Now onto a few hints and tips and tricks that you'll hopefully find useful as you continue on your journey through learning PSP!  I'll keep on adding to this page as I discover more and more tricks and little gems of info about PSP so keep on checking back!!  :o)

• Whenever you resize an image, always remember to sharpen it (Effects, Sharpen, Sharpen) - it gives you back some of the clarity that resizing takes away

• As soon as you open a new image, always save it straight away (File, Save As, type in the file name, choose .psp format and hit OK).  This saves a *lot* of time and frustration if something happens and PSP closes - while it's very frustrating, it's a lot *less* frustrating to loose 2 minutes work and having to do the last 3 steps again than 2 hours work and having to redo the whole image.

• If you are getting duplicates of your tubes or pre-set shapes showing up, you probably need to clear out your PSP cache.  To do this, open up Windows Explorer then navigate to where you've installed PSP - this is usually "c:/Programme Files/Jasc Software inc./Paint Shop Pro 7".  In that folder there's another folder called "Cache"... go into that folder and select all the files (edit, select all) then delete them.  DO NOT DELETE THE FOLDER - just the contents.  Next time you open up PSP it will recreate the contents of that folder and your duplicates should have disappeared!  :o)

• If you followed my overview of PSP tutorial then you'll know that I *love* the Browse part of the programme.  Another tool that I'd underestimated until recently is the dropper tool.  It's such a time and frustration saver if you are trying to find just the right colour but you can't work out how to get it just the right shade.  Just open up an image that's got the colour you want in it, select the dropper tool and use that to select the colour.  Left click on the colour to set the foreground colour and right click on the colour to set the background colour (if you've changed your mouse preferences in Windows the same changes will be in effect in PSP)