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Mixed PSP tutorials, also Dreamweaver, Website Optimization and more.
Why Video Tutorials? Internet Service Providers are offering faster connections around the world and due to this I made the decision to try my success with switching over to video tutorial training to all of myvisitors. We specialize in offering free tutorials in simple terms and we cut out all the confusing jargon and explain things in plain English. Video tutorials are the happy medium that caters to both visual and audio learning levels. The point of video tutorials is not to always follow along, but to see how things are actually done which helps you learn more at a faster pace. See what others are saying by viewing some of our feedback.
Tutorial Notes & Tips: The tutorials here use Paint Shop Pro, but can be used in other graphic programs like Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, and other programs that allow the use of layers. Our web design tutorials are are for Dreamweaver, but you can use any HTML editor as the tips here will help you. If you are new to Paint Shop Pro Training Tutorials we have put together a Program set-up page to learn more about the PSP Toolbar, and PSP Menu Bar.
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials Video Tutorials List:
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Installing Fonts in Paint Shop Pro- Learn how to download, and extract fonts to your computer so that Paint Shop Professional will use them. This tutorial will help you also install fonts for your other graphic design programs. Having mixed fonts is an excellent source for every kind of graphic design project and more. | |||
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Making Bows Tutorial- Learn how to make cute bows to use as graphic accents, for scrapbooking, web design, and more. Learn how to use the shapes, paths, flood fill, selection tools, effects, and more. | |||
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Dingbats Animation Tutorial- Learn how to take all those great Dingbat fonts you have and turn them into clean soft great graphic accents, and or animations. Learn how to use the text tool, layers, selection tools, effects, and more. | |||
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Graphic Sticker Style Tutorial- Learn how to make nice smooth outline sticker style graphics with this PSP tutorial. Learn how to give your graphics that nice smooth outline style. Learn how to use tubes, materials, layers, selection tools, effects, adjustments, and more. | |||
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Web Page Layout Tutorial (Part 1) - Learn how to take make a web page layout with this PSP tutorial. Learn how to make a fixed width layout so that you can have a custom design style on your own website. Learn how to use preset shapes, materials, layers, selection tools, effects, adjustments, and more. Sample 1 - 2 - 3 | |||
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Web Page Slicing Tutorial (Part 2) - Learn how to slice your custom designed layouts so that they are fluid vertically, and optimized for the search engines. This will prepare you for a lifetime of fun custom Web Design. Go to part three after viewing this tutorial. | |||
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Web Page Dreamweaver Tutorial (Part 3) - Learn how use your new custom designed layouts in Dreamweaver so that it grows vertically as you add content, and optimized for the search engines. Learn how to use Dreamweaver and CSS for editing your custom designed layout. Part 3 using your layout in Dreamweaver or a favorite HTML editor is part of a level 1 series we are doing. 3 parts in all. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Continuous Tube Settings- Learn how to set the tube tool settings so that you can use continuous tubes. This will show you how you can easily use letter X, circles, dots, ellipse tubes and more to make ropes, chains, wires, strings, and more. Video instruction only. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Outline Lineart Color Change- Learn how to edit outline and line art color with the PSP program and a free plug in. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, selections, and more. Video instruction only. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial Custom Background Patterns- Learn how to make your own backgrounds, patterns and fills with the PSP program. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, 3D Effect known as Cutout, selections, and more. Once you learn these techniques you can make website backgrounds, scrapbooking papers, and other great graphics. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial Country Pottery Stoneware- Learn how to make pottery stoneware items with the PSP program. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, 3D Effect known as Cutout, Gaussian Blur, preset shapes, and more. Once you learn these techniques you can make several pieces for your pottery collection graphics. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial convert .abr files into psp brushes - Learn how to What if you have a bunch of .abr files and you cannot load them in your Paint Shop Pro Photo program? We can convert our .abr files into psp brushes quickly and easily. Video instruction only. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial Color Illustrations - Learn how to edit and color in illustrations with the PSP program. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, 3D Effect known as Cutout, Gaussian Blur, Transparency and more. You can use the final project on your desktop, web pages, scrapbooking, printing, and more. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial Coloring Illustrations- Learn how to make a custom design calendar with the PSP program. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, psp paintbrush, text tool, and more. This tutorial will also show you how to save your work so that you can go back and enter new date events to your calendar. | |||
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PSP Lined Notebook Paper Tutorial- Learn how to make lined notebook paper with the PSP program. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, psp paintbrush, selection tool, eraser, and more. This tutorial will also show you how to use the PSP Drop Shadow Effect, along with color change settings to edit the color of your paper at a later date. | |||
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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. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, psp paintbrush, selection tool, eraser, and more. This tutorial will also show you how to use the PSP Infrared Effect to give your images that grayscale with color effect. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Avatar or Signature Tag- Learn how to make cool Avatar or Signature tag to use in forums, blog's, and more. You will also learn how to effectively use layers, tubes, text, drop shadows, and more. You can use the final project in web pages, scrapbooking, and in so many other graphic or online web projects. | |||
