by David Kay,William “The Ferrett”Steinmetz Paint Shop Pro ® 9 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page i Paint Shop Pro ® 9 For Dummies ® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per -copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2004116496 ISBN: 0-7645-7935-5 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1O/RQ/QR/QV/IN 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page ii About the Authors David Kay is a writer, an engineer, an artist, and a naturalist who combines professions with the same effectiveness as his favorite business establish- ment, Acton Muffler, Brake, and Ice Cream (now defunct). Dave has written more than a dozen computer books, by himself or with friends. His other titles include various editions of Microsoft Works For Windows For Dummies, WordPerfect For Windows For Dummies, Graphics File Formats, and The Internet: Complete Reference. In his other life, as the Poo-bah of Brightleaf, Dave is a conservation biologist. He and his wife, Katy, and golden retriever, Alex, live in the wilds of Massachusetts. In his spare time, Dave studies animal and human tracking and munches edible wild plants. He also has been known to make strange blobs from molten glass, sing Gilbert and Sullivan choruses in public, and hike in whatever mountains he can get to. He longs to return to New Zealand and track kiwis and hedgehogs in Wanaka. He finds writing about himself in the third person like this quite peculiar and will stop now. William “The Ferrett” Steinmetz is a freelance Webmaster and editor who helms StarCityGames.com, one of the premier strategy sites for the col- lectible card game Magic: The Gathering. He wrote most of Internet: The Complete Reference and has written computer book reviews for Amazon.com and TechSoc.com. The Ferrett lives in Cleveland and is geeky. 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page iii 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page iv Dedication To the restoration of reason, conscience, and good will in the United States of America and the world. — D.K. To my wife, Gini. I promised forever. And I mean to keep that, I do. — T.F. 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page v Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register/. Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Acquisitions, Editorial, and Media Development Project Editor: Rebecca Whitney Acquisitions Editor: Gregory Croy Technical Editor: Lee Musick Editorial Manager: Carol Sheehan Editorial Assistant: Amanda Foxworth Cartoons: Rich Tennant (www.the5thwave.com) Composition Project Coordinator: Emily Wichlinski Layout and Graphics: Carl Byers, Andrea Dahl, Lauren Goddard, Joyce Haughey, Barry Offringa, Heather Ryan Proofreaders: Laura Albert, Leeann Harney, Jessica Kramer, TECHBOOKS Production Services Indexer: TECHBOOKS Production Services Publishing and Editorial for Technology Dummies Richard Swadley, Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Andy Cummings, Vice President and Publisher Mary Bednarek, Executive Acquisitions Director Mary C. Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Joyce Pepple, Acquisitions Director Composition Services Gerry Fahey, Vice President of Production Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services 01_579355 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9:58 PM Page vi Contents at a Glance Introduction 1 Part I: The Basics 5 Chapter 1: Opening, Viewing, Managing, and Saving Image Files 7 Chapter 2: Getting Bigger, Smaller, and Turned Around 29 Chapter 3: Selecting Parts of an Image 39 Chapter 4: Moving, Copying, and Reshaping Parts of Your Image 59 Part II: Prettying Up Photographs 73 Chapter 5: Capturing Pictures from Paper, Camera, or Screen 75 Chapter 6: Fixing Broken Pictures: Removing Scratches, Blurry Parts, and Red Eye 99 Chapter 7: Adjusting Your Picture’s Brightness, Contrast, and Color 115 Chapter 8: Heavy-Duty Photo Alterations: Adding People and Removing Zits 131 Part III: Painting Pictures 147 Chapter 9: Basic Painting, Spraying, and Filling 149 Chapter 10: Advanced Painting for the Artiste 173 Chapter 11: Layering Images 201 Chapter 12: Adding Layers of Text or Shapes 221 Chapter 13: Adding Artsy Effects 241 Part IV: Taking It to the Street 261 Chapter 14: Printing 263 Chapter 15: Creating Web-Friendly Images 273 Part V: The Part of Tens 283 Chapter 16: Ten Perplexing Problems 285 Chapter 17: Ten Fast Fixes for Photo Failures 293 Chapter 18: Ten Topics a Little Too Advanced for the Rest of This Book 303 Index 331 02_579355 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page vii 02_579355 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page viii Table of Contents Introduction 1 What Can You Do with This Book? 1 Is This the Book for You? 2 How Is This Book Organized? 2 Part I: The Basics 3 Part II: Prettying Up Photographs 3 Part III: Painting Pictures 3 Part IV: Taking It to the Street 3 Part V: The Part of Tens 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Part I: The Basics 5 Chapter 1: Opening, Viewing, Managing, and Saving Image Files . . .7 Three Ways to Open Image Files 8 Opening, Managing, and Sorting Files with the Browser 9 Opening the right file with File➪Open 11 Secrets of opening a file by double-clicking 12 Viewing and Zooming an Image 14 Zooming and moving an image in the window 14 Working on several images at a time 15 Getting Information about an Image 15 Saving an Image File 16 Saving an Image As a Paint Shop Pro File 17 Saving a Copy of Your File As Another File Type 17 Saving the Whole Enchilada, Your Workspace 18 Using Native and Foreign File Types 19 Paint Shop Pro files (pspimage or PSP) 20 BMP 21 TIFF 21 GIF 22 JPEG 22 PNG 23 Using Vector File Types (Drawing Files) 24 Opening vector files 24 Saving vector files — not 25 Converting or Renaming Batches of Files 25 File Types and Auto-Action Messages about Colors 27 Obtaining Image Files from the Web 28 02_579355 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page ix Chapter 2: Getting Bigger, Smaller, and Turned Around . