Although they are separate, the programs can interact by using the same folders to store resources and through the Windows association of file types. See #001 PSP X Installation Notes above for how to avoid these interactions.

Another reason you may want to keep PSP 9 installed is that due to the redesign of the Learning Center in PSP X, users can no longer install tutorials as Quick Guides. Many users have come to rely on this facility introduced in PSP 8 and continued in PSP 9. Having the tutorial visible right in the PSP workspace has made it so much easier to follow and complete tutorials. If you've come to rely on this feature, you'll need to retain either PSP 8 or PSP 9.

Item	Flyout Menu	Icon
Makeover Tool	n/a
Object Remover Tool	Object Remover
Pick Tool	Move
Red Eye Tool	n/a

Most of the tool icons, though basically the same, have a new "stylized" look. The icons for several of the tools have changed considerably - these are listed in the following table:

Tool	Old Icon	New Icon
Clone Tool
Color Replacer Tool
Hue Brush
Lighten/Darken Brush
Oil Brush
Picture Tube Tool
Saturation Brush
Scratch Remover Tool
Straighten Tool

Some tools are no longer found on the Tools toolbar. The Deform tool has been replaced by the new Pick tool. The Deform tool is still available, and can be returned to the Tools toolbar using Customize if desired. In addition, the Deform tool can still be invoked using its shortcut key D. The Object Selection tool has also been replaced by the new Pick tool. Like the Deform tool, the Object Selection tool is also still available, and can be returned to the Tools toolbar if desired. And like the Deform tool, the Object Selection tool can still be invoked using its shortcut key O.

Finally, there has been some rearranging of the tools on the Tools toolbar. These changes are summarized below (a location indicated as "Toolbar" means the tool was formerly, or is currently, located on the toolbar itself, and not on a flyout):

Item	Former Location	New Location
Background Eraser Tool	Eraser Flyout	Toolbar
Burn Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Color Replacer Tool	Dropper Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Dodge Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Dropper Tool	Dropper Flyout	Toolbar
Ellipse Tool	Rectangle Flyout	Preset Shape Flyout
Emboss Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Eraser Tool	Eraser Flyout	Toolbar
Mesh Warp Brush	Deform Flyout	Warp Brush Flyout
Move Tool	Toolbar	Pick Flyout
Perspective Correction Tool	Deform Flyout	Straighten Flyout
Preset Shape Tool	Rectangle Flyout	Preset Shape Flyout
Push Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Rectangle Tool	Rectangle Flyout	Preset Shape Flyout
Sharpen Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Smudge Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Soften Brush	Dodge Brush Flyout	Lighten/Darken Flyout
Straighten Tool	Deform Flyout	Straighten Flyout
Symmetric Shape Tool	Rectangle Flyout	Preset Shape Flyout
Warp Brush	Paint Brush Flyout	Warp Brush Flyout

Several menu items have been moved or changed in PSP X. One of the big changes is that there is now only one set of menus. In previous versions, there used to be a short set of menus when no image was open, and another set of menus when images were present, and a third set of menus for the Browser. In PSP X, there is only one set of menus.

Many of the menus have been totally rearranged - the items are still there, but in a different location. This might be a bit difficult to adjust to - if you can't find something where you expect it to be, just keep searching in that menu. Finally, the locations of the Effects and Adjust menus have been reversed. This may be problematic at first, so be careful when you attempt to add an effect and can't find it - you may be in the Adjust menu.

This list of menu changes will contain only those items which are new, or items that were moved to new menus, renamed or replaced by other menu entries, or dropped. In the case of dropped items, the "recommended PSP X equivalent feature" will also be listed if available:

