Index for Tips & Tricks - PSP Version 9


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Due to numerous requests, I have prepared an alphabetical index to all the topics covered in the PSP 9 version of the Tips & Tricks. If you find something in this index that you'd like to read about, click on the link to the Tips & Tricks document (found at the top and the bottom of this index) and use the Find command (CTRL + F) to locate the article, entering some keywords from the index entry in the "Find What" box. You can also use the article number, which follows each index entry, to locate the topic in the Tips & Tricks document.
Note #1: If you came to this page from the Tips & Tricks document, that page should still be active. Clicking on ALT + TAB should return you to that document without closing this one!

Note #2: If you don't find an item in this index where you expect to find it, you might try searching using Find (CTRL + F), and using appropriate keywords in the "Find what" box. I've used the Tips & Tricks article "titles" in this index. These titles do not always begins with a word descriptive of what the topic is about.

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Accessing the Corel Paint Shop Pro Newsgroups and Forums - 134
Adding A Drop Shadow To A Vector Object - 054
Adding and Selecting Symmetric Borders - 028
Adding Extrusions to Text or Objects - 104
Adding New Layers Quickly - 030
Adding or Removing Colors From A Selection - 095
Adding To A Selection - 021
Animation Tips - Adding a Logo or Watermark to All Frames of an Animation - 067
Animation Tips - Saving Images As Transparent Gifs - 066
Animation Tips - Using Layered Images - 065
Another Drop Shadow Trick - 048
Another Way to Curve Text - 076

Background Eraser Tips - 100
Basic Mask Editing - 086
Batch Rename Process - 107
Bezier Lines - 077
Blending "Rough" Edges - 068

Centering Text or Graphics - 058
Changes in Menus - 005
Changing BladePro Presets Into Super BladePro Presets (So You Can See the Preview) - 025
Changing Grid, Guide and Snap Properties - 059
Changing Text Materials the Easy Way - 138
Closing An Image Without Saving - 125
Color Replacer Tool Tips - 081
Coloring a Sinedots Image - 012
Coloring a Sinedots image – A Fifth Option - 016
Coloring a Sinedots image – A Fourth Option - 015
Coloring a Sinedots Image – Another Option - 013
Coloring a Sinedots Image - Option 3 - 014
Colorizing a Black and White Image - 117
Copying A Layer And Keeping Data In Same Location - 019
Copying A Layer From One Image To Another - 033
Copying A Menu or Toolbar Item - 050
Creating A Mask From a Black and White Image in PSP 9 - 085
Creating Text On a Curve - 074
Creating Textures From Images - 061
Cropping An Image To Exact Coordinates - 034
Customizing ToolBars and Menus - 049

Deleting An Invalid or Damaged Autosave File - 046
Deleting Layers Quickly - 031
Determining the Size of An Image in PSP - 055
Determining Version of PSP That's Running From a Script - 118
Determining Version Paint Shop Pro Image Saved In - 064
Displaying Color Dropper ToolTips - 079
Displaying HTML Color Codes - 078
Downloading the PSP 9 "Additional Resources" - 130
Drawing A Vector Triangle - 072
Drawing An Arc - 071
Drawing Straight Lines - 010
Drop Shadows and Perspective Shadows The Easy Way - With No Plug-Ins - 103
Duplicating Layers Quickly - 032

Editing Selections - 089
Eraser Tool Tips - 080

Fading An Image Into the Background - 092
File Locations Dialog and Long File Names - 002
Filling Text With Patterns Or Gradients - 097
Finding the Color/Material You Just Used - 007
Flood Filling Multiple Areas At The Same Time - 043

Getting Rid of That Annoying Splash Screen - 053
Getting the "Right Name" In the Shapes List for New Shapes - 051
Getting the Cutout or Drop Shadow on Stationery To Tile Nicely - 047
Getting the PSP 8 Colorize Results in PSP 9 - 136
Gridmaker Script - 108
Grouping Layers - 018

Hiding and Restoring Palettes and Toolbars - 052
Hiding the Selections Marquee - 023

Keeping Rounded Corners Round - 070

Linking Layers - 017

Maintaining Aspect Ratio When Resizing Vector Images - 073
Making A Frame Fit An Image - 135
Making Brush Strokes Darker - 098
Making Proportional Selections - 041
Making Quick Plaids - 128
Making Seamless Tiles - 026
Making Soft Edges - 060
Making Stripes - 127
Making Sure Nothing Is Selected - 090
Making Transparent GIFs - 042
Making Your Shapes Symmetric - 009
Manipulating Single Letters/Characters of Vector Text - 120
Mask Files in PSP 9 - 084
Merging Layers Down - 093
Move Errors in Scripts - 110
Moving A Layer - 020
Moving Selections - 131
Moving Text On A Curve - 075
Moving the Current Layer - 091
Moving the Selection Marquee - 039

New Tools in PSP 9 - 004

Paint Shop Pro File Naming Conventions - 001
Painting A Straight Line - 082
Palette Keyboard Shortcuts - 006
Prompting the User for Materials In A Script - 109
Protecting Part of an Image When Creating a Seamless Tile - 123
Protecting PSP Distributed Files From Being Changed - 044

Quick Way to Repeat A Command Using the Same Settings - 126

Removing Dark Edges From An Image - 116
Removing the Bands From A Gradient Fill - 029
Removing Undone Commands from Scripts - 113
Repeating A Command - 008
Resetting Dialog Values - 056
Resetting Tool Options to Default Values - 057
Resizing Images - 027
Retaining Vector Properties for Text When Uninstalled Font Used - 121
Revert Command - 037
Running Scripts in Batch Mode - 106

Saving A Tutorial To Your Hard Drive - 102
Saving Images in PSP 7 Format - 063
Saving Your Settings In Sinedots II - 062
Script Termination Messages - 112
Scripting - What's It All About? - 105
Searching in Drop-Lists - 139
Selecting An Image By Exact Coordinates - 036
Selection Folders in PSP 9 - 083
Setting Background or Foreground Material to Transparent (Null) - 119
Showing and Hiding Layers - 024
Spatter Brush Effect - 101
Starting PSP 9 And Running A Script Automatically - 133
Starting PSP 9 With the Browser Active - 132
Starting PSP With A Custom Workspace - 115
Starting Your Shape At Its Center - 011
Subtracting From A Selection - 022

The Crop Shading Area - 035
The New Resource Manager in PSP 9 - 003
Translating PSP 7 Wave Settings for PSP 8 or PSP 9 - 137

Using *.abr Brushes In PSP - 129
Using An Uninstalled Font In PSP - 038
Using Custom Brushes in PSP 9 - 088
Using PSP 7 Presets in PSP 9 - 087
Using PSP 9 Files in Previous Versions of PSP - 094
Using Spin Controls For Incremental Changes - 122
Using the Autosave Function - 045
Using the Guides - 040
Using the History Palette To Create Scripts - 114
Using the History Palette To Save Single Script Commands - 124
Using the New Single Step Command - 111
Using the PSP Extension - 099

Warping Text to Match Curve - 096
Working With Vector Objects - 069



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