Corel Paint Shop Pro X7 Basic Overview & Tutorial

This is a great starter video for beginner users of Corel Paint Shop Pro. You'll be given an overview of user interface as well as basic tools that can be used to start working on a project.

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hey guys it's michael stewart here with
another quick card venture bro tutorial
today we'll be taking a quick look at
the Edit workspace so this here we have
it the Edit workspace to access it you
will just click the Edit tab here at the
top you're usually started off with the
managed arm workspace so you just click
the Edit work top of the top so for in
the Edit youth if you're doing advanced
changes to photos if you're doing arm
graphic design project working on
graduate graphic design projects this is
the workspace that you find yourself
using the most so it has a file menu
which is typical too many applications
you can go there to open new documents
you can open files you can find files
that you have recently been working on
then you have the edit that gives you a
standard options copy piece copy special
you paste new images here paste new
layers and so forth then you also have
the image where that allows you to crop
images resize images make basic changes
to the general orientation of images in
terms of sizing flipping mirroring and
so forth and then the two most used menu
bar by graphic designers and photo
editors who are are just an effects and
this is just a general seeing I just
anything's I just allows you to
manipulate the colors of photos the
brightness and contrast levels if you're
familiar with levels are human
saturation can add chart mr. photos blur
images can play with the white balance
here and
worth so this is like the the photo this
menu is primarily for photographers
artists image editors persons who want
to play with the the vibrance under
overall color appearance of images and
then you have the effects that allows it
to do
pretty cool stuff like dropping shadows
adding vignette arm turning dreams into
black and white you can add 3d effects
to to certain images and text you want
to give a text or an image drop shadow
bevels and so forth
i'm currently in chopper also so you can
explore most of these on your own moral
PaintShop Pro also comes with texture
effects which I find to be pretty cool
when you go there you'll be able to add
text effects to our various kinds of
materials various kinds of canvases that
you're working on
so give it to give a quick example let
me go up to file new eight and a half by
11 which is a typical exercise so say I
have this document right here and i can
use the flood fill tool to drop our
color on it on to say I'm going to drop
a grown so fill it with grown so go back
to effects with this layer selected go
back to effects texture effects and no
these options become available and then
you can go to texture in texture you can
get to apply various kinds of texture
effect to your material so let me make
it a little bit larger so that it's more
visible
and increase the depth and if you look
closely you'll be able to see that the
the layer here is taking on some texture
sake and click here to change it say
this is a brick wall for example and
here we have it a brick wall texture
effects so this is pretty cool
you can check out other effects here arm
for photographs you have some quick for
the effects that can be used especially
in him and filters so let me quickly
grab our photograph from the internet so
take this image for example that's copy
copy image go back to curl pincha pro
edit paste as newly because we wanted to
be above this layer basis new layer when
he came below can drag it above it
zoom in so with this image selected with
this layer selected you can go back to
FX FX photo effects film and filters and
then with the preview on image selected
you get to see real-time updates so
right now it's on drama
you can change the glamour to for
example warm earth tone and their habits
so these are some quick photo changes
that can be made so with that said you
have this the objects menu top menu bar
the selection menu bar will get to
modify their selections that you make on
your images and any windows that allow
you to change pallets on and so forth
that pilots arm
just various windows related option like
if you wanted to be tired you wanted to
be armed cascades of worth so I / for
fortunately dorm or which option it was
on but you can click this to get back to
the original moment then to your left
hand side you would have the different
tools these are your screw 0r forks and
knives your I'm just kidding
these are just different tools that can
be used to create to play to manipulate
image the edited images of work for
example let's start it up you have the
pan tool which allows you to move left
to right if you're close up the image
and you want to move this can be
accessed by hitting the spacebar as well
so for example you're using this to hear
if you press spacebar you can access
immediately access the pan tool to move
the areas that you want to work on and
to zoom in and out i'm actually using
the the mouse wheel to rolling it back
and forth for to zoom in backwards some
zoom out then you have the pick tool
with the pic to this is useful for
making quick selections on screen so
it's pretty it's like selecting
different layers here just that you're
