Paintshop Pro is a large and sometimes complex application so getting used to it or becoming an expoert can take quite a while! The most important things about any application however are the things you can do with it and whether it will provide the tools you need to do the things you want to do.
Below are just a few of the things we haven't touched on so far in the course but could prove useful during the course of your every day work.
The image browser in Paintshop is in my view one of the better ones. To use it, just go to the menu option FILE > BROWSE and the window will open (see screen grab left). Use it just like My Computer i Windows and browse to the folder where your images are. To open it in Paintshop Pro, just drag the image from the browser window into the workspace.
One really useful feature of using the browser is being able to print 'contact sheet' of all the images in a folder. See below.
With the browser window open, select FILE > PRINT and Paintshop Pro will automatically present you with the contact sheet or thumbnail printing dialogue.
It's not that flexible in PSP 8 but you can choose which 'page' of thumbnails to print.
Tip: With a bit of imagination you can get different size thumbnails by using the Select Template button. This will actually offer you a series of layouts for precut label sheets. By choosing one of them you can have larger thumbnails in two columns etc. (see screen shot left).
Paintshop Pro doesn't just let you work with raster images. If you want to add type and drawn shapes to images, there are a couple of 'vector' tool available. They take a bit of getting used to but can be worth the effort.
The Type Tool. Not incredibly intuitive but useful. To use, click on the 'A' in the tool bar (arrowed left).
Then click on the image roughly where you want the text to go. A separate dialogue comes up in which your text can be typed (and editied later). It also appears on the image as you type.
IMPORTANT TIP: The type tool uses the background colour for the colour of the type, so remember to check the Materials > Colors palette (outlined in the screen shot) and click on the background colour swatch to change it if necessary - before you start!)
As long as type is left on its own vector layer it remains editable. Just use the Object Selector tool 
(the last one on the toolbar) to select and double clicking brings up the dialogue box.
The last three tools on the toolbar are vector tools. The first 
is the Preset Shape Tool and allows you to pick a preset shape from the drop down on the context sensitive toolbar. Tip: Colour and Outline can be set, but confusingly it has to be done after drawing the object and using the Object Selector tool. Double clicking will bring up the dialogue pictured left where the object properties can be set.
The other vector tool 
is the pen tool. This allows you to draw and edit shapes and edit Preset Vector shapes.
When drawing it can be confusing tool to use and requires a little practice to master. The best option from my point of view is to use Preset Shapes and edit them. All you do is click on the shape and the shapes 'handles' appear, which can be moved and sliced etc. to modify a shape (see screen shot left).