Paint Shop Pro Tips

This was taken from an email sent to me from a Paint Shop Pro user group.
It will help you fix some of the errors you receive after running the program over a long period of time.

Resetting PSP to default.

Resetting PSP to default (deleting PSP's registry) can fix many problems within PSP, errors caused by a corrupt registry missing or greyed out tools and other irregularities.
The big draw back from resetting is the loss of custom settings you have made and having to redo the preferences. To delete and re-write PSP's registry (reset defaults) do the following:
Go to START/PROGRAMS/Jasc Software Inc/ PAINT SHOP PRO 7. Immediately after you click on the PAINT SHOP PRO 7 icon press and hold CTRL+ALT on your keyboard.
Paint Shop Pro will ask you if you would like to delete the registry settings for Paint Shop Pro. Select YES.
When Paint Shop Pro opens it will have all the restored features of initial installation.

Freeing space in the PSP Program Folder.
When you applied the PSP Patch 7.02 , Version 7.02 created a backup of version 7 in a folder called Unpatch ( C:\Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 7\Unpatch folder)
The same would apply if you installed the 7.04 patch, a back up of 7.02 would have been created. If you have ran PSP patched versions with no problem then it is unnecessary to keep this folder on your hard drive.
You can copy it to a cd for safe keeping if you like and delete the Unpatch folder, reclaiming up to 62 mgb of disk space.

Freeing memory

Lower the "undo" storage for files
File/Preferences/General Program Preferences, hit the Undo tab and set the undo storage to 15 MB.
If you are working with large graphics and use the undo frequently you may need to set it to 40mgb.

Browser Caches
PSP creates a browser cache when using the browse function in PSP. This enables faster loading of graphics. However if graphics are moved around, stored elsewhere or deleted the browser cache remains the same size and can get very large taking up valuable space. It is advisable to delete them frequently to allow a build of a fresh cache in your files. To do this go to Find files and type in "jbf" without the quotation marks. You will see all the pspbrwse icons appear. Select them all and press delete on your keyboard. The next time you browse in PSP new caches will be built.

Autosave

When PSP crashes or freezes for some reason and you haven't saved your work, you can lose everything,
Go to File > Preferences > Autosave settings.
This will open the Autosave Settings dialogue box, Tick the 'Enable Autosave' box. Set the time schedule you require, 5 minutes should be sufficient. Click OK. Autosave is now enabled and your work will automatically be saved to the temp file every 5 minutes. If PSP crashes you can re-open and your work will be loaded as before.

Save Worktop

When you save your workspace, you will be saving settings for your toolbar, palettes, also settings for your rulers and grids plus image information including image position in your workspace etc., so that you can return to your project at a later time.
Go To >File > Workspace > Save. The standard "Save as" dialogue box will appear. It will ask you for a file location you wish to save your workspace to. Workspace will be saved in a .wsp format, so you need to give it a name eg: project2.wsp.
Next time you open PSP go to File > Workspace > Load. The workspace will remember the locations of your graphics so it is important that you do not move them after saving the workspace.

Tools greyed out

The majority of tools will only function on a image with a colour depth of 16.7 million colours (24 bit). To restore your image to 24 bit, Go to Colours > Increase Colour Depth > 16 Million. Now all of your tools should be active except the tools that require a selection.

Using Fonts in PSP

Having too many fonts installed on your system can cause PSP to load slower, as it has to load all the fonts. PSP can use any font that is not installed. Open the font file you wish to use, by double clicking on the font icon, and minimize it on your desktop. That font will now show up in the font list in the 'Text' dialogue box.

Screen Shots

If you want to make a screen shot of your work or tools in PSP, or anywhere else on your computer. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard, right click on your PSP workspace and "Paste as new image" you can then crop your screen shot down to size and use.

Previous File Formats

PSP, by default will want to save all your new images as .psp files, which can be annoying when working mostly with jpg's To avoid this, open the General Program Preferences, hit the Dialogues and Palettes Tab, check the box "Remember last type used in file save-as dialogue".

