Preset Shapes for Corel ® PaintShop Pro (PSP)

1000s of preset shapes for Corel PaintShop Pro (PSP). Commercial use

 

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Date updated: May 20th, 2023

Image gallery: 100 3D / Cube preset shapes for PaintShop Pro / PSP (volume 12)

100 3D / cube / outline Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use in PSP (PaintShop Pro) PC - the 3D cube designs are a mix of outline cube preset shapes, curved cube preset shapes, textured cube preset shapes, different lighting shapes, sketchy cube preset shapes, and more. All the preset shapes are vectors. All the shapes are stored in standard PSPshape format and are easy to install, simply add the pspshape files to the shapes folder and apply via the preset shape tool. Modify the colors and design in countless ways. All the cube shapes are unique designs for your projects. Also useful as a source for psptube files. (pack 12). See all the preset shapes in the set via the thumbnail gallery above. If you have any questions about the 3D cube shapes, please contact us via support@graphicxtras.com. Corel and PaintShop Pro are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation. These shapes are all for commercial use, all are totally royalty-free, all are by graphicxtras.com (Andrew Buckle) and can be used to create designs for scrapbooking, logos, books, illustrations, mugs, posters, coasters, laptop covers, adverts and many more things. Please note that there are also millions of other wonderful designs on this site that can also be used in PaintShop Pro such as the PSP brushes, font sets etc - all work perfectly in PSP to bring a wow to any design. On buying the set, you receive the download link to the cube preset shapes along with documentation showing how to install and use the preset shapes in Corel PaintShop Pro as well as a gallery of all the cube shapes along with a serial number for any future updates.

Free preset shapes sampler for PSP / PaintShop Pro download

Free shapes sampler for PaintShop Pro . The sampler is in standard pspShape format and the shapes need to be placed in the preset shapes folder of PSP on the PC. Access the designs then via the preset shapes tool and apply. The designs are vectors for any size of work. The shapes are for commercial use, such as in books, logos, adverts, scrapbooking, packaging and much more. Royalty-free. All the preset shape designs are by graphicxtras.com. You can use the shapes to create amazing designs as well as resource for creating picture tubes as well as frame designs and much more.

100 Arc preset shapes for PaintShop Pro (volume 30)

100 Arc shapes including outline preset shapes / edge preset shapes / embossed Preset shapes / 3D / embossed vector designs and many more for commercial use, all by graphicxtras.com. All the arc designs are vectors in pspshape format. All the arc designs are vectors for any size of work. The arc shapes can be used to create items for sale. The arc shapes can be re-colored, warped, effects applied and much more. Combine in millions of ways. All the preset shapes are by graphicxtras.com. To load the preset shapes, simply add the pspshape files into the preset shapes folder and then access via the preset shapes tool in PSP. (pack 30)

126 Arrow and pointing preset shapes for PaintShop Pro (pack 1)

126 Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use - many different designs - all can be modified in 1000s of ways. Many different designs of arrow are included in the set such as bar arrows, broken arrows, four way arrow shapes and more. The arrows are all vector designs for any size of work. They are stored in standard PSPshape format. The arrows can be re-colored, warped, distorted, effects applied, points moved and manipulated. The arrow shapes are all for commercial use, all royalty-free. The arrows can be used to create items for sale such as books, illustrations, logos, packaging, leaflets, videos and much more. PC (Windows 8, 7, Vista etc) for use with X5 X4 and all versions down to 8. (pack 1)

100 Border and frames preset shapes for PaintShop pro X5-8 (pack 7)

100 Border and frame Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use. All the preset shapes are can be used to create items for sale. The border designs can be applied on top of other designs and used as a framing device or they can be used in designs in their own right. The frame / border shapes include embossed designs, rounded frames, TV designs and many more. The shapes are all in standard PSPshape format. They are all vectors for any size of work.You can combine the designs in countless ways to create your own amazing unique designs. You can also use the border and frame designs to create new tubes and other resources in psp. You can color the preset shapes via the materials palette such as adding gradients and patterns to the shape designs. (pack 7)

100 Cats - silhouettes preset shapes for Corel PaintShop Pro (pack 22)

100 Cat / silhouette cat shapes/ cat rendered shapes / realistic cat shapes / scratchy cat Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use - all the cat silhouette shapes are by graphicxtras.com. The cats are all in many different poses such as walking and sitting and purring as well as searching for mice. Use the cat designs in 1000s of projects such as items for sale as well as personal work. All the designs are royalty-free. They are vectors for any size of work. You can combine the cat shape designs in 1000s of ways to create many amazing designs. You can re-color the designs via the properties or materials palette. The shapes are all in pspshape format. (pack 22)

