Opening Image Files | New Images Files | Duplicating an Image | Save | Closing a Single File | Copying File | Print | Deleting a File | Creating a New Layer | Accessing Layer Property | Promoting a Background Layer | Adding a Layer | Deleting a Layer |
To launch Paint Shop Pro choose Start-Programs-Paint Shop Pro
Paint Shop Pro gives you the tools you will need to paint, edit, and retouch your images, and a browser to help manage your files.
- You can choose File-Open.
- You can click the Open button in the Toolbar.
Most-Recently Used List contains the names of the files that have been opened most recently by Paint Shop Pro. The list appears at the bottom of the File menu, just above the "Exit" selection. The number of files that can appear on the list is controlled by the Recent File Listing option. You select a file from the list by clicking on it.
- Choose File-New.
- Click the New button in the Toolbar.
Paint Shop Pro will open the New Image dialog box. From here you can set width and height of the image by adjusting the Width and Height text boxes and select the units of measurement. In a similar manner, type the resolution number, and select the units of pixels/inch or pixels/cm. Click OK when finished.
- Open the image file, or select the image's window.
- Choose Window-Duplicate. Paint Shop Pro will copy the image to a new image window.
- Select File-Save.
- Click on the Save button in the Toolbar.
Reverting to the Saved File To abandon all changes made to a file since it was last saved, select File-Revert. You will be prompted to confirm your decision.
Closing a Single File You can close a single file, or you can close all of the open files.
- Select the file's image window.
- Select File-Close, or click the image window's Close button. If you have edited the file and haven't saved it, you will be prompted to confirm your decision.
Closing All Files To close all open files, select Window-Close All. This option determines whether you will be prompted to save any new or edited files. Paint Shop Pro will also close the Browser Window.
- Choose File-Save As. Which opens the Save As dialog box. Use the dialog box to save the image under a new filename and/or format.
- Choose File-Save Copy As to copy and save a version of the file without affecting the original.
- You can copy an image to a new image window. It will appear in the new window as a Paint Shop Pro image. If you want to change the format, choose Save As from the File menu and change the file type in the Save As dialog box.
- File-Print
- Print icon
- Ctrl-P
- Open or select the file.
- Choose File-Delete. You will be prompted to confirm your decision.
Browser A tree-based Browser similar to the Windows Explorer.
It is a visual file system that makes image file management easier and
more intuitive.
Working with Image Windows When you open a file or
create a new file, Paint Shop Pro displays the image in an image window.
Image windows appear within
the Workspace.
Working with Image Layers: A layer is an individual
level of an image. Think of it as a transparent sheet. In a multi-layered
image, the sheets
are stacked.
When you apply paint to a layer, it is like covering one of these
sheets. Some layers are completely covered in paint; others contain
unpainted
areas. The areas not covered remain transparent, and the layer underneath
is visible.
Layer can be added, delete, reordered, and pixels may be blended
in a variety of ways. Until you merge the layers, they remain independent
and can be
edited without affecting the rest of the layers.
Paint Shop Pro supports up to 64 layers per image. The actual number of layers you can create may be further limited by the amount of memory in your computer.
Paint Shop Pro provides the Layer palette, the Layer Properties dialog box, and various commands in the Layers menu for working with layers. They contain many of the same functions; use the method you prefer. An image must be a grey scale or 24-bit color image to contain more than one layer. You can increase an image’s bit depth if necessary.
Layer Properties Dialog Box Use to select and edit the attributes of individual layers. The upper half of the dialog box contains the Layer and Mask panels. The options within them, except for the Layer Name, can also be controlled using the Layers palette. The default names for new layers are "Layer1," "Layer2," etc.
- Clicking the Add New Layer button on the Tool palette.
- Right-clicking a Layer button and choosing New from the pop-up menu.
- Choosing the New command from the Layers menu.
Accessing Layer Properties: After you have created a layer, you can re-open its Layer Properties dialog box by doing one of the following:
- Clicking its Layer button and choosing Properties from the Layers menu.
- Right-clicking its Layer button and choosing Properties from the pop-up menu.
- Double-clicking its Layer button.
- Right-click the background and choose the Promote to Layer command from the pop-up menu.
- Open the Layer Properties dialog box. Notice that the dialog box is actually named Promote Layer and Edit Properties.
Note: When you create a new image and choose transparent as the background color, the new image appears as a transparent layer floating above the checkered background. It is labeled Layer
- Because it is a layer and not a background, you can move it in the stack as is.
- Promote a selection to a layer - choose Selections- Promote to Layer
- Promote a floating selection to a layer – choose Selections- Promote to
- Promote a floating selection to a layer - right-click the Floating Selection button, choose Promote to Layer from the pop-up menu.
- Cut or copy a selection and then press Ctrl-L or choose Edit-Paste as New Layer.
- Drag an image thumbnail from the Browser into an open image.
- Drag a Layer button from the Layer palette of the first image and drop it into the second image.
- Layers-Delete.
- Right-click the Layer button, choose Delete.
- Click the Layer button, and then click the Delete Layer button (trash can) at the lower left of the palette. A message appears asking you to confirm this action. Click Yes.
- Drag the Layer button to the Delete Layer button, and release the mouse. A message appears asking you to confirm this action. Click Yes.
