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How to add textures to your easy palette

1. If the texture is not saved somewhere to your hard drive, do so now. It is highly recommended that you store backgrounds for use in Photo Impact in a separate folder than the regular PI folder.
2. Create a new folder in the easy palette for your backgrounds as in this tutorial by Mary Lou.
3. Right click on a folder name in your easy palette gallery section. Any folder will do, but I'm using the fill gallery.
4. Click on the words Add natural texture thumbnails...

5. Browse to the folder in which you stored the backgrounds.
6. Click open. Another box will open. This box allows you to outline the shape of the thumbnail. You can choose one, which uses the whole image as the thumbnail, or 2, which creates a square for you to slide to the best part of the image to use as a thumbnail, or 3, which allows you to outline any size rectangle or square for the thumbnail. Unless your background is large, is is easiest to use the first option. You may want to use choices two or three if your image is so large that in thumbnail size it would be too small to tell what the background looks like.

Do these steps for each background you wish to add to the gallery.

Here's how to share your background gallery with others.

1. Make sure your images have all been stored in the same folder on your hard drive. If not, delete thumbnails from backgrounds in different folders, and make new thumbnails for these after you have moved them all into one folder.

2. Go to the gallery in the easy palette, and click on it so that it displays in the right side. Right click on the name of the gallery, and click export. Note: you cannot click on the group names. You have to click on the gallery name.


 
Name your gallery and save it in the same folder in which your backgrounds are stored.
 

 


3. Open the backgrounds folder in Windows, and click edit, select all. Right click on the name of the smp file, and click "compress to zip".
4. Share this zip file with your PI buddies.
 

For a more in-depth look at this, please see this tutorial by Dark Elf.
 
 

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