If you wish to retain the vector properties of text created using an uninstalled font and avoid this dialog, convert the text to curves before saving by choosing Objects...Convert Text to Curves (or right-click on the text, and choose Convert Text to Curves from the context menu).

Note: After you convert text to curves, it is no longer text, so you cannot change the characters or change its font or leading or do any other text edits. However, you can move or add nodes, change the angles of line segments, and perform other edits using the Pen tool, producing interesting text.

An example of such a setting is the Stroke width on the Text Tool Options palette - the spin controls are circled in red below - CTRL-clicking changes the control in tenths:

This can also be achieved using the Mouse scroll wheel - simple scrolling changes the setting in integer increments, but holding down the CTRL key while scrolling changes this particular setting in tenths of a pixel. Other spin controls have even finer settings, for example, the line Width for some tools such as the Pen tool and the Preset Shapes tool, or the controls for Transformations using the Pen tool, which allow changes in increments of hundredths.

In the first set, the first image is the source, the second image is a seamless tile made from the image using the default settings, and the third image is a seamless tile made from the image using the Mirror Tiling Method:

In the second set of images, the same seamless tiles were made from the same original, but in this case the hibiscus flower was selected before the effect was applied. By comparing this set of images with those above, you can see how the flower was protected from the blurring and fading caused by the seamless tiling effect:

When using the Blemish Remover mode, use the Size control to make the inner circle, or replacement area, large enough to just enclose the blemish. The outer circle, or sampling area, contains the material that will be used to cover the blemish. Holding down the SHIFT key allows the inner circle to move without changing the location of the outer circle, giving you the ability to position the replacement area within the sampling area. This can give you some flexibility in choosing the material to replace the blemish.

With the Toothbrush tool, multiple clicks will increase the whitening. Increasing the Strength parameter will do the same thing.

• With the Mode for the current selection tool set to Replace, drag the selection with one of the selection tools (Selection, Freehand, or Magic Wand tool).
• To move the selection one pixel, press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 10 pixels, hold down CTRL and press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 50 pixels, hold down SHIFT and press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 100 pixels, hold down SHIFT and CTRL and press any arrow key.

To move and float a selection by copying it and leaving the original intact, do one of the following:

• With the Mode for the current selection tool set to Replace, hold down ALT, and drag the selection with one of the selection tools.

  Note: Once the selection is floating, it is no longer necessary to hold down the ALT key to move the selection. In fact, if you float the selection first (Selections...Float), it is not necessary to hold down the ALT key at all in order to copy and move a selection while leaving the original intact.

• To move the selection one pixel, press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 10 pixels, hold down CTRL and press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 50 pixels, hold down SHIFT and press any arrow key.
• To move the selection 100 pixels, hold down SHIFT and CTRL and press any arrow key.

Though the online documentation states that you can also move the selection 10 pixels by holding down Shift and pressing one of the following keys: Page Up (to move up), Page Down (to move down), Home (to move left), or End (to move right), this does not work.

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

Be sure to keep the space and the '/script' following the path to the application, and follow that by a space, and the path to the script. I've given the default location for launching PSP (in blue) - this may not match your configuration, so adjust it as needed. I've also used the path to one of my scripts (in purple) - adjust this path to reflect the path on your system to the script you want automatically executed when PSP launches.

• To resize top and bottom of a frame, choose Effects...Geometric Effects...Cylinder - Horizontal.
• To resize the left and right sides of a frame, choose Effects...Geometric Effects...Cylinder - Vertical.

Here's an example of a badly-fitting frame on a portrait image. On the left is the image with the frame applied (using Image...Picture Frame). On the right is the same image and frame, after applying the Cylinder - Horizontal effect, at a Strength of 30%.

I often set Guides (View...Guides) so I can see exactly how much the frame needs to be adjusted. Here is the same set of images with the Guides (shown in blue) set:

Here's one more example, this one of a badly-fitting frame on a landscape image. On the left is the image with the frame applied, and on the right is the same image and frame, after applying the Cylinder - Vertical effect, at a Strength of 21%.

