Hi there, errrm I'm not sure if I'm in the right section but here I go!

I'm new to paint shop pro in general and I'm using PSP 9 right now to do some designing for my bands ep cover.

I've worked out how to use everything I need very nicely and it's a great program but my problem is this.......

I designed a logo for the band using a font and the text tool, I then drew on bits and bobs to make it a bit flashier, spikes and circles that kind of thing. Now this logo was inteneded to be used on an EP cover so I saved the whole thing in block white with no shading or effects with a plain red background.

The problem I have now is that I have my actual cover art ready so I call up my logo and set my background and foreground colours to the same as the red background, I copy and select the art image and click on 'paste as transparent selection' which it does but there are still hints of red around the edges of the writing. It's extremely annoying because it can only be used on redddish backgrounds where it isnt so noticeable but useless on any others.

Can anyone please help or tell me what I'm doing wrong? I know it's probably a simple thing that I've missed, because I am new to it but it's driving me mad, I just want a sheer white logo with nohne of the background colour at all.

Any information would help,

Thank you!

P.S. There's no particular reason I picked red as a background colour, just first one that came to mind but i assume that my problem would occur with any colour I use as a background.

Could you select the text, contract a few pixels, inverse, delete? If the text is on its own layer, this should work.

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Hi thanks for the reply, I really appreciete the help!

I'm not sure what you mean by contract pixels. I'm very new to PSP and any art program for that matter so you'll have to treat me as a bit of a dummy when it coes to these things. Where would I find these options on the menus and what is it they are exactly doing?

The whole logo is saved as a solid image, the whte logo and the red background I only used the text tool to write out the name of the band and after adding all my bits I just saved it and I call it up whenever I want to use it on a cover or posters!

I fail to understand why this is happening, if I've set the colour to be transparent then I don't know why it's still appearing around the edge of the white and disappearing for the rest. do the colours megre slightly to a lighter red around the logo to appear smoother and that's why I can't get rid of them? if so any suggestions to how I can fix this cos I didn't want anything like that to happen.

Thanks once again!

Hi,

Could you make new text and just a little bigger then the old text and place the new text over the top of the old text? Create a new layer and make sure you are using Vector Text and Anti Alias is selected when you use the text tool. Vector text is better then floating or selection text as you can deform it without the text becoming pixelated/jaggie around the edges.

I am not sure why you are seeing any of the red background color through your white block area.

Quote: "so I saved the whole thing in block white with no shading or effects with a plain red background."

It is possible that you had your text selected when you used bucket fill to fill the white block? This would leave little empty pixels where a different color could show through.

The best way to create images for almost any use in PSP is to create everything on a layer of it's own and save it in .psp format as your original and then do a Save Copy As a .jpg. That way if you ever run into anything you need to fix you can easily go back to the layered.psp image and change it.

Hope this helps a little. For an extensive list of PSP learning technique tut's this is a great site: MAKE SURE to use the SEARCH feature on this site, very easy to find every tut which mentions the search term you are looking for!
http://www.psplinks.com/index.html

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