Flaming Pear's SuperBladePro plug-in works with graphics software programs such as Adobe Photoshop (for Windows and Macintosh) and Corel Paint Shop Pro (for Windows only). If you already have the regular BladePro plug-in, you can upgrade to the new SuperBladePro for a small price at Flaming Pear's website.

The older BladePro version presets will work fine with the newer SuperBladePro; however, the newer SuperBladePro presets won't work with the older BladePro plugin.

1. Each preset is in a ZIP file, which can be opened with an unzipping program such as WinZip for Windows or Stuff-It (Mac), Stuff-It (Windows).
2. To download presets from Linkware Graphics, click on the underlined link text and download and save the ZIP file to your computer. The presets underlined text links look like this:
   • Shiny Gold
3. You can then open the ZIP file with your zip program.
4. Make sure you've closed your graphics software program (Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro) before going to the next step.
5. From the opened ZIP file, copy the BMP, Q9Q, and Q5Q files to the Environments and Textures directory folder of SuperBladePro, and copy the JPG files to the images folder of SuperBladePro.
   
   For example, in Windows, a possible location of these directories might be within your hard drive's Program Files within the Adobe, Photoshop directories, such as: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\images and C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\environments and textures - or possibly C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\SuperBladePro\images and C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\SuperBladePro\environments and textures. If you can't find these directories, you could try searching for SuperBladePro on the hard drive where your programs are installed.
6. The next time you start your graphics program, the new files should be available within SuperBladePro.

Note that you might need to slightly adjust the SuperBladePro graphics software plugin presets for various text, shapes, or however you wish to use them. So if something doesn't look identical to the examples here at Linkware Graphics, try slight adjustments to the settings within the SuperBladePro interface. You can then save the preset with a new name within SuperBladePro for your specific needs to maintain the original preset file. This is true of any SuperBladePro graphics software plugin presets, not just those here at Linkware Graphics.

It's best to contact Flaming Pear about any installation problems you might have; however, if there's a problem with downloading or using a specific preset from Linkware Graphics, please contact Linkware Graphics so we can try to help resolve it.

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