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Getting Sized 29 Proportioning 30 Dimensioning 31 Avoiding degradation 31 Cropping (Trimming) Your Edges 32 Getting Turned Around, Mirrored, or Flipped 34 Rotating 34 Mirroring and flipping 35 Taking on Borders 35 Achieving a Particular Canvas Size 36 Chapter 3: Selecting Parts of an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Selecting an Area 40 Selecting by outlining: The Freehand tool 42 Selecting a rectangle or other regular shape 44 Selecting by color or brightness: The Magic Wand tool 45 Modifying Your Selection 48 Moving the selection outline 49 Adding to or subtracting from your selection 49 Expanding and contracting by pixels 50 Removing specks and holes in your selection 50 Editing the selection 52 Feathering for More Gradual Edges 52 Anti-Aliasing for Smoother Edges 54 Selecting All, None, or Everything But 54 An Example: Selecting Alex, and Only Alex 55 Avoiding Selection Problems in Layered Images 57 Chapter 4: Moving, Copying, and Reshaping Parts of Your Image . . .59 Floating, Moving, and Deleting Selections 59 Cutting, Copying, and Pasting from the Windows Clipboard 61 Cutting and copying 61 Pasting 62 Pasting to create a new picture: As New Image 62 Pasting on an existing image: As New Selection 63 Pasting for maximum flexibility: As New Layer 63 Moving or pasting without the background color: As Transparent Selection 64 Pasting while scaling to fit: Into Selection 64 Resizing, Rotating, Deforming, and Perspective-izing 65 Preparing for deformation 65 Doing the deformation 66 Other handy deformities 70 Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies x 02_579355 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page x [...]... of your image in a different file type for someone who uses other software, like Photoshop Also, earlier versions of Paint Shop Pro can’t read later Paint Shop Pro files (Paint Shop Pro 7 can’t read Paint Shop Pro 9 files, for example.) To create files for earlier versions of Paint Shop Pro, see the instructions for saving a copy of your image in the section “Saving a Copy of Your File As Another File... or Outside Paint Shop Pro 288 “The Paint Doesn’t Come Out Right” 288 “New Text Appears Whenever I Try to Change Text” 2 89 “The Text or Shape Comes Out the Wrong Color, Texture, or Pattern” 2 89 “The Magic Wand Tool Doesn’t Select Well” 290 “The Tool Works, but Not Like I Want” 290 Paint Shop Pro Doesn’t Open Images!” 291 xv xvi Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies Chapter... extension (.jpg for JPEG, for example) ߜ Paint Shop Pro can’t open the file Paint Shop Pro can open many different types of file, but not all of them ߜ Paint Shop Pro may not be configured to open that file type See the nearby sidebar, “Making Paint Shop Pro open the right file types when you double-click.” Making Paint Shop Pro open the right file types when you double-click Two problems can occur with... Explorer window, for example — and it displays the Paint Shop Pro palette icon, you can open it in Paint Shop Pro by double-clicking that icon If you have several images you want to open, double-click each of them separately, and they all get a separate window in Paint Shop Pro You don’t end up with multiple copies of Paint Shop Pro running If you have an image file that Paint Shop Pro doesn’t open... where you left off Paint Shop Pro files can have any color depth (maximum number of colors) you choose Pspimage is the latest and greatest of the Paint Shop Pro native formats; earlier versions used the PSP extension Programs other than Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop don’t often read Paint Shop Pro files, however You may need to save a copy of your image in a different file type for someone who uses... sidebar, “When Paint Shop Pro notes your limitations.”) That merge doesn’t happen to the Paint Shop Pro image you’re working on — only to the file copy you’re creating Don’t worry about the message — just click Yes to proceed Saving the Whole Enchilada, Your Workspace Got a hot and spicy date? Need to wrap up one Paint Shop Pro project and start chewing on another? You can close Paint Shop Pro at any time... Extensions for Known File Types Most of the time, you don’t have to do anything special to open a particular file type or to save your work as that type of file — and then again, sometimes you do Paint Shop Pro, in most cases, simply asks you a few questions to resolve any problems when you’re opening or saving a foreign file type Paint Shop Pro files (pspimage or PSP) The native Paint Shop Pro 9 file... JPG files, some program other than Paint Shop Pro opens the file These problems usually occur when you have more than one graphics program The latest one installed may grab all the file types for itself Both problems can be solved the same way Follow these steps to specify which files are to be opened (or not) by Paint Shop Pro: 1 Choose File➪Preferences➪File Format Associations The File Format Associations... with the part Dave uses for his comb-over) Part III: Painting Pictures Part III is for anyone who plans to paint, draw, or otherwise doodle in Paint Shop Pro Chapter 9 gets you painting, spraying, erasing, and otherwise doing all those basic things that everyday folks have been trying to do with graphics software for years Chapter 10 is for those who long for some serious support for the digital artist,... Paint Shop Pro is great, but in the end you probably want your image to appear somewhere else: on a piece of paper, on the Web, 3 4 Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies or as part of an animation Chapter 14 shows you how to best fit your image on paper It also tells you how to print multi-image pages for photo albums, collages, or portfolios Chapter 15 tells you how to get exactly the image file you want for . by David Kay,William “The Ferrett”Steinmetz Paint Shop Pro ® 9 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_5 793 55 ffirs.qxd 12/20/04 9: 58 PM Page i Paint Shop Pro ® 9 For Dummies ® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111. Deforming, and Perspective-izing 65 Preparing for deformation 65 Doing the deformation 66 Other handy deformities 70 Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies x 02_5 793 55 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page x Part. script 3 29 Index 331 Paint Shop Pro 9 For Dummies xvi 02_5 793 55 ftoc.qxd 12/20/04 10:00 PM Page xvi Introduction C ongratulations! Brilliant person that you are, you use Paint Shop Pro! 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