I did another experiment on doing a Photoshop tutorial with paint shop pro.
The first 60 x 60 pixel is the one I tried with paint shop that was geared toward Photoshop.
<--other than the color not being the same the effect came out about the same The second one is what I got with doing it the way it was supposed to be done for paint shop pro. 
<-- I like the end result for this one I am going to resize it and use it for backgrounds
I have the link around here somewhere in my history I had thought I bookmarked it but I couldn’t find it in my bookmarks I came across it while Stumbling yesterday. I was an idiot and didn’t Technorati it or Stumble it either. Yeah go ahead and say it I am such a freakin scatter brain. Well if I can find the link to the site I will for sure do a follow up post for you with the correct information.
This was found on my Stumbles in design sites yesterday I figured ok so I don’t have Photoshop yet so I tried to mimic the same results using paint shop pro settings. The above was an idea for a bubble wallpaper made with Photoshop for the Mac only I decided to try and make it using paint shop pro 9 for windows.
This was how to make woodgrain using Photoshop so I took it and used what similar settings I could find in paint shop pro 9 to see if I could come close and this was the end result. I couldn’t figure out how to get the knots in the wood so I took the mesh warp tool and tried to simulate bends in the grain instead.
If anyone would like a more detailed tutorial or references to the Photoshop tutorial please let me know. I am going to use the woodgrain on my 360 page to see how it looks for a background.
Ok so tell me what you think does it even remotely match my banner?
I made my banner with photoshop cs2 when I had the trial version so I didn’t have the same design elements to work with. So I really struggled with trying to get the same color scheme and lettering. I couldn’t duplicate the blades of grass or the hearts in the banner as those brushes were exclusive to photoshop so I had to use paint shop pro tubes instead for the hearts.
Really need my new found designer friends opinions on this. Thanks.