Note: The above process works best when 'Frame inside of the image' is chosen in the Picture Frame dialog. If 'Frame outside of the image' is chosen, you may need to use the pick tool to refit the frame to the image after applying the Geometric...Cylinder effect to the image. Some cropping will probably be needed as well.

Some people also get similar results adjusting frames using Effects...Distortion Effects...Punch.

• To get the same hue, change the Hue in H/S/L to 1.4 times its value in PSP 8.
• To get the same saturation, change the Saturation in H/S/L to 0.4 times it's value in PSP 8.

And the reasons for these decimal values, you ask? The Colorize Hue runs from 0 to 255, and the H/S/L Hue runse from 0 to 360. To get the same hue in PSP 9 or X using H/S/L, set it to 360/255 times its value in PSP 8 colorize. Likewise, the PSP 8 Colorize Saturation runs from 0 to 255, but the H/S/L Saturation runs from 0 to 100. To get the same saturation in PSP 9 or X using H/S/L, set it to 100/255 times its value in PSP 8 Colorize.

In versions of PSP after PSP 7, everything is specified in percent based on the canvas size. A wavelength of 12 means 12% of the size of the canvas. No matter what the size of the canvas, a wavelength of 12 will be 12% of that canvas. That means that in versions after PSP 7, including PSP XI, the wavelength is proportionate to the size of the image.

There are many pre-PSP 8 tutorials which use the wave effect, and users of more current versions of PSP are usually very disappointed in the results when they try the tutorials. But there is a solution involving some simple calculations. The same effect can be obtained in PSP XI by converting pixel settings from PSP 7 into percentage settings. Special thanks to Kris Zaklika of Corel, Inc. who provided this information in one of the Corel newsgroups.

To calculate the appropriate settings, all you need are the following equations:

• HA8 = 100 x HA7 / W
• HW8 = 100 x HW7 / H
• VA8 = 100 x VA7 / H
• VW8 = 100 x VW7 / W

  where:

  HA8 = Horizontal Amplitude in PSP 8 and above
  HW8 = Horizontal Wavelength in PSP 8 and above
  VA8 = Vertical Amplitude in PSP 8 and above
  VW8 = Vertical Wavelength in PSP 8 and above
  HA7 = Horizontal Amplitude in PSP 7
  HW7 = Horizontal Wavelength in PSP 7
  VA7 = Vertical Amplitude in PSP 7
  VW7 = Vertical Wavelength in PSP 7
  W = Width of canvas in pixels
  H - Height of canvas in pixels

Because versions of PSP starting with PSP 8 don't allow fractional settings for Amplitude and Wavelength, you'll have to round the results to the nearest whole number. This introduces slight variations in the results you get, but these differences are usually negligible. However, you will see that slight variations on large images will not work well in PSP 8 onward. Hopefully, future releases of PSP will allow at least one decimal place in the Amplitude and Wavelength controls of the Wave filter, but we're not there yet.

Note: This ability has been somewhat crippled in PSP XI with the "genericizing" of the names of all Corel resources. It's not possible, in the released, unpatched version of PSP XI, to search, for example, for the "ellipse" Preset Shape - this shape has a new name now, Corel_11_069.pspshape, not something I will ever remember. You could type "C" to get to all the Corel resources, but that doesn't break down the list much. Another example illustrates the problem this naming has created - take a look at the Picture Tubes drop-list, and bring your cursor over the picture of the elephant - now called Corel_10_02.PspTube. That name is far from descriptive, and gives no indication at all that this tube is really a collection of zoo animals, not just an elephant! Hopefully, the lack of descriptive names, as well as the lack of captions beneath the resources in the drop-lists, will change in a future release.

• Using the Preset Shape tool, click on the right mouse button and drag to draw the shape.
• Using the Rectangle, Ellipse, or Symmetric Shape tools, hold down the CTRL key and drag to draw the shape.