About Us

Kay Grippin (aka: Loadboy) has become a widely recognized and respected Paint Shop Pro graphics software authority within the graphics community and freelancer who has been creating graphics professionally since May 2003.

Experience: As an educator, Kay has worked with children with special needs. Through her experience as a teacher she explored many different techniques and tricks that allowed the children to grasp concepts fairly easily. Her experience and training in this field has allowed her to transfer some of these teaching tips and techniques into writing tutorials for Paint Shop Pro that are easily understandable by all levels of users.

Education: Kay has a Bachelor of Science in Education in Special Education and minored in English. While watching her husband develop web sites, she developed an interest in Paint Shop Pro for creating professional level graphics and web design.

Comment: "We've created this site out of love for creating graphics ourselves. We would like to know that our visitors are getting the most from our site. We don't want our graphics to intimidate others, we want them to inspire. We want you to be better than us. To take Psp to a higher level then even we ever imagined."

About This Site

Loadboy.com is a small family-run website located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It has evolved over the last few years from a private testing and web development site to one of the most popularly visited learning resources for Paint Shop Pro on the internet today. By accident. Yes, you read that right. Completely by accident!

Originally, the first few tutorials we created were nothing more than notes we kept privately for ourselves as we learned some cool tip or trick while playing around with Psp. I'll admit, some of the stuff we created at the time was just down right scary. Thank goodness for the delete key! Every time something new was learned or created, we bothered anyone with a set of ears and eyes that walked within shouting range of the computer. We were proud, and we needed to affirm our graphical greatness and newly founded abilities.

Besides the look of horror and bewilderment in our children's eyes (mistaken at that time for "WOW, you made that? Your good!"), they never did say much. As time went on and our abilities grew it finally sparked their interest. It was time for them to try their hand with Paint Shop Pro. Rather than having them constantly asking us how we did this or that, we came up with the brilliant idea of creating our own mini tutorials. We would place them online and then they could access them anytime they wanted from their own computers, and we wouldn't have to keep repeating how we did something. Great plan, great idea, problem solved!

Yea right. While it did stem the barrage of questions and "show me's", it was immediately replaced with "Hey mom, dad, you've just got to come and look at what I just made!". Horror and bewilderment. What comes around, goes around. After a short time we started to notice an unusual amount of "extra" traffic hitting our server. As we starting looking into it, we learned that one of our children had actually shown the tutorials to some of his online friends when they inquired as to how or where he learned to make what ever it was he was showing them. The rest is history, and Loadboy's Paint Shop Pro Tutorials was born.

This site is the result of a lot of time, energy, trial and error as we started learning to master just the basics of Paint Shop Pro. As expected, we've learned that there is much more about Paint Shop Pro that we don't know than we had realized! It's certainly an impressive program and we've enjoyed the learning curve.

We've managed to write most of our tutorials in our spare time, with the aim of giving other Paint Shop Pro users some general knowledge as a starting point for those looking to be more Psp-proficient.

Where Does the Name "Loadboy" Come From?

Having family members in the commercial truck driving industry, one of the type of trailers that is commonly used for heavy equipment hauling is known as the "LowBoy", an example of which is shown in the image below.

Being given the idea of creating a website that would allow companies to post available truck loads from and to anywhere within the continental U.S., at the same time allowing commercial truck drivers the ability to secure those loads over the internet. Thus the name "LoadBoy" was born.

The concept was simple. Rather then having a driver travel across the U.S. to deliver a one-way load, and expected to return with an empty truck, this would give them the opportunity to recoup their traveling expenses by checking for available loads around the point of delivery, back to their point of origin.

Due largely to a lack of marketing capital, the site was unsuccessful and in operation less than 6 months. Having already bared the expense and time associated with registering the domain name and setting up the web server, it was decided that it would be better used as a testing site for our web development projects.

Although Loadboy.com still serves as a web development testing site, it's current primary role has inadvertently grown to be recognized as one of the top resource sites for Paint Shop Pro available on the internet today.