A bit of help with paint shop pro 8 please

Open the pictures you want to work with and use your mouse - click the blue at the top (where your picture title is) to drag them. Paint Shop Pro 8 for Dummies is a huge help. The version of the book (8, 9, etc.) really doesn't matter for the basics.

Have you tried Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/downloads/)? It is absolutely legal & free Also, if you have pictures in photobucket at all, you can do basics there as well. If you click to edit the picture, options will pull up -- including adding text.

A little warning, though. Many people hate the layout of gimp. You'll face the same problem you did with PSP unless you experiment. I suspect that's the real problem here, you just aren't very practiced when it comes to working with image editing photos.

There's really only one solution. Experiment. As long as you don't save over a picture accidentally everything can be undone or deleted. Don't be afraid to try things out. Everyone has to figure this stuff out.

If you do need help in Paint Shop Pro, I can help. To open the pictures simply go to 'File' at the top of the screen, click it and a drop-down bar should appear, then click open and it should open up the photos. If you want to change through photos, got to 'Windows' at the top and click it, go down and it should say which one is open, you can then change it. To make signature backgrounds, all you have to do is look at where it says colors and swatches. First, press 'File' at the top of the screen and press New. A window should appear saying something about dimensions. Make the dimensions 550 x 134. It should then open. Now go to where it says colors and swatches and select a pattern. On the left-side of the screen, change to the brush or fill icon. Then simply go over the area. To mask out parts of images, go to the image and go to the left-side of the screen and choose an icon that should either look like a lasso or a box. Then go up to the part at the top where it shows the lasso or box icon and choose Point-to-Point in the Selection box. Then you are ready to mask, all you have to do is select the tool and go around the part of the photo you want on your signature. When you have finished masking, right-click on the mouse and it should show your selection, then cut or copy the photo. You may have to resize but I'll only go into that if you have to. Then change the window to the signature base and paste the masked out part of the image. Then if you want, you can add text by pressing the A icon on the left-side. Simply choose the part where you want text and then click. A box should then show up, type your text in there. Then press Apply. Then go to 'File' and Save. Save to wherever you want and then upload to Photobucket or Imageshack and post the image here. If this is too hard to follow, I could make you a video or give you lots of screenshots. I really hope this helps,

Jackz, Jazzy & Ginga.

I used this tutorial when I made my sig.

http://www.astahost.com/info.php/Pho...res_t4523.html

It's all about copying and pasting..

I have a whole series of "101 Tutorials" on using Paint Shop Pro. It's done using version 8.1, but should work in PSP 7 and higher. However, there are some newer tools in version 10 and up that aren't obviously covered.

http://www.lofty-designs.net/

Click on "Enter" read and accept the terms. Then click on "Tutorials" in the sidebar.

There is also a whole bunch of artwork that you can download and use for your sigs and other tags etc. Just click "Tubes" in the sidebar.

When you hit paste it will paste into whatever you have currently selected. If you want to make a new picture you have to go to File>New project/image. Choose the size, it'll make it, then select it (click on it's title bar), and then go up to paste.

You need to save the image as a .jpg. Open the file and click "save as". At the bottom it says "Save as type" you need to scroll down to jpg. Name the file and click save... You should be able to upload it after it is a jpg.

I don't know if it has more features, it's just the program I've adapted to. LOL

I just wanted to make a teeny tiny suggestion. When you are selecting around your image, try to get as tight to the kitty as possible and then you want to feather the image. It makes the lines disappear and looks more "natural".

That's a pretty good signature for a starter Although, it does need a feather, if you want to know how to feather in PSP 8, just ask me ;]. A feather around the image is all you need, with a little bit of help from us, you might become the next icklemiss ;]

Jackz, Jazzy & Ginga.

ETA: Where did you get that background, is it a stretched image or is it a background, it looks pretty good.

Quick question. What's your computer's stats? - CPU and ram.

Go to the My Computer icon and right click and choose properties and copy the info beside processor and RAM

I'm not so sure why strange_wings would want your Memory & Processor. Perhaps because strange_wings wanted to find out if you could run Paint Shop Pro x3. I've ran it with only one gig of RAM and it was fun so you shouldn't have a problem. To feather, when you mask, find a button that should say 'Feather' and should say a number underneath. There should then be an arrow pointing down, click that and change the feathering amount. Then mask and once you are finished, it should deliver a great image! To do it in Paint Shop Pro x3, once you mask, go into the 'Selection' button in the toolbar at the top of the screen, click that and then click 'Modify' then you should see 'Feather' I hope this helps!

Jackz, Jazzy & Ginga.

Probably because her PC said she was out of memory running just the old version

^Exactly. My guess is that she simply had too much stuff open, then. Poorly written software with memory leaks. There's no reason 4 gigs of ram wouldn't be enough.

Oh, and you said the image you saved disappeared? You likely didn't choose your own destination folder. Simply check in the program folder for PSP's folder and see if it in there. Baring that, check my images or one of the other default windows folders.