Cassel 
When creating various projects, whether it will be a scrapbook layout or another graphic design, you might want to extract elements from a photo to add it to another one. Maybe it is a flower you want to use to decorate the corner of a photo, or a whole person that you want to place on a different environment. Extracting the element is a technique on its own, but cleaning it is an important additional step.
In PaintShop Pro, you can place text along a vector path for some very creative effects, but what about picture tubes? Can you place them along a path quickly without having the move elements one by one and measure the spacing every time? Of course! There is a better way, and that is by using the VectorTube script. This scripts is quite old (2003!) but still works with the newest versions of PaintShop Pro. This script, coded by Joe Fromm, Peter Ward, is available for download HERE. Let's look at how it is used in various types of projects.
While we spend time visiting many sites, we often have to register or create an account to either access content, post comments, download files, make purchases, etc. Every site seems to require a different login, and password, and some sites are picky about the password that you will use: some wants no more than X number of characters, some want a minimum of X number, some will require you to have a digit and a non-alpha-numerical character, while others forbid them. How can you keep all those straight? Although this is not specifically a Paintshop Pro or a scrapbooking topic, it is something that probably affects most internet users, including you. How can you keep track of all those passwords and usernames?
Water is essential to life and in our daily lives. You'll encounter a body of water wherever you go. When people go on vacations, a lot of times they go to the beach for a swim or they go to mountain lakes for a refreshing and relaxing time. Some people have fun with water in indoor or outdoor pools or they go on river adventures. While extroverts go boating, some folks simply enjoy viewing aquariums and observing underwater life. Water also makes a great background in digital scrapbooking. The color blue decorated with elements is easy, if not very pleasing to the eyes. Let's have a look at some beautiful layouts and ideas to inspire you to create your own water-themed scrapbooks.
In various sites online, you can find frames for photos. They can be free or they can be purchased. Some frames are simple, rectangular and of the same size as your photo. That is great. However, you might end up with frames and photos of different size, different proportion or even different shape. How can you use them to create a great looking montage?
It is a common mistake, using PaintShop Pro, to want to enlarge a photo to fit into a frame, or just make it more obvious. It is normally discouraged to enlarge a photo since most of the time, the results will be a blurred mess, especially if the ratio of enlargement is important. Increasing the size by 10% might not be an issue, but if you want your image to be 10 times larger, that would definitely be problematic. However, with PhotoZoom, you can enlarge your photos with better results than you would get with Paintshop Pro alone.
You take fantastic photos, you create great montage, you design memorable scrapbook pages. You deserve the credit, or at least the safety of knowing nobody will take your work and claim it as their own. In the world of internet, it is so easy to grab a photo without permission, so how can you protect your work? With watermarking. Although watermarking is often used to protect the work from being used elsewhere, it can also be used simply as a signature too.
Pets are quickly becoming part of our family. Different people are attracted to different kinds of pets: pets with fur, pets with feathers, pets with scales, walking pets, flying pets, swimming pets, crawling pets. And as part of our families, they always deserve a few photos, and therefore, some scrapbook pages. Pets can be cute and quiet, or active and even mischievous (which is the perfect time to snap a photo!). Let's have a look at a few pets you might want to introduce to us.
Filter Forge is promoted as a Photoshop plugin, but did you know that it works perfectly well for PaintShop Pro too? Although it is not a free program and it is not cheap, Filter Forge has regular specials (not as good as free, but still good deals) so keep an eye out for it.
If you want to create any travel/vehicle related project, using tire track picture tubes can add a fun and unique effect. The picture tubes are available for download in our Theme of the month - Transportation blog post. As you know, those directional picture tubes allow you to simply draw with your cursor to trace those tire tracks. But how can you use them? Let's have a look at a few fun ways.
Cassel is the owner and main instructor in the Scrapbook Campus.
She has been teaching digital scrapbooking for over 15 years.
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