Base graphics

[sycoracing]

Hi Everyone!
I am pretty new to paintshop and the whole painting scene. When it comes to creating a nice looking base, I dont know what I am doing lol! I can put logos and numbers on other peoples bases, but when it comes to using paintshop to actually create sculpted curves and design a nice looking base, I have a hard time. I am wondering if anyone knows of any websites out there that have any cool layered, or even non-layered psd graphics files that I can use on my bases until I get a better understanding of paintshop. I know this is a lazy way of doing things, but I would rather try to make some cars this way while I am learning how to use paintshop, instead of requesting a ton of bases. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
"SYCO"

 

[Henderson]

Photoshop is very difficult. You cannot make neat looking lines. I would suggest Illustrator and Paint.Net. Maybe even Gimp.

 

[burtonbraves]

Are you painting with Paint Shop Pro? Is that what you mean by paintshop?

 

[Phantomguy24]

Photoshop is very difficult. You cannot make neat looking lines. I would suggest Illustrator and Paint.Net. Maybe even Gimp.

This is 100% false. I use photoshop for all of my paints and get very neat clean lines. If you think it's impossible you really have just not tried hard enough. Use the pen tool, it works wonders. From there you can do very neat fills, strokes and gradients.

 

[Alan Harkleroad]

Ok I dont even remember how many times this has been said but look in the tutorials area, all programs have a level of difficulty. Your skill is limited to your interest in getting better and nothing else. Read and learn.

 

[Henderson]

This is 100% false. I use photoshop for all of my paints and get very neat clean lines. If you think it's impossible you really have just not tried hard enough. Use the pen tool, it works wonders. From there you can do very neat fills, strokes and gradients.

Thanks for the correction. I never really messed with it too much to understand that. That is what I get for making assumptions.

 

[sycoracing]

Thanks for all your help everybody...Alan is absolutely right, I need to read more and learn what all of the tools in 'paintshop pro 9' do and how I can utilize them. I just need to get better at it and that will take some time I guess. There's really no shortcuts when it comes to doing things the right way. Thanks again for all of your help.
"SYCO"

 

[Alan Harkleroad]

Good luck. I am an avid PSP user and I prefer it to Photoshop for most things. Both are amazing programs, i read tutorials and watched videos along with just goofing around. Over time you will find out what you want to know. Google Monster will help you find all you need to know.

 

[Elio Lugaru]

I'm a Big Paint Shop Pro user as well.
I Use a Mix of Paint, Paint Shop Pro & Photoshop.
But when I'm making my Paint Schemes, I do it all it in Photoshop
Photoshop DOES take awhile to get used to.