doing it on the project itself so i want
to select the screening the file the
image here of this guy you click it here
it's the same thing here i want to know
to let the brown background i select
over here you see a selection is made
here and you know that a selection has
been made when it's highlighted over
here on the left-hand side the
right-hand sides are then you have the
magic ones and other selection tools so
this is the pick tool and these are the
selection tools and you can click this
this down arrow to access different
types of selection tools
the regular selection to which you you
you typically get a square selection
rectangle selection control b2b select
and then you have the freehand selection
to magic one selection tools so all of
which can explore known they have the
drop dropper tool this tool allows you
to color peak so say for example you
want to to access a specific color on
the screen for example this this pinkish
purplish color you can click it here and
then you have the that particular color
available up here for you to use in
whatever way our format you want for
example say i want to make the
background the same colors this I would
copic for example a doctor here because
it has been changed go to my float for
the to go back to my background and
spread that color now I have that exact
color that is on the geyser as my
background then you have the where was I
the crop tool so drop to allows you to
do what it says crop images select
portions of image you would want on the
unselected era will be removed so if i
want his face here select his face and
then click apply balm now we have a
cropped image and control said to undo
control D to deselect these these are
straight and tools and perspective to
zzz to adjust different folders for
example it if you had taken a photograph
of our building and it's a beat arm the
ugliness are wrong you can use that tool
to create a Kart anger but these this
wood will be explained in future
tutorials you have the red-eye to remove
it I me too i'm the clone tool which is
quite useful so thrown two can be used
in various ways it can also be used to
remove blemishes
how it works is that it copies are
selected here and put it onto another
year
let's use the this image of the guy for
example I'm going to right-click on his
forehead here to meet my first elected
notice asked have a select another
circular wherever I think it will create
a copy of this era on to that era
so let's do this as you can see i'm
copying his forehead right here and
bring it over onto his I bro
thus removing his I bro so you can find
various uses uses usage are usages for
this tool there a made something quick
really cool we just remove his I rose in
just a few clicks just a few clicks then
you have the paintbrush to allows it to
draw this sharpen brush
well not the Charmin brush but different
brushes brushes i can be used to do
different things like you can sharpen
different ears like the eyes can sharpen
the eyes we compared with Sony whereas
this one is no sharp so you can pretty
much explore them all to see what they
all do they had the area's a tool allows
it to various parts of your image was
not selected so as you can see I'm areas
in part of the image to review the the
era middle racing parts of the image and
then the flood field to which I showed
how to use and a picture stump gives a
different images stumps of images that
came with the application you can also
add your own then the text to let you
use the add text to your project for
example my with select the text to click
on the screen
my name is Michael so you can use this
to add different texts to you screen the
shapes era can add symmetrical shapes
eclipse which are pretty much overs and
circles rectangles and squares and so
forth and you have the pen tool which
allows you to draw arm different shapes
different shapes the water brush which
is pretty cool
this can be used to do a wider range of
things especially what they call
photomanipulation so let's go back to
the same for the copy the same image and
bring it back ctrl-v to paste bring it
to the top
bring it to the top and let's do a
little bit for the manageability arm or
warping so with the warp to selected you
can increase the size and then you can
do things that we can move parts of an
image you can select expand so what this
does it will expand the air you have
selected for example I want to expand
his eyes there we have his eyes alone
being expanded and then contract does
the opposite
I want to contractors nodes make is no
smaller that's how it's done
so also this this tool can be used to
create really crazy for the
manipulations and then I'll brush which
is very similar to your paintbrushes you
can have chopped
so right now it's asking to apply the
the warping and hit OK for it to be
applied so once that has been done so
these are the tools on the left and then
on the right as you may have seen you
how your layers and as well as your
material such as the materials section
is where you excuse me access various
their scholars and so forth then the
layers is where you'll manage the order
in which different fires they have on
your project is orange so i hope this
quick tutorial we went a little bit
longer than expected what I hope it was
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videos thank you very much and peace out