PaintShop Pro 7 Manual

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PAINTSHOP PRO 7: THE VERY BASICS
Laurel Eddy
December 28, 2015
PAINTSHOP PRO 7:
THE VERY BASICS

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This document was completed as the final requirement for Technical Writing Inclusive at
Bellevue College, Fall 2015.

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Contents
I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 4
II. Getting Started............................................................................................................................ 4
III. Editing Photos ............................................................................................................................ 5
Handling Photos .......................................................................................................................... 5
Basic Alterations: Rotating, Resizing, Borders and Cropping...................................................... 5
Rotating, Resizing and Changing Borders................................................................................ 5
Cropping .................................................................................................................................. 5
Editing Photos: Five Steps ........................................................................................................... 6
1. Adjusting Color Balance, Contrast And Saturation.............................................................. 6
2. Removing Source Defects.................................................................................................... 8
3. Removing “Noise”................................................................................................................ 8
4. Removing Scratches, Red-Eye and Other Defects............................................................... 8
5. Clarifying and Sharpening Images ....................................................................................... 9
IV. Creating Graphics..................................................................................................................... 10
Layers ........................................................................................................................................ 10
Creating a New Graphic ............................................................................................................ 10
Pasting Into An Image ............................................................................................................... 11
Choosing Colors......................................................................................................................... 11
Drawing ..................................................................................................................................... 12
Adding Text................................................................................................................................ 13
Tool Palette Glossary................................................................................................................. 14
Editing Images ........................................................................................................................... 15
V. Conclusion................................................................................................................................. 15
VI. References ............................................................................................................................... 15

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I. Introduction
PaintShop Pro is a photo and graphics editor for Microsoft Windows. It was originally published
by Jasc Software, which Corel purchased in 2004. PaintShop Pro is used by many graphic
designers, and it has complex features. The help manuals are also complex and very difficult for
the beginning user!
This manual will show you the very basics.
II. Getting Started
 Insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive and click Install.
 Double-click the icon of the program to open it.
 When opening the program for the first time, you will see File Format Associations and can
choose which types of files will be associated with this program. Select all programs.

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III. Editing Photos
Note: To view any of the various palettes, go to View/Toolbars and make sure the palette has a
check mark beside it.
Handling Photos
 Open A Photo: Click File/Open.
 Save Photo After Alterations: Click File/Save As.
 See Full-Size Image: Click View/Normal Viewing. You can also use the Scroll button on your
mouse to resize the view of the picture.
Basic Alterations: Rotating, Resizing, Borders and Cropping
Rotating, Resizing and Changing Borders
Select Image.
Rotate: Turn the picture.
Canvas Size: Manually adjust the size of any blank space
around the picture. (See Add Borders.)
Resize: Increase or decrease the picture size.
Add Borders: Add a border of blank space around the
picture.
Picture Frame: Frame the image with a decorative picture
frame.
Cropping
To cut out part of a photo, select the crop tool from the
Tool Palette, which is generally on the left sidebar.
Drag a rectangle over the part of the picture you wish to
keep. You can move the rectangle by clicking on it and
dragging. If it is the wrong size, redraw the rectangle. When
you are satisfied, double-click anywhere inside the image
or click Crop Image in the Tool Options Palette.

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Editing Photos: Five Steps
1. Adjusting Color Balance, Contrast And Saturation
Go to Effects/Enhance Photo and work with the top three options, in order:
A. Automatic Color Balance: This adjustment works best for correcting images with several
colors, rather than images with variations of one color. Adjust the Strength from its baseline of
30 until the picture looks the most natural. Adjust Temperature to reflect the area where the
picture was taken.
Note: Some of PaintShop Pro’s features only work
on 24-bit, colored images. To view the color depth,
click Image/Image Information. To change the
color depth, click Colors/Increase Color Depth and
select 24-bit.

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B. Automatic Contrast Enhancement: Sharpen the contrast between different parts of the
picture. Note that this tends to make the colors look harsher.
C. Automatic Saturation Enhancement: Make a picture’s colors more vivid. An image should be
colorful, but not gaudy or unnatural.

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2. Removing Source Defects
To find these options, click Effects/Enhance Photo.
 Deinterlace: Remove scan lines from video images.
 JPEG Artifact Removal: JPEGs are compressed images, and this can cause problems. This
feature restores a JPEG to its original appearance as much as possible.
 Moire Pattern Removal: Remove patterns from photos printed on textured paper.
3. Removing “Noise”
Noise refers to confusing colors or sparks of light from unwanted sources. It is on the main Effects
menu and includes:
 Despeckle: Clean up single pixels.
 Edge Preserve Smoothing: Remove noise without losing edge details.
 Median Filter: Remove small, random areas of noise.
 Salt And Pepper Filter: Remove black or white specks created by dust.
 Texture Preserving Smooth: Remove noise without losing texture details.
The Blur feature on the main Effects menu also removes noise by smoothing out color transitions.
4. Removing Scratches, Red-Eye and Other Defects
Original picture is from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_effect
Scratch Remover Tool: Click on
the Scratch Remover tool in the
Tool Palette and then click on the
picture, dragging the tool to
remove the scratches.
Red Eye Removal: Click
Effects/Enhance Photo. Select
Auto Human or Auto Animal eye.
Click and drag over the red part of
one eye to select it. Resize the
selection as needed. Select the
color of the eye under Hue.