100 Chevron preset shapes for PaintShop Pro (pack 20)

100 Chevron Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use for use in PSP (Corel PaintShop Pro) . Apply in 1000s of ways in your projects. The chevron shapes are all in pspshape format and are loaded into the application via the preset shapes folder and the shapes tool. The chevrons are all vectors for any size of work and can be scaled, sheared and rotated. The designs can be used separately or blended into any existing image. The designs can also be quickly exported via a raster format such as PNG to other applications. The set comes with 100 great designs along with documentation and a gallery and serial number for any future updates. (pack 20)

100 Christmas crackers shapes for PSP / PaintShop Pro (vs)

100 exciting Christmas cracker Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use - all super designs for the festive spirit. The christmas crackers preset shapes set included star cracjer desgns, line designs, embellished designs as well as ones with holly and festive imagery. All the shapes are for use to create items for sale such as cards, wrapping paper, backgrounds, logos, adverts, videos and much more. The Christmas cracker designs are all in standard pspshape format. The set also includes documentation about the installation of the preset shapes as well as a gallery of the designs and also a serial number for any future updates. Corel and PaintShop pro are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation (vs)

100 Dogs - realistic and silhouette preset shapes for PSP (volume 17)

100 Dog Preset shapes vector designs for commercial use - many different dog designs including realistic dog shapes, abstract dog shapes, sketched dog shapes and more - all vectors for any size of work. All the dog preset shapes are in standard PSPshape format. The shapes are for use in Corel PSP X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 down to the version 8. The shapes can be combined in millions of different ways, re-colored via the materials palette, exported as tubes and much more. The dog designs are all based on 3D renders from Poser. Commercial use dog shapes all for royalty-free use. The preset shapes are all by graphicxtras.com and can be used to create items for sale such as books, logos, packaging, adverts, fashions, shoes, ceramics, scrapbooking designs and much more (pack 17)

 

You can purchase any of the items above via our mycommerce links. per pack. All for commercial use, all royalty-free - use to create items for sale. Use with PaintShop Pro (PSP - all in pspshape format (except the collection set, in the older JSL which also works in all the recent versions). Corel and PaintShop Pro are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation.

 

Free demos for Corel ® PaintShop Pro

Free sampler preset shapes for PSP

The free samplers can be used in the same way as the release preset shapes, commercial use

PSP Preset Shapes - product details

Convert font into PaintShop Pro shapes

All the PSP shapes sets on the site have their origins as fonts in one way or another. PSP is an unusual application in that it does not make it easy to import vectors into the application - you can only import them via fonts unless you use PaintShop Pro preset shapes format. All other formats are rasterized on import into PSP. To create my presets in psp, I use a pre-created font and then use a text file with 100 characters pre-defined which can be selected and used with the text tool in PSP - each PSP text field is then converted into a set of multiple character shapes - there is a slight error with the conversion of the font and psp with psp 8 so I often use PSP X3 to do the right click convert of text to preset. I then save the entire file of all 100 converted character designs down to the lowest format I wish to use, such as psp 8. All the layers / characters are given a unique name otherwise psp might display a duplicate error. I then save all the designs individually via the export to psp shape format (I have a custom palette set up for this as that makes it a lot easier than going back and forth between menus). All the font characters for the arc are now in pspshape format and can be used with the various tools in PaintShop Pro.

PSP shapes format: PSPshape / JSL for Paint Shop Pro

The shapes are all in PSPshape format (for most of all of the shapes packs). The shapes are stored in the earlier JSL format for the collection set. The pspShape format stores a single shape vector design, the JSL format stores multiple vector shapes. Both formats can be opened in all the recent versions of PSP.

The artworks are now created in PSP shape format 8, and can be used with all versions up from 8

How to install the preset shapes in PSP

To install the PSPShape files for use in Paint Shop Pro, you must first find the location of the install folder for your version of Paint Shop Pro, this can be found via the PSP file menu and preferences command and file locations (preset shapes). You can either use the existing file location for the PSP shapes or you can create a new folder for the files, it is up to you. Once found, place the PSPShape files in that location and then re-start PSP.

 

 

You can also click the file location button in the preset shapes palette to set the location for the shapes

 

 

Access the PSP shapes files via preset shapes tool - below, see the tool in corel PaintShop Pro X5 but the same approach for X4 X3 to version 8 (before that, the format changed)

 

Re-coloring preset shapes tutorial in PaintShop Pro

The designs are vectors and are stored with an arbitrary color (in most cases though some of the sets have bonus itemsand other color effects attached to the PSP shape design). Before you apply a preset shape to a document, set the color to be used by the preset PSP shape via the materials palette.

 

You will have to de-select the retain option so you can override the original preset shape color.

 

 

You can also change the color (or the other color options as well as adding a grain to the PSP shape) via the object selection tool. Click on the vector properties button on the tool options palette, the dialog will allow you to modify the color (though sadly not in real time as it only changes after you click the OK). The fill and the stroke can be modified, and unlike many software, the stroke can also be a tile as well as including grain information.

 

 

Adding a grain to the vector design allows for a wonderful range of distressed and grunged vector designs.

