As a PaintShop Pro user, you probably are gathering various fonts that you may find listed on Pinterest or on various font sites. But how do you use those fonts that are not installed? Do you have to install them?
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Scanning resolution
If you want to incorporate some older printed photos into your next digital project, you need to scan them. If you have a scanner at home, you are lucky, but you should be aware of the scanning resolution.
How to create cheat sheets for your dingbats
Dingbat fonts can be a lot of fun to use and very versatile. Some dingbats will have symbols, others will have designs and even some elaborate pictures. You can have dingbats that will create frames, faces, flowers, and much more. Since dingbats do not display the standard alphanumerical, it can be a bit challenging to know where is that rose design, or that round frame. Other than typing all the keys on your keyboard and seeing what appears, there is a better way. Although most dingbat fonts don't come with a cheat sheet, it is fairly easy to make one yourself.
Using Photoshop shapes in PaintShop Pro
A lot of resources made for Photoshop are also usable in PaintShop Pro. In fact, PSP can now import brushes in .abr format and has been able to open .psd layered images for quite a while. Also, many plugins said to be for Photoshop, can work very well in Paintshop Pro. Read more about those in this blog post. But how about preset shapes made for Photoshop. Can we use them in PaintShop Pro? Now, we can!
Are layers important?
Some painting and drawing programs mostly relied on a single layer of paint. It is as if the user was drawing on an actual layer of paper. Of course, skilled painters could managed to create masterpieces, but using a single layer has its limitations. Paintshop Pro, like other modern programs, use layers to give flexibility to the user. Let's see why.
How to fix faded photos
If you have older photos that you have scanned, they might be faded because of age, or the initial quality of the camera at the time, or a combination of both. Since you have PaintShop Pro at your fingertips, let's see how you can improve those faded photos.
Resizing with Paintshop Pro
When you work on a graphics project, you might need to adjust the size of some images. There are different ways you can resize and which way you will choose might depend on various elements.
Saving your workspace in PaintShop Pro
PaintShop Pro has a unique feature which is the ability it gives the user to customize the way the interface looks and works. Since every user's need will differ, and each user's workflow is also different, assuming they can be happy with a single static interface is asking them to adapt to the program instead of the other way around. But that is where PaintShop Pro gives control to the user.
Adding texture to papers
Whatever project you want to create, sometimes a perfectly even background paper would look "fake" so you might want to add some unevenness to it in order to give a more realistic look. There are different ways to create such variations. Whatever approach you use might depend on your supplies and your own preferences.
Creating your own preset shapes in PSP
Preset shapes can be very useful when doing graphic work for several reasons: you can reuse them over and over again, and being vector format, they can be used in any size you need without losing quality. And furthermore, there are some advantages in having some vector shapes to use with other tools and commands. But how can you create your own preset shapes to reuse later?
