TOOLS & MENUS


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Congratulations! You have decided to give JASC's Paint Shop Pro 8 Public Beta (V8) a test drive. This will be an ongoing tutorial to help you locate new features and where old features are now located.

Last updated May 27, 2003 10:11 AM

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This tutorial is written in and for PSP8 and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP.

YOU WILL NEED:
JASC's PSP8 (30 day free trial) - You can get it HERE

So many have asked, "I can't find...", or "what happened to the retouch tools", etc. so I have a LOT of screenshots of the tools and the menus in order to help you find things a little easier.

Please remember ~~ this is NOT complete, I am constantly working on this and updating! Please REFRESH your browser (F5) to make sure you don't miss anything new!

Your tool palette now has a variety of flyout's where you will find a lot of the tools from PSP7 that you have been looking for. ;-)

There are also several new tools in the Deform Tools and a new Background Eraser with your regular Eraser.

There is also a Warp Brush in with the Paint tools. I will show you what is in each of the flyout's below.

 

The Pan tool was previously referred to as the Arrow. The flyout includes Pan and Zoom.
The Deform flyout includes the Deformation Tool along with three new tools ~~ Straighten, Perspective Correction and Mesh Warp. Watch for some tutorials in the coming days.
You will find the Freehand Selection and Magic Wand in the Selections flyout. In the Freehand Selections tool options ribbon you will find a new tool called Edge Seeker.
The dropper flyout has your Eye Dropper and your Color Replacer Tool.
The Paint flyout includes your Paint Brush, Airbrush and a new Warp Brush. The warp brush is great for creating caricatures and liquid effects.
You will find the Scratch Remover with your Clone tool. You can only use the Scratch Remover on a background layer.
You will find several of your retouch tools on the tool palette next to the Clone tools.
The remaining retouch tools are in the next flyout.
The Eraser now includes a background eraser which is a wonderful tool for the tubers. Please see my tutorial on the Background Eraser HERE.

MENUS

The File menu is pretty much the same as it is in PSP7. The new script feature can be accessed from the file menu or from the script tool bar.

In PSP7 your most recently accessed files were at the bottom of the file menu. The are now located in a submenu called Recent Files

If you have any custom brushes made in PSP7, you can convert them to PSP8 by going to Import/Brushes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The edit menu is very much as it was in PSP7.

 

 

 

 

The view menu now includes a palettes submenu, a magnifier and the docking options.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are a lot of new items on the Image menu, that were previously on the Colors menu in PSP7.

This is where you will find Grey Scale :-), along with your color palette submenus, decreasing and increasing color depth, and you split and combine channels.

 

 

 

 

99% of the Effects Menu has submenus. I will show you the different submenus below, new features are noted.

Remember this is just to show you where things are located at the moment. A more extensive tutorial will be forthcoming.

EFFECTS SUB-MENUS


3D Effects (same as PSP7)

Art Media Effects

Artistic Effects
New features are Balls & Bubbles, Halftone, and Magnifying Lens

Distortion Effects
New is the Lens Distortion

Edge Effects (same as PSP7)

Geometric Effects
New feature is Spherize

Illumination Effects (same as PSP7)

Image Effects
Offset and Seamless Tiling are new and Page Curl is improved

Reflection Effects (same as PSP7)

Texture Effects (Same as PSP7)
The Effects Browser is vastly improved over PSP7. It now generates a full page of thumbnails that shows you the result when applying a particular preset to an effect. You can either apply it right to your image or you can launch it to do any editing that you would like. When you find a particularly useful preset and save it, this will now show up in the effects browser.
User Defined Filter - User Define uses a preview window now, has randomize and a whole lot of presets built right into it. If you want to know more about the UDF please visit Lori Davis's site where she has some excellent tutorials on UDF. You can get to her User Define Basics Tutorial HERE.

ADJUST MENU & SUB-MENUS

The adjust menu contains all of your information for doing any kind of adjustment to your image. It contains all of your color adjustments and the new lens correction effects. This is also where you will find Noise, Blur, Sharpen, Softness, Red-eye Removal and Negative Image. Below are the submenus for each menu.

Color Balance
Black & White Points and Grey World Color Balance are new

Brightness Contrast
Equalize and Stretch are new

Hue/Saturation


Lens Correction
This is an entirely new category for correcting problems in photographs.

Add/Remove Noise
Several of the Options from the Enhance Photo Effects in PSP7 are found here.

Blur

Sharpness

Softness
Soft Focus is new

 

You will find all of your Masking Effects in the Layers Menu now.
The Objects menu is what you will use for Vectors.

The Selections Menu is basically the same as PSP7, however there are a number of new options in the Modify Submenu.


Modify Submenu

Let's check out the Photo Toolbar.

PHOTO TOOLBAR

If you have any problems, comments or questions please do not hesitate to E-mail me.

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