Listed under File

Section 1

New= this opens the option to create a new canvas. Set the size you want your canvas to be, set the transparency of your canvas and set this to pixels instead of inches.

Width= space across (horizontal)

Height= space up and down (vertical)

Resolution= quality of image

Background color=either choose transparent or choose a color

Image type= 16.7 million as shown is best

One you have the settings for your new canvas click OK

 

 

Open= click this to open an existing image file

Browse= click this to view a thumbnail view of your image folders. You can drag and drop files to your psp workspace.

Close= to close the program

 

 

Section 2

Save= if you open an image and do something to it and click File/Save it will save with the updated file you just did. If you do not want to save it as the original file you should click Save As and give it a new name.

Save As= This opens the window to choose the format and allows you to save this image as a new image with a new name.

Save Copy As= Allows you to save the current image as a different format

Workspace= If you do alot of work on one canvas which requires several other images to be opened and you need to quit or close the program or go to something else for awhile.... you can simply save the workspace (name it) and as long as the images have not been moved to another folder or computer area, you can close psp, reopen psp and open your images and work by simply clicking here and choosing the name which you saved the workspace as.

As shown above you can load the ones you have saved, save a new one and delete them.

Send= Sends the current active image as an attachment to your computer based email program, such as Outlook Express.

Section 3

Import images from your hardware attached to your computer.

Export images to Image Slicer or Image Mapper. View Tutorials for each. Mostly used for web design.

jpeg gif png are your image formats mostly used is the jpg or gif

Picture Tube= to save your image as a picture tube it must be 1 raster layer and be 16 million colors 24 bit (these options are located under Layers and Colors from the menu)

Section 4

This deals with your printer, setting up the page etc.

Section 5

Jasc Producst... here you will find your Animation Shop program.

Batch Conversion= PSP 7.04 and lower must use bmp files for their patterns and textures. So here you can turn any of your gifs or jpgs into bmp's. Or if you want to share yours with someone but the bmp files (larger byte file type) are to large, you can batch convert them to jpg format to share. I use this alot. One example is... I like to use Scrippy program which its default is gif or jpg. Most of my backgrounds are bmp files. Scrippy allows me to drop down a menu and select the bmp's as well but it get annoying. I can simply batch my bmps into jpgs and they are ready to be used with any program.

Preferences= Loads of goodies in here

Use General Program Preferences to setup how you want the program to be.

File Format Associations= if you have problems with psp nabbing the images you click to view, check here to uncheck the format. In other words, if you want PSP to automatically open jpg files when you double click them...... then is the spot to set that up, or undo it if you want.

File Locations= Tells the program where your files are and where to save the new ones. For instance... I am heavy into tubes and bmps for my backgrounds. I don't need to bog the program down with all my junk...nor would I want my junk to be eaten by a crash. I have created a new folder on another drive for my tubes, another for my bmps etc. I simply set it up here to let the program know to draw from those folders to get them and I choose to save to those folders so all my items will be safe and not bog down the program.

above you see image preferences... this window opens.

You can set the amount of undo/redo...... etc but the most important to me is this transparency tab. I always work with a tranparent canvas. If my image is mostly black I will reset this transparency color to white..... that way when I erase, I can actually see it very well. When working on light images set it to the color black. If you have a multi color image... set it to a bright color that is not in your image.

How to change the color? Simply click the Color 1 and Color 2 to select different colors.

Section 6

This area shows the last images you have opened. To reopen one simply click it.

 

This completes my tutorial on File.

This tutorial and all its text and images are Copyright to CherokeeCandy