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Welcome to this lesson on Drawing and Painting in Corel Paint Shop Photo X2. I have my web browser up and I am at Wacom.com. Wacom is a manufacturer of pen tablets and I want to start out this lesson by talking about the advantages of having a pen tablet system to draw and paint. You can see here a photograph of the Intuos 6x11. There's the pen and there's the tablet. What this system does is it allows you to move the cursor and paint or draw with the pen instead of a mouse and the tablet essentially functions as your mouse pad or a screen which you put on your Desktop to draw on with the pen and you can see the boundaries of the screen here. You also have extra functional buttons to the left or right, depending on the system you have. They're fantastic. It is so much easier to draw or paint with a pen because it functions like a paintbrush or a pen or pencil. Real artistry, real artistic sensibilities come out instead of using a mouse. A mouse is not very intuitive in creating artwork. Otherwise, you know, Michelangelo would have painted with a mouse. No, he didn't. He painted with brushes. You can see here, and this isn't really a paid advertisement for Wacom, but they're the leading manufacturer. There are several others out there but this is really the leading manufacturer and I have a Wacom as well, so I'm most familiar with it. The Intuos line here is for pretty much the professional level and you can see on the right they come in all different sizes and basically smaller size is more convenient to put on your Desktop; limited, you know, drawing area but it still will basically will cover the entire screen and then you move up in size to some of the really huge ones, which give you much finer control because if you think about it, you're drawing on your screen. You're drawing the size of the screen. So a 4x6 tablet fits your entire screen onto the little, bitty square there and so you have less discrimination, less resolution really in this tablet. Moving up to 12x19, it's essentially almost a one for one pixel mapping from the tablet to the monitor. So mine is a 6x8, 6x9. I don't have an Intuos. I've got an old Graphire tablet. Visit Wacom or find another manufacturer that you like, investigate the tablets and as you can see, they're not cheap so you have to be more interested than just casual to get into the market and try it out. But I really would encourage you, if you're going to draw or paint, this makes it so much easier. So let me minimize this and come in to Paint Shop Pro. I'm just going to fire up a new image here. I'm going to choose a preset, 1024x768 and when you're drawing and painting, here's some important decisions you want to make right away: what kind of background you want; raster background, which would be a normal bitmap background so you could paint with the paintbrush; vector background, which allows you to create vector shapes and then art media background if you want to jump right into painting or using chalk. Let's use raster to get started. Now, I wouldn't use vector to start painting and drawing because that's more vector-oriented shapes rather than using a paintbrush. In here I've got a nice, clear background. Let's fill this with white and now one of the great things about painting in any kind of computer program is I can create a new raster layer, put that on top, go back and I'm trying to slow my mouse movements down here but basically what I've done is created a new raster layer over my background. I've then filled that with white and now I switched colors back so that black is the foreground color. I'm going to come over to my paintbrush, click that to select it and then change the parameters of the brush and let's reduce that down to about size five and then I'm going to start drawing. Now, I'm not going to be able to teach you how to draw. In fact, I'm much less of an accomplished drawer than my wife is, but this basically, this lesson is to show you some of the tools and techniques you can use to get into it and then progress further yourself. You can change colors here from a stark black to more of a gray if you want more of a pencil look and just practice; practice and draw. Get your kids involved if you've got them. Great thing about drawing in Paint Shop Pro is unlike a normal sheet of paper, it's kind of like working through a notebook. I can turn pages off, switch to a new layer and then continue drawing. That's cool. Now, I'm going to quickly go to a art media layer and show you that. Art media layers are different in that normal paintbrushes won't work. You get to use the Art Media Tools down here at the bottom of the Tools Toolbar; oil brushes, chalks, pastels and so forth. This is more the painting area. So let's choose an Oil Brush. I can select the materials here but I also want to turn on the Mixer Palette. Select a green, put that in the palette. Select a blue and mix the paint together. Now I can load that with my Mixer Dropper into my brush and now I'm ready to start painting. See how that works? It works just like paint loaded on a paintbrush. Alright. I must run because I'm out of time, but that is very quickly some things to get you started painting and drawing in Paint Shop Prop Photo.