Paint Shop Pro 9 Tutorial

1. Open a new image, size 292x382, with a transparent background

2. select the flood fill tool in the left hand menu

3. then choose a colour, by double clicking on the foreground colour field, to get a selection. Then click into the new image.

4. Add a border, by clicking on 'image' in the top menu and choose 'add borders'

5. Choose a colour for your border and the size of it. Then click 'OK'

6. Open the grid template from our website. Then choose the 'Magic Wand' tool from the left-hand menu.

Click into the grey area of the grid so that it looks like little ants are running around the grid.

7. Choose a colour like you did for the background of the stamp card. Then choose the 'Flood Fill' tool from the left hand menu again and click with it into the grid (thin lines).

8. Click on the image with the grid and copy it with ctrl+c. Then click on the stamp card and paste it into with with ctrl+v. After that it should look like this.

9. If the grid is not exactly where you want it, use the 'Move Tool' in the left hand menu. After you chose it your cursor will look like the image in the menu. Click on the grid and hold the mouse button down and move it around, till it is where you want it to be.

10. To add text, click on the 'Text Tool' in the left hand menu. Then click into the stamp card where you want to put the text. A small box pops up, where you can write the text into. If you want to change the fonts, highlight the text, then make the changes in the top menu or it wont accept the changes. When finished, click 'Apply'.

11. Repeat 10. to add 'click here to get your own' or whatever text you would like there.

If the text is not perfectly centred, right click into the text you want to align. Chose 'Align Object' and how you would like to move the text.

Congratulation, you just made your first stamp card :)