Paint Shop Pro 9 Named PC Magazine's 'Best of the Year'

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very useful addition withrepparttar PSP 9 is its amazingly impressive drawing capabilities. It adds completely new art-based painting functionality clearly inspired byrepparttar 107499 market leader, Corel Painter. Additional feature that version 8 does not have, isrepparttar 107500 new Art Media layers on which you can paint with a range of new natural media tools – Oil, Chalk, Palette Knife, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil, and Marker - each designed to closely mimic its real world counterpart. Usingrepparttar 107501 Oil Brush tool, for example, as you drag onscreenrepparttar 107502 multi-bristled brush lays down multiple pigments that interact with bothrepparttar 107503 underlying paint and canvas texture untilrepparttar 107504 brush stroke realistically runs out of paint.

With that, I personally acclaim PSP 9 because from a simple shareware bitmap editor it evolved to become a professional photo editor.

Once again congratulations!

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Photoshop Secret Techniques

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1.Placerepparttar image and its shadow on separate layers, withrepparttar 107498 image onrepparttar 107499 top layer, then align them as you'd like. 2.Clickrepparttar 107500 top layer to activate it. 3.Choose a Multiply Blending mode fromrepparttar 107501 drop-down menu. The Multiply Blending mode makesrepparttar 107502 top layer slightly darker, helping it blend with its shadow.

Magic Eraser Technique:

The Magic Eraser tool (hold downrepparttar 107503 Eraser icon inrepparttar 107504 toolbar to access it) allows you to erase pixels that are allrepparttar 107505 same color (or are a similar color).

1.First pass using Magic Eraser Tool: 72 tolerance, contiguous, anti-aliased. 2.Second pass using Magic Eraser Tool: 32 tolerance, other settings same. 3.Used Eraser tool (brush mode) to clean up edges, stray pixels, and shadow area.

Moving Selections (While Creating Them)

Did you know that you can move a selection even while you are inrepparttar 107506 process of creating it? The technique illustrated below is invaluable for creating precise shape selections.

1.Userepparttar 107507 Elliptical Marquee tool [M] (use [Shift+M] to cycle) to draw an approximate selection (and holdrepparttar 107508 Shift key down as well to maintain a perfect circle). Don't worry about where you startrepparttar 107509 selection 2.Withrepparttar 107510 left mouse button (and Shift key) held down, holdrepparttar 107511 Space Bar and (userepparttar 107512 mouse to) positionrepparttar 107513 selection overrepparttar 107514 desired region 3.Let go ofrepparttar 107515 Space Bar (but notrepparttar 107516 mouse button orrepparttar 107517 Shift key) and continue sizingrepparttar 107518 selection to encompassrepparttar 107519 region of interest 4.Repeat Steps 2 – 3 untilrepparttar 107520 entire object is contained withinrepparttar 107521 selection (without ever letting go ofrepparttar 107522 left mouse button and Shift key) 5.Finally, let go ofrepparttar 107523 mouse button (andrepparttar 107524 Shift key)

Note: Even though this tip usesrepparttar 107525 Elliptical Marquee tool, it works for all ofrepparttar 107526 rest ofrepparttar 107527 Marquee tools [Shift+M].

The combination of knowing what you want and knowing how to do it properly isrepparttar 107528 best way to makerepparttar 107529 best out of your Photoshop: a mixture of creativity and acumen. As you learn more, you make fewer mistakes, your workflow becomes faster, and you have more time to explore creative possibilities.

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