Menu	Changed Items
File	Browse - Removed from this menu - now a full-fledged palette Print Contact Sheet - new (active when Browser active) Color Management - added, with options moved from Preferences sub-menu Jasc Software Products...Launch Animation Shop - removed (AS no longer ships with PSP)
Edit	Update Back to Animation Shop - removed (AS no longer ships with PSP) Paste...Paste Animation As Multiple Images - removed (AS no longer ships with PSP)
View	Zoom In More - dropped Zoom Out More - dropped Browser - moved from the Toolbars sub-menu to the Palettes sub-menu
Image	Rotate Clockwise 90 - renamed as Rotate Right Rotate Counterclockwise 90 - renamed as Rotate Left Negative Image - moved from the Adjust menu
Adjust	Gamma Correction - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Brightness and Contrast...Histogram Adjustment, use the Gamma setting Automatic Contrast Enhancement - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Smart Photo Fix, use the Brightness sliders Automatic Saturation Enhancement - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Smart Photo Fix, use the Saturation slider Automatic Color Balance - replaced by Adjust...Color Balance Color Balance (from Color Balance sub-menu) - replaced by Adjust...Color Balance Black and White Points - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Smart Photo Fix, use the Advanced Options button to click black, white, or grey points in the photo Grey World Color Balance - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Smart Photo Fix, use the Advanced Options button to enhance color balance Manual Color Correction - dropped - instead, in Adjust...Hue and Saturation...Hue Map, use the Hue, Saturation and Lightness controls High Pass Sharpen - added to the Sharpen sub-menu Negative Image - moved to the Image menu One Step Purple Fringe Fix - new Smart Photo Fix - new One Step Noise Removal - new
Effects	Photo Effects - new High Pass - added to the Edge Effects sub-menu
Layers	Matting - dropped Defringe - dropped - use the Background Eraser tool Remove Black Matte - dropped - use the Background Eraser tool Remove White Matte - dropped - use the Background Eraser tool
Help	Context Help - dropped Digital Photo Lab - added Register Product Online - dropped

Note: Several of the "dropped" menu items/commands are still available, and you can add them to your menus as needed, using Customize. The retained commands can be found in the Unused Commands list of Customize.

Palette	PSP X Shortcut
Hide/Restore All Floating Palettes	F2
History Palette	F3
Script Output Palette	SHIFT+F3
Tool Options Palette	F4
Materials Palette	F6
Mixer Palette	SHIFT + F6
Histogram Palette	F7
Layers Palette	F8
Overview Palette	F9
Learning Center Palette	F10
Brush Variance Palette	F11
Browser Palette	CTRL + B

There have been several other changes to the Layers palette in PSP X:

• You can now choose the size of the Tooltip thumbnails. The default is 80 pixels; you can change this in General Program Preferences, under Palettes.

• By default, each layer in the Layers palette displays a 50-pixel thumbnail. You can change this default, or suppress the display of palette thumbnails by changing the size, or by UNchecking the Palette thumbnails checkbox in General Program Preferences, under Palettes.

• By default, the right pane of the Layers palette is not displayed. You can change this default, causing the right pane to display, by checking the Right Pane checkbox in General Program Preferences, under Palettes.

• When the right pane is suppressed, layer settings for the current layer are displayed at the top of the Layers palette - boxed in red below:
  

• When the right pane is not suppressed, the relative size of the right and left panes of the Layers palette is controlled by using the pane flyout control button on the vertical divider between the right and left panes - red arrow below:
  

• You can hide the right pane temporarily by clicking on the pane flyout control button when its arrow points to the right. When the arrow points to the left, clicking the control button restores the right pane to its previous view.

  Note: When you hide the right pane by clicking on the pane flyout control button, the change is only temporary, and layer settings are not displayed at the top of the Layers palette. To display layer settings at the top of the Layers palette, the change must be made in the General Program Preferences, as noted above.

• You can pretty much get the look of previous versions of PSP for the Layers palette by UNchecking 'Palette thumbnails' and CHECKING 'Right Pane' in the Layers palette panel of Palettes in the Preferences dialog (choose File...Preferences...General Program Preferences, and click on Palettes in the left window).

In PSP X, there's a new button on the Materials palette. This button, called the 'Set to Black and White' button, sets the foreground to black and the background to white. This can be helpful in many circumstances, for example, when you use the Edit Selection command.

• CMD.PspCache - according to Corel, this file is used to cache some basic command and tool information so that at startup, PSP does not have to actually load the command and tool DLLs, which are loaded when they are needed rather than at startup. This was done to improve startup performance.