Floating tool bars/palettes
While working on a project particularly when lasooing an image, the tool palettes tend to get in the way. Just press the tab key on your keyboard to make them disappear and press the tab key once more to make them reappear.

Crop Tool

Make your selection on the graphic, and double click outside your selected area still on the graphic and your picture will crop automatically
Always use the crop tool and not the selection tool to "cut" an image for a clean outline. The selection too tends to leave and edge of white pixels (unless using for a seamless selection)

Sharpen Option

When making a graphic smaller, got to effects > sharpen once, this will bring back the clarity of the pixels that are lost when shrinking the graphic.

Applying Shadow
While the image that you are applying shadow to is surrounded by the selection go to Selections > Modify > Contract and contract by 1 pixel this will prevent a ragged white appearance around the graphic after shadow has been applied.

PSP Colour Palette

For those of you who like to have a range of colours and the hexadecimal value for stationery etc. Got to File > Program Preferences > Make sure the hexadecimal preference box is ticked and untick " use standard Windows colour picker". This will give you a slider bar choices on hues/sat/light and red/blue/green along with other useful information in the colour dialogue box. Which will enable you a far greater range in colours.

Colour Option Effect

This is a very little used option in PSP that enhances the colours of graphics. Effects > Enhance Photo > Automatic Colour Balance.
A nice little tool that allows you to make the colours look warmer or cooler. I find it invaluable.
Likewise the option of Effects > Enhance Photo > Clarify enhances and clarifies the colours.
The effects that are under the tools of "Enhance Photo" are very useful effects and are not restricted to Photo's.
Try them out on your graphics.

Common Ground, October 2013 issue [Full PDF Post]

This is a magazine I’ve just found and I decided to post it to share it.

Inside the Features section of the table of contents lists these articles and more…

Page
6  Doctor  Thierry Vrain GMO Whistleblower
8  GMO or OMG is this the end of real food?
10 Do we need vaccines?
12 GMO Bites
14 Join the Vancouver March Against Monsanto Oct 12th (already  
     missed it, sorry).
20 Healing heart disease with vitamin C and lysine
27 Stop GMO salmon

Also in their Columns section they have departments on Culture, Environment, Health, Organics and Spirituality.

Here are a couple sample pages to take a peek at.


View it along with hundreds of others here…
Download the PDF file here…

Complete Idiots Guide to Playing the Guitar pdf free ebook download from www.jmucreate.com

This is a great starter lesson for learning to play the guitar and it's free.

How can anyone top that?

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I quick music vid made using Winamp, Milkdrip 2 & WebCamMax

I made a video tonight using Winamp, MilkDrop Visualizations (It comes bundled for free with the free current version of Winamp), and I recorded it with  WebCamMax.

One thing you should know about most screen capturing software is that with just about every program I've used you can not record internal sound from your sound card. What I always ended up doing is record the video and then overlay the sound track onto it. WebCamMax allows you to use systen sound and that's good because of syncronization between the sound and scenes.

I did this quick version to show you what you can do with next to no costs. I didn't make a production out of it. I just kept it simple and basic.

This is Danielle Dax playing The Evil Honky Stomp.

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials made easy using WebCamMax and Medhi plugin filters Free

Last night I went about searching for screen capture/webcam software to make a Paint Shop Pro tutorial with.
Of course I have screen capture software, I must have 10 different programs but none do both and none of them record the sound properly.
In the past I would have to make the video, then play it back and record a sound track while watching it and then use Format Factory to convert the video and add the sound track to it as a layer.
Well I finally found a decent program called WebCamMax that does it all in one straight shot. The vid format is mp4 which is a bonus too. It creates fantastic screen captures for recording events, processes (I haven't tried recording movies with it yet) , it also adds some interesting effects to the webcam side. I don't webcam at all but I do have 4 grandsons that I might like to record some silly stuff for. As far as that goes, there are 100's of nifty little tricks you can use with your webcam for chat or just recording a film type greeting with. Backgrounds ranging from being on a stage to appear in a mirror or other just plain silly things. There are also effects to give you a fat head (I know I'm gonna like that one), silly hats and cartoon type things on the screen with you. I think you can even make your own and import them too.

