PSP7 Tutorials

[RichieB16]

Does anyone know a good tutorial that I can go through (I want one that is really really really slow) so that I can learn how to use the tools of PSP7.  I'm not so concerned about a repainting tutorial because that probably won't do me much good until I have some experience with the program itself.  So, if you can help I would really appreciate it.  Thanks.

[Scottler]

Google it.  There are tons.

[ozzy72]

Richie, I'll be honest if you've got the bread move up to PSP8.
I've just upgraded, and I really couldn't get on well with 7 after a year of using it. My repaint attempts were awful.
I've started with 8 in the last week and I'm stunned how easy and flexible it is. I'll probably be releasing some Spitfire repaints when I feel they're good enough.

Ozzy

[Felix/FFDS]

I'm sticking with both PSP7 and 8 for the moment.

Abacus' forthcoming FS Repainter, and VAS-Gold cannot handle PSP8, so my alternate paint program (alternate to the built in editor) is PSP7.

There's nothing better than to simply PLAY with the program - that's how I've managed to do anything in it - and I've only scratched the surface of the possibilities.

PSP8's additional warp tools - mesh warp, straightening tools, etc., are excellent.

[RichieB16]

Well, I decided to go out and get PSP8, so now I'm playing with that but I have a question.

[Scottler]

I've never used the rectangle tool for my stripes, but then again, I'm a lazy bastid....I usually just make the paintbrush tool the size I want, switch it to a square tip, set hardness at 100, and I'm good to go.

Little shortcut for you...if you start say, on the right end of the image, click once.  Make sure you note where your tip is.  (Look at the bottom to get the x,y coordinates.)

Then go to the left side, or wherever you want the other end of the stripe.  Move the cursor to the same vertical coordinates (I think it's the y)...press shift, then click.  It will do a sort of "Connect the dots" thing that is much quicker.

Good luck!

[Felix/FFDS]

Selection tools are your friends -  almost as important as working in layers.  :)


Once you have your rectangle, switch to another selection tool (either magic wand, point to point, smart edge, etc) and in PSP8 choose to (remove?) selection.  This way, as you make your selection, you're actually cutting out from your rectagular selection.

[RichieB16]

Felix, I'm still not quite understanding.

[Scottler]

Richie--

I'm hardly an expert (see some of my other frustrations in this forum lol) but one thing that helped me was when I realized that a "layer" was really nothing more than a digital piece of tracing paper.

Once I started looking at it like that, the "layers" made much more sense to me, and it seemed very easy.

Best of luck!

[RichieB16]

OK, I figured out what I was doing.  I didn't set the fill color to transparent, lol.

[Felix/FFDS]

 (insert the sound of getting hit with a wet polygon...)


[quote]OK, I figured out what I was doing.

[TJ_Gumby]

I use the colour replacer for most of my painting in PSP7. It will leave the lines the same colour while you paint your stripes. eg: If the plane is white, it will probably have grey lines. If i'm painting a red stripe over them, the colour replacer will replace white with red, not grey with red. I then replace the grey part in the stripe with a much darker red to look like a join in the skin that has paint in the seam.