Paint Shop Pro Tube Painting

Photo Impact Object Clone Painting

Photo Impact™ has the capability of using objects to create images like those of Painter™ nozzles, Photo-Paint™ image lists and Paint Shop Pro™ tubes. Each program has its idiosyncrasies as to how the image is created, but the final results are on the same level. To keep up with today’s volatile graphic market one has to be able to produce quality work at an accelerated pace. These programs are the tools that help us to do that in a major way. The main focus of this tutorial is to demonstrate how easily this can be accomplished using one of Photo Impact™’s most powerful tools, the Object Clone Tool.

Download the 10 free object files you will need to complete this tutorial. Remember where you put them! Create a new file, 400 X 400 pixels at 72 PPI. In the Tool Panel (1) select the Standard Selection Tool (2^nd icon), and create a rectangle covering the top 1/3^rd of the canvas. This area is for our sky.

In the Tool Panel click on the Bucket Fill Tool icon (last one), choose the Linear Gradient Fill Tool from the menu. In the Fill Attributes bar (2) click on the 1^st color chip and select a light blue from the Ulead Color Picker palette, click OK. Click on the 2^nd color chip and select a dark blue green color. Using the LG fill tool click once at the bottom of the selection, hold down the mouse button and drag to the top, release the mouse button. You should have something that looks like this (3).

The gradient appears to be very dark for a sky. In a few minutes you won’t recognize these background colors. One important thing to remember is don’t bother trying to duplicate the painting exactly. If I did this same one a hundred times, I wouldn’t be able to come up with an exact replica. It’s the process you want to master for use in future works, not the duplication of the image.