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We believe that Paint Shop Pro is every bit as powerful as any other professional image, photo, and precision graphics design editor available on the market today. We've put together a wide variety of tutorials to enhance the skills and creativity for all levels of users. While there are many different ways to create the same type of graphics, not one of them from our tutorials have been created with any third party software, plug-ins, or filters. It's 100% pure Paint Shop Pro power!

While we have written our tutorials primarily for Paint Shop Pro, we invite everyone to try these tutorials with their own favorite graphics program. The tips and techniques used throughout our tutorials can be adapted to any graphics program as long as you understand what the purposes of the tools themselves are for, and how they are used for that specific program. The only limitation is that of your own imagination and personal creativity. For additional tutorials, be sure to check out our user contributed Tutorials Directory

Paint Shop Pro Photo XI Tutorials
Basic Virtual Swordsmithing Basic Virtual Swordsmithing
Although this is an intermediate to advanced level tutorial, we encourage everyone that is comfortable with the overall workings of Psp to give it a try. It has been written in as simple of a format as is possible, yet still yield a nice quality graphic image in the final outcome. It will involve...
Creating Multi-Colored Plastic Text in Paint Shop Pro Creating Multi-Colored Plastic Text in Paint Shop Pro
No tutorial site would be complete without having a plastic text tutorial. We'll show you the simplest and easiest way to create this awesome effect.
Enhancing Paint Shop Pro's Preset Shapes Enhancing Paint Shop Pro's Preset Shapes
This purpose of this tutorial is to show you the idea behind graphic makeovers. To create a better looking image from the previous one. A "must know" for those looking to add a little something extra to their webpages to help give it more life. With minimal effects, it's pretty simple to turn eve...
Creating Colored Gel Pills the Easy Way Creating Colored Gel Pills the Easy Way
This tutorial is similar to our Glass Pill Button for Psp 10, only this time, we're going to show you a couple of advanced techniques to making a nicer, smoother inner glow. Then we'll show you the proper way to quickly change it's color, while still maintaining a consistant look across all of th...
Enhancing Graphics Using Artistic Effects Enhancing Graphics Using Artistic Effects
This tutorial is a simple introduction to just simply having fun with some of other powerful features in Paint Shop Pro Photo. Corel may have tacked on the word "photo" to the end of Paint Shop Pro for marketing purposes, but don't let that fool you. This program is capable of much more than that...

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Paint Shop Pro X Tutorials

  NOTE: The Pick Tool(P) is the Raster Deform Tool(D) in Paint Shop Pro 9
Candy Hearts Candy Hearts
This tutorial is a great way to become familiar with drawing Bezier curves with Paint Shop Pro's Pen Tool.
Glossy Navigation Bar Tabs Glossy Navigation Bar Tabs
This tutorial will show you how to create three different styles of glossy navigation bar tabs.
Black Orb Black Orb
One of the hardest single colors to manipulate for high quality (without plugins, filters, or tubes) is black. We'll show you how we do it by creating this great looking black orb.
Interface Skinning Interface Skinning
Learn a simple method used in interface designing commonly known as skinning.
Liquid Plastic Tear Drops Liquid Plastic Tear Drops
Here's a simple technique for creating liquid plastic tear drops. Wait until you see what I accidentally created with it.

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Paint Shop Pro 9 Tutorials
Game Controller Game Controller
The best way to make your graphics pop out and appear to be more realistic is to learn and understand how to apply different shading techniques. Using a few different tools here, we will show you how to turn a simple flat shape into a cool basic game controller. We will also explain in a little m...
Diamond Pendant Diamond Pendant
With the use of shortcuts, creating images in Paint Shop Pro is a lot easier, and faster. You will find some helpful hints here that will assist you in all kinds of graphics creations. We chose to create a diamond pendant for this tutorial to give you some practice with shortcuts. Shortcuts can b...
Quick Silver Quick Silver
Nearly all of the tutorials you will find online for text effects primarily use large style fonts. They are much easier to work with, and the applied effect is much more prominent. This is a Loadboy Exclusive tutorial to show you how to manipulate the majority of the smaller ones and is a perfect...
Chain Links Chain Links
Many times when creating graphics, layers may get merged together or pieces may get created together that need to be separated onto their own layers. This is a question that we get asked quite often, so we wanted to show you a quick and simple way to separate, manipulate, and add layers to your i...
Creating Diamonds Creating Diamonds
Everyone knows that diamonds are a girl’s best friend! Learn to create a diamond that can be used as the foundation for creating other gems and jewels!

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Paint Shop Pro 8 Tutorials
Liquid in Glass Liquid in Glass
There has been some demand to know exactly how I create orbs half-full (or half-empty?) with liquid. The effect is very interesting and can draw attention to any image. It's easy! Here's how to do it.
Cool Part 8: Cool "Gizmos"
Now we're going to add a few nifty gizmos to round out the mechanical guts of this thing.
Cool Pipe Designs Part 7: Cool Pipe Designs
It's time to start really making this object stand out--by adding mechanical doodads, wires, buttons, gears, etc.
Corrugated Pipes Part 6: Corrugated Pipes
Moving right along, we're now going to create some corrugated pipes to add to our object's mechanical look. This is amazingly easy!
Wires Part 5: Wires
Following the sci-fi looking theme with this image, we're now going to throw in some curvy wires, which isn't hard at all.

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