I am trying to make a new website banner, and I can't believe how hard it is to simply get a color fill in a blank graphic, much less a gradient or anything else.

I'm used to Photoshop where you can double click on the bucket and bring up a color palette. In Paintshop, I get nothing. The Help function is worthless, no index or table of contents or anything.

Why should this be so hard? I've searched all over the menus and come up with nothing.