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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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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This lecture is on color: how color is determined and how to select foreground and background colors.


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Think of a layer as a transparent sheet on which you paint. Paint Shop Pro allows up to 100 layers. You can see through each layer to the layers under it until you add color. You can add layers, delete layers, and change the position of layers. Each layer is independent of all other layers until layers are merged. The layer you are currently working on is called the active layer. There are three types of Paint Shop Pro layers: raster, vector, and adjustment.


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Installing Paintshop Pro to get started with editing your images!


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A short clip showing a tutorial of how to makeover people/anything. The Basics.


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In this tutorial you will be taught how to use brushes in Paintshop Pro.


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A wordy description of the options involved in making gradients in paint shop pro. We tried to cover everything we could think of.


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As brief an introduction to the materials palette itself as we could make.
We're going to follow up with specifics on selecting and using Colors, Gradients, and Patterns.


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A simple, though long winded, demonstration of the History Palette in Paint Shop Pro.


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