Scraps Of Mind

Texture Tuesday with Wildheart

Exciting news for Paintshop Pro readers. We’ll be running a Tuesday series on Scraps of Mind about Textures written by PaintShop Pro expert, Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works. I know you’ll enjoy them and even if you’re not a PaintShop Pro user you’ll find plenty of ideas to help you work with textures in your own program. So let’s welcome Wildheart to her new spot.

How to Make an Old Paper Texture

This is an old paper texture I learned how to make from a nansonsplace.com tutorial. The tutorial is for Version 8 and in this article I show you how you can adapt it to work on Version 9 and above.

Click on this link to view the original nansonsplace.com tutorial.

The tutorial works straight across the board for paint shop pro 9 until you hit step 10.

In their tutorial, the textured paper already has a blurred look by this point. In version 9 I didn’t get the blurred look until the end when I went in to adjust>soften>soft focus.

In step 12 when you go into adjust the mid tone: adjust>brightness and contrast>highlight/mid tone/shadow, the radio buttons for version 8 read ‘linear adjustment method’ and ‘dynamic adjustment method’ whereas for version 9 they are called ‘absolute adjustment’ and ‘relative adjustment’. In paint shop pro 9 you want to check ‘relative adjustment’.

This step is optional as it is just to make the paper effect look a little darker. But I thought it was necessary to point this out if you are using version 9 or higher as their are differences in each version.

As I have said before you don’t really notice a major difference in features and interface especially until you jump from version 8 to version 10 though.

Final product after making adjustments in version 9

I got paint shop pro 9 my first or second semester of the first year of college and as with all things shortly after I got it Corel came out with version 10 and they are now up to version 12.