• USE.PspCache - according to Corel, this file is used to track the kinds of commands you use frequently. When the application determines you use them frequently, they will be loaded at startup so they are readily available to you.

• *.jbf (with names such as DESKTOP.jbf, PERSONAL.jbf, WINDOWS.jbf, etc.) - according to Corel, these files are used to store Browser information for special folders (like the Desktop folder, the Windows folder, or CDs) in order to avoid a messy look in such special folders.

PSP X masks can be used as is in PSP 8 and PSP 9. PSP X masks that have been saved in OS/2 or Windows bitmap format can also be used in PSP 7 if renamed from *.PspMask to *.msk. However, images that are created and saved as masks in PSP X are formatted as PSP 8 files, and as such can be used in PSP 8 or 9, but not in PSP 7. To check the format of a mask file:

This is all made possible through the Resource Manager dialog, which can be activated by clicking on the Resource Manager button:

This button can be found wherever you find a Presets drop-list (such as in the Tool Options palette, or in dialogs), or the visual resource drop-list or "picker" for resources such as Paint Brushes, Gradients, etc.

Note: There are several important things to note about working with the Resource Manager:

1. Resource categories are folders that have been defined using the File Locations dialog. That is the ONLY way to populate the Categories list.
2. Use caution when copying items from one category or folder to another. PSP does not allow duplicate file names, so if you copy an item from one resource category to another, it will still only be visible from one category. If you want it visible in both categories, you must rename one resource.
3. The Resource Manager only allows you to have one category active at a time. This might not meet your needs.
4. If you need to add another category to the resource list, close the Resource Manager dialog and click the File locations button, available wherever the Resource manager button is found:

This method works with other images as well, but is particularly suited to images such as Sinedots images with their filmy, subtle nuances of color.

Note: When transparency is locked, the Lock Transparency button displays a locked padlock . When transparency is not locked, the Lock Transparency button shows an unlocked padlock

This method works with other images as well, but is particularly suited to images such as Sinedots images with their filmy, subtle nuances of color.

Color	Hue	Saturation
Lilac	170	90
Rose	233	81
Tan	17	71
Green	95	55
Orange	17	178
Blue	155	110
Gold	35	200

Remember, the original color of the image influences the resulting shades when colorizing.

This method works with other images as well, but is particularly suited to images such as Sinedots images with their filmy, subtle nuances of color.

As with all the other colorizing methods, this method also works with other images.

Note: When the right pane of the Layers palette is suppressed and a layer's link button has been activated, an icon is added to the layer name button () reminding you that this layer's link button is active. Also, when a layer that is linked is active, the same layer link icon will appear on all other layers it is linked to.

• Organize the Layers palette.
• Select layer properties such as opacity and blend mode for the whole group.
• Apply masks to whole sets of layers rather than just one.
• Limit effect of adjustment layers to those below them in a group rather than in the entire image.
• Move all grouped layers in stacking order together.
• Copy and paste (or drag and drop) entire groups of layers to new images.

By default, grouped layers are also linked (see previous item). The group link toggle button on the Layers palette () shows when the layers are linked. This icon only appears when the layer group's layer name button is active. When the group is not linked, the group link toggle button displays a red "x" ().

To prevent PSP from centering the image, you can force a layer to paste in a way that appears to you as aligned the way it was in the original image. To accomplish this, do the following before copying the layer: using the Paint Brush tool at Opacity 1 and Size 1, left-click each corner pixel of the image/layer. Now copy and paste the image/layer.

This trick makes the bounding box of the layer data equal in size to the image and you can't see pixels of such low opacity as the ones created in the corners of the image.

• To move the layer one pixel at a time, press the arrow keys.
• To move the layer 10 pixels at a time, hold down CTRL and press the arrow keys.
• To move the layer 50 pixels at a time, hold down SHIFT and press the arrow keys.
• To move the layer 100 pixels at a time, hold down CTRL + SHIFT and press the arrow keys.