Most of you know about Jasc Paintshop software which is more powerful and user-friendly software. Paintshop has all the tools of what Photoshop have. You may have doubt why am using paintshop rather than photoshop . The reason is Paintshop provides more easier platform for designers especially for beginners.

Ok. Let we go for the basics of Paintshop. If you are not having Jasc Paintshop means I recommend you to download latest trial version of Jasc Paintshop from www.jasc.com

In the first topic you must learn about ‘Layers’. Layers are the most interesting feature and should be used from start to end of all designs.

Layers are more similar concept to a book having pages more than one. If you have a look at a book, the front page only visible and it hide the back pages. The same concept is used here. Here the upper layers would hide the lower layers.

Now I can tell you how to create layers.

1. Open a new document of size as your desire and select and background color as white.
2. Here the background layer is the lower most layer.
3. Now look for the layers panel which is located at the right side bottom of the window.
4. Layers are of two types as ‘Rasters’ and ‘Vectors’.
5. You can create layers by clicking buttons as shown below.