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PSP Eye Pupils Eyelid Animation Tutorial- Learn how to animate eyes, pupils, and eyelids with this cartoon style character animation. You will learn how to use tubes, layers, and export each frame and use it with Animation Shop. You can use the final project in web pages, and in other graphic projects. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Country Gift Tag Tutorial- Learn how to make Country style gift tag and save it as a tube. You will also learn how to use effects and tools such as cutout, selections, blur, text on a curve, tubes, and more. You can use the final project in web pages, scrap booking, and in other graphic projects. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Animation Make Images / Frames and Animate them with Animation Shop - Learn how to make an animation. First make image frames and export them so that you can animate them with Animation shop. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Gingham Check Pattern Background for web pages or fills - Learn how to make the very popular check background with PSP. Gingham checks are very popular in the country graphics communities. | |||
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PSP Tutorial for PSP Gradient .PspGradient- Learn how to make gradient and use it in PSP. You can use gradients as backgrounds in web pages, and in graphic projects. | |||
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PSP X2 Tutorial Text on a Curve - See how you can make your text follow a curve of an oval and more. This is a great feature if you need to make logos. | |||
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PSP Tube Tutorial Clean - Color & Tube Outlined Images - This video tutorials shows you how you can take an EPS or coloring book / outlined image, color it, and then tube it with the PSP program. | |||
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PSP Tutorial Pixel Line art Coloring with effects - See how pixel artists color in their line art images and use cool effects. | |||
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PSP Tutorial 3D Effect "Cutout" cartoon style - This video tutorial will show you how to give an cartoon face image a 3D look and shows you how to use the very popular cutout effects in PSP. Everyone should learn how to master this effect! | |||
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PSP Working with Raster Layers Effects Transparency- See and actual presentation on how you can make a layered image, and set the transparency levels and more. This is how you can make banners, brands, logos, for business and personal web site's. Watch this cool video sample so that you can see what you can do with PSP. | |||
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PSP Tube Tutorial Fixing Clean Picture and Tube an element from the photo- Presentation on how you can take a family photo or a photo of something special, remove the background, and save it as a PSP Tube. You can use the image you get from this as a image in a web page, tubes, scrap booking, and more. | |||
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Resize and Optimize your Digital Photos with PSP X2- Learn how to take your camera digital images, and resize them. Once the image is resized you will learn how to Optimize the image so that it can be placed on the Internet via a web page, email, and more. | |||
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Easy Mass Batch Processing of Photograph Resizing- Learn how to program a pspscript and tell it how to resize hundreds of images or digital photographs at once. Learn how to use the PSP X2 batch process along with GIF Optimizer, JPEG Optimizer to optimize your images for Web Pages, and Emails. | |||
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Erase Busy Background From Image - This PSP Tutorial will show you how to clean up a very busy background from an image and save it as a psp tube. This is one of our older video tutorials, but it is still very helpful so we left it up. | |||
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Birthday Candle with Animated Flame - Learn how to draw a birthday candle with a flame and animate it so that the candle flame looks lit and is burning. | |||
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Text with Drop Shadow and Cutout Effect- Learn how to give your text a drop shadow and or a cutout effect in PSP. | |||
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*Image .JPEG Optimization Steps for Faster loading web page images - This video tutorial will show you how to use PSP to optimize a JPEG JPG image so that you can use it on your website and not worry about large image loading times. | |||
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Paint Shop Pro Web site Buttons - This video tutorial will show you how to use PSP to make buttons for a web page or for any other project. This is an older video tutorial, and has text instructions. You may find it very helpful. | |||
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*Build a Web Page with PSP - Learn how to build a web page with Paint Shop Professional. You can build a whole web site with PSP. | |||
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*Easy Quick Tube Tutorial- Another PSP Tube Tutorial that will show you how to tube in the Paint Shop Pro program. *Please right click on the video to pause / stop / play. Thank you. | |||
Dreamweaver Video Tutorials: | ||||
 | Adding Rollover Effect To Buttons - Add rollover buttons to your web sites with Dreamweaver | |||
 | Dreamweaver Web Page with Spry Menu and CSS Style Sheet editing- Learn how to use Dreamweaver's pre made no-frills template, add a SPRY dynamic Menu, and customize the web page by editing the CSS style sheets. | |||
Paint Shop Pro version 9 text based tutorials (non-video)Older Tutorials can also be used with current versions | ||||
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Quilted Squares with a Pattern Background | |||
 | Fantasy Heart for Cards, Backgrounds, Banners | |||
 | Confetti Style Animated Background | |||
 | Animating A Bubble Bath Standard Image Bubbles & Eye Blink | |||
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I Love You Blinky | |||
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Heart Animation | |||
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Please take note that some tutorials are in video format and some are text format.
You may or may not need some of the tools below.
- 1. We use some of these formats. MP4, AVI, MOV, SWF. You will need one of these players. Macromedia Current Flash player Flash Plug-in Get it here.Or the Quicktime Plug-in Get it here.
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Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Full
or Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Upgrade
- 3. Things such as Images, Preset Shapes, Tubes, Gradients, Plug ins to use with your PSP program. All will be listed accordingly.
