Paint Shop Pro 5 Tutorial

Chapter Three

The first thing we need to do for this chapter is to make some color swatches to use for fills. To do that you will need to open two images with white backgrounds, 100X100 pixels in size.

For the first 100X100 image:

From the "Image" menu choose "Noise", then "Add". Choose "Noise %" at 21 and make sure the radio button next to "Uniform" is checked. Click on ok.

From the "Colors" menu click on "Greyscale" and then go back to the "Colors" menu and choose "Increase Color Depth" and then "16 million colors".

For the second 100X100 image:

Find the spray can on your toolbar. Select the spray can and then if the Control Pallette is not on your screen, find the "toggle control pallette" button and click on it. You will want to choose "Marble" as your paper texture.

Then in the top color box on the right side of your screen you want to choose the lightest gray color on the pallette.

Now, you need to make a new layer. From the "Layer" menu, choose new and name the layer Base Color/Design.

On that new layer you want to spray paint the "Marble" texture.

You will need to find the "Layers Control Pallette" and open it. Then, where it says "Layer 1", use the slider bar to make the value = 37.

Now, for each of these two swatches you want to add two new layers. Name one of them, "Color 1", and the other "Color 2".

Choose two matching colors that contrast in the boxes at the right of the screen.

Now use the "flood fill" tool to fill each of the two color layers with different color.

Use the slider bars for each layer to adjust the opacity of the colors to come up with a nice medium.

Here are some samples that I did using the techniques we already learned in Chapter Two.

Open two images with white backgrounds, and add two layers named "Pattern1" and "Pattern2".

With the "flood fill" tool chosen, and the "Control Pallette" open, choose the "fill style" "Pattern". Click on options, and choose one of the images that you just made. (Alternate each one for two different textures on each button.) Use the "flood fill" tool to fill the images with your pattern.

Backgrounds that could go with some of these buttons. (An example only as some of the buttons above do not match the marble background)

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