Possible to createa art in PSP - Spirographs for examples

[Iamimdoc]

I am trying to get myself out from under Photoshop Pricing and would like to switch to PSP instead of PS.

Photography editing in PSP is fine.

I do other stuff however. I have created some interesting designs in Photoshop (fairly easily) based on spirographs - see YouTube video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhERLhOeHiU (there are many similar examples for Photoshop - but none for PaintShop that I can find

Fractals would be another avenue to pursuit as would be hypotrichoids, etc

Is there similar functionality in PaintShop Pro?

I am unexpert in PaintShop Pro and any help/guidance would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

[JoeB]

While I don't have the answer to your question, your profile information shows that you use PSP 8. So is that Jasc's PSP 8 or do you use Corel's PSP X8? If the latter, please correct that profile info.

[LeviFiction]

I had never seen this method before. But I think PSP has something that can simulate that result. At the same time I think Photoshop's tools for this are better and easier to work with. The more creative you want to get, the harder it'll be to create.

1) Draw out the shape you want and center it in the canvas.
2) Grab the pen tool, convert the shape to a path
3) Select all of the nodes
4) Right-click -> Edit -> Duplicate (not duplicate and offset)
5) Right-click -> Transform selected nodes -> Contract
6) Right-Click -> Transform Selected nodes -> Rotate
7) With the History Palette open select the last three run commands (Duplicate, Contract, Offset) and hit the Save quickscript button
Quick scripts are temporary scripts that are lost when the program closes. You can also use regular scripts.
8 ) With the History Palette open hit "Run quickscript"
9) repeat until you have as many copies of the object as you want.

Using this method it is possible to create a simple script that asks for a contraction percentage, a rotation angle, and the number of shapes to make. But it would only produce one kind of spirograph. Then again, if that's all you need.

Here is a video demonstration the steps listed above: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8FlFL ... xnMTg/view

The first two shapes I show setting the different contract and rotation values and how if you use different values you have to use a new quick script. The third shape shows using the same quickscript from a previous shape.

Naturally you can use the rotate, contract, expand, skew, duplicate and offset, all to create different effects.

[JoeB]

I am trying to get myself out from under Photoshop Pricing and would like to switch to PSP instead of PS.

Photography editing in PSP is fine.

Do you still have a version of Photoshop that you have used that is not subscription? If so, just keep it for the things like this spirograh thing that Photoshop can do better, and use PSP otherwise. I keep a version of PS CS6 installed but rarely visit it. I originally got it because, at the time, it was much better at doing photo stitching, cloning,object removal and other content aware stuff than PSP, which has caught up in many regards. But it's there if I need it.

[Iamimdoc]

LeviFiction - Thanks. Works great

From Help:

"To convert a vector object to an editable path
Edit tab
1 On the Tools toolbar, choose the Pick tool .
2 Select an object.
If you want to convert multiple objects to paths, marquee select the objects.
3 Right-click the objects, and choose Convert to Path."

This would be the technique to convert an ellipse/circle to a Path -yes? (I am having issues getting this to work..)

[LeviFiction]

Yes it is one of the ways. What kind of trouble are you having getting it to work?

You can also do this with the pen tool in edit mode. Or by going up to the Objects menu and selecting "convert to path" from there on any selected shape.

[Iamimdoc]

I'm not getting it

Rectangles and squares create a Vector layer - convert to Path -> no problem

If I create a Vector layer -> create an Ellipse -> this automatically creates a Raster layer for the Ellipse (and I am unable to convert the Ellipse to a Path).

I'm doing something wrong..

[LeviFiction]

On the tool options make sure "create as" is set to vectors.