As Paint Shop Pro becomes more powerful so do its tools. This power comes with change, though. Certain tools, such as masks, must, necessarily, change their behavior.

Changes, such as these, can be a little disconcerting to users especially with tools as complex as masks.

In version 5.xx, masks have changed quite radically. Part of this change is due to the fact that PSP 5.xx users now have the capability of using layers (for more info on layers, see the tutorial "PSP 5-Layers Primer").

Masks in PSP 5 are now more like masks in the higher-end programs such as Adobe's Photoshop and Corel's PhotoPaint.

The basics are still similar in that a mask is grayscale and where the mask is white you won't see any change and where it's black you will see change.

The change you will see, though, comes not from applying effects to the image through the mask, but from what's on the underlying layer(s).


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PSP 5 has got some new, and very powerful, features. With this power have come some changes, though. Today we will show you how you can save a GIF image with the transparency feature active under version 5.x of PSP. So here's how it's done!


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This tutorial will show you how to make your GIF's have a transparent background. We used Paint Shop Pro, which is available from Jasc Software Inc.


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Created for Paint Shop Pro, our free online tutorial starts at the beginning and takes you step-by-step through each Paint Shop Pro topic. Our Paint Shop Pro tutorial covers creating an image, using color, using the Tool palette, text, layers, masks, and much more.


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