Hi folks

 

This is very basic psp from the very beginning so bear with me pls.

Installing Paintshop Pro is very easy ..bung in the cd and let the comp do the rest

the only thing I suggest at this point is to change the directory if you dont it will be here which is C:/Program Files/JASC/Paint Shop Pro 7. now thats buried pretty deep and can be a real pain if you need to get to any folders in the program. I have mine here C:/Paint Shop Pro 7.

 

Once installed your list of sub folders will look something like the graphic below

 

 

 

Following is a listing of the sub-folders contain:

 

Anims
This folder contains elements used by Animation Shop.

This folder contains your brush files. The default brush is "jascbrush.jbr"., when you

create your own custom brushes, they will be in

Paint Shop Pro 7 uses Cache to pre-load the graphics contained in the Tubes, Shapes, Brushes, Patterns and Textures folders. This action is performed the first time you open the associated tool. If you have numerous graphics in any of these folders, it can cause performance problems in slower machines with low amounts of ram. Fortunately JASC provides you with a way to intelligently handle this situation. Under File>Preferences>File Locations, you can set up to 3 folders to pre-load graphics from . By organizing your folders, you can keep the graphics you use most in the primary folders and graphics you use rarely in sub-folders. As you can see by the above graphic of my sub-folders, I have several pattern and texture folders for this purpose.

When you install Paint Shop Pro, you will be asked if you want to install Digital Camera Support for various cameras. If you install camera support, the files will be in this folder.

Frames
The frames in this folder are the default frames that come with the program. You will find numerous other frames including some very nice edge frames on the Paint Shop Pro 7 installation disk in a folder called Frames. If you download frames created by other people, all you need to do is to place the frames (assuming they are unzipped and have a "pfr" extension) in this folder and the next time you call up frames, the new frames will load into Cache.

Gradients
This folder is where all your gradient presets are stored. When you create new presets, they are also stored in this folder. If you download gradient presets from the internet, just place them here. The gradient file extension is "jgd".

Patterns
Any graphic placed in the Patterns folder, saved as a ".bmp" will be available as a choice through the new Color Palette and will be an available choice when you use the Sculpture tool.

Presets
Many of the new Effects available in Paint Shop Pro 7 allow you to save the current configuration of the effect as a "preset". All those presets are saved into this folder.

Shapes
This folder contains all the shapes available to the shapes tool. There are several shapes files that don't pre-load with the program on the CD. If you want those shapes available, simply copy the files and paste them into the Shapes folder.

Styled Lines
This folder contains presets for styled lines.

Textures
This folder contains greyscale images saved as ".bmp" files. These textures work with the setting on the Color Palette and are the textures used by Effects>Texture Effects>Texture.

Tubes
This folder contains the default tubes that come with the program. There are tons of tubes available for free on the Internet (just do an Internet search for PSP Tubes). Tube files can be rather large, so I recommend you only keep frequently used tubes in the main sub-folder. Create a Tubes1 folder for tubes you rarely use and set the File Location to the sub folder when you need these tubes.
 

Here endeth the first lesson

 

Regards Jo