Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 User manual

Corel

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PaintShop

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Pro 2018 User Guide

Contents i

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Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s new in Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Installing and uninstalling Corel programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Starting and exiting the program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Registering Corel products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Updates and messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Corel Support Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About Corel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Learning how to use Corel PaintShop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Documentation conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Help system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 User Guide PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Using the Learning Center palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Learning with video tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using Web-based resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Workspace tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Exploring workspace tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Switching tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Switching workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Choosing a workspace color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using palettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Using toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Customizing toolbars and palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Using dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Viewing images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Using shortcut keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Using context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using rulers, grids, and guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Getting photos into Corel PaintShop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Connecting with image scanners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Opening and closing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Saving images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Starting projects from a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Starting from a blank canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating images from existing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Viewing images and image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Exporting the image editing history to a text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using Screenshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Zooming and panning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Cutting, copying, and pasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Copying images into other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Undoing and redoing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Repeating commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Deleting images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Files supported by Corel PaintShop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Reviewing, organizing, 

and finding photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Using the Manage tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Browsing folders for photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Finding images on your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Working with saved searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Adding keyword tags to images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Viewing photos by tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Using the calendar to find images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Finding people in your photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using Map Mode to view, add, and edit image GPS info . . . . . . 119

Working with thumbnails in the Manage tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

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Capturing and applying edits to multiple photos . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Displaying and editing photo information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Quick Review to review photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Working with trays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Using Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Showing the Adjust tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Working with the Adjust tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Tools and features in Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Using depth information to select areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Working with camera RAW photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Supported RAW file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using the Camera RAW Lab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Applying edits to multiple RAW photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Converting RAW photos to another file format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Working with XMP files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Adjusting images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Fixing common problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Rotating images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Cropping images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Straightening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Correcting photographic perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Making basic photo corrections automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Brightening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Darkening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Removing purple fringe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Removing digital noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Removing chromatic aberrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using Lens Correction to fix distortion, chromatic aberration, and

vignetting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Correcting lens distortions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Adjusting white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Adjusting brightness, contrast, and clarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

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Adjusting hue and saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Adding or removing noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Controlling depth of field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Blurring images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Sharpening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Softening images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Resizing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Retouching and restoring images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Removing red-eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Applying cosmetic changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Removing scratches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Removing flaws and objects with the Clone Brush or Object Remover

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Using Magic Fill to erase image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Moving selected areas with Magic Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Erasing image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Cutting out image areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Retouching image areas by using brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Recoloring image areas for a realistic effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Replacing colors, gradients, or patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Filling areas with colors, gradients, or patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Flipping and mirroring images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Adding borders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Scaling photos by using Smart Carver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Scaling and transforming photos using the Pick tool . . . . . . . . . 277

Resizing the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Merging exposures and content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Understanding HDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Taking photos for HDR processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Combining photos by using HDR Exposure Merge . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Using Single RAW Photo to create an HDR effect. . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Merging batches of photos into HDR images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

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Combining photos with Photo Blend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Working with selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Creating selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Hiding and displaying the selection marquee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Moving, clipping, and rotating selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Modifying selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Inverting and clearing selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Using feathering with selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Using anti-aliasing with selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Modifying the edges of selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Creating custom patterns from selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Saving and loading selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Working with layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Understanding layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Using layers with photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Using layers with illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Using the Layers palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Creating layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Promoting the background layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Deleting layers and clearing layer contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Duplicating and copying layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Renaming layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Viewing layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Finding layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Organizing layers by color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Changing the order of layers in an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Moving layers on the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Grouping layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Linking layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Blending layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Setting layer opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Protecting transparent areas of raster layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

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Merging layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Using adjustment layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Using layer styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Working with masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Understanding masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Displaying masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Creating masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Deleting masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Editing masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Loading masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Saving masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Working with colors and materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Using the Materials palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Choosing colors in the Material Properties dialog box . . . . . . . . 401

Choosing colors for paletted images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Choosing colors from an image or the desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Using gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Editing gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Exporting and importing gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Applying a color or transparency gradient with the Gradient Fill tool

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Using patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Using textures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Working with custom color palettes and swatches . . . . . . . . . . 424

Applying effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Choosing effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Applying 3D effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Applying Art Media effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

Applying Artistic effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Applying environment maps and bump maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Applying Distortion effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Using the Displacement Map effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

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Applying Edge effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

Applying Geometric effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Applying Illumination effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Applying Image effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Applying Photo effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

Using Retro Lab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Applying a gradient with the Graduated Filter effect . . . . . . . . . 501

Creating vintage-style photos with the Time Machine . . . . . . . . 502

Applying film and filter effects to photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Applying Reflection effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Applying Texture effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

Adding picture frames to images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Creating your own effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

Combining images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

Using the Picture Tube tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Warping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539

Working with deformation maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543

Working with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Applying text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Formatting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Saving text presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Fitting text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

Wrapping text within a selection or shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Pasting and fitting text to a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Moving text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Applying effects to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Converting text to curves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Creating a text cutout filled with an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Filling text with image patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Sizing and transforming text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

