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PSP tutorial explaining how to give feathering to an image

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Feathering an Image

Like a nice soft edge to your images? This PSP feathering tutorial shows you how.

Step 1

Open an image in Paint Shop Pro. File/Open

We will use the rainbow image at right. You can save this image if you like to use with the tutorial.


Step 2
Click on the "Selection Tool" and then click the "Toggle Tool Options" and set the drop window to your desired shape;

This tutorial will use....
Ellipse
Feather: 12
Antialias: Checked


Step 3

Click on your image and draw out the shape to required amount. Make it a little smaller than what you may think as it will grow on application.

Step 4
Open a new transparent image. Make the dimensions a little larger than your original image.

Example.
The rainbow image is 250x187.
The new transparent image is 260x195

Flood Fill your new image to suit the background color of the page you are putting the image on. Our example is going on this page so the background will be white.

Hint:
If you have a unusual colored background, you can set the background image by selecting the "Dropper Tool" and clicking the color.

Step 5
Go back to the original image and copy it to your clipboard.
"CTRL plus C"

Step 6
Click on your new image and press your keyboards "Ctrl plus L"
This will paste the selected image as a new layer and allow you to freely move and position the image where required.

Step 7

Click on Layers/Merge/Merge All(Flatten)



Step 8

Save As and you are done.

You can play around with the shapes and feather settings. For example you can set the selection tool to rounded rectangle or set it to "point to point" and be a little more creative.