Please help me! I'm very confused (Paint Shop Pro X)

[zomgmelisande]

(I just found this forum in search for help.) I purchased Paint Shop Pro X (wish I would've bought photoshop instead...) and I looked up and saved brushes and picture tubes that I liked. My only question now is: how can I use them??? If anyone could please tell me how, then it will be much appreciated! (I might even be saving them in the wrong place...I don't know )

[jamesmc]

This Website has several methods of dealing with Picture Tubes - exporting, making your own the one you are mainly interested in:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pai...s_and_Tips.htm

Here's the one you specifically asked for:

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pai...oustubes_4.htm


I did a small tutorial on picture tubes and paint brush tips awhile ago. It can be linked to my website from the following forum link:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...=picture+tubes

Here is another from Corel Website:
http://www.corel.com/content/pdf/pai...ctureTubes.pdf

[zomgmelisande]

Thank you! I had some trouble trying to figure it out at first but I got it to work!

[barrym67]

Hi there, I see you have sorted out your problem. Cool! Paint Shop Pro literally has millions of tutorials out there on the net as it is the most widely used graphics programme becuase of its affordability and can do almost anything else any other bitmap programme can.

To help you with anything PSP related just search for PSP tutorials, there are hundreds of great tutorials out there. I have a few on my site with regards to tubes and where they are saved, you can go to www.psptubez.com and click on the tutorial section.

Remember and brush or tube you import or any setting you create in PSP is always saved in a folder in My Documents called My PSP Files. Always make a backup copy of that folder, if for any reason you have to start all over again, you just copy that folder back into my documents and all your tubes and settings will be there. (This means that you do not have to export all your tubes back into PSP).

I know I am posting this after you have been sorted but I hope that I have helped - personally I think you have made the right choice - I have looked at Photoshop and always go back to Paint Shop Pro. Another graphics programme to try out is Xara Xtreme - great fun can be had with that too. I do all my vector drawings in Xara and only recently started shading in Xara. I shade mostly in PSP.

Take care

Regards

Barry