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![]() You can find it in the Palettes menu or by hitting the F6 key on your keyboard. Make sure you have the Materials palette visible.I'm creating it as a raster image, and I make sure the Transparent option is selected for the background. For this example I'll base the size on pixels at 300 dpi, and make the size 1200x300 (you can crop it further later). The trick is to create an image file that contains nothing but text or graphics, with a transparent (not white!) background. And creating the file took me quite a while to figure out. You'd have thought this would be easy since PaintShop Pro has a command in its edit menu under Image/Watermarking/Visible Watermark, but in truth this is for applying a watermark rather than creating the file on which it will be based. Just an identifier so that if anybody does like your photo enough to use it there will be some built-in attribution. I'm not talking about the huge "COPYRIGHT" banners across some pictures designed to prevent their use by anyone else. The photographer's name in an inobtrusive font or color in a lower corner of photos you see online. This was drilled home when I attempted to perform what I though would be a simple operation creating a watermark to identify pictures I post to the web. ![]() Corel PaintShop Pro has almost as many features as PhotoShop, at a fraction of the price, but it's not exactly intuitive to use and the documentation is less than stellar. ![]()
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