Please help with paint shop

[madamy]

I just switched from Photoshop to Paint shop X2 and have wasted many hours of my day trying to figure out how to how to add - an outline in the color of my choice around text. I couldn't find anything in the tutorial.

Does Corel have a function to do this? Advice and instructions would be greatly appreciated. I am going to take a cold shower to see if I can Unfry my brain and then try to accomplish something on todays list.

Thanks.....Hopefully I am not up all night trying to figure it out.

 

[madamy]

No shower yet but, I did manage to finally figure out. I will now have a peaceful and productive evening.

 

[irky416]

I have Version 8 so it might be different, but when I go to add text there is an option for stroke width. If you raise that from 0, it creates an outline around the letters.

Here's what it looks like on mine:

 

[Nie0214]

I use PSP7 (I've never bothered to upgrade, though I should. ) and in case anyone else is looking for this answer, I'll just write what I do:

1. Create a new document with the background being the color you want around the text.

2. Use the text tool to type your words, create the text as a SELECTION, not as a vector or outline.

3. While the text is still selected, go to Selections > Modify > Expand.

4. Set the value to 1. It will expand your selection to cover your text and 1 pixel more (which includes your background color).

5. Now just copy all and paste into your original image!

Hope that helps!