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5. Clarifying and Sharpening Images
 Click Effects/Enhance Photo/Clarify to make the photo crisper. Change the strength of the
effect to adjust the amount of correction.
 Click Effects/Sharpen and use the Sharpen button to automatically increase contrast.
 Edge: Click Effects/Edge.
 Dilate: Enhances the light areas in the image.
 Enhance: Increases the contrast along the edges.
 Erode: Enhances the dark areas of the image.
 Find: Enhances areas of contrast.

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IV. Creating Graphics
Layers
 Click on the Layer Palette.
 Click on the eyeglasses beside each layer to stop viewing that layer. In the example, Layer 1
is not being viewed. Click the garbage can icon on the top bar to delete a layer.
 The symbols next to the layers are for whether that layer is a raster layer or a vector layer.
Raster layers are made of pixels, while vector layers are made of lines. Some tools can
only be used on raster or on vector layers, so they will be grayed out if you are on the other
type of layer. Vector images take up less file space and can be scaled up, while raster images
will look pixelated if scaled up. However, most graphics will have some raster layers.
Creating a New Graphic
Go to File/New.
You can adjust the size and background color of the image, or simply click OK. The example shows
an enlarged size and transparent background color.
PaintShop Pro has layers for its images. Adding an
item to an image will usually trigger the creation
of a new layer. This allows you to edit an image on
a number of levels, but can be confusing. To view
the different levels:

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Pasting Into An Image
To add a graphic from elsewhere, such as a screenshot, go to Edit/Paste/As New Layer. If you
simply click Paste, the program will create a new image.
Note: Screenshots can be taken by pressing Print Screen on the top of the keyboard.
Choosing Colors
Before drawing anything, you’ll need to choose your colors in the Colors Palette. Left-click
within the gradient of colors for the foreground color (Stroke) and right-click for the
background color (Fill.) Selecting a Fill will determine what background color will show up in the
image if you remove other items.
To select a color more precisely, click one of the small boxes at the top of the color gradient to
open the Color dialogue. The left box is the Stroke and the right box is the Fill.
Colors Palette Color

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 In the Color dialogue, you can select the color more precisely in the large square, then refine
it further if desired by adjusting the numbers at the bottom of the dialogue. Because the
sample color is black, all of the numbers are very low. Note that every color has an HTML
code, and if you know the color’s code, you can enter it into the box at the very bottom of
the dialogue and save time.
 Click on the two boxes below the color gradient and select the paintbrush, which represents
a solid color, for each. This allows you to draw in solid colors.
 Now you can draw with the left mouse button for the Stroke and the right button for the Fill.
Drawing
Use the Draw tool from the Tool Palette to draw. Use the Tool Options Palette to select the
type and width of line to draw:
 Single Line: Draw straight lines.
 Bezier Curve: Draw a line and click on the side of it to pull the line and create a curve.
 Freehand Line: Draw freely.
 Point to Point Line: Click on two points to create a straight line between them.
Antialias: At the bottom of the box. Smooths out jagged edges. Always use this unless the file
size is already too large.

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Adding Text
 Click on the Text icon.
 Click within the current image. Note that the crosshatch pattern surrounding the image is not
part of the image, and clicking on it will not work.
 Type the desired text and change the font as needed. Kerning refers to the amount of space
between characters. Select Auto kern to let the program choose the spacing. Leading refers
to space between lines of text.
 Under Style, select Stroke or Fill and choose the paintbrush in order to get text of a solid color.
Using Stroke results in bolder text. Using both Stroke and Fill will only show the Stroke color.
 If you click Standard Text, it will erase the Stroke and leave only the Fill, which is the smaller
text.
 Click OK.

