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Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Before You Begin Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin What Is Paint Shop Pro? Using this Help File Technical Support Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Getting Started Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Starting/Exiting Paint Shop Pro Main Window Menus Toolbar Toolboxes Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Opening Image files Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Overview From the Open Image Dialog Box From the Most-Recently Used List From File Manager Drag-and-Drop from File Manager From the Command Line Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Managing Image Files Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Saving a File Copying Files Converting Files Printing a File Closing Files Deleting a File Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Controlling the Screen Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Image Windows Zoom Tools Image Features Other Screen Components Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Creating a New Image Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Creating an Empty Image Copying an Image Creating a Screen Capture Using a TWAIN-Compliant Device Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Basic Image Editing Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Selecting Part of an Image Cut, Copy, and Clear Paste Command Undo and Revert to File Empty Clipboard Command Adding a Border to an Image Cropping or Enlarging an Image Changing an Image's Width and Height Reversing Orientation: Flip and Mirror Viewing Image Information Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Using the Select Tools Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Overview Standard Cursor Color Selector Magnifier Image Mover Rectangle Selector Oval Selector Selection Adjuster Cloner Lasso Magic Wand Color Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Using the Paint Tools Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Overview Standard Brush Clone Brush User-Defined Brush Push Brush Airbrush Fill Tool Pen Pencil Marker Crayon Chalk Charcoal Swap Brush Undo Brush Text Tool Line Tool Hollow Rectangle Tool Solid Rectangle Tool Hollow Oval Tool Solid Oval Tool Smooth Brush Sharpen Brush Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Managing Colors Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Editing an Image's Color Palette Loading a Color Palette Into an Image Saving a Color Palette to a Palette File Using the Color Dialog Box Changing an Image's Color Depth Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Color Functions Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Color Adjustment Functions Colorize Function Grey Scale Function Histogram Functions Negative Image Function Posterize Function Solarize Function Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Deformations and Filters Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Applying Deformations and Filters User-Defined Filters Applying Plugins Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Masks Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks What is a Mask? Using Masks Adding a Mask to an Image Inverting or Deleting a Mask Creating and Editing Mask Images Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Customizing Your Setup Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Page Setup Printer Setup General Preferences New Windows Undo Storage Options Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Contents: File Formats Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Overview Raster Image Formats Meta and Vector Image Formats Other Formats: External Import Filters Jasc Palette File Format Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Computers and Colors Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors About Histograms Color Definition Methods Gamma Correction Error Diffusion Dithering Troubleshooting Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing TOPIC: Contents: Troubleshooting Contents Using Paint Shop Pro Before You Begin Getting Started Opening Image files Managing Image Files Controlling the Screen Creating a New Image Basic Image Editing Using the Select Tools Using the Paint Tools Managing Colors Color Functions Deformations and Filters Masks Customizing Your Setup Reference File Formats Computers and Colors Troubleshooting Overview Color Problems File Formats Operations Product Information Jasc Products Purchasing Before You Begin TOPIC: What is Paint Shop Pro? Before You Begin What is Paint Shop Pro? Paint Shop Pro is a raster format image editing program, a type of software more commonly known as a "bitmap editor". Raster image formats break a picture into a grid of equally sized pieces, called pixels, and record color information for each pixel. Common examples of raster formats include the Windows ".BMP" format and the CompuServe ".GIF" format. Unlike most bitmap editors, Paint Shop Pro isn't confined to a short list of raster file formats. It provides full support for all of the most popular raster formats, full or partial support for many less-popular raster formats, and can read nine meta and vector image formats. Related Topics: File Formats TOPIC: Using this Help File Before You Begin Using this Help File For help using Windows Help, click here. For help with features specific to Paint Shop Pro Help, see the sections below. Hypertext Features Paint Shop Pro Help has a few special hypertext features: Tab Jumps Each topic has a row of tabs across the top, like this one. Each set of tabs groups related topics. You can access a topic by clicking on its tab. Hypertext Formatting In the standard Windows Help File format, all hypertext is green. Topic jumps have a solid underline, and pop-ups have a dashed underline. In Paint Shop Pro Help, topic jumps are red, pop-ups are blue, and jumps to secondary windows are magenta. Mouse vs. Keyboard For most tasks, both mouse and keyboard instructions are provided. Mouse instructions are preceded by a small diagram of a mouse... ...Or by a picture of the Toolbar button that performs the command. Keyboard instructions are preceded by a small diagram of a keyboard. Keyboard Instructions Formatting You can access many Windows features and functions from the keyboard by using a combination of keystrokes. These combinations are called hot keys, accelerator keys, or short-cut keys. In Paint Shop Pro Help, the keys you should press appear within angle brackets (< >) and a plus sign ("+") connects keys that you should press simultaneously. For example, "press <Alt> + <X>" means "hold down the Alt key while you press the X key". TOPIC: Help on Help 