This is my first shot run. I know the sound isn't up loud enough, but it was my first attempt and I had to test it. Plus it was 3:30 AM and my Lovely Daughter didn't need me making huge noise to mess up her final hours of sleep before going to school.

This is just a basic hand tinting method made using Medhi's Eraser Genuine filter and Paint Shop Pro 7.04. It is a beginners tut and therefore if you know anything about filters and layers you are probably way beyond the scope of this lesson.

Still I share it with you anyway.



Format Factory is 100% Free and by far the best vidio/audio conversion program out there [LINK]
Medhi offers 28 free filters for use with Adobe, Jasc, Corel Products as well as Irfanview, it also is 100% Free [LINK]
WebCamMax can be gotten from here [LINK], Note, if you do buy it buy soon because they are offering a 50% discount "$24.95" for a short period of time. I will delete that last note when I see that the offer has ended
Irfanview is not used in this topic, but I let the name slip and they deserve credit. Irfanview is also free and by far it is the best image viewing, cataloging, converting, web page building, screensaver making, program ever written. For more info on it go to the top of this page and type it into my search field and read my other 2 or 3 posts on it. One will even show you how to make your own Karaoke files using it, another shows how to publish web pages and another is just a features overview. [LINK]

The best and fastest image viewer made is Irfanview!!!

Irfanview is by far the best image viewing tool out there. It can also play many media formats, like mp3, mpg, mpeg, flash content like flv games or the older swf files and many others.

Beyond that Irfanview can build you web pages to display pictures to share. It makes the thumbnails and puts them on an index page and then if makes a page for each image to view full sized. You can use some included filters to touch up the images or you can add filters to do even more.

It is in no way comparable to Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro, but it's not intended to be. Instead it's a stand alone application that you can run from a flash drive and take with you in your pocket without installing anything on a computer I find that handy when showing pictures to others on the fly or getting images from them without having the proper program required to view them. Like when I go to OfficeMax to get larger sized prints and need to check format requirements.

If you decide to install I recommend you install the addons package. It's tiny and useful

Irfanview [Computer version]
Irfanview [Flash drive version]
Plugins
Sample page

*WARNING:

 "Some NSFW content on page. It is just my animated gif page that I use for posting from."

