Graphic Design by *~Falaria~*

I've picked up a lot of tips from surfing various tutorial and information sites. Also by just doing stuff myself. The tips will very..they may be like a mini-tutorial to just information.

MAKE VERTICAL TEXT:
Maybe you've tried to make your text vertical by entering letters one at a time and then pressing the Enter key, in which case you likely discovered that your text is much too far apart with that method alone. To remove this extra space, you can simply adjust the Leading in the Text dialog box (start with -15). Now, go ahead and enter the first letter and press the Enter key, enter the second letter, press the Enter key, and so on. The Leading adjustment will correct the spacing, and you'll have nice, straight vertical text. (This varies as PSP doesn't really like some fonts.)

USE COLORIZE TO AGE PICTURES:
Here's a way to make your photos look instantly old without using any external filters. Open a picture in PSP and make sure that it is at a color depth of 16.7 million colors. (To do this, go to the Colors menu and choose Increase Color Depth, 16.7 Million Colors. If this option is grayed out, then you're already there and the image is ready to be enhanced.) Now go to the Colors menu and choose Colorize. Change the settings to Hue 32 and Saturation 60. At this point, the effect will already look pretty cool. However, to age the picture a bit more, choose Image, Noise, Add Noise, and set the Uniform option to 20. This will give the picture a nice antique look. Here is an example, using another photo of mine long ago. This was taken at The Forks Market, here in Winnipeg.. It's like a huge flee market. Restuarants, merchants, produce, entertainment.... Sooooo easy to do and a great effect.

CAN WE HAVE TOOOO MANY FONTS?:
The answer to the question is No! But too many fonts installed....you're asking for problems. You'll be working and suddenly, when you try to put some text on an image, there will be no available fonts. Or....oops.... PSP just crashed. What is not so commonly known is that this is a Windows memory issue. Fonts use a lot of memory...specially the real fancy ones. To remedy this, try using a font management program. There are several shareware font management programs available that will actually improve your overall computer performance if you have lots of fonts.

The idea behind font management is that you put your fonts into groups and have open only the group that you need. Also, with a font manager, Windows does not have to load all 500 (or more, for some of you font fiends!) of your fonts when you start up your computer. I have all default fonts installed and two or three extra that I use all the time. Where's the rest ? I've a folder called MyFonts that has two subfolders - unzipped fonts - zipped fonts I use The Font Thing When I want to use or view fonts not installed.... I open this up... view...install and then unistall when I'm done with the font. Piece of cake! This is just one of many options. Look for font managers at either of these addresses:
http://download.com
http://www.tucows.com