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Getting To Know PSP 7: It's Features & Layout This tutorial will have more than one page to save on page-loading time, due to all the graphics that will be shown. Welcome to "Beginners" section of PSP, "Tutorials by
Janette". In this tutorial, we will learn how to use PSP 7 and some of its
functions. Once you have finished this tutorial, you will know just about all
you need try any tutorial you want, and possibly venture out on your own and
give your own ideas a try! The first few tutorials in this section will be
getting familiar with things in PSP. Be sure to try the different steps as you read along. I find it's much easier to remember and understand how something works if I'm doing it as I read, instead of just reading. Open your PSP... To better help you know which is the Title Bar, Menu Bar, and Tool Palette, I have added this image:
1. TITLE BAR: When you first open PSP (with no image open),
the title bar will only say "Jasc Paint Shop Pro".
As you can see mine says "Jasc Paint Shop Pro -
Munier_2_girls_praying. That's because I opened an image that I had saved
previously. If you had open an image that hadn't been saved it would have simply
had "Image 1" after the "Jasc Paint Shop Pro". If you open an image like this one, that was a saved image
then the title bar will display "Paint Shop Pro - [image name]
[1:1][Background]".
Clicking on a menu item will give you drop down sub-menu
choices which in turn may have sub-menus. If a menu item is currently
available to be used it will appear in black text, if it’s not available it will
be grayed out. Generally, if a choice is not available it’s because you’re image
either has no area selected or most commonly because of the color depth of the
image. We’ll discuss that a little later. 3. TOOL BAR: This provides icons that access some of the
frequently used commands in the menus and is directly under the Menu bar. This
will vary depending on which items you selected in the "preferences" to show in
the tool bar when you first setup PSP.
How many options you have on the tool bar will depend on what items you chose to show on your tool bar. If you’re just getting started, I suggest using the menu bar to make your choices until you get comfortable with which commands you want to keep and use on the toolbar. You can customize which icons appear on the toolbar by going to File/Preferences/Customize Toolbar. You can arrange these icons in any position on the tool bar that you want. To do this, just left click on the icon that you want to move, hold down the mouse button, and drag it to the position on your tool bar that you want. As you can see in the above image, some options are grayed out. This is because
they are not available to use until you open an image. The "New" icon looks like this:
The "Open" icon looks like this:
The "Save" icon looks like this:
The "Print" icon looks like this:
4. TOOL PALETTE: This is the core of PSP. This tool palette is on the left side of your screen. When you first open PSP with no image open in the workspace, all the tools are grayed out. Then when you create a new image or open an image, all of the tools become available. The image below shows what your tool palette looks like with no image open.
There’s a lot of power in these little icons and they’re deserving of a whole set of tutorials by themselves. I will be writing a tutorial for these tools. But, in this tutorial we are just getting familiar with the options and layout of PSP. You can also drag the icons to whatever position you want them in. When you point your mouse over an icon in this tool bar, it gives you a pop up description for that icon. The most powerful and most used tools here are the Selection Tools, the Painting, and Drawing Tools. You have control over the actions of these tools by making adjustments in the Tool Control Pallette (discussed later in this tutorial), which appears in the workspace when toggled on. The Tool Palette contains the following image-editing tools:
The gold box is displaying the active foreground color and the red box the background color. (There will be another tutorial coming soon on "Introduction to Colors"), but we will not get into that for now.
The gold box is displaying the active foreground color and the red box the
background color. You'll use these when working with the painting and drawing
tools. When those tools are active, holding down the left mouse button, and
clicking on a color you want to use applies the foreground color and the right
mouse button applies the background color. Left clicking on either of these
boxes opens the color dialogue box which allows you to change the active color.
If you place your mouse in the "color" box
you will see the gray box with the X
at the bottom right
The double arrowed line pointing to the foreground and background colors, allow you to swap the foreground and background colors when you click on it. See image below.
The two color boxes above the color selection section are your foreground and background colors that you choose. The arrow between them allows you to swap them around. See image below.
The two boxes under the color selection section is, as we
have already discussed, the foreground and background color, but it's also
titled "Styles". This is titled "Styles" because this is also where you select
the painting method you want to use. Your options are: Then clicking on whichever you want...paint, gradient, patter, or null. The two boxes directly under the Styles are for Textures. You can set this foreground and background with either a texture or no texture (Null).
As with the "Styles" option, you can click on the arrow to
choose either a texture or Null.
The check box directly under the Textures is called Lock.
If you have this checked, which is the normal setting, then
what you set for your foreground and background will be applied with every tool
you use.
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change to the color
you are pointing to. As you can see the color is green because that's the color
I was pointing to at the time. You will also notice that the RGB display numbers
for that color. These numbers represent the color. 
