Chapter 7. Paint Shop Pro 8 Effects

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Chapter 7. Paint Shop Pro 8 Effects

Paint Shop Pro includes many built-in special effects and also enables you to add more effects with both its User Defined Filter function and plug-in filters. This chapter presents extended examples of some of Paint Shop Pro's most useful and powerful effects.

Here's what you'll be exploring in this chapter:

  • Built-in effects

  • User Defined Filters

  • Plug-in filters

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Paint Shop Pro 7 users should note that the photographic enhancing filters and adjustments (such as Sharpen, Blur, and Automatic Contrast Enhancement) are no longer included in the Effects menu. Instead, they are now found in the various submenus of the Adjust menu.

The photo editing commands are not included in this chapter but are discussed in Chapter 8, "Photo Editing and Enhancement."

All of the built-in effects that have dialog boxes have certain controls in common. Each dialog box has a pair of preview windows , one on the left showing the original image and another on the right showing the result of applying the effect with the current settings.

Above the preview windows is the Presets drop-down list, a Save Preset button for when you want to save an effect's settings as a preset, a Delete Preset button for when you want to delete a preset from the drop-down list, and a Reset button. Use the Reset button to return the values to the factory defaults. Hold down the Shift key while clicking the Reset button to return the effect's settings to what they were when you opened the effect's dialog box.

Below the preview windows are zoom controls and a control for changing the view area of the preview. Just to the right of those controls is a toggle to hide and display the preview windows, an Auto Proof button with a label that looks like an eye and a lock, and a Proof button with a label that looks like an eye. Click the Proof button if you want to see what the effect with the current settings will look like on the actual image. Click the Auto Proof button if you want the effect on your image to change dynamically as you adjust the controls in the dialog box.

To the right of the Proof button is a Randomize button. Click this button and Paint Shop Pro generates pseudo-random settings for the effect.

Along the bottom of the dialog box are three buttons : OK , Cancel , and Help .

  • Click OK to apply the effect.

  • Click Cancel to exit the dialog box without applying the effect.

  • Click Help to get information about the effect.

Controls specific to the effect appear in the middle of the effect's dialog box, between the preview windows and these three buttons.

Now let's take a look at the individual filters and effects.

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Paint Shop Pro 8 Power
Paint Shop Pro 8 Power!
ISBN: B001QCXEI6
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 125
Authors: Lori J. Davis

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