newbie with corel psp - basic question

[miltk]

i just installed x6.

i'm a lifetime psp5 user, and i can guarantee this is going to be the first of many many many questions to come LOL. so here's the first question. i am puzzled that i can ONLY widen the brush and airbrush tool to 100. this is very bothersome to me, since i could go up to 200 with good ole psp5.

here's an upload. the top thickest blue is airbrushed at 200 in psp5. the second is the airbrush set at 100. the third and thinnest is corel pspx6 set at 100. all the same opacity/hardness.

i mean,,,,what gives? am i stuck with this puny 100 setting in x6!!??? there's no coverage here.

thx,,,milt

[LindaSue]

The maximum brush size in X6 is 999 pixels. Look on the Tool Options bar that goes across the the top of the workspace when you have the Brush tool active. Where it says Size, click and slide the blue line to the right to increase the size.

[hartpaul]

In my PSP X6 version 16.0 the widdth of the brush goes up to 999 pixels.

You might try resetting the brush - click the little white down arrow beside the Presets and then click the Reset to Default button
That should reset the size to 32 pixels and from there you should be able to drag the size up to 999.

[miltk]

thx ls, hp

i see the problem. i was tweaking "thickness" not "size"
which begs the question,,,then what is thickness adjusting??

other questions....
in old psp5 there's a "shapes" tool. it gives me the option of circle, elipse, square, and rectangle,,,and allows for the options to "outline" or "fill" with a desired color. i can't find that tool in x6. is it there?

resizing...another option i use all the time is the sizing and resizing of my image, so i need that panel to open the same all the time. in psp5, resizing opened to a default 72pixels at 100%. from there i would adjust as necessary. but in x6 the default is 200pixels at100%. can i change this default to 72pixels at 100%? - it's messing up how i perceive what i'm dealing with.

and btw, why is the resizing default view 200pixels and not 72?

milt

[Kathy_9]

Here's where your preset shapes are located and if by chance you were referring to the Selection Tool it's the third icon down on the image below.

Click for larger view.

As far as resizing when I set parameters they stay that way until I change them.

Hope this helps.

[JoeB]

thx ls, hp

i see the problem. i was tweaking "thickness" not "size"
which begs the question,,,then what is thickness adjusting??

It is adjusting the width of the brush. For example, select the paint brush with a round tip and thickness set to 100 and the brush tip on the canvas will look round. Change the thickness to 50 and you will see that the brush tip become oval in shape because the thickness has been reduced by half.

resizing...another option i use all the time is the sizing and resizing of my image, so i need that panel to open the same all the time. in psp5, resizing opened to a default 72pixels at 100%. from there i would adjust as necessary. but in x6 the default is 200pixels at100%. can i change this default to 72pixels at 100%? - it's messing up how i perceive what i'm dealing with.

and btw, why is the resizing default view 200pixels and not 72?

Default has been set to 200 PPI (Pixels Per Inch) because that setting provides instructions to the printer telling it how many pixels of your image the printer should print on each inch of printed paper. For an image to look good when printed it should have a minimum print resolution of approximately 200PPI. The same image printed at 72PPI would have a grainy appearance. This setting has nothing to do with your image's pixel size on the screen (or how the image will look when placed on a web page), because that is only a factor of the pixel sizes (width and height) that you set in the Resize dialogue.

It seems that you might not be familiar with the PPI concept. Here is a link to a very good explanation of this concept:

https://99designs.ca/blog/uncategorized ... ifference/

Also, I don't have PSPX6 but do use X7 and suspect they both work the same with regard to the Resize dialogue. When you open the Resize dialogue in X7 most of the settings you see will be the same as the last time you used that dialogue. However, the one setting that will change is the Print Resolution (PPI) setting. That's because this setting will change to match whatever the embedded print resolution is of the image that you are attempting to resize. If you aren't concerned about printing the image but only about the pixel size of the image on the monitor, then this behavior by PSP is fine because, as I said, the PPI setting has no effect on how the image looks on your monitor as long as you simply set the pixel size you want.

[miltk]

Default has been set to 200 PPI (Pixels Per Inch) because that setting provides instructions to the printer telling it how many pixels of your image the printer should print on each inch of printed paper. For an image to look good when printed it should have a minimum print resolution of approximately 200PPI. The same image printed at 72PPI would have a grainy appearance. This setting has nothing to do with your image's pixel size on the screen (or how the image will look when placed on a web page), because that is only a factor of the pixel sizes (width and height) that you set in the Resize dialogue.