Displaying captions and info text on images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Drawing and editing vector objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

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Understanding raster and vector objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Selecting vector objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Drawing rectangles and squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Drawing circles and ellipses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Drawing symmetric shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

Creating preset shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581

Filling cutout shapes with images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Editing shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Saving shapes as presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

Working with nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586

Sizing, shaping, and rotating vector objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Aligning, distributing, and arranging vector objects. . . . . . . . . . 594

Grouping and ungrouping vector objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Converting objects to paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Adding and closing contours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Editing contours and paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Saving custom line styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Drawing curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Modifying lines and curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Copying and moving vector objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Working with brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Choosing brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Choosing brush options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Using brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Customizing brush settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Creating brush tips and presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Importing and sharing brush tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Painting and drawing with the Art Media tools . . . . . . . . 629

Working with Art Media layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Working with the Mixer palette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

Working with Art Media tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

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Using the Oil Brush tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Using the Chalk tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Using the Pastel tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Using the Crayon tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Using the Colored Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Using the Marker tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Using the Watercolor Brush tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Using the Palette Knife tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Using the Smear tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Using the Art Eraser tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Working with advanced color features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Understanding color depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

Viewing color depth information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Increasing the color depth of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Decreasing the color depth of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Understanding color reduction methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Understanding palette options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

Working with image palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Understanding color and color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Understanding how monitor colors and print colors differ . . . . . 672

Calibrating your monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Working with color management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Using color channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

Customizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Viewing and hiding toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

Viewing and hiding tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Using custom workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Customizing the menu system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Customizing toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Creating custom toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Customizing keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Setting Undo preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

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Setting View preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Setting Display and Caching preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Setting Palettes preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Setting Units preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697

Setting Transparency and Shading preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Setting Warnings preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Setting Auto Action preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Setting Miscellaneous preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Setting Manage tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

Setting Auto-Preserve preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Setting workspace tab preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Setting file format preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Setting file format associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713

Setting file locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Managing resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716

Setting plug-in preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

Selecting Web browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

Setting Autosave preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

Resetting all preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Switching languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Adjusting general viewing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Accessing tools and commands from previous versions of Corel

PaintShop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

Protecting and restoring the Corel PaintShop Pro database . . . . 728

Automating tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Scripting basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Working with scripting tools and features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

Recording and saving a script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Running saved scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739

Stopping or undoing a script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Editing scripts in Corel PaintShop Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742

Editing scripts using a text-editing application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

Troubleshooting a script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745

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Assigning icons to scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Using and creating presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

Processing files in batches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

Renaming files in batches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Printing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

Creating layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

Editing templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Editing and saving layouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

Printing CMYK color separations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Understanding printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Sharing photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

E-mailing photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Uploading photos to a sharing site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Creating Share My Trip projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

Creating images for the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Saving images for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

Working with GIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785

Working with JPEG files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791

Working with PNG files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794

Previewing images in Web browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

Slicing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798

Mapping images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804

Creating image rollovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Using digital watermarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810

Adding visible watermarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814

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Welcome 1

Welcome

Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 is powerful image-editing software that helps

anyone produce stunning photos and creative designs.

This section presents the following topics:

• What’s new in Corel PaintShop Pro 2018

• Installing and uninstalling Corel programs

• Starting and exiting the program

• Registering Corel products

• Updates and messages

• Corel Support Services

• About Corel

The availability of features depends on the version of the

software you have.

What’s new in Corel PaintShop Pro 2018

Every new feature and enhancement was designed for more speed,

flexibility and creativity. With more customization options than ever

before, focused enhancements to key tools, and impressive performance

gains, PaintShop Pro 2018 delivers an unparalleled creative experience.

New! Essentials and Complete workspaces

Choose the workspace that’s right for you:

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• Essentials — a streamlined workspace with core features. With

larger user interface elements, this workspace is perfect for new

users, people who work with a core set of tools, and it makes it

easier to work with a stylus and touch screen.

• Complete — based on the classic PaintShop Pro workspace, the

Complete workspace includes the full set of editing and design

tools—everything you need to take your projects to the next level.

For more information, see “Switching workspaces” on page 24.

New! Quick Customize

Customize your Tools toolbar by showing all the tools you use regularly

and hiding the ones you don't. A new Quick Customize feature allows

you to pick and choose the tools on your Tools toolbar, and search for

any tool using a handy alphabetical search. And in a click, you can

restore a tool’s default settings. For more information, see

“Viewing and

hiding tools” on page 681.

New! Customization and control

Now, you’ll have more control over features, functionality, and

customization. Scroll bar too small? Make it bigger. Node size not right?

Customize it. Lines not visible? Enlarge them. Be more productive with

larger, easier-to-see icons. For more information, see

“A d j u s t i n g g e n e r a l

viewing options” on page 725.

New! Welcome tab

Feel right at home when you launch PaintShop Pro. You can choose a

workspace, start a new project, or access recent files. Explore tutorial

videos, keyboard shortcuts, free and premium plugins, applications,

scripts, brushes and more — all updated dynamically so you'll never run

out of learning and creative content. For more information, see

“The

Welcome tab” on page 18.

