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Ok, my way is simple!
open your picture that you want to take your object from.
Next select the lasso tool and go into that tools options and make sure it is set on point to point...
Then just click all the way around the object you want to remove from the background
Once the whole object is selected copy it
then if you want a plain background, set the foreground colour to what you want the colour to be and then select the whole picture and delete that will leave you with the colour you want
then just paste your object back into the picture
that is all I did.
If you want a gradient background then select the picture after copying your object choose the flood fill tool and go into it's options and chose which gradient or pattern you want then fill your picture with it, then paste the object into that
If you want a pic like Bev did, find yourself a pic that you like and save it. Do all the steps above to where you copy the object then open your image that you want to put the object on, then paste it on to the picture (you can chose to paste it either as a new selection or layer depending on what you want to do next...If you want to carry out further work on the object like shadows etc then best paste it as a layer so you can work on it separately from the background.
It sounds so complicating but really just keep messing about and you will just get there in the end.
Here are some tutorials...they are for different versions of paintshop but the basics apply to any of them...
I can't remember if any of them cover what you want to do but trying some of the techniques help you to understand just how psp works and so then it gives you an idea of what you can try
http://www.mardiweb.com/web/
I use that one alot, it taught me lots of stuff it is for psp 5, 6 and 7
http://www.psptoybox.com/tuts/psp7/aged.htm
Not what you want to do but it's something I had a go at just to see if I could do it and it helps you to understand different techniques and apply them to your own work
Other than that just search paintshop pro tutorials and see what comes up
Don't get frustrated at first it takes a while to get the feel of how to use psp.
I'm making a new website for keena & takoda using it to do my graphics etc it will be done soon and I'll show you...It is looking good right now even if I do say so myself...lol
Let us know how you get on, just try something easy at first