Sue's Graphics Software Blog

Most digital cameras capture your pictures at a size large enough for quality printing. But when sending pictures by email, it's important to reduce the size of your pictures so ... Read More

In lesson 4 of Paint Shop Pro Photo Basics, you'll learn about color, practice color corrections, and explore some other basic photo editing tasks. • Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Basics ... Read More

CorelDRAW makes it very easy to create text on a path or text that follows the outline of any shape. • Put Text on a Curve in CorelDRAW

Learn the basics of bezier curves and node editing in Paint Shop Pro. Ron Lacey walks you through the various types of nodes used for editing vector paths in Paint ... Read More

You can make text stand out on a photo better by placing a solid color behind it that subtly fades into the background. This is easy to do in ... Read More

What goes through your mind when you hear the word "makeover?" An extreme makeover? Maybe a new hairstyle or for women, a new way of applying your makeup? Makeovers are ... Read More

This week's graphics challenge theme is Graphics Q&A. Not question and answer; the challenge is to put together an image with at least three elements that begin with the letters ... Read More

© Sara Froehlich It's easy to add text to a circle in Illustrator. You just draw a circle, choose the Path Text Tool, click the circle and type. The tricky (and ... Read More

Many people don't realize there is a built in feature for quickly viewing pictures in Mac OS X. You don't need to open iPhoto or install any third party software ... Read More

I've updated the instructions for my Free Layer Mask Tool for Photoshop Elements to work with Photoshop Elements 6 on Mac OS X. The layer mask tool also works ... Read More

I've recently learned that the Microsoft Group Shot beta software I posted about two years ago has expired. Since Microsoft has not yet released a public version of this technology, ... Read More

"The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest." -Sir Walter Scott This week's graphics challenge theme is Faces. The idea is to take elements of the starting ... Read More

© Arizona Kate With Arizona Kate's 'Creative Lettering' tutorial you'll learn to draw your own letters instead of using a font. The 'bubble letter' shapes are all pretty simple to create ... Read More

"Screen shot" is the phrase used to describe the action of capturing your computer desktop or anything shown on your computer screen to a static image file. In other words, ... Read More

© Sue Chastain Adding a visible watermark is a common way of identifying images and protecting them from unauthorized use online. Learn how to create an effective watermark and apply it ... Read More

© Arizona Kate One of Paint Shop Pro's popular painting tools is the Picture Tube, commonly called 'Tubes'. With a small collection of Tube files (*.tub) you can create a ... Read More

This week's graphics challenge theme is Boats, suggested by John (aka MT_Pockets). We gave the theme our twist, and the goal is to create a new image using elements of ... Read More

Adobe Photoshop is the standard for graphic editing and photo retouching. This also means that the number of options and functions it has might overwhelm the user. Photoshop's Print Preview ... Read More

Use Paint Shop Pro tutorial to create a festive banner for Cinco de Mayo with bright Mexican colors and a double outline. The first color outlines each individual letter with ... Read More