Welcome 3

Enhanced! Tool performance

Enjoy faster editing features, including a more responsive Depth of Field.

Because it’s 4 times faster than before, you can now create an area of

focus in your photo nearly instantaneously. Text Wrapping is also

significantly speedier, especially when using a gradient, pattern or

texture as text.

Enhanced! Launch time

In response to direct user feedback, we've decreased PaintShop Pro’s

launch time by over 50% from the last version! Cutting boot time in half

means you can get editing faster than ever.

Enhanced! Crop tool

Our most popular editing tool just got better. Now you can choose from

new Grid, Diagonal, Golden Ratio and Golden Spiral composition

guides, along with other Crop tool enhancements, to help you bring out

the best in your image. For more information, see

“Cropping images” on

page 160.

New! Text tool

Text is key to any design workflow. Our Text tool enhancements help save

you design time with the new superscript, subscript, and text justification

options, all conveniently located in the Tool Options palette. You can also

use Paste-to-Fit to paste text into a shape and watch the text size

dynamically adjust to the shape size. For more information, see

“Formatting text” on page 551 and “Pasting and fitting text to a shape”

on page 562.

New! Clone overlay

Now when you use the Clone Brush tool, you'll see a preview of the

source pixels that you're about to apply, so you can get the results you

want the first time. For seamless editing, you can hide or show the

overlay with a simple shortcut key. For more information, see

“Removing

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flaws and objects with the Clone Brush or Object Remover” on

page 248.

Enhanced! Dropper tool

A new Sample and Fill icon in the Tool Options palette allows you to copy

the color and opacity of sampled pixels. The Dropper tool instantly turns

into the Flood Fill tool, allowing you to apply the copied properties to

another area with a single click. For more information, see

“To sample

and fill with a color selected with the Dropper tool” on page 406.

Enhanced! Gradient Fill tool

Explore 30 new gradients to enhance your creative designs, and enjoy

better results with improvements to the Gradient Fill tool. Now you can

recall your gradient line to edit an existing gradient and adjusting the

transparency is a breeze. For more information, see

“Applying a color or

transparency gradient with the Gradient Fill tool” on page 416.

Enhanced! Eraser tool

Our users wanted a more refined Eraser tool, and that's what we’ve

delivered! Now the Eraser tool has improved opacity control for better

results.

New! Quick Preview

Get a better look! Preview the thumbnails in your Organizer palette with

Quick Preview. Simply select a thumbnail and press the space bar to get

a larger view of an image. For more information, see

“To view Organizer

palette thumbnails with Quick Preview” on page 78.

New! Document-aware slider values

Tool sizes are now document-aware, so the maximum size of the tool is

relative to the size of your document, making it easier to set the tool size

you need for your project. For more information, see “Adjusting general

viewing options” on page 725.

Welcome 5

Installing and uninstalling Corel programs

The Installer makes it easy to install Corel® programs and components.

Before installing

• Close all open programs. Note that antivirus software and firewall

applications may affect installation.

• Ensure that you are logged in to your computer as Administrator or

as a user with local administrative rights.

64-bit and 32-bit installation options

The Corel PaintShop Pro installer installs the 32-bit or 64-bit version of

the application by detecting and matching the version to your operating

system. For 64-bit systems, after the initial installation, you can choose

to add the 32-bit version. This will let you use any 32-bit plug-ins or

other 32-bit compatible software with the 32-bit version of Corel

PaintShop Pro, but still work with the 64-bit version of the application to

take advantage of 6 or more GB RAM and other 64-bit optimized

features.

Note: If you install 64-bit and 32-bit versions, the programs are listed

separately and launched separately from the Windows Start menu or

Star t screen.

To install Corel PaintShop Pro

1 Close any open applications.

2 Insert the DVD in the DVD drive or double-click the associated .exe

file that you downloaded.

If the DVD setup does not start automatically, navigate to the DVD

drive on your computer, and double-click

Setup.exe.

3 Follow the instructions on your screen.

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To uninstall Corel PaintShop Pro

1 Open the Windows Control Panel.

2In the

Programs category, click the Uninstall a program link.

3In the

Programs and Features window, click

Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 in the list of applications.

4Click

Uninstall/Change.

5 Follow the instructions on your screen.

Starting and exiting the program

Yo u c a n s t a r t C o r e l PaintShop Pro from the Windows taskbar or your

desktop icon, and exit the program from the File menu.

To start Corel PaintShop Pro

•From the Start menu, choose All Programs 

Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 or use the Corel PaintShop Pro 2018

application icon or tile on your desktop or Start screen.

If you associate specific file formats, such as JPEG and TIFF, with

Corel PaintShop Pro, you can double-click the associated file to

start the program. For information about setting file format

associations, see “Setting file format associations” on page 713.

To exit Corel PaintShop Pro

• Choose File  Exit.

Registering Corel products

Registering Corel products is important to ensure that you receive timely

access to the latest product updates, as well as valuable information

about product releases. Registration also gives you access to free

downloads, articles, tips and tricks, and special offers.

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