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Chapter 5. Understanding the Materials Palette

Color and style are probably the most important elements when you're creating and working with graphics. Even minor changes to color settings can dramatically alter your image. Style takes into account special combinations such as gradients, patterns, and textures, including the appearance of brick, wood, leather, or sand. Paint Shop Pro provides all these options on the Materials palette. In this chapter, you'll learn how to

• Understand color models

• Make background and foreground color selections

• Change patterns and gradients

• Create color special effects

• Work with grey scale

• Control transparency