It seems that you might not be familiar with the PPI concept. Here is a link to a very good explanation of this concept:

https://99designs.ca/blog/uncategorized ... ifference/

Also, I don't have PSPX6 but do use X7 and suspect they both work the same with regard to the Resize dialogue. When you open the Resize dialogue in X7 most of the settings you see will be the same as the last time you used that dialogue. However, the one setting that will change is the Print Resolution (PPI) setting. That's because this setting will change to match whatever the embedded print resolution is of the image that you are attempting to resize. If you aren't concerned about printing the image but only about the pixel size of the image on the monitor, then this behavior by PSP is fine because, as I said, the PPI setting has no effect on how the image looks on your monitor as long as you simply set the pixel size you want.

actually, i'm pretty familiar with ppi in printing. but they use 300dpi not 200dpi which is why it seemed weird to me.
in psp5 defaulted to 72dpi, what i do/done/did when i wanted to resize for printing was to just set the dpi at 300. anywho,,,that's what threw me off

[miltk]

Here's where your preset shapes are located and if by chance you were referring to the Selection Tool it's the third icon down on the image below.

Image2.jpg

As far as resizing when I set parameters they stay that way until I change them.

Hope this helps.

thx kathy.
but is there a square tool.
and how do i set "color fill" or "outline".


thx,,,milt
btw,,,i hope you guys don't mind all these basic questions but i don't like READING instruction manuals,,,they always make assumptions whereas i get a good step by step when i ask other users.

thanks

[miltk]

btw, i have tried running psp5 and x6 running on my XP. i defaulted psp5 to handle image files, so when i opened x6 it didn't open in the edit tab. x6 defaulted to "manage" tab, and in the manage tab, "program files" is X'd off - why is that?

[hartpaul]

btw, i have tried running psp5 and x6 running on my XP. i defaulted psp5 to handle image files, so when i opened x6 it didn't open in the edit tab. x6 defaulted to "manage" tab, and in the manage tab, "program files" is X'd off - why is that?

Because program files consists of the installed programs (apps) that you use and is not normally a place where image files are stored.

You can change the default opening by going to File > Preferences > General Program Preferences > Default Launch Workspace and ticking Edit

but is there a square tool.
and how do i set "color fill" or "outline".

Choose Rectangle Tool (associated with the same group of buttons as Preset Shapes , Ellipse and Symmetrical Shapes)
On the top left you have Presets Apply and Mode and two buttons for Rectangle and Square. Am hoping you can guess which one is which
On your Materials Palette you can set two colors the top one for the outline if any and the lower one for your fill color.
Just past Line Style you will find Width which is the thickness of the outline.

If you have trouble reading you can also check out the operation of the tools by using videos on Youtube

There is a whole set of videos set up theer by Levifiction for all of the tools. You can see the list here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 582FF10FEA

[miltk]

btw, i have tried running psp5 and x6 running on my XP. i defaulted psp5 to handle image files, so when i opened x6 it didn't open in the edit tab. x6 defaulted to "manage" tab, and in the manage tab, "program files" is X'd off - why is that?

Because program files consists of the installed programs (apps) that you use and is not normally a place where image files are stored.

You can change the default opening by going to File > Preferences > General Program Preferences > Default Launch Workspace and ticking Edit

but is there a square tool.
and how do i set "color fill" or "outline".

Choose Rectangle Tool (associated with the same group of buttons as Preset Shapes , Ellipse and Symmetrical Shapes)
On the top left you have Presets Apply and Mode and two buttons for Rectangle and Square. Am hoping you can guess which one is which
On your Materials Palette you can set two colors the top one for the outline if any and the lower one for your fill color.
Just past Line Style you will find Width which is the thickness of the outline.

If you have trouble reading you can also check out the operation of the tools by using videos on Youtube

There is a whole set of videos set up theer by Levifiction for all of the tools. You can see the list here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 582FF10FEA

thx, hp

[JoeB]

actually, i'm pretty familiar with ppi in printing. but they use 300dpi not 200dpi which is why it seemed weird to me.
in psp5 defaulted to 72dpi, what i do/done/did when i wanted to resize for printing was to just set the dpi at 300. anywho,,,that's what threw me off

You'll have to read the words on the dialogue boxes more carefully, and perhaps the info on that link I posted. No version of PSP (or Photoshop, to my knowledge) has any setting anywhere for DPI because that can only be set within a printer's driver software settings for quality. The only setting in professional graphic programs is Pixels Per Inch (PPI) in the Resize dialogue. If you can find any setting in PSP for Dots Per Inch or DPI please post a screenshot. It seems to me that you are trying to use PPI and DPI interchangeably, and if you had carefully read the info at the link I posted you will see that they are not, in fact, equivalent terms. Nowadays it is generally only scanner manufacturers who seem to consistently treat the terms as interchangeable.

Yes, print shops will usually ask for images to be submitted at 300PPI, but in my post I said that you should have a "minimum" of 200PPI. And in real life that actually is just fine because the human eye generally cannot distinguish the difference between a regular photo print at 200PPI and one at 300PPI. But there's no reason not to go to that higher setting, and particularly so if submitting to a shop that requests it.