Using the Straighten tool in PSP

Using the Straighten tool in Paintshop Pro

When taking pictures, it is common to have it slightly angled. This will show up more if you have an obvious vertical or horizontal element and it might look odd. Sometimes, it could be the horizon, sometimes, it could be a door frame or a wall. But you can fix this with Paintshop Pro.

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Featured Resource – Pixel Scrappers

Whether you are a digital scrapbooker, a card maker or creating other types of graphics projects, you might be on the lookout for supplies. Although you might be able to create most elements yourself (especially if you are using the tutorials in the Campus), sometimes you want to get something completed fast, or you might just want to get inspired by ready-made supplies. A couple of years ago, I discovered a site that is friendly and offers great supplies, for free!

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How to use scrapbooking templates

A few weeks ago, another post was explaining how to use PSP templates as they are available in recent versions of PaintShop Pro. However, digital scrapbookers have a wide array of possible layered templates available in various online stores. Let's have a look at how they are used with PaintShop Pro.

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Theme – Accident

Even after throwing caution to the wind, accidents can still happen. Nothing can prepare us for them, sometimes it’s just a stroke of bad luck. But sometimes, those accidents are happy ones that make us laugh.

Children are quite accident prone, and those bumps and bruises teach them lessons that help them grow. Booboos are cute, but trips to the ER definitely are not!

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Shadows or no shadow

Digital scrapbooking is often a digital representation of traditional paper scrapbooking, and as such, it would require some shadowing to show the 3D effect that you would get. Not adding shadows will leave your work look flat. However, there are times when digital scrapbook projects will NOT need shadows. Let's see what those are.

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How to use masks in PSP

Masks can be a great tool to create a different cut out for photos or papers or to create a frame around elements we want to focus on. Masks come in a variety of shapes and are available just about everywhere. Let's see how you can use those resources in your PaintShop Pro.

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Featured Resource – Filters Unlimited 2.0

Although filters and plugins are not always necessary since Paintshop Pro has quite an array of possible effects, sometimes, it is fun to play around with new settings that might not be available natively in Paintshop Pro. Filters Unlimited 2.0 is one of those filters that has hundreds (if not thousands) of possible effects. Although you likely won't use even close to half of them for your main projects, you might discover some effects that will trigger some inspiration for other things.

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Theme – Clothing

Along with food and shelter, clothing is one of man's most basic needs. From plants and animal hides, clothes has come a very long way today. You can find articles of clothing made from different materials like cotton, wool, silk and twill. The colors come from all over the spectrum with the options for patterns and prints that seem to be endless! And of course, there are clothes of different styles to fit all shapes and sizes.

This month's theme is all about clothing and how it has inspired fellow scrappers, both digi scrappers and paper scrappers, to create layouts that feature a new outfit or a special dress.

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How to use PSP templates

With version X9, Corel introduced templates to its PaintShop Pro. Those templates are meant to help users create graphic projects faster. They range from social media headers to greeting cards or even to business brochures. For anyone new to the process, let's have a look at how you can use those.

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Featured Resources – TextArt

This month, I am offering you to discover another plugin that might be fun to use in your projects, whether they are scrapbooking or not. As an added bonus, this is a free plugin, although, if you like it, you are encouraged to give a donation. The purpose of this plugin is to create some text with various preset "looks" that you can still customize.

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