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Newbie's to Advanced
We are proud to announce the NEW Paint Shop Pro X3 release!
Michele's Paint Shop Newbie 101 is dedicated to providing you with free PSP Tubes, Paint Shop Pro X2 Tutorials, and information on Web & Graphic Design optimization. We are and always will be a free non-membership site offering help on one of the best photo editing programs known as Paint Shop Professional Photo. Our visitors will also find tutorials on how to use the popular web design program known as Dreamweaver. Learn how to make custom graphics, tubes, animations, special images such as logos, banners, and even design your own web site. Our site is always fresh and we cater to first timers, beginners, and even the advanced. To all my web visitors, and friends that have supported me all these years I want to thank you. The support inspires me the Paint Shop Pro Lady, to continue building the site which now has over 35,000 unique visitors. We will always do our best to offer you free helpful information, and hope you come back often to support us.
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Tutorials Guide Learn Paint Shop Pro, Dreamweaver, and more.
Our video tutorial training guide section offers a mix of tutorials on Paint Shop Pro, Dreamweaver, Animation Shop, and more. See what our visitors have to say about Michele's Paint Shop in our feedback section!
Paint Shop Professional is the top affordable graphic design program for scrapbooking, web designers, photographers, artists, animation artists, and more. The popularity of this program has grown over the years, and we expect it to continue to get better with each version update.
You will learn how to make your very own graphics which are very popular today with every type of digital project. We use them when making web sites, banners, logos, animations, site headers, business cards, scrapbooks and candy wrapper projects. It is true that you yourself can make professional looking graphics for website's, without spending thousands of dollars, and we will show you how.
Tutorial Mix: The Paint Shop Pro Training videos are set up to quickly and easily show you the steps within the design program. We cut out the technical jargon, and fancy shmancy stuff, so that you can finally learn how to use these programs without confusion. The only thing you need to do is simply watch and learn. If you decide to begin a project and follow our suggestions within our video tutorials you will need some or all of these fine programs. You can grab free trials by following the links below to the Corel secure servers. We highly suggest PSP X2 or the newest version PSP X3 known Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3. Some of our tutorials require an animation program, which is the same program we used to make all of our glitter graphics, and animations. Animation Shop 3 download estimated 11.2 MB in size. As for coding and designing website's, we use the best professional design program known as Adobe Dreamweaver
CS3-CS4, and we highly suggest a Wacom Pen Tablet for those that are serious about their overall graphics and website design.
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Custom Shapes & Accents- Learn how to use Paint Shop Pro to design your own custom shapes which will allow you to make nice accents for your graphic design projects. |
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Gold Beading Accent Tubes Borders- Design your own custom beading accents. Use as pattern fills, and psp tubes to customize your designs. |
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Drawing in Paint Shop Pro- Learn how draw using shapes and paths with Paint Shop Professional. |
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PSP X2 Tutorial Custom Background Patterns- Learn how to make your own backgrounds, patterns and fills with the PSP program. |
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PSP X2 Tutorial Color Illustrations - Learn how to edit and color in illustrations with the PSP program. |
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PSP Lined Notebook Paper Tutorial- Learn how to make lined notebook paper with the PSP program. |
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PSP Makeover Tutorial- Learn how to enhance or change the color of your hair, eyes, and lips on all of your digital photographs. |
Both Web & Graphic Designers
Save time and money with visual learning as videos will save you hours of reading costly books and text website tutorials. Our Graphic and Dreamweaver Video Training tutorials will help and show you the critical steps on how to complete your website project. The basic ideas in these tutorials can be used in graphic programs like Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, and other programs that allow the use of layers. You may have to improvise but the tips here will help you. Last, but not least we help you learn more about website optimization and friendly marketing to get you the quality traffic your website needs to be successful.
PSP Tubes The Tubes News
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PSP Tubes PopularityGraphic Tube Renders are extremly popular in the Internet world. A very large amount of the graphics you see on the Internet today likely started off within Paint Shop Pro. Tubes can be easily found throughout the Internet, and you can start collecting a large mix of transparent tubes to use over and over again. You can quickly make graphics for your profiles on Myspace, Facebook, and any other social network. Make glitter graphics, animations, and more. What would we do without our PSP Tubes! |
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The popular PSP Tube section has a mix of useful tube PSP X2 graphics that you can use for web design, scrapbooking, card design, logos, and more.
Creative Web Design
This entire website was made with Paint Shop Pro and Dreamweaver. We used PSP Tubes to make website banners, buttons, and all our other important website graphics. You can do the same as we offer tutorials on how to tube special graphics and designing a website.
Special Graphic Design
Do you have a special item you've sketched out, or photographs that you would like to become part of a card or a scrapbook? PSP Tubes are the perfect solutions so that you can preserve and use your graphic over and over again in the future. We will show you how.
Backgrounds & Patterns Graphic and Web Design Fills
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This year we are going to feature more backgrounds then ever before. Whether we use them online or off, graphic backgrounds are used in almost every graphic and craft project.
We will feature a sample tab of our new backgrounds here so that you can see what is new right away. We made several new ones recently!
These backgrounds can be used in Paint Shop Pro as Patterns, Fills, and even textures. Some are better for web page design, and others are best for shape - font fills. Enjoy!
Graphic News MixMichele's Paint Shop
Paint Shop Pro Valentines Day Tubes
Paint Shop Pro X3 has been released! New version of Paint Shop Pro X3 has been released! Head on over to Corels page on Paint Shop Photo Pro X3or read more about on our PSP X3 program page!
Annual Bandwidth Fund Drive to keep Michele's Paint Shop up and running until 2011. Watch our video tutorials on DVD so that you can view them at home, on vacation, without delay and interruptions. Our DVD includes bonus picture tubes, gradients, picture frames, and backgrounds. Pretty much everything
we've done in the past two years, and anything new that fits on this DVD -- goes to you!
Read more about what you get with this DVD collection!
Video Tutorials, Patterns 472, Tubes 1,336, PNG 1,319, Gradients 95, Picture Frames 16, Animations 50, Color Pallets 69, and more! Several exclusives that you will not find available on our website.
New Tutorials
Ladybug Clip Art Tutorial- Learn how to use Paint Shop Pro to make a cute ladybug clipart graphic!
Custom Eyes Makeover- Learn how to turn those dull eyes into amazing eyes with Paint Shop Pro. Eye color, makeup, and lashes!
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