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Tool Palette Glossary
This is a list of the tools in the Tool Palette. Many have customization options on the Tool Options
Palette.
Zoom: Zoom in on the picture.
Deform: Change the size of the picture.
Crop: Crop an image. See Basic Alterations.
Mover: Move an object. Click directly on a specific element of the picture to move it.
Selection: Select part of the image.
Freehand Selection: Draw a circle around an item to select it.
Magic Wand: Selects a large area of similar color. Hold shift to select multiple items. This is
how to do a really good cut and paste.
Eye Dropper: Click the part of the image that has the color you want to use, and it will become
the Stroke color. To select a Fill color, right-click with the dropper.
Paint Brush: Paint with various colors.
Clone Brush: Copy a piece of an image to another part of the image. Right-click to copy, then
paste by using the left mouse button.
Color Replacer: Replaces only certain colors. Use the Dropper to pick up the color you want
to replace.
Retouch: Alters the colors that are already painted, such as lightening or darkening. Go to the
Tool Options Palette for options on how to retouch.
Scratch Remover: Remove scratches from pictures. See Removing Scratches, Red: Eye and
Other Defects.
Eraser: Paints over what you are trying to erase. The left mouse button paints with the Fill
color and the right paints with the Stroke color.
Picture Tube: Use to spray an image from a Picture Tube, which is a form of clip art. You can
download them or design them yourself.
Airbrush: This is like the paint brush, but the paint is a spray.
Flood: In the Tool Options Palette, set the blend to normal, match mode to RGB value and
opacity to 100. Then click to fill every connected pixel of the same color with a new color.
Text: See Adding Text.
Draw: See Drawing.
Preset Shape: Draw squares, circles and other shapes. Select the shape you want to use in the
Tool Options palette.
Object Selector: Select vector objects.

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Editing Images
You can use the Layer Palette to change an image by clicking on the various components of that
image. For instance, you can change the man’s clothing from blue to green by selecting the same
shade of green in the Colors Palette for both Stroke and Fill, then going to the Layer Palette and
double-clicking on Clothing. Change the Fill from Solid to Gradient, which will cause it to use the
new color. Technically, Gradient splits it between two colors, but if they are the same color, it
will look solid.
V. Conclusion
This manual offers the basics. For the next step in learning PaintShop Pro, see the attached list of
references. You’re on your way!
VI. References
Jasc PaintShop Pro 7 & Animation Shop 3 Reference Guide
PaintShop Pro 7 & Animation Shop 3 Getting Started Guide
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to PaintShop Pro 7
Tutorials within the program and online.

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VII. Style Sheet
Style Manual: The Economist Style Guide, accessed 12/25/15
Dictionary: www.dictionary.com, accessed 12/26/15
Other Reference: English Grammar For Dummies, accessed 12/26/15.
1. Abbreviations: Use only if absolutely needed. If the full title is the John Hopkins Center,
don’t say the JHC, but the center, lowercased.
2. Accents: only when they make a crucial difference to pronunciation: cliché, façade, café,
communiqué, exposé (but chateau, decor, elite, feted, naive). See Accents in the
Economist Style Guide.
3. Apostrophes: Use an apostrophe after singular words or names that end in s: boss', caucus'.
4. Brackets: Don’t use.
5. Capitalizations: Minimize, except in headings, where capitalizing every word except small
joining words like ‘of’ makes the document look more professional.
6. Charts and tables: Should be understandable without reading the accompanying text.
7. Commas: Minimize. The following sentences need their commas removed.
A. Charts and tables should, ideally, be understandable without reading the accompanying
text.
B. The words key players are a sure sign of a puffed up story, and a lazy mind.
8. Headings: Standardize the size and use Word heading formatting. Avoid colons in headlines.
Headings and captions set the tone of the paper: they are more read than anything else.
Use them to draw readers in, not to repel them. That means wit (where appropriate), not
bad puns; sharpness (ditto), not familiarity (call people by their last names, not their first
names); originality, not clichés. See Headings in the Economist Style Guide.
9. Hyphens, En-Dashes and Em-Dashes: A hyphen is used within a word, without spaces. An
en-dash, or short dash, is used to indicate a range, such as May–December, or to indicate
where the word and or to is omitted. (The catcher–pitcher relationship is crucial to the
success of the Yankees; The New York–Philadelphia train is always on time.) See English
Grammar for Dummies.
An em-dash, or long dash, is used to separate out nonessential information. (The curator painted
the dinosaur orange — everyone hates the color — because she wanted to liven the place
up.) Often it moves the reader from a general statement to specifics. (I think I have everything
I need for the first day of camp — bug spray, hair spray, sun block and a DVD player.)
10. I.E. versus E.G.: I.e. means in essence. (That’s not the literal translation, but it’s close.) E.g.
means for example. Avoid both abbreviations whenever possible and consider using for
example instead.
11. Numbers: Spell out numbers under 10 and numbers at the start of a sentence. Try to avoid
starting a sentence with a number. Spell out percent and first, second, etc.
12. Oxford Comma: Don’t use.

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13. Semicolons: Use semicolons only in lists when those items will be too confusing if separated
by commas.
14. Single Quotation Marks: Don’t use if possible.
15. Starting a sentence with a single word followed by a comma: Don’t, with the exception of
However.
16. Times: Use a.m. and p.m.

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