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Welcome to this lesson on the Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 interface. It's going to be a quick walk-through or run-through of all the different elements Paint Shop Pro has in its interface and show you how to use them and drag them around and reset the preferences back to their original state. So when you call up Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, if you've been using earlier versions, you'll notice that it's got a graphite theme, which means it's dark shades of gray as the background in interface elements. Don't be afraid of that. I've reluctantly adopted it at first but I've come to really like it. It helps you see the colors and photos more clearly and it doesn't take away from them in your eyes. It's a better way of looking at your work. We're just going to go in a round circle around the interface. At the top is the Title Bar with the name of the program, the name of the file you have active and selected. On the top right you've got Minimize, Maximize and Close. Below this you have the Menu Bar. All the different menu settings in Paint Shop Pro with the keyboard shortcuts next to them. The menu has an arrow. It expands out to the right. If it's grayed out with a lighter shade of gray, it's not an available selection. You have File Operations: Opening, Saving, Printing, Importing, Exporting, Batch Processes and then under File you have all of your Preferences and Color Management. Edit allows you to Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Empty the Clipboard if you've got some paste material in there, you want to save the memory. View changes your view. You can also turn on Rulers, Grid, Guides, change their properties, turn on Toolbars and Palettes from here and then go into Organizer; different types of Organizer Mode, the Document Mode or Palette Mode which we're in now. You can also look at the Magnifier. Turn that on. That's kind of neat. Turn on or off the graphite workspace theme. That changes it back to older, standard Windows kind of gray application. Docking Options for Toolbar, Palettes and you can customize your view. Image Menu: Rotation, Resizing, Canvas Sizing, Mirror, Flipping. Here's where you change you color depths: Split, Combine Channels and apply your Watermarks. Adjust is where you perform Color, Tone, Brightness, Sharpness Adjustments to photos. Smooth skin, things like that. If you're an artist, you may not use many of these. Mostly it's for photo work. Effect is where you would have filters and effects to create different things, different effects to your photos. Layers is the Layers Menu where you can Create New Layers, Duplicate, Delete, Hide, Arrange, Merge and Load and Save Masks from here. Account Layer Colors, which is kind of neat; 99,979 for this layer. Objects: if I were to create a text or a vector object, that's where that menu comes into play. I can align it, access its properties, edit the different nodes and so forth. If I make a selection, here's where the selection is. I can Select All, None, Invert. I can select from vector objects. I can load and save selections, promote what I have selected to a layer and float that selection. Window, I operate in Tab Documents Mode most of the time. You can also Cascade open documents and arrange them however you like. You can duplicate an image and fit it to the image window or the screen. And Help is Help. Below the menu you've got the standard Toolbar which has your basic icons such as Open, New, Print, Save, Undo, Redo and so forth, rotating image information, zoom in and out. You've got the enhanced Photo Quick Menu and then another menu to turn on or off palettes. Palettes with checks are visible, palettes without are not. Below this you've got a Tool Options Toolbar which changes based on the tool you have currently selected and that is where specific options for each tool are displayed and you can access presets and change modes and other sub-options for each tool. Now, below this line really is the working space, which has more palettes, toolbars, windows. Here you have the Learning Center, which you can close, make it go away, which I tend to get myself some screen space but if you want extra help, leave it on and it's a good way to select a tool and you can see the help over here changes to represent what you have selected. And Tool Toolbar, and you can see the more buttons down here. Don't forget: there are tools under here if you don't have the screen space. You'll see that double arrow. And I've got the Organizer down here which allows me to drag and drop photos from watched folders up into this location. Top right I have my Materials Palette which gives me colors, textures, patterns for use in painting and drawing. Layers Palette, which shows me how many layers I have in an image and allows me to manipulate those. A lot of different palettes accessible: History Palette. Now, these palettes also you can click and drag around your screen and relocate them and also close them or cause them to auto hide. The palettes in the toolbar is where you're really going to customize how you use the Paint Shop Pro interface. You might like to have a lot of stuff open and have access to it or you might like to work like with a minimalist approach here and save most of your space for your photos or your artwork. Alright. I think we can wrap this lesson up. That is the Paint Shop Pro Photo interface.