Brushes for Paint Shop Pro (R) manual

Brushes manual for Corel 速 Paint Shop Pro 速 Brushes introduction This is a manual for the use of the Paint Shop Pro brushes (or PSP brushes etc). Brushes referenced in this manual are from graphicxtras.com. Corel and Paint Shop Pro are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation.

Andrew

Brushes installation Extract the files from zip file (if stored in a zip) The pspbrush files need to be placed in the brushes folder of Paint Shop Pro 速 This varies version to version.

With Paint Shop Pro 速, the actual location of the brushes can be changed via the preferences / file locations.

For Photo X2, please place the pspBrush and pspScript files into the corel_01 folder or place them in the 'documents and settings' (or 'documents') 'my psp files' brushes folder. As with all versions of PSP, the best way to find the location of the install folder for the brushes is via the file > preferences > file locations. You can always just set your own folder for the brushes

For 8, please place the brushes in the c:\documents and settings' 'user' 'my documents' 'my psp8 files' brushes folder. The brushes can also be placed in the c:\program files\jasc software inc\brushes.

For 9, the location can also be 'my psp files' but it can also be beneath 'jasc software inc' in 'brushes' folder.

You will see two sets of files: script and brush

Once loaded, select the brush tools and then access the required brush via the brushes palette. You can select all brushes or select a particular category (such as graphicxtras.com brushes)

The brushes can be manipulated, such as deleting the brushes or moving brushes, via the resource manager palette accessed via the little tic icon. The palette also displays options to create a new brush or brush tip from the current selection.

The brushes can be used to create new, paint and apply, select the required area, go to the brushes palette and click create new brush tip

Serial reference number Please store the reference number/serial number for future reference (say for updates or replacement CDs). You will find the serial number in a folder marked 'Serial Number - please store' or 'keep for reference'. The serial number is not the number sent via shareit.com for the order.

Please make a backup of the brushes onto CD or DVD

Royalty-free The brushes are all royalty-free for use in commercial and hobby projects. If you have any concerns about the usage, please e-mail me or check out the examples page of valid use as well as the license details. These can be found on the graphicxtras.com site

Installation Issues If you have problems installing or using the picture tubes, please e-mail our tech support at support@graphicxtras.com

Comments If you have any suggestions to how we can improve our products or manual, or if there is something that is hard to understand or badly stated, please contact us and we will try to correct any errors or misunderstandings in the next release of the manual.

It is always great to hear your feedback.

The documentation is (c) 2009 Andrew Buckle / Abneil Software Ltd

System requirements Corel 速 Paint Shop Pro 速 Photo X2 X1 X 9 8 (Vista XP Windows 7)

Minimum requirements At least 128MB of memory, though some operations might require a lot more.

Trademarks The brushes were designed by Andrew Buckle, and copyright 2007-2009 (set varies) Andrew Buckle and Abneil Software ltd.

All products mentioned in this manual are trademarked or probably trademarked by their respective owners. Illustrator and Photoshop and Adobe and After Effects are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

Corel is registered trademark of Corel Corporation and Painter is registered trademark or trademark of Corel Corporation.

Paint Shop Pro is registered trademark of Corel Corporation. Photo-Impact is trademark or registered trademark of Ulead.

Splat! Plugin is from Alien Skin software.

We have no connection whatsoever with Corel or Ulead or any other mentioned organization Any screen prints displayed are with kind permission of Corel / Adobe.

Company contact details Telephone: (+44) 1622 688 375. UK Number (the company is based in the United Kingdom) http://www.graphicxtras.com support@graphicxtras.com

Related items We also stock a number of items that work well with Paint Shop Pro 速 , such as textures, picture tubes, plug-ins, fonts, frames / masks, displacement maps and preset shapes http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/pspaddons.htm

Also you can find additional Paint Shop Pro brushes via http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/psbrush.htm

Accessing PSP brushes

Access the brushes via most of the brush tools such as 'burn' and 'airbrush'. Each brush tool will have its own current selected brush, which can at times be a little confusing. Once selected, the brush can be applied to the current image

Brush properties Each brush tool comes with its own set of properties such as 'wet look' but most have the options to control the hardness, step, density etc and these can all be found via the brush tool properties palette.

or in earlier versions

To change the color of the brush, if that is a valid option for the tool, go to the materials palette and set the color or gradient or pattern to be applied along with texture for brush stroke.

Brushes variance palette

The brushes can be modified in many different ways, changing the size / rotation / position jitter / saturation / color blend etc based on pressure and much more. The brushes can fade in and fade out and oscillate or repeat fade etc of color, lightness, saturation, rotation and others. Some of the brush variance options depend on the brush type and are not enabled.

Here the brush is set to red and the fade in option is set, the initial color is then black and that 'fades' to red.

Here the brush is initially set to red but the brushes variance palette jitter for the color blend is set 30%. Instead of a single red, subtle variant red brush strokes are generated Experiment with the brushes variance but if you make a mistake or wish to get back to the initial value, just click the reset button at the bottom of the dialog

Brushes rotation The brushes can be applied as is or rotated 360 degrees or anything in between via the brushes palette

90 degrees...

Or use the brushes variance palette and rotate each dab by a new angle (or set the rotation by pressure etc)

Brush tools Paint Shop Pro 速 comes with many different brush tools such as clone, burn, smudge, paint, air brush. Please check the documentation for each tool as well as the many internet sites devoted to hints and tips of brush use. The burn tool can be used for overlays or watermarks.

The paint tool can be used to apply color or pattern or gradient.

The erase tool is useful for creating frames. Create a new layer and apply a fill; apply the erase tool with the required brush tip, revealing more of the underlying image

The brush tools can be applied using the normal blend mode but many wonderful designs can be created by applying the brushes with different blending modes such as 'exclusion' 'difference'

Brushes steps Different brush strokes can be created using the steps setting, creating a continuous flow or dabs. Control the number of steps between applications via the steps property

Brushes as Paint Shop Pro 速 tubes The brush stroke can be re-saved as a tube. Apply brush strokes to a transparent background, apply effects such as emboss or bevel, and then save the brush stroke as a new picture tube. Use the picture tube psptube file with the picture tube tool

Brushes to picture frames Or use the erase tool and brush stroke to create a frame image and save as a picture frame. Use as a frame via the picture frame tool.

Photoshop brushes for Paint Shop Pro Many of the later sets of Photoshop brushes http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/psbrush.htm includes brushes in PNG format. The brushes can be used in PSP. Simply open the brush files via file > open command, open PSP brushes palette and save the brush to the current palette.