These are the file formats/extensions supported by the current version of IrfanView: AIF¹, ANI, AU¹, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CRW/CR2, CUR, DAT¹,DCM/ACR, DCX, DDS, DIB, DJVU, DLL/EXE, DXF/DWG/HPGL/CGM/SVG, ECW, EMF,EPS/PS/PDF/AI, EXR, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, GLCD, HDP/WDP, HDR,ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JLS, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, Mac PICT², MAG, MED,MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, MPO, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PDF, PDN, PGM, PIC, PhotoCD,PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PVR, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLE, RMI, SFF,SFW, SGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF/FLV, SND¹, TGA, TIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL,WAV, WBMP, WMF, WMA, WMV, WBC/WBZ, WEBP, WSQ, XBM, XCF, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F, RW2, NRW). ¹ Microsoft's Media Player program is required for these formats. ² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats. Note: Many of these formats are supported through PlugIns, check the table below and read the file "i_plugins.txt" for more infos. PlugIns Download: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm IrfanView Formats Overview: Extension Format name Open Save AIF Sound file, Audio Interchange Format YES¹ ³ ANI Animated Cursor format for Microsoft Windows YES AU, SND Encoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines YES¹ ³ AVI, WMV, ASF Audio Video Interleaved: Microsoft's video for Windows YES B3D BodyPaint 3D Format YES³ BMP, DIB Windows Bitmap YES YES CAM Casio digital camera file YES³ (JPG version) CLP Windows clipboard format YES CPT CorelDraw Photopaint image YES (CPT version 6) CRW, CR2 Canon RAW image YES³ CUR Cursor Resource file format for Microsoft Windows YES DCM, ACR, IMA Dicom/ACR file format for medical images YES³ DCX Multipage PCX files format YES DDS Direct Draw Surface YES³ DJVU, IW44 DjVu file format YES³ DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG CAD formats YES³ ECW Enhanced Compressed Wavelet YES³ YES³ EMF Enhanced Metafile Format YES YES EPS, PS, PDF, AI PostScript formats YES³ EXR OpenEXR format YES³ FITS Flexible Image Transport System YES³ FLI, FLC Autodesk animation format YES² ³ FPX FlashPix format YES³ FSH EA Sports FSH format YES³ YES³ G3 Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format YES³ GIF Graphics Interchange Format YES YES HDP, WDP Microsoft HD Photo format YES³ HDR High Dynamic Range YES³ ICL, EXE, DLL Icon Library formats YES (icons) ICO Windows Icon YES YES IFF, LBM Interchange File Format YES IMG GEM Raster image YES³ JLS JPEG-LS, Lossless JPEG YES³ JP2, JPC, J2K JPEG 2000 format YES³ YES³ JPG, JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group YES YES JPM JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm YES³ YES³ KDC Kodak digital camera format YES³ Mac PICT, QTIF Macintosh PICT format YES² ³ MED MED/OctaMED sound format YES³ MID, RMI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) YES³ MNG, JNG Multiple Network Graphics YES³ MOV, MP4 QuickTime Movie format YES² ³ MP3 MPEG audio layer 3 format YES³ MPG, MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group format YES¹ ³ MrSID, SID LizardTech's SID Wavelet format YES³ DNG, EFF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF, ARW PEF, X3F, RW2, NRW Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma) YES³ NLM/NOL/NGG/OTB/GSM Nokia/LogoManager files YES³ OGG OGG Vorbis audio format YES³ PBM Portable Bitmap file format YES YES PCX PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation YES YES PCD Kodak Photo CD YES PDN Paint.NET file format YES³ PGM Portable Greymap file format YES YES PIC Softimage PICT YES³ PNG Portable Network Graphics YES YES PPM Portable Pixelmap format YES YES PSD Adobe PhotoShop format YES PSP Paint Shop Pro file format YES³ RAS, SUN Sun Raster format YES³ RA RealAudio sound format YES³ RAW Raw (binary) data YES³ RLE Utah RLE format YES³ SFF Structured Fax File YES³ SFW Seattle Film Works format YES³ SGI, RGB, RGBA Silicon Graphics format YES³ SWF, FLVFLV Macromedia's Flash/Shockwave format YES³ TGA Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) YES YES TIF, TIFF Tagged Image File Format YES YES TTF True Type Font YES³ TXT Text (ASCII) file YES WAD WAD3 game format YES³ WAL Quake 2 textures YES³ WAV, WMA Windows audio file YES³ WBC/WBZ WebShots formats YES³ WBMP WAP Bitmap format YES³ WEBP Weppy file format YES³ YES³ WMF Windows Metafile format YES WSQ Wavelet Scaler Quantization YES³ XBM X11 Bitmap YES³ XCF GIMP file format YES³ XPM X11 Pixmap YES³ ¹ Microsoft's Active Movie program is required for these formats. ² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats. ³ PlugIn is required for these formats, see above for download.

Run pretty much your whole internet from a flash drive

This is My Portable Apps.coms freeware flash drive browser and programs post.

This is my version of a quick walk-through for setting up a flash drive that you can use for most everything from browsing the Internet more safely than from your installed browser on your computer.

Most of the setup is just a straight single download from http://portableapps.com/, a few are add-ons available through Firefox's add-ons.

I'm having a little trouble explaining these progs in simple terms as a group, so instead I'll just list my favorite ones and explain a little about them separately.

