Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686 EAN: 9780764579356 ISBN: 0764579355 Label: For Dummies Manufacturer: For Dummies Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: January 28, 2005 Publisher: For Dummies Sales Rank: 137928 Studio: For Dummies
Published in conjunction with the next version of Paint Shop Pro software, this easy-to-use reference shows how to edit photos and create high-quality, professional-looking graphics
Covers how to capture images from a variety of different media-paper, camera, and screen
More advanced topics include retouching, adjusting colors, creating artistic effects, adding layers of text and shapes, masking layers, and creating Web images
A sixteen-page color insert features before-and-after image edits and graphics highlighting the visual effects that people can achieve
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Steve's Review
Excellent book on just the topic I needed; arrived on time and in excellent shape.
Rating: - Read this first
Being slightly famillar with a older versiion of Paint Shop I felt I still needed the basic instructions that Dummies gives.
I was not disappointed. I am also using "Paint Shop Pro 9 Photographers Guide" and with the two I am becoming well on my way to a Pro at Paint Shop Pro
Rating: - Good general purpose aide.
This book is a great entry level aide to understanding the workings of Paint Shop. However, it is an all inclusive aide so anyone who is looking to use Paint Shop merely for the purposes of photo editing will not find much of use inside this help. But, it can open your eyes to what is possible with Paint Shop and get your foot in the door to anything new.
Rating: - as good as Photoshop for many tasks
Well Paint Shop Pro 9 is not the latest Photoshop. But Kay reveals that Paint Shop can do many of the common tasks available in Photoshop. Common image editing, like resizing images, tweaking the colour maps and so on, are just as easy in Paint Shop. As you might expect, there is a layer model of images, that lets you have overlay planes and manipulate objects in each. [You may already be familiar with the idea from Photoshop.]
A reasonable question then is why choose Paint Shop? If ... Read More
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