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Tips & Tricks for PSP and Windows

Here are tips for all versions of PSP and general tips for Windows. If you have a tip that you'd like to share with us, please send it in to tips@pspug.org.

1. Talent.8bf, the underestimated plugin
2. Never work on the original graphics
3. Text on a curve or circle
4. Selecting a small object
5. Replacing all instances of a color by another color
6. Quick background tile
7. Turning paper art into graphics
8. I want to make a drop shadow behind an image. I hit select all, then set the drop shadow, and nothing happens. What did I do wrong?
9. How do I make new papers/textures?
10. Easy Metal
11. Viewing background tiles in PSP
12. Easy Screen Shots
13. Zoom tool for precision work
14. PSP keeps acting very strange
15. Unerase
16. Paste into selection
17. Many of my menu options are greyed out, why?
18. How does Hot Wax work?
19. Using the color replacer tool
20. Extra color picker!
21. Chiseled effect
22. Merging into the background
23. Remember your background color
24. Making thumbnails in PSP
25. Fast preferences
26. Changing colors of the whole image
27. Previewing an effect
28. Making round-edged boxes
29. How to blend a part of a photo into the background?
30. Good way to make it glow
31. How do I center my text?
32. Adding simple watermark
33. When I make my gifs in PSP they look nice and clear. When I view them after putting them on a page they get spotty. What's happening?
34. Is there a way to change your psp graphic to a JPG and still keep the transparent background?
35. Removing the bands from a gradient fill
36. Is there a way I can re-size a photo, and save it large ?
37. Why I am only getting a partial fill with flood fill?

1. Fonts to trash?
2. Organize your windows
3. Need help with anything PSP related?
4. Can I make icons using PSP?
5. Need Java on your website?
6. PSP garbage in your Temp folder
7. Keep your downloaded files in one folder
8. How to get out of frames
9. Keep your computer running optimally
10. Browser back button
11. Font installation: missing commands
12. Starting ONLY Windows
13. Keep your graphics small
14. Organize your fonts
15. Shortcut for creating a new image
16. Know what fonts you have
17. Using Javascript to close a window or go back to the previous page
18. Adding space to your toolbar
19. Making stained glass
20. Unknown extensions in PSP: AOL users?
21. PSP has taken over the file associations for the graphic formats. How can I give them back to the program I want them to be with?
22. A valuable program in these virus-ridden days. Inspect the mail on your server and delete it without downloading.