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What are filters/plugins, how do I install them, and which are the best? Answers 11.
filters--
Filters/Plugins are third party programs that make the complicated to create
image effects easy. (Want snow on your image, there is a snow filter. Want to give
your ball a 3D look, there are 3D filters, etc.). PSP did a lot of really fantastic things
with filter effects that has made the need for a lot of the expensive additional plugins
unnecessary. .
You will find many filter/plugin.
The two filters that I use quite a bit are Kais Power Tools by Corel and Blade Pro by
Flaming Pear. These are commercial filters and cost additional dollars. I have an
extensive list of Kai's Power Tools tutorials as well as Blade Pro resources and some
of my own presets Our Studio group has a Blade Pro Tutorial and be sure to check
out Dizteq for Blade Pro tutorials.
Quick Note: Plug-ins need to be saved into a folder somewhere on your hard drive
(usually called plug-ins, but you can call it whatever you like) then you must point
to the plug-ins folder in the General Program Preferences.
Here are the instructions:
Click File > Preferences > General Program Preferences
PSP 7 users: File > Preferences > File Locations
Click the Plug-in Filters tab
Click the Browse button next to Folder 1 and navigate to the folder that you saved
your plug-ins in. Then click OK. It will take a second for the plug-ins to load and
then they should be available under the Image menu in a submenu called Plugins.
In version 7 the plugin screen is the same.
To load selections, File/preferences/file locations.. under selections add the location
of your selection files.
With the image you are working on active, go to selections, load/save selections,
select load from disk. You can find your selections in the fly out menu as shown in
attached image
Usually, yes! However, tools are often renamed or moved; tubes,
patterns, and so on may not be present in all versions; and new tools are
created in newer versions. With a bit of reading in the help files for your
version, usually, you can create something similar. As an example, vectors
are present in PSP7-9, but the way you edit them changed for each version. First, make the image you want as your seamless pattern.
18. · On the color palette make the color you just picked
up the background color
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background-
Make sure the background color in the image is the same as the background
color on the color palette.
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How to Load Selections?
13.
What's that Edge Seeker?
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Can I use an older version of PSP to do newest tutorials?
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I received a virus warning from another group or friend, may I post it?
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Why does my sparkle animation look terrible after I save it?
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How do I make a seamless background?
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How do I make a transparent background?
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How do I save a transparent background?
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My transparent image has a square border around it
when I put it on the web. How do I get rid of it?
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Click on the edge of the object you want to select.
·Be very careful to click exactly on the edge you want, not just near it. This
is because the tool can follow an edge close to a second edge and it uses your
click points to determine which edge exactly is of interest to you. (The magnifier
can be handy here: View > Magnifier.)
As you click on successive points the tool will attempt to find the correct edge
between the click points. If it is not doing what you want, press Delete to remove
as many click points as needed and try again, clicking closer together this time.
Any time while you are using the tool you can press and hold Alt.
If while you hold Alt you continue to click point after point, the tool will behave like
the regular Point to Point selection tool and will join the click points with straight
line segments. If while holding Alt you drag rather than clicking, the tool will behave
like the regular Freehand selection tool. Thus, if the tool ever does not follow exactly
the object edge you want, you can override its behavior temporarily with Alt to
manually specify the edge you want and then just go back to the automatic mode
by releasing Alt. Note: this is not a Magnetic Lasso. The selection always goes exactly
through your click points, so place these carefully.
Range is a control that determines how far from the click points the tool searches
for the object edge. When your edge consists of multiple edges (e.g. a highlight, the
edge proper and a thin shadow all close together) use a smaller range. If your edge is
curved and weaves about a lot between click points, use a larger range.
Use the Smoothing control to reduce "bumpiness" or small excursions in the position
of the selected edge. The selection may be feathered and/or antialiased.
You may find you have more control by making an un-feathered, un-antialiased,
un-smoothed selection first and then using the options under Selections > Modify to
select the best values for smoothing, antialiasing and/or feathering. Here you can
preview the effect of each option on the selection by using the Preview On
Transparency option.
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No. Most of these types of virus warnings are hoaxes. Virus warnings
will be deleted. send a message warning to the owner. Your best line of defense against virus is a firewall and
anti-virus software. I recommend either McAfee or Norton Keep your
Anti-virus software up-to-date and scan for virus on a regular basis.
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Partial transparency is not allowed in a GIF file. Either a pixel is transparent,
or it isn't. A sparkle tube generally has a slight drop shadow on it so when
you save it on a transparent background in Animation Shop, it has to attach
itself to some background because a pixel can only be opaque or transparent.
Make sure that no part of the sparkle is on the background when you save it,
or add a background to your animation.
· after that just study your image for a bit and try flipping and
mirroring your original seamless pattern until they fit together.
· the image size will end up a lot bigger but hey, you got your
seamless background.
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· Select FILE/SAVE AS... on the menu bar
· Select GIF in the SAVE AS TYPE box
· Select OPTIONS
· Select the GIF tab
· Select SET THE TRANSPARENCY VALUE TO THE BACKGROUND COLOR
· Select OK
· Name your file and select SAVE
· Open your gif in a web browser to see if it's transparent. (If you use
a background that is the same color as the page, you won't be able
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· Click File/Save As/ on the menu bar
· Select file type of .gif
· Select options box
· Check the set transparency value to the background color box
· click ok
· name your file
· click save
note:
· When you're creating a transparent gif, you are defining a single color as
transparent. The image will still be a rectangular bitmap (as the first
example shows). When you define the gray background as the color that
is transparent, the web browser will not display anything that has that color.
· If, for instance, the type appeared on a textured background made up of
many colors, you would not be able to create a transparent background
until you created a background made up of only one color.
· To create a transparent gif using Paint Shop Pro, you'll need to find out the
HEX Number of the color you want to be transparent. Select colors/ Decrease
Colors from the menu bar, and select 256 colors. Use the eyedropper tool to
select the color you wish to make transparent, and at the bottom of the screen
you will see a status bar. In the status bar, you'll see something like
(i=10 R=255 G=210 B=210). The first number is the Index Number. Make a note
of it, select File/ Save As / Gif. Select Gif89a and then select the Options dialog
box. Enter your Index number where it asks for the Value of the transparency
color.
· Trick is to use the fill tool to fill the background with a color (I use white).
· Then save as a GIF file, click on "Options" and check the transparent
background option.
· Yes, it's okay to go to 256 colors without affecting transparency of your file.
· Display with the Browser of your choice.
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img src="file.gif" border=0> (or file.jpg, as the case may be).
