Compatibility With PhotoShop Textures?

[Linda Lou]

Hi all,
The info that my search pulls up is several years old, so I thought I'd ask about PSP 2018:
Will PhotoShop Textures work as well with my PSP 2018 as the PhotoShop brushes do? If so, do I just unzip the texture files to my Documents>Corel>2018>Textures?

[LeviFiction]

Where does Photoshop use textures? PaintShop Pro can use any regular image file as a texture so JPGs, PNGs, etc can all be textures. IF your textures are in these formats then you're fine and yes to use them as textures in art media layers and in the materials palette you would put them in the textures folder.

[hartpaul]

To add to LeviFiction's post.
The PSP help files indicate that you should save the image eg a brick wall as a bmp image, but jpg and png work just as well.

http://help.corel.com/paintshop-pro/how ... tures.html

So any jpg, bmp, png image saved in your user textures folder can be used in PSP as a texture.
Now from psd files - these can be single images or layered psd files
eg this site
https://www.freepik.com/free-psd/textures
first image second row consists of a number of stone images saved as a layered psd file.
I first tried to convert that file to jpg images using an online converter but they have limits or timed out as the psd file is large - 224 MB

You can load the psd into PSP 2018 and it will appear as a layered image with the different surfaces.

Then drag the layer thumb of the image you want and release in an empty part of the workspace and it will make a copy there.

You can then save that image as a jpg, png, bmp to your textures file at

C:\Users\*UserName*\Documents\Corel PaintShop Pro\2018\Textures
and those added textures should then be available in PSP.

[Ken Berry]

Just by way of a footnote here, one of our regular contributors to the Video Studio forum, Eric Matyas, has been making quite a few contributions of images devised by himself which can be used as textures and such. I think they would also be very useful in the context of this thread and PSP more generally. See what is currently a 4 page thread at viewtopic.php?p=342808#p342808

[Linda Lou]

I had been looking at these which I presume are .psd files, so that is why I asked. (The video I watched was using that site's files with PhotoShop.)
https://www.textures.com/category/fabric/150
If any image can be used as a texture, do I simply change it to gray scale in order to use it for different colors?

[hartpaul]

Why not test it for yourself? Download a suitable image and place it in your textures as a color jpg, then use PSP to convert to a grey scale and save that with a slightly different name. Then use each in turn and see if there is any difference.

I registered with that site and you get 15 small images per day, but have to pay for larger images. The images of eg carpet are jpgs so you can download them and place straight into your Textures folder.

[Linda Lou]

Okay, @hartpaul, I'll be brave and experiment. Thank you for your information.