General PSP FAQ

Do these tips and tricks work with PSP 4.10 shareware?

yes

How do you select an irregular shape?

Posted by Louie

It depends on the color content of the irregular shape.
First of all, you can increase the tolerance of the magic wand so that it selects more and more of your shape, without including the neighboring colors you don't want selected.
Then you can select other parts by holding down the shift key while you select with the wand.
Finally, if your irregular shape is completely selected but there are still little pieces of neighboring colors that are selected too, you can press CTRL while using the wand on the undesired colors and this will de-select them.
If the irregular image has many colors, you might have to play around a lot with the tolerance settings. Remember that you can always hit Ctrl+Z to undo your most recent change.

How do I use Masks?

See

Where can I get more paper or brush textures?

Custom Textures

Printing graphics created with PSP

Posted by Sandy Blair

It depends what format you are using and what program you are using to print it with.

Some formats save a dpi (dots per inch) value, it is often 300 for laser printers, but your screen is usually 72 dots per inch. If you want something to print out nicely on paper you will have to create much bigger graphics, if you just want the paper to show the same scale as the screen look in the preferences option under the File menu.

How Do I Clone in PSP 4.0

In PSP 4.0 select the area you want to clone.
Click on SELECTIONS/FLOAT
Drag the selection to where you want it
De-select.

Getting rid of Jaggies

Can somebody please tell me how to draw a circle or oval that will have smooth edges rather than the jagged look.

Posted by Dirtyboy

This problem bugged me for a while too. I was trying to do simple spheres using a glass lens filter I picked up, and the jagged edges made them look horrible. But there's an easy way out of the problem. Yes, anti-aliasing is the answer. I use the period (.) form a font called Storybook to make my circles. I just make the point size large (100 pt, or whatever I need) and add the text. This creates a filled circle. If you need an unfilled circle, try adding a slightly smaller pointsize period inside the first one, using your background color. Edge enhance may also do the job, but I haven't tried that.

Posted by david

Try the obvious softening or blurring and since (in paint shop pro) you can only anti-alias text, find a font that suits your needs. Interdimmensional may suit your purposes

Posted by Ali

Go to this site and download Microsoft's Font smoother. There's also a tutorial on anti-aliasing there.

Jagged edges on small text

Make sure anti-alias is checked in the Add Text window and save the finished image to a gif format.

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