Paint Shop Pro support - Can't remember this function, for skewing an image's perspective

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Can't remember this function, for skewing an image's perspective

TomKelleherInc@gmail.com

2007-11-01, 4:16 am

Folks,

About 3 months ago, I was creating some promotional materials for my
firm, and using Paint Shop Pro XI, I took screen shots of some of my
software, and skewed them to make them more attractive in print.

But I didn't use the "Skew" or "Perspective" functions. I used some
*other* function that I can no longer find.

I recall that the dialog box interface for this function had a control
that looked like (at first) a circle with a kind of bulls-eye pattern
on it: several diameter lines, and several concentric inner circles.
But when you clicked on it and dragged it, the center point moved, and
the diameter lines warped, and it looked like you were swiveling a
sphere. The experience was like using a "trackball" rather than a
mouse. As you moved the center point around, your image (my
screenshots, in my case) skewed in three-dimensions.

It was a wonderful technique, and very useful. And I can't for the
life of me find that function on the PSP menus!

Sound familiar? Any suggestions?

- TomK

Trev

2007-11-01, 7:15 am

TomKelleherInc@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> Folks,
>
> About 3 months ago, I was creating some promotional materials for my
> firm, and using Paint Shop Pro XI, I took screen shots of some of my
> software, and skewed them to make them more attractive in print.
>
> But I didn't use the "Skew" or "Perspective" functions. I used some
> *other* function that I can no longer find.
>
> I recall that the dialog box interface for this function had a control
> that looked like (at first) a circle with a kind of bulls-eye pattern
> on it: several diameter lines, and several concentric inner circles.
> But when you clicked on it and dragged it, the center point moved, and
> the diameter lines warped, and it looked like you were swiveling a
> sphere. The experience was like using a "trackball" rather than a
> mouse. As you moved the center point around, your image (my
> screenshots, in my case) skewed in three-dimensions.
>
> It was a wonderful technique, and very useful. And I can't for the
> life of me find that function on the PSP menus!
>
> Sound familiar? Any suggestions?
>
> - TomK

That sound's to me more like a Photoshop Interface may be you have some PS
filters from pre Ps 6 that work as plugins In PSP (the ones after PS 6 dont
work in psp). Or maybe you did it in PS.
Not to say you can not get the same effect in psp but You do it differantly.

--
Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.

JoeB

2007-11-01, 7:17 pm

TomKelleherInc@XXXXXXXXXX wrote in news:1193892907.385183.39240@
22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

> Folks,
>
> About 3 months ago, I was creating some promotional materials for my
> firm, and using Paint Shop Pro XI, I took screen shots of some of my
> software, and skewed them to make them more attractive in print.
>
> But I didn't use the "Skew" or "Perspective" functions. I used some
> *other* function that I can no longer find.
>
> I recall that the dialog box interface for this function had a control
> that looked like (at first) a circle with a kind of bulls-eye pattern
> on it: several diameter lines, and several concentric inner circles.
> But when you clicked on it and dragged it, the center point moved, and
> the diameter lines warped, and it looked like you were swiveling a
> sphere. The experience was like using a "trackball" rather than a
> mouse. As you moved the center point around, your image (my
> screenshots, in my case) skewed in three-dimensions.
>
> It was a wonderful technique, and very useful. And I can't for the
> life of me find that function on the PSP menus!
>
> Sound familiar? Any suggestions?

I would agree with Trev that this sounds like it was a plugin.

Regards,

JoeB