Tuts index Part 2 Part 3


This time, we will not create vectors, but we will learn a way to use them. The aim of this tut is to show you that it's not because it is in the files provided by PSP that it's untouchable :)



First, Download the .jsl file (Mozilla users, right-click and choose 'Save Link Target As').
Save it in the folder where you usually put your preset shapes.
Open it in PSP :)
Press 'Shift+D' to duplicate the picture, one never modifies an original.
Close the .jsl file. (Not the new image !)


Click on the little cross on the left of the 'Shape Library' layer and look what constitutes the clipboard.
Take a little while (and fun) to click the eyes next to each layer name to identify all the parts.
There are four layers, two of them being grouped, all being grouped in a 'clipboard01' layer.
The 'Shape Library' layer has been created and named by PSP.
The point is not to say this is the Good Way to do it,
but to understand how I did it and maybe wonder
"it would have been better like this or like that, m'am :)".


The target is now to get all layers out to make them independant.
For that, we will create as many vector layers as we have shapes.
___, we will create three layers, as, for the last one, we will reuse the one that already exists ('Shape Library').


Go to the 'Layers' menu, choose 'New Vector Layer', click on 'OK'. Repeat this operation twice.




Click and drag the 'round' layer to the 'Vector3' layer.
Do the same with the 'clip' and 'paper' layer.
Take care to keep the order of the layers,
always start from the top that represent the part that'll be on top
and continue downwards till the part that will be at the bottom.
(I did a very slow animation, but you can do it faster :) ).




What would be nice now, would be to be self-disciplined :) (Here,I'm talking to myself)
and to rename immediately all layers giving it the name of the sub-layer it contains.
(rename the 'Shape Library' to 'back', and so on).




Activate the upper layer ('round'), right click and convert it to raster layer.


Do the same for all other layers.


Add a new raster layer, call it 'background' and place it under the 'back' layer.




Go to 'Image' menu, 'Canvas size'.


Resize the canvas to 400x400 with a placement at the center.




Tuts index Part 2 Part 3