First of course is Firefox for browsing. I also have the full version installed on all of my computers and love it, but it has a few drawbacks. The biggest is the fact that it's a memory fiend. I have seen mine use up to 8 or 900 MB ram and even more some times and that's just with it opened and running in the background. I have an Intel 2.2 gigs dual core with 3 GB memory installed that can barely run with Firefox opened on it sometimes because after you used 85% of your computer just to open a page you barely have anything left to run the rest of the computer with and no, I can't just add more memory because Win XP will only see 3 gigs of ram and anything more added will be ignored.

That piece of crap Pentium is the reason I searched for and found this program in the first place.

With Firefox you will notice that some pages load a little slower, but the trade-off is well worth the extra time in page loads. Next I'll try to explain what I think are a few of the advantages to running Firefox off of a flash drive...

No more Internet browser history stored on your computer. This should also mean that bad scripts (Web trackers, spy-ware, browser attacking scripts) should not effect your computer but instead they would be confined to the settings on the flash drive. To take advantage of this fully I set up the flash drive fully and then made a new folder on my Hard drive called "Flash Drive Settings". I then copied all of the files from the drive and placed them into that folders as copies to be used later as a clean install. Now I can just delete everything on the flash drive whenever I want to and copy the files back in as new copies and it's all back to the original again in about 2 minutes.

Some things though like text files, favorites and browser extension settings you may not want to lose the information from, in those cases you can take a snapshot of your settings and just use that to update with and get back your work or settings from, more on that in a minute.

With Firefox I have a couple ad-dons that I'm not sure I could do without. These are ScrapBook Plus and Ant tool-bar.

Scrapbook Plus is a page capture prog and a bookmarks organizer, With it you can select a portion of a page by highlighting it and save it as an offline page or an image, I use that feature for registration codes for purchased programs and receipts for purchases like items bought on Amazon.
The way you would back up or save settings from ScrapBook is to click View in sidebar and from there select Import/Export settings and select Export all, later you just import that file again and every-thing's set back to the way you had it before. Here is the link for ScrapBook Plus "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbook-plus/"

Ant down-loader is a video/audio down-loader that will snag just about any video out there with just a single click and it runs on very little resources. There are many others out there, but most hog up memory and slow you down to next to nothing when yer trying to do something else while you wait for your movie to download.

This is the download page for Ant down-loader http://antcom-video-downloader.en.softonic.com/, you can get it there or even easier, you can just type in ant.com into the plug-ins search in Firefox and grab it that way and that's how I get it usually.

After all of that we get to the programs.

There are tons of games and apps, I did grab Cribbage, but it's not that great. There are a lot of others too like Solitaire and some other java-script games. I don't bother with those much though.

Here are a few that I consider to be "Must Have" programs and a word or two about them

Notepad ++. It's what I'm typing this on right now... LOL
This program runs on next to nothing, but includes everything. It has spell check and many features that you may not realize you need until you try them. One thing it can do is replace a phrase across many pages and do them all in one shot. I use this feature for html editing. It's convenient when making multiple pages that are similar, but with different content, like videos and flash games. I just write out my html with file names like ???.jpg, ???.swf and [New Link].html and change them to fit the actual content intended, like ???.jpg becomes super_mario_thumb.jpg, ???.swf becomes super_mario.swf and the {New Link].html becomes nintendo_home.html to return the user back to the main index section of Mario games.

Another feature of it is you can test out your html in I.E., Firefox, Chrome or Safari to fine tune it or check for browser compatibility

Next is VLC Media Player. VLC is by far the most complete media player out there. It will do so much that I can't get into it all in this post, but a few features are that it will run swf files, almost any media content and it comes with all codecs you need. It will repair damaged or broken video files as long as you have enough of a file for it to read from. It cannot fix files with no content (0.00 MB), nothing can do that.
You can record straight off of it too. This comes in handy if you want to record a film. Just get the Internet web address of the file out of the page properties and copy it, then open it in VLC and click record. It'll record what you want of it in sections or as a whole and from there you can add subtitles or effects or whatever.


