Shadow lines in PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate

[PhillyPaul]

Hello, I own PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate, AfterShot Pro 3 and Picture Effects. I want to convert a color picture to B/W, keeping the eye color (making them more vivid), make the background completely black, and add shadow stripes. I've attached a photo to represent what I'd like to accomplish. Please tell me what tool to use and the instructions. Thank you

[LeviFiction]

The B & W photo effects effect, found under the effects menu, gives you the greatest control over the B & W process.

Usual method of converting to B & W while keeping color is to use layers. First duplicate the background layer, then use the B& W effect on the new layer. THen use the eraser to erase the parts you want to keep in color. You can also use selections to be a bit more exact. Honestly, there are so many variations of this technique it's hard to cover them all.

Adding stripes, that's a bit harder. You can do this in several ways, depends on how fast/accurage you want the effect to look. You can use the Effects -> Distortion -> Displacement Map effect to try and distort the lines, but this uses a base image and is only simulated 3D it's not 3D accurate. You may get something close enough for jazz, but again. No guarantees. I have successfully used this to make a piece of text look slightly like it's part of a wavy cloth before so maybe it'll be just fine.

Do use this you'll want to duplicate your image (SHIFT + D) this second image will be your source. On your main image create a new layer, add the black stripes to this layer in about the positions you want them. You can use the paint brush, or vector tools. Or another image if you want. Up to you. Go to Effects -> Distortion -> Displacement Map. In the "Dipslacement Map" section, choose your second source image as the displacement map. Then play with the settings. I honestly don't know how best to use this tool but I tend to find the results I'm looking for easily. Just keep your adjustments small.

If that doesn't work you could try a more artsy, and slower method. Again have the stripes on their own layer, and use the warp brush to gently manipulate the lines into place distorting them to match the image.

Lastly you could just use vectors adding points and curves where you want them to simulate running over a bumpy surface.

Here is an example video where I bumble around for 8 minutes. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... JJMlU/view

[PhillyPaul]

Thanks! Way more helpful than Corel Support! Really appreciate it.

[JoeB]

Thanks! Way more helpful than Corel Support! Really appreciate it.

While Corel Support is not necessarily all that great, its purpose is to help people with technical issues with PSP, as is the case with the support groups of most programs. I'm afraid they aren't there to help people with questions about how to achieve particular results. That's where tutorials and these types of forums come in.