Pixel Paint

Intro:

This page is about Paint Shop Pro and pixel painting. It contains examples of different kinds of pixel paint objects and information about Paint Shop Pro.

Definition:

Main Entry: pix·el
Pronunciation: 'pik-s&l, -"sel
Function: noun
Etymology: pix + element
Date: 1969
1 : any of the small discrete elements that together constitute an image
(as on a television screen)
2 : any of the detecting elements of a charge-coupled device used as
an optical sensor
Reference web site: http://m-w.com

Mouse-overs:

Custom Mouse-over Example #1

Custom Mouse-over Example #2

The four mouse over buttons above were all made using the same basic process in paint shop pro and front page. Under the insert menu in front page, the commands component and then hover button were used. The first button is an image that is 120x24 pixels and is a basic button with a red to green effect and default text style. The other three buttons are a combination of two images created in paint shop pro at 100x100 pixels and made into a custom hover button.

Banners:

Original Banner

This is my original web banner, reduced in size. It is very basic and made using only the picture tube tool in paint shop pro. The text was made using a font called Matura MT Script Capitals at 26pt. size.

New Banner

My current web banner is more complicated than my original and consists of three layers. The background layer is a linear-gradient fill of blue to white. The second layer is my enhanced digital photo with a feathering of seven pixels. The top layer is text which was given a drop shadow and a vertical cylinder deformation.

Graphic Buttons:

These three web graphic buttons were created using the same basic process, which can be found at: http://www.teamcia.com/review/buttons101. The first button is just the base button. The second button has text which was given a drop shadow and then the button was given an effect of neon glow. The third button has plain text and an effect of glowing edges.

Skills:

Some of the tools/skills used in Paint Shop Pro include:

cropping selection tool paint brush cloning

retouch picture tube flood fill text

effects deformations layers toolbars

Hyperlinks:

To link to the web site of Paint Shop Pro or to online resources go to:
http://www.jasc.com

Tutorials:

To link to online tutorials for Paint Shop Pro try any of these:
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials/txtpath.asp? http://www.bysarah.com/mg/blendmodes/index.html
http://www.bysarah.com/mg/masks/maskbasics.html

Or to check out any other tutorials check out JASC's Paint Shop Pro tutorials link page at:
http://www.jasc.com/tutorials/6tsites.asp?

Careers:

Some careers which relate to pixel painting:

photography studio game designer graphics designer web page management