Paint Shop Pro Vs Photoshop

[Linda Lou]

Thank you for the great info! I've bookmarked it.
I've already imported the brushes so I'll take a look at that video.

I'm not sure how much of that crack in a wall that I'm going to use. Maybe for Halloween I'll do the entire thing with a different message. I understand the textured layers, and know PSP 2018 has a concrete pattern, etc. but it's the actual crack image that I might need. I have not looked, but most likely there are brushes that create a crack image. "Curves".... which menu do I find that in? Gosh, 2019 will be out before I have learned where everything is in 2018.

[LeviFiction]

It's in the same submenu as Levels

Adjust -> Brightness & Contrast -> Curves

Here is my attempt at the tutorial, not all of it of course just the beginning portion before they started doing all of the painting.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19HgUAS ... Lv1c8/view

[Linda Lou]

Wow! That is a super video! Thank you so much!

I still have trouble knowing where everything is, but I shall continue learning. When doing projects, I've printed pages from Corel's Help, but I still prefer the old hard copy user manual instead of Corel's online version. My mistake was going from 8.1 to 2018 with so many years between. I should have grown as PSP was growing in order to keep up with changes.

[Linda Lou]

Comparing PhotoShop and PSP 2018 again, is there a way to convert/use PhotoShop .grd files for PSP?
I need red, white, and blue for July, but the only ones I've found are one set at Deviantart for PS that I saved, but PSP won't import. https://redbonniekidd.deviantart.com/ar ... t-58932106

[LeviFiction]

That means there is something in that gradient file that PSP doesn't directly support. Can't tell you what it is though because I lost my GRD parser script. I'll have to make a new one but I'm right in the middle of making an Adobe Color file importer for swatches. So it'll be a few hours.

[Linda Lou]

By all means continue with your work! You have gone out of your way to help me with so much already. I am in no hurry.

[LeviFiction]

I forgot about this, but you can use this webpage to convert most types of gradients into other types of gradients. Including Photoshop to PSP.

http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cp ... elect.html

[Linda Lou]

Super! Thank you!

[Rick_R]

#3 - If you're using the move tool you can hold SHIFT and click anywhere on the canvas to move the layer you don't have to be on the layer. If you don't hold SHIFT it'll move whatever object you are touching. Technically this is meant to make it easier as you don't have to select the layer first. But, if one layer is underneath another you can select that layer in the layers palette, hold SHIFT and move only that layer. Or, as in your case, an image out of bounds.

This is ridiculous! I just spent an hour-and-a-half trying to move one layer and instead it kept switching to a different layer and moving that! I even tried switching PSP versions and it still was doing it! I was locking layers, grouping layers, ungrouping layers, duplicating a layer, copying a layer and pasting as new layer, and each time it would switch to the wrong layer and move that instead.

And the Help on that is no use on that at all! Both X9 and 2018 do this!

[LeviFiction]

I'm sorry, are you saying this was helpful for you or that it's not working for you?

[hartpaul]

Actually that point is a bit vague:

#3 - If you're using the move tool you can hold SHIFT and click anywhere on the canvas to move the layer you don't have to be on the layer. If you don't hold SHIFT it'll move whatever object you are touching.

If you have a layer filled with image yes you can hold Shift and click anywhere on the canvas to move that layer.
If the layer has an object on a transparent surround you cannot click anywhere with the shift held down and move that layer unless that layer is selected.

If you have an object on a layer with transparent surround, you can click on that object and that layer is automatically selected and you can then move that layer with or without the shift key held down.
If you have a number of layers each with an object on a transparent surround you can also do it the photoshop way, select the layer, hold the shift key down and then move that layer only no matter where you click on the layer.

[Rick_R]

#3 - If you're using the move tool you can hold SHIFT and click anywhere on the canvas to move the layer you don't have to be on the layer. If you don't hold SHIFT it'll move whatever object you are touching. Technically this is meant to make it easier as you don't have to select the layer first. But, if one layer is underneath another you can select that layer in the layers palette, hold SHIFT and move only that layer. Or, as in your case, an image out of bounds.

This is ridiculous! I just spent an hour-and-a-half trying to move one layer and instead it kept switching to a different layer and moving that! I even tried switching PSP versions and it still was doing it! I was locking layers, grouping layers, ungrouping layers, duplicating a layer, copying a layer and pasting as new layer, and each time it would switch to the wrong layer and move that instead.

And the Help on that is no use on that at all! Both X9 and 2018 do this!

I'm sorry, are you saying this was helpful for you or that it's not working for you?

What I was saying was that the PSP process is ridiculous. Until I found your explanation I was trying one thing after another and nothing made sense. The Help should explain how this works.

[JoeB]

#3 - If you're using the move tool you can hold SHIFT and click anywhere on the canvas to move the layer you don't have to be on the layer. If you don't hold SHIFT it'll move whatever object you are touching. Technically this is meant to make it easier as you don't have to select the layer first. But, if one layer is underneath another you can select that layer in the layers palette, hold SHIFT and move only that layer. Or, as in your case, an image out of bounds.

This is ridiculous! I just spent an hour-and-a-half trying to move one layer and instead it kept switching to a different layer and moving that! I even tried switching PSP versions and it still was doing it! I was locking layers, grouping layers, ungrouping layers, duplicating a layer, copying a layer and pasting as new layer, and each time it would switch to the wrong layer and move that instead.

And the Help on that is no use on that at all! Both X9 and 2018 do this!

I'm sorry, are you saying this was helpful for you or that it's not working for you?

What I was saying was that the PSP process is ridiculous. Until I found your explanation I was trying one thing after another and nothing made sense. The Help should explain how this works.

I don't see where the PSP process is ridiculous. If you understand layers and understand transparency then the PSP process is a simple one (using Shift and selecting a non-transparent part of the layer you want to move and then move it.)

I only agree that the Help files could be more expansive about doing this. However, I have read the Help files - and FAQs - of many programs over the years and they all fall short in various ways when it comes to explaining some specific operations. PSP is no exception.

AND, at least, Corel has this forum where you can get answers to stuff that is not fully explained in the Help files. Don't expect perfection in any program's Help files, unless you're an eternal optimist.