Saving the preset shape as a new vector PSP shape

You can use the design as supplied but if you wish to save the current vector shape as a new PSP shape (PSPShape format), say you have added a new stroke or tile to the design, then you will also have to modify the name in the vector properties - the reason being that PSP will complain if it finds a duplicate layer name in its loaded shapes (though different versions handle this better). Change the name via the vector properties or via the layer panel. Once you have changed the name, you can then go to the file menu followed by export command and shape option and give the design a new file name (unless you want to over-write an existing file) and you will then see the new shape in the shape palette.

 

PSP shape and layers

If the shape is created as a vector then it is created on a new layer, though subsequent added vector designs are added to the new vector layer.

To create a new vector layer without an actual vector design then go to the layers menu and select new vector layer

 

Crop tool and the PaintShop Pro preset shapes

If you crop the document, the vector shape layer remains untouched. The vector design can be still moved and rotated and the vector design is not reduced down to the size of the remaining document

PaintShop Pro preset shapes and organizer

You can also use the organizer feature of PSP to scan through all the shapes you have, simply point to the folder and small thumbnails will be generated of all the shapes found (PSPShape format) - the quality of the image generated is less then desirable though. It does mean that you can sort and print out all the shapes designs found on your machine, something the PSP shapes browser cannot do.

Font shapes for PaintShop Pro

In the last year or so, there has been no more pspshape sets as the font sets are basically the same and work in the same way in Paint Shop Pro - you can also turn the font designs into PSP shapes by right clicking the font / type designs. There are now over 150 additional font sets all work perfectly in PSP.

PSP shapes > Fonts

The preset shapes sets are only a small small selection of shapes on this site for use with PaintShop Pro. The fonts are also a great source of designs for use in PaintShop Pro. It is very easy (and quick) to convert the text tool designs into pspshapes - just right click the text designs and convert to preset shape. The fonts, though, can be used as preset shapes anyway. You can add gradients, solid colors, patterns, textures etc to the text designs in the same way as the preset shapes. To see the 1000s of shapes, check out the font section. This is also a solution if you are using PaintShop pro 7 or psp 6 or 5, simply use the text designs as shapes instead of JSL files. Likewise, the brushes sets for Photoshop mainly all contain PNG files which can be used as PSP brushes; the patterns for Photoshop generally also include PNG files which can be used as PSP patterns.

Preset shapes browser - Paint Shop Pro

You can display the available preset shapes via the tool options (you might have to go to the view menu and palettes menu to display the tool options, though by default the toolbar is displayed). The tool options will show all the shapes. You can also change the category but the third party preset shapes are only displayed when the category is ALL or PRESET SHAPES. You can also specify the file location for the shapes from this palette as well as how the thumbnails are dispayed. Select a preset shape from the palette.

Drawing with the preset shapes tool in PaintShop Pro

Use the preset shape tool to draw the vector design on the current document. There are a number of options available via the presets tool bar and these include anti alias, retain, create as vector. If the "retain" is checked then the preset shape will look as stored in the preset shape file (depending on the color at the time of creation)

 

If you wish to change the color of the design, then set the "retain" to OFF and then re-draw the shape and the shape will then take the current material color. You can also modify the color any time via the objects menu 'properties...'

EPS shapes are included in later sets

The latest packs of PSP preset shapes also include the designs also in EPS format, the EPS format files can be opened in PSP as a layer or image, the EPS files can also be loaded into many other software applications

Layer effects applied to psp shapes

Go to the layer palette and click the button on the right at the top of the palette

 

 

You can then add bevels, emboss, reflections, outer glow, drop shadow and more

 

 

To re-edit the effects such as bevel, click on little f in the layer palette.

PSP Preset shapes and scale, rotate

The preset shape can be re-modified / scaled via the psp preset shapes tool

 

 

To rotate, use the shape tool - goto the close to the corners and the rotate cursor will appear. Pass over the top of the corners and the scale option will appear. Hold the shift key down when you pass over the middle edge points and you can skew the shape up and down OR left to right. Hold ctrl and shift to skew in both directions.

 

 

ctrl shift and alt and click the corners - apply perspective transformation as below

 

 

PSP Preset shapes - editing shapes

Select the shape and then click the pen tool - it is just below the psp preset shapes tool. You will then see the points for the vector shape, you can now edit the actual design in countless ways. Below you can see some of the points modified by the pen tool. You can also export this shapes via the file export shape menu command.

 

 

PSP Preset shapes and manage option

You can also use the preset shapes with the manager and adjust section but you need to save the file with the shapes. You can apply cyantope, BW normal, pencil, retro soft effects via the manual section to the artworks (as below)

 

 

You can also use the adjust section in PSP to manipulate the shape designs - control the white balance, brightness, contrast, fill light, crop, clarity

 

 

Screen shots are displayed with the kind permission of Corel Corporation. Corel and Paint Shop Pro are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation

 

 

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