- 4. A very few videos do not contain audio (the smaller quickies)
- 5. If you notice you cannot play the videos or hear them even with the flash or quicktime players please consider updating your computer codecs. Video - Audio Codec packs (we recommend the K-Lite Codec Pack) get them here.
Most of our video tutorials are being converted MP4 format which allows for a much smaller file size. See our list of MP4 capable players and or you may just need to update your current player. Please visit AfterDawn.com to see exactly what you can do to view this video if it will not play. Please allow time for this video to load or it may become jumpy or even stop. This video requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of your current player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now.
Look for our video tutorials, and Tutorial instruction in the Official Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Magazine issues 7 & 8. We are also included in the Official CD collections:
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I just came to your site to see the material on PSP. It is an absolutely AMAZING and wonderful site. I look forward very much, to learning more here.
Jack
Thank you very much for writing. I am thrilled and touched by your wonderful kind comments about my site. I hope you find it useful and enjoy surfing it. Thank you for the inspiration!------------------------------
I was scouring the net for an easy way to learn how to put text curves under the 'bottom line'. I just wanted to thank you immensely for making it so easy!! What a fantastic website. I will be looking forward to exploring it more!!
Lynda.
That's GREAT! I'm so glad you found our site today! Hope you return often :)------------------------------
I just wanted to thank you for offering your great tutorials. I have learned so much from watching you!
Astrid.
Thank you very much for writing me today. I'm so thrilled you found Michele's Paint Shop!------------------------------
I have learned so much from your tutorials you are fantastic. I hope to see more tuts involving web building. It sure has helped me allot. I would love to see a tut on how to convert an existing site not made by dreamweaver, over to dreamweaver. That is what I am trying to do now!!! Your site is informative and you really know how to speak to adults. Some tutorials can make you feel like you are 2 years old and others are way to complicated to even comprehend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once I figure out how to convert my site over to dreamweaver I will definitely promote you by adding a link!!!!!!
SB.
Thank you very much! You're awesome too! That would be great to have you link to Michele's Paint Shop!------------------------------
Extremely detailed instruction, exactly the type of learning experience I want. Not a motion or word wasted, every minute is full of easy to understand information.
Thank you for providing people like me with these beautiful videos and tutorials.
Ann G.
Ann you truly touched me and your feedback inspires me. THANK YOU!------------------------------
Karen D
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The best tutorials ever! I echo Ula's as english also is not my mother tongue! so easy to follow and so clear. I just finished your tutorial on pottery and made 2 more items after that. I am specially pleased with the teapot I made, big thanks for your help. I like a lot of things about your site incl. tubes, but choose the tutorials as never found equivalent before. I was with Corel 10.3 until a month ago and now 'over the moon' with Corel XII!
Thank you and best wishes.
Monique
Monique made the cutest teapot and I was very impressed with her work. Great job Monique!------------------------------
I bought PSP Pro XII in November 2008. I am a self taught user, previously with PSP 5 & 8. playing with family pictures, trying to dress up children from family photos and putting in tropical island backgrounds for some fun.
Four days ago, I discovered your Pro XII tutorials and I have been glued to the screen of my computer ever since. "Thank you" is not enough!! Your web site is an answer to my prayers. You are a born teacher. There are no ambiguities during your tutorials. I can judge, since English is my second language!
I really appreciate it when you discuss various settings within one effect and how to choose the best.
Your tutorial PSP X2 Pixel Line Art with Cutout and Noise Coloring gave me an idea and understanding what cutout and noise effect can do. Awesome!
Thank you again for your wonderful tutorials.
Ula------------------------------
I learned of your site through the official corel paint shop pro photo magazine. I felt obliged to send my congratulations to you, not only is the site easy to navigate, the tutorials (so far I have watched three of them) are explicate and very easy to understand, I feel that my pspp skills will advance by leaps and bounds because of them. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Trevor (GB).------------------------------
Really appreciate the help provided on the site. Feel free to use any of these comments.
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I am new to your site. I just watched the tutorial about using the cutout effect to build a cartoon face. I was very impressed with how professional the tutorial was. You are very good about really explaining and showing how to use a feature and not assuming people know what you are talking about. You also did a great job of going beyond what one can find on on-line help and instead actually showing how to use the features in Paint Shop in a practical way.Thanks a bunch!
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I just finished watching the second tutorial and I am really glad I found you. You are very clear, and you are not afraid to explain things step-by-step, exactly as I need it right now. Dreamweaver was intimidating to me but I really wanted to learn it. With YOUR tutorials, I feel so much better about learning the program.
Just wanted to say THANK YOU for your contribution :-)
Charles
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Saw your Dreamweaver Spry videos and loved them. I was having problems with my spry menu and there was so much I learned. Took three courses from New Horizons and left overwhelmed but your videos brought it together!Ken
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Michael
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I just wanted to say, I could finally do an animated project with your tutorial. I did the candle and the flame. I finally can say I did something wonderful. Thank you so much for your thoroughness. Please continue to do what you are doing. I am truly feeling less stress with this. Thank you so much for your time and effort that you put into this. I love the gradient tutorials also. I am much obliged.
Have a great day.
Evelyn--------------------------------
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