This is an old paper texture I learned how to make from yet another nansonsplace.com tutorial. The tutorial works straight across the board for paint shop pro 9 until you hit step 10 of the tutorial. In their tutorial the textured paper already has a blurred look by this point. In version 9 I didn’t get the blurred look until the end when I went in to adjust>soften>soft focus.
In step 12 when you go into adjust the midtone: adjust>brightness and contrast>highlight/midtone/shadow the radio buttons for version 8 read linear adjustment method and dynamic adjustment method where as for version 9 they are called absolute adjustment and relative adjustment. In paint shop pro 9 you want to check relative adjustment. This step is optional as it is just to make the paper effect look a little darker. But I thought it was necessary to point this out if you are using version 9 or higher as their are differences in each version. As I have said before you don’t really notice a major difference in features and interface
especially until you jump from version 8 to version 10 though.
<<Final product after making adjustments in version 9
I got paint shop pro 9 my first or second semester of the first year of college and as with all things shortly after I got it Corel came out with version 10 and now they have version 11.
Another successful attempt at a tutorial from nansonsplace.com . I am really pleased with how well this one turned out . This persons tutorials are so easy to follow. There are detailed screen shots of everything. This site gives you very clear and easy to follow steps so that you can recreate the tutorials with ease.
Don’t let the fact that it only supports version 7 and 8 of paint shop pro deter you from trying these tutorials out on version 9,10 and 11. From the way things are set up on version 9 there isn’t much of a difference between version 8 and 9. I would say there is more of a drastic difference between 8 and 10 and even 9 and 10 in the way the interface is set up. Plus in my opinion I have tried version 10 on a trial and to me it feels as if it is geared towards the photo editor type of person. Paint shop pro 7,8 and 9 are more graphic design oriented.
Next installment is another try at a different type of textured paper tutorial.
frames©Wildheart’s Works
I learned how to make frames from a great tutorial found on nansonsplace.com. The fact that the process really is such an easy one just amazed me. I could spend hours making frames now that I know how to do them. You can make frames with textures,patterns,solid colors,gradients,tubes and brush art. Some I have made with patterns, some with gradients and some a combination of tubes and gradients or tubes and patterns. After revisiting nansonsplace I also noticed that you can add layers to frames too. I will try this some time and see what kind of results I get. For now please enjoy these frames and I hope you take some, but please make sure I get credit for them. Please credit them Wildheart’s Works wherever you use them.
I will give you the link to nansonsplace since I am not sure if copying and pasting their tutorial would qualify as a “Quick Guide” as per their TOU. To add my frames to your paint shop pro program simply right click on the frame you want, click save as, go to your paint shop pro files, find your frames folder click on it and your done. I know for the seasoned paint shop pro user this is a no brainer but there are those who like myself were paint shop newbies at one time that need step by step how to do things.
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.
