Paint Shop Pro 7 (Graphics designing Tutor)
Basic Tutorial

Lesson 3
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Tool Palette:

(Pic 3.1)
# You can see on the left side of the psp window a verticle tool bar. It is called Tool Palette.
# It is now inactive. Open a new image File - New with any setting to activate it.
# It has variety of tools, which is used for different applications.
# When you keep your curser on any of these tools it displays the exact feature. As you can see in pic Selection tool (rectangular box) is selceted.
Selection Tool:
# It has many features like rectangular, Ellips, rounded rectangle, square, star and so on. You can look all these features in Tool Options to select it.

Now Look at the options Tools: (Pic 3.2)

It has different Selection types like I said earlier: Rectangle, Ellips and so on.

It has Feather and antialias feature also. As we go on we will learn all these things and how to use it.

In pic top right you could see a black arrow (icon). Click on it a dropdown menu will appear in it you will find again the same Tool palette (Pic 3.1)

Note: All the tools of tool palette (Pic 3.1) works with Tool options (Pic 3.2).

Now let us look how different icons of Tool Palette works
Zoom Tool: In simple way we can say that this tool is used for zooming picture to increase or decrease maginification.

To activate this tool Save (Pic Star - above picture) in your hard disc.
By the way if you do not know how to save picture, click here to learn more about it.

Now open it in psp7. If you do not know how to open it click here to learn more about it.

Now click on Zoom button now click on pic star with left mouse button and pic will look biger. Now click with right mouse button and pic will look smaller. Click several times and find out what happens. That's how Zoom tool works. You can Zoom any picture to make minute corrections in it.
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Selection Tool: Tool options (Pic 3.2) displays different selection tools like rectangular, Ellips and so on.

Now open the new file.
To activate this tool click on selection button then release the mouse button.
Now place your curser on blank white work space or image.
Now place curser in one corner hold the left mouse button and drag it.
See (pic3.3 ) It is done by rectangular selection button, marching ants shows the selected area.

You can create Ellips, circle and many other shapes by selecting different options in Tool options (Pic 3.2). Try different shapes. Process is the same as above.
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Mover Tool: It is used to move picture form one place
to another.

To use it click on mover tool then place it on selected image click with left mouse button hold it and drag. (pic3.3 )
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Freehand Tool:

It is used to select the outline of image or make a border. .
Go to Tool Options You'll find three different types of selection for freehand. These are: Freehand. point to point and smart edge.

Select any desired picture or save this picture (candle) in your hard disc. Open pic candle from your hard disc. (See how to save and open picture)

To activate this tool,click on freehand tool then Select freehand option from Tool options then place your curser on image (candle). Now hold the left mouse button and draw a border over picture as you see in (Pic 3.4). Do not release the mouse button inbetween when you reached the starting point release the mouse button. You'll see the border of the selection as marching ants (Pic 3.4) .

Play aroud it, with other options i.e. point to point and smart edge and see how it works. When you work with point to point and smart edge you need not to hold your mouse button all the time. draw a border over desired picture when you reached the starting point click with left mouse button to get the border with marching ants.

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Magic Wand: This tool is useful for selecting content.
You can select contents by changing RGB value, tolerance and feather in Tool options.

My settings are like this in Tool options
mach mode- RGB value
Tolerance - 10
Feather -0
copy this picture ( Eagle) and paste it in your psp7 or save it in your hard disc.

Procedure is the same as previous. Click on magic wand button, now place it on picture (black area) and click with left mouse button you'll see marching ants that means picture is now selected. (Pic3.5)

Now go to Menu bar (top of the page pic 1.1) click on selections now click on inver [ Selections > Invert ]. The picture will look like this.(pic 3.6). See now only Eagle is selected. Now you can copy and paste it on any other backgrond or on any other picture. Just for an example I've pasted it on white background (pic 3.7). We will see it later in detail.

.(pic 3.7)
Play around it change settings and see what it does.

( Eagle)
(Pic3.5)

(pic 3.6)

Dropper Tool: It is useful in selection of solid colors for Foreground and background.

To activate it select the dropper tool (left pic) then place it on color palette (pic 3.7). Click with left mouse button to choose foreground color. You can see green color (foreground color) is selected on top of color palette.

For background color click with right mouse button to choose background color. You can see dark grey color on top right.

You can choose color from any picture or image too to match it for various purposes.
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Clone Tool: This tool could be used to copy the picture to another location or within the same image. You can also remove the flaw of any image by clone tool.

Now to activate this tool click on clone button (left pic) then place it on desired image or picture then right click to activate it (pic 3.8).

(pic 3.10)

Now go to menu bar (top of the page (pic 3.9) click on the white box or click on [File > New].
A dialoauge box will open up setting should be like this (pic 3.10) click ok now.

A black image will appear. Now hold your left mouse button on this black image and move your curser.

Now as you can see in the pic of two eagles (first one is original pic and second one is created by clone tool). The x mark will appear on original picture. It shows that you are copying the perticular portion. Move your mouse all over the original pic till you have made the whole picture or desired area.

For rest of the tools see Lesson 6