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These
are some tips designed to be used with Paint Shop
Pro 5, which is available from the
Jasc
Software web
site.
Less expensive than Photoshop with lots of
functionality.
Anti-Aliasing
- In
24 bit color mode (under the Colors menu, choose
Increase Color Depth, and then choose 24 bit
color), select a color for your text by using
the eye dropper tool or by double clicking on
the foreground color.
- Now
click on the A on the tool bar to insert some
text. Choose your font, font size and type your
text in the box provided.
- To
make your text anti-aliased, make sure the
"anti-alias" box has a check mark in it.
- Click
OK to insert your text.
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- In
24 bit color mode, insert some text (the text
above is also anti-aliased).
- When
the text is inserted with the little selection
lines ("marching ants" )still moving around it,
pull down the Image menu and choose Effects, and
then Drop Shadow.
- Now
you can choose the color of your shadow, your
Opacity (how solid the shadow looks), how blurry
the shadow is and how far the shadow rests away
from the text.
- The
shadow above is set to 93 Opacity, 4 blur,
and 2 for horizontal and vertical off-set.
- Click
OK and your shadow is inserted.
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Images
you download off the web often have
backgrounds that are colored. If you want
an image to blend in with your background
color, you have to fix the image
so that the "offending" backgroud
color is transparent. The below image was
downloaded off the web with a yellow
background. I used Paint Shop Pro to fix
the image so the yellow is transparent.
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 dvanced
Internet teaches you how to construct a
web page.
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 dvanced
Internet teaches you how to construct a
web page.
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- Open
your image in Paint Shop Pro.
- Use
the eye-dropper tool to select the
color you want to "disappear"
- Now
click the arrows to reverse your
"foreground" and "background" colors
- Click
on the Colors menu, choose Set Palette
Transparency.
- Choose
"Set the transparency value to the
current background color". Click
OK.
- If
you click on the Colors menu again, and
choose View Palette Transparency, you
will see which colors have been made
transparent
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Some of My
Favorite Graphics Sites
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Paint
Shop Pro Tutorials
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Paint
Shop Pro Tips & Tricks
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Photoshop
Tips & Tutorials
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Tutorials
from the Jasc Software Site
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