PSP Patterns / Textures

Textures / Materials palette for the patterns in PaintShop Pro X4 X3 X2 etc

Use the textures via the materials palette in Paint Shop Pro® and use in bucket fills, etc or use the textures for backgrounds in presets shapes or text (after conversion)

Materials palette

Use the textures via the materials palette in Paint Shop Pro® and use in bucket fills, etc or use the textures for backgrounds in presets shapes or text (after conversion)

1) View > Palettes > Materials

2) Go to the foreground and stroke properties OR Background and fill properties (right side of palette)

3) Double click the icon

4) Check the texture checkbox (top right)

5) Click the textures dropdown and select the required texture

Textures / Bump map

Use the textures as bump maps in Paint Shop Pro® in Balls filter

PSP and Bump map

Use as bump maps in Paint Shop Pro® in Balls filter

1) Place the texture bitmaps into presets bump maps folder (use the file locations palette to locate the correct folder)

2) Start Paint Shop Pro

3) Effects > Artistic effects > Balls and bubbles

4) Go to the maps palette

5) Check bump map check box

6) Set the smoothness  / depth etc

7) OK

Textures / Interchange

Interchange between patterns and textures, simply add the textures to the patterns folder or the bump maps folder as well as the textures folder

Textures / Photoshop ® patterns

Use the textures as a Photoshop® pattern and layer effects. Open the texture file and then use the define pattern command and then access the texture design via the layer effects dialog or the fill content dialog or the fill dialog or via the brush palette texture dialog. Another option being, convert the bitmap to PSD format and place in the displacement maps folder of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and use as a displacement map in various filters such as glass distortion.

Textures / Xara ™

Use the textures in Paint Shop Pro® Ulead PhotoImpact ® Photo-Paint ™ Adobe ® Photoshop® Corel ® Painter™ and many others such as Xara and Illustrator®. The bitmap format is accepted in most software, PC + MAC OS X. How the textures is used in each application varies (and how they are installed). Xara needs to import the bitmaps into its fill gallery. Painter can open the bitmap files but you must then select the entire texture bitmap and then use the grains palette to define the grain and save to the current library. The grain can then be used in surface texture effects, glass distortions and more.

Textures / Seamless

All the texture designs are seamless tiles

Textures / Plug-ins

Use in various effects such as distortions & bump maps & canvas textures / third party plugins such as KPT tools (KPT gel is a good example of a plug-in that accepts bitmaps). The bitmaps can also be converted to JPG format and then used in plug-ins such as AutoF/X edges plug-in as a background.

Textures / 3D

Use the bitmap textures in 3D software as bump maps & textures

Textures / Brush grain

Use the textures as a brush grain in Paint Shop Pro® The texture used can be changed via the materials palette for the current brush

Brush grain

Use the textures as a brush grain in Paint Shop Pro® The texture used can be changed via the materials palette for the current brush

1) Go to the tools palette in PSP

2) Select the paint brush tool

3) Go to the materials palette

4) Double click the foreground / stroke properties

5) Check the textures check box

6) Select texture from dropdown

7) Set angle and scale for the texture

8) Apply brush stroke with color and texture

Textures / Re-use

Re-use the textures, overlay the textures, blur the designs and save as a new texture design

Texture plug-in

Use the texture designs in texture plug-in in Paint Shop Pro® The smoothness, depth, ambience, shininess, angle, elevation etc can all be altered along with the size of the texture to create many different textured designs. Apply to an image or use as background. Add the texture to a layer and then use different blending modes such as difference to add the texture (as well as applying a lower opacity).

Textures / Picture tubes in Paint Shop Pro

The textures are not tubes by default but you can open the texture file in Paint Shop Pro®, change to 24-bit and then export as a picture tube. Save the tube using a 1 x 1 cell setting or set it to 4 x 4 etc for randomized texture picture tubes brush strokes. As with any picture tube, the texture can be applied with different step and scaling settings to create many different styles of texture brush stroke.