's black you will see change.

The change you will see, though, comes not from applying effects to the image through the mask, but from what's on the underlying layer(s).

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Watermarking Photographs with Paint Shop Pro : This much sought-after effect adds a ghostly image of a name, copyright, company symbol, etc., to an existing image making it difficult to copy and use the image without the artist's permission.

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Even today's smartest cameras and flash systems can leave you with portraits of friends and family looking like something from a Wes Craven movie... Spooky :) Those bright red eyes glowing out at you from the surrounding darkness... There's a solution, though, that's both elegant and powerful! Paint Shop Pro's Red Eye Removal tool. With just a few minutes practice at setting the different values you'll have your family's portraits looking more normal and less like the cast for the next "Freddie" movie.

This Paint Shop Pro Photo XI lesson will demonstrate how you can correct red eye in any of your digital portraits. Even though my portrait subject is a boxer puppy you can achieve the same results with portraits of your human subjects. Of course the human portraits will have subjects with red eyes, not the blue eyes that you see in the puppy's portrait... no matter, though, as you'll see once you get started.

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This Paint Shop Pro Photo XI lesson will demonstrate how you can give all of your portrait subjects the "hollywood star" smile of their dreams. Along the way you'll also learn how to use the Magic Wand Tool to make selections, how to save and load selections as alpha channels, how to create an Adjustment Layer and how to use the Hue/Saturation/Lightness tool.

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