Hello, welcome to this tutorial! Let's get a general overview on all
the features and tools inside the newest Corel PaintShop Pro 2019!
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PaintShop Pro is a great photo-editing product made by Corel company,
collecting several workspaces suitable for both beginners and advanced
users. It has everything to manage your photos and professional tools
to apply corrections, adjustments and even special effects to change
their basic appearance.
When opening PaintShop Pro, the Welcome page shows up with news, tips,
extras and tutorials to learn more. Inside Start, you can use New... to
start a new image and Open... to open any of your photos. Under
Workspaces, you choose the interface to use. To see all the features
inside PaintShop Pro, we will use the Complete version throughout
this video.
On top PaintShop shows several buttons, such as the Home button for
the Welcome page, and the Manage, the Adjust and the Edit buttons to
open the respective workspaces. In case you do not see the Adjust
button, you can go to File, Preferences, General Program Preferences...
and, under Tabs, enable Adjust.
The Manage workspace is used to import and organize your photos into
collections; the Adjust workspace to apply basic corrections on your
photos; and the Edit workspace to add advanced modifications and
special effects. Let's start with the Manage workspace!
This workspace is divided in several palettes. On the left you have the
Navigation panel and the Preview; in the centre the list of your photos;
on the right the Info palette. These palettes can be closed and hidden
with their cross button, and reopened by going to View, and then to
Palettes.
The Navigation palette is used to browse for your photos to organize
and edit. This is divided in Computer and Collections. With Computer,
you can browse for your photos inside your computer folders and
hard-drives; with Collections you can find pictures through their
collections, which group photos according to their tags, people, places
and ratings.
Once you select the folder or the collection from the Navigation
palette, all the photos inside will be shown on the center as small
thumbnails that you can zoom in and out with your mouse wheel while
holding down the CTRL key.
To check a photo in full screen mode, double-click on it. At the bottom
you can give your rating, use the zoom bar to zoom in and out, and
pan by clicking and dragging on the picture. Use the arrows to change
the photo and the buttons on the left to rotate or delete it. Use the
Escape key to exit.
You can switch to the Preview Mode to check your photos singularly,
selecting them from the Organizer palette at the bottom. Use the Map
Mode to check where the selected photo has been taken.
At the bottom of the preview, use the Share button to share and export
your photos outside and the Rotate buttons to rotate the selected photo
by 90 degrees.
On the right, the Info palette shows anything regarding the photo
metadata, such as information, people, ratings and places.
To start editing a photo, select one from the list and switch to the
Adjust or the Edit workspace.
The Adjust workspace has a big Preview on the center, showing the
picture selected from the Organizer palette, that you can zoom in and
out by using your mouse wheel and pan by holding down the Space bar
key and clicking and dragging.
At the top, you find the Share, the Rotate button and also the Delete
button to remove the selected picture.
On the left you have the Adjust palette, used to apply corrections
and adjustments on the selected photo. This is divided into the three parts:
you have the Color Histogram on top, several adjustment tools in the
middle, and other corrections listed at the bottom.
The Color Histogram shows the Red, Green and Blue color distribution on
the photo, starting from the left side (darkest parts) to the right side
(lightest parts). To know more regarding this Histogram, just check out
our link inside the video description!
Below the histogram, you have several tools. Enable the Crop Tool to
crop the picture by using the grid on the Preview. Use its nodes to
scale, the central one to rotate and click and slide the grid to move.
You can also click and drag directly on the photo to size the grid.
To apply the cropping just click on Apply.
Inside the Adjust palette you find all the tool options in this case
the Width, Height or the possibility to lock the aspect ratio of
the grid.
If you make any mistake, use CTRL+Z to undo. Use the Undo and the Redo
buttons to undo or redo your last actions made.
Use the Straighten Tool to align the picture horizontally, by stretching
the segment nodes on the Preview and then clicking on Apply.
The Red Eye Tool removes red eyes from people's faces. Set the eye
diameter from the Adjust palette and then click directly on the eyes.
