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http://www.amazon.com/101-Tips-Tricks-Paintshop-ebook/dp/B00BNYEAJY

You can get it in all the Amazon stores. Just change the .com to the one for your country.

If you dont have a Kindle, you can download a Kindle viewer for PC for free and enjoy this neat book.]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:04:42 Cassel http://pspug.org/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1360902804/ http://pspug.org/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1360902804/#num1

Here is an example of a Gradient Map at work. Even thou Photoshop has a gradient
Map tool, you can do them in Paint Shop Pro just the same, you'll do it with
curves tool.]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:33:24 t2mouse http://pspug.org/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1360900279/ http://pspug.org/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1360900279/#num1
Here is a basic run down on this tool.

Basic Info here:
An Alpha Channel, in graphics terms, is what each pixel's is made of, and how each
channel controls that information of those pixels. A 32-bit graphics system contain
four channels -- three 8-bit channels, one channel for red, one channel for green,
and one channel for blue (RGB) and one 8-bit alpha channel. The alpha channel is
really a mask -- it specifies how the pixel's colors should be merged with another
pixel when two or more are overlaid, like one on top of the other. This way the colors
are control by the Alpha channel, and this is what we see in a computer generated
graphic as a whole picture. We see all four channels working together to create that
image we see.

The Arithmetic Tool is not a filter, what it does is let you create a alpha channel from
two open images at once, without splitting each image in to it’s own 3 channels (Red,
Green, Blue). This tool does a lot for you, it lets you work with each channels of the
two images just like the layer palette does with it blending modes, only the layer palette
doesn’t control color Channels, it only lets you blend layers together base on different
lighting terms.

Here are the Basic function and what the tool does with both images being used. Base on
what color channels you select from each Image, it will create a new Alpha channel base
on one of these selections:

Add — Image 1 Value + Image 2 Value
Subtract — Image 1 Value – Image 2 Value
AND — Binary And
Average — (Image 1 value + Image 2 Value) / 2
Multiply — Image 1 Value × Image 2 Value
Difference — Absolute Value of (Image 1 Value – Image 2 Value)
OR — Binary Or
Darkest — Minimum of (Image 1 Value, Image 2 Value)
Lightest — Maximum of (Image 1 Value, Image 2 Value)
XOR - Exclusive Or

These are blending mode just like in the layer Palette, but on a more higher level of control.
O.K. on to the fun stuff…..
Here what you can do... and this is how I did it!

I call this one a ink stamp effect - not for sure on that either. but it's cool looking.



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Here is the original image and the same image with a Gradient Maps applied to it on right,
it is 100% the same as the one in Photoshop. The gradient map version on the right has the
blending mode set to Color (Legacy) at 65% in Paint Shop pro.




Looking at the next image, you can see the gradient Map that where’re going to create.
Looking closely you can see there is no different between the 2 photo editing programs,
and below that, is the grayscale range that it was mapped to. There are 3 colors being
used in this Gradient Map, Purple which is made of R111, G21, B108, the middle color a
Green, which is made of R0, G96, B27, the last color Orange, which is made of R253,
G124, B0. What I want to do is, explain to you how to map each of these colors on the
Curves Grid. So far we know that the purple is for the darkest area going toward the
middle and stopping 50% between the Greens which is in the middle of the whole
gradient Map. Creating a small amount of blue between them because of there colors.
Then for the lightest side of the Gray scale we have the Orange color going to the middle
toward the green stopping at 50% between the two. OK, now we have the colors and the
location of each of them, our next step is to create this gradient by using that information.


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Happy Holidays...


Good Morning, Folks!

Just a note regarding the Text In Circle tutorial that may avoid a few bald spots for people struggling with it using Version X4 and likely X5 as well, although I cannot speak for the latter,  (http://www.pspug.org/tutorial/html/tut9eff/textonpath_v9.htm)

Referring to the Checklist of Steps at the bottom of the tutorial, when I click on #4, I find the 'Convert to Path' command just not there  It now lives in Objects/Convert to Path.  Ditto with #6.  

So... I hope this helps.

Muriel! ]]> Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:01:52 Muriel