Next is Irfanview, that's one of the fastest image viewers. It also supports plug-ins from just about any program out there. FilterFactory offers some nice plug-ins for free and some of those crappy imaging editors have a few nice plugin filters that come with them that you can copy and put into a folder that Irfanview can use to apply effects to your images for free.

A couple more features are it will make web pages for you that offer thumb-nailed views of what you want to share and full screen sub-pages. Here is an example of one I made using gifs I commonly use in pages [My Gif Page]. You can also make screen-savers from your own images and flash files with music added to the background to share as YouTube like video's.

Next is 7Zip free. It will extract zip files along with some other compression file types and you can safe store your data in your own folders to reduce size and you can protect them using password encryption.

Other than that there are a bunch of "just for fun" apps. I kinda like CamStudioPortable for messing around with cam pictures and I'm sure there's more, but I stopped with those because I want to keep this running on an 8 gig drive and I can still import or export to my main programs for doing the rest of whatever else I might want to do.

LOL, here's my pic on Cam Studio...

All in all I think that it's great to have everything all contained on one flash drive that I can stick into my pocket and use safely on any other computer and not have to rely on remembering personal settings or passwords or links or whatever, makes sharing some of the more interesting stuff a lot easier too.

Support the Future of Mankind with Occupy & Education!!!

Support the Future of Mankind  

with  

Occupy & Education!!!

This film has a lot to say about what's going on right now and has been going on for a long time.

The advice is older, the situation remains and has even gotten worse!

Open up your eyes and try to see what's going on while you still can...

NOTES:

Uploaded by UFOTVstudios on Nov 18, 2011

Full Length Feature - Since our nation's inception in 1776 - cold, cunning conspirators have sought to undermine our political sovereignty for their own personal profit. Behind a facade of corporate and congressional respectability, a cabal of ruthless men use extortion and murder to steal our nation's wealth and turn the United States into a fascist war-machine that inexorably threatens the entire world. But now at last, the American people are rising to unmask "THE ENEMY WITHIN"!

COMING TO DVD from UFOTV - The Enemy Within - LOADED with Bonus Features and Film Extras - Go to http://www.UFOTV.com

Other Comments:

1. Its the hangman for Bush, Blair, Obama, Brezinski and all the duel nationality US/Israeli Zionist Neo cons that where behind 9-11 and all the recent wars.
2. to let the elite gain the power they need, an army is needed. so what has to happen is: the soldiers themseves should just stop obeying! just like chaplin said in the movie "the great dictator".... when that happens, than world peace is near... since soldiers are too stupid to think for themselves.... there will never be peace and the elite will win.... get used to that and stop wining... or else, turn against the elite! although you know you are in grave danger by doing so.
3. Well Russia can dig and bury the nuke underground then detonate it or high above the earth  but you are right a hole would be better.
4.  
   but they try to keep money and to have money after!
   the blind guys give the system money so they dont want to wake you up
   if you wake up- the rich one loose power, and noone want to loose power.
   so, they keep his power
   power_money
   money_people
   people_blind and trustfull in goverm.
   blind_give money to the rulers of power
   the sýstem is Evil.
5. Most of the people choose to defend, in an active or passive fashion, the current order of things mostly because of ignorance and comfort. People are taught since childhood to think and act only in their own personal best interest in order to aggressively seek power and material wealth, to bury compassion and any other normal human value. It is sad to see that too many people plan their lives like a business investment, accepting less and less time for themselves and their families.
6. Wake up and join the light - because it only takes a little light within darkness to render it obsolete.
7. What an a hole.
8. i knew this shit was gonna be crazy when the film started with star wars like ships and shit. 
9. I felt like that too, but I did it anyway....they know something is wrong...that is when they aren't keeping up with Hollywood or filing their nails! I shared it anyway and so should you!
10. Thank you so much for this very wonderful upload. I learned more in the 55 minutes than I did in my school years. Cannot begin to thank you enough! It all rings true. It all rings true! So what can we do now?

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Support the Future of Mankind with Occupy & Education!!!