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.
Although filters and plugins are not always necessary, sometimes, it is fun to play around with new settings that might not be available 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 all of them for your main projects, you might discover some effects that will trigger inspiration for other things.
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.
This month, I am offering you to discover another plugin that might be fun to use in your projects. As an added bonus, this is a free plugin, although you have the option to give a donation. The purpose of this plugin is to create some text with various preset "looks" that you can still customize.
Since several versions, PaintShop Pro started offering the Photo Blending option. You can use this option to add or subtract elements from a particular scene. It can help you be quite creative!
Some older plugins might still be useful to new users who might have never heard of them. MuraMeister includes a series of different plugins that, although basic, can still be quite useful to graphic artists of today. We'll have a look at the MuraMeister Clouds plugin. You can download it HERE (the link seems to be broken now).
This month, we are meeting someone who calls herself "our biggest fan". She has been a member in the Campus since 2015. She has recently discovered the scripts in Paintshop Pro and is having a lot of fun with them!
A new year means another version of PaintShop Pro has been released. As for any new version, it includes some new elements, tools or functions. Let's have a look at some of the new features that were added this year.
Are you the kind of person who loves to collect fonts whenever something nice is available, just in case you might want to use it later? If so, you might have noticed that all fonts are not the same format. In fact, they come in two main types: True Type fonts (.ttf) and Open Type fonts (.otf). Truetype fonts are older and most common. They are probably the type of the majority of the fonts you have collected so far. However, we occasionally encounter a font that has intricate ligatures and we want to use that font. The problem is that those special characters are only accessible by some more expensive programs, but Paintshop Pro can't. What to do?
In PaintShop Pro, there is no simple way to turn a circle element into a square one and vice versa. The only method available is to use the Mesh Warp, which is a very tedious process and is not the most effective. However, there is one fun plugin you can use to do just that: Circle to Square.
Cassel is the owner and main instructor in the Scrapbook Campus.
She has been teaching digital scrapbooking for over 15 years.
Enjoy our Christmas Countdown, from Dec 1 to 24.