Figure 13-10: The New Raster Layer command in Visual Studio .NET

Drawer QR Code in Visual Studio .NET Figure 13-10: The New Raster Layer command

9 Select the Picture Tube tool, which is the twelfth tool from the top in the toolbox, right above the Flood Fill tool The Picture Tube tool s settings appear in Paint Shop Pro s toolbar, as shown in Figure 13-12

10 In the tool s settings, select the Gold Star Garland picture tube, as shown in Figure 13-13 To display the selections, click the small arrow next to the displayed shape in the tool s settings toolbar The selected picture appears in the tool s settings 11 Also in the tool s settings, change the Scale value to 72 The Scale value determines the size of the resultant graphic The setting of 72 makes the graphic 72 percent of its original size 12 In the Layer pane, click the Gold Star layer to ensure that it s the selected layer (see Figure 13-14) Paint Shop Pro selects the Gold Star layer for manipulation

13 Place your mouse cursor over the left end of the toolbar and click; if a globe appears, press Ctrl+Z to remove it and then click again A golden star with two smaller globes appears in the toolbar, as shown in Figure 13-15 Notice that the layer s transparency value of 25 allows the sunburst effect to show through The higher this transparency value, the less of the background shows through

14 Add several more Gold Star Garland images (as in Step 10) to the toolbar 15 Select the Move tool, which is the fourth tool down from the top 16 Place the Move tool over your toolbar, on top of one of the gold stars, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the Gold Star layer to whatever position looks best Now you see the power of layers! Figure 13-16 shows your toolbar as it looks now

17 Save your work If you ve never saved the image before, the Save As dialog box appears, in which you must give your image a filename and select the imageformat type I suggest the jpg image type You can add as many layers as you need in order to provide perfect control over the elements that make up your images

You can add a 3-D effect to your toolbar in several ways One is using Paint Shop Pro s Buttonize effect (see 11 for more information on this effect), but for your toolbar, you ll use a more subtle 3-D effect: drop shadows To see how drop shadows work, perform the following steps:

1 Select the Gold Star layer, if it isn t selected already 2 Choose Effects 3D Effects Drop Shadow The Drop Shadow dialog box appears (see Figure 13-17)

3 In the Offset options, set Vertical to 8 and Horizontal to 8 These options control the position of the shadows The higher the values, the more the shadow moves away from the source graphic 4 In the Attributes options, set Opacity to 50, Blur to 5, and Color to black Opacity controls the shadows transparency, whereas Blur controls the definition of the shadows edges and Color controls the shadows color 5 Click OK Paint Shop Pro adds shadows to the Gold Star layer, as shown in Figure 13-18

6 Save your work If you ve never saved the image before, the Save As dialog box appears, in which you must give your image a filename and select the image-format type I suggest the jpg image type If you want to make the Gold Star layer more vivid, increase the transparency setting You can do this in the Layer pane See that slider on the right side of the Layer pane Drag the one for the Gold Star layer to change its transparency, as shown in Figure 13-19