The Makeover Tool collects several tools to correct people's appearance
on the photo. Use Blemish Fixer to correct skin imperfections;
Toothbrush to whiten teeth; Eye Drop to make eyes brighter; and Suntan
to add tanning on skins. Use Thinify to thin people's bodies by clicking
on these. Make sure not to apply this tool too many times, or you obtain
distortion.
The Clone Brush Tool is a very advanced tool used to adjust the
picture colors according to the Blend Mode chosen on the Adjust palette.
On the preview, fix a reference point by right-clicking on the photo.
This is represented as a circle with a cross inside. At this point,
when you brush on the photo, this is edited according to the Blend mode
and where the reference point is. On the Adjust palette set all the
options for your brush.
Below these tools have several corrections that are applied on the
whole picture, without brushing on it.
Depth Selection adjusts the depth of the picture.
Inside Smart Photo Fix you correct the brightness and the colors of
the photo. Use Suggest Settings to apply corrections automatically,
or use the bars below by hand. You can use Brightness to adjust the
brightness level of the whole image; Highlights to correct brightness
on the lighter parts of the image; and Shadows for the darker sides of
it. Use Saturation to set the color intensity. Apply a -100 level to
remove any color and apply a black and white effect.
To edit through these bars, click and drag the marker on these; use
the mouse wheel while hovering over the bars; type the value directly
on the right; and use the arrows next to it.
Inside White Balance use Temperature and Tint to adjust the colors
inside the picture. On Brightness/Contrast you can balance the
brightness with the contrast level on the picture.
Inside Fill Light/Clarity set the effect of the light on the picture,
and Clarity to reduce its blurriness level. Use Vibrancy to adjust the
color contrast.
In addition, use Local Tone Mapping, High Pass Sharpen and Digital Noise
Removal to improve the image quality, reducing the blurriness level of
the contours and any noise.
At the bottom of the Adjust palette, you have two buttons. Use the
Revert button to reset all the modifications on the picture, which
comes back to its original appearance. Click and hold on the Show
Original button to show the original picture on the preview, in order to
make comparisons between its original appearance and the final effect
of all our modifications.
On the right you have the Instant Effects palette, collecting several
special effects to apply to your picture. Choose the category on top
and select an effect from the list to check what it looks like on the
photo. To apply it definitely, just double-click on the effect. You can
use CTRL+Z to undo.
If the tools inside the Adjust workspace are not enough, you can switch
to the Edit workspace. As seen from the previous workspace, you still
have the big preview, showing the picture selected from the Organizer
palette, double-clicking on it.
On the right, you have several useful palettes and, on the left, you
get the Tools toolbar, collecting all the tools available inside
PaintShop Pro. At the top of the preview, you have the Tool Options bar,
with all the options for the tool selected, such as its properties and
brush size.
Some of these tools are the same ones seen on the Adjust workspace, such
as the Crop, the Straighten, the Red Eye or the Clone Brush Tool.
Others are new and advanced, collected inside single buttons. These
are shown as an arrow in a corner. You can click on it to show the
complete list of tools inside.
Some tools such as Paint Brush or Oil Brush, are used to draw on the
picture, by clicking and dragging on it with your left or right click.
From the Materials palette choose the colors to use, such as the
Foreground (left click) and the Background color (right click).
Other tools like the Warp Brush Tool are used to deform the photo
appearance by clicking and dragging on it. You can choose the effect to
apply from the Tool Options bar above.
Below the Paint Brush Tool, you have the adjustment brush tools, which
apply corrections on brightness, contrast and color where you brush on
the picture.
In addition, you can use the Selection Tools to select limited portions
of the picture. This way, if you apply any tool on it, only the
selected area will be affected.
Other tools add extra objects inside the photo, such as text and shapes.
Use the Text Tool to double-click on the photo and start typing. Use
the Tool Options bar to adjust the font style, size and color.
Use the Shape Tool to click and drag on the photo and add regular
objects you can customize through the Tool Options.
To learn more about any selected tool, you can check the Learning
Center palette on the right side of the workspace.
Once you have finished your modifications on the photo, you can save it
by going to File and then to Save As.... Then choose where to save the
photo, its name and its file format on Save as type. In case of .jpg
files, set the compression level, between the best quality and the
smaller file size.
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