Teaches how to use PaintShop Photo Pro's plethora of top-notch photo editing tools to retouch, enhance, and restore your photographs. After a brief introduction to PaintShop Photo Pro and other helpful topics such as scanning and organizing, this title lets you dive into detailed photo studies that showcase new and old photos alike.

"Learn to: Use the camera controls, set up shooting modes, use Auto mode, and shoot video; Play back, review, and edit your images; Experiment with exposure, flash, and focus to create great photos"--Cover.

Whether you choose the A65 or the A77, this guide will help you get the most out of your experience with your Sony dSLT. Learn to transform your picture-taking into an art.

The ideal reference to Canon's EOS 5D Mark III for professionals and serious hobbyists The Canon EOS 5D Mark III offers professional photographers and advanced amateurs a wide range of top-flight dSLR capabilities. Canon users love For Dummies guides, with more than 100,000 copies of previous Canon camera guides sold. Like its predecessors, this one is packed with colorful examples that illustrate camera features and inspire you to capture your own super images. It explains the camera controls and menus, shows you how to take full advantage of all the features, discusses output options and image editing, and much more. Geared to the needs of professional dSLR photographers and serious hobbyists, this guide covers all the features of the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Explores the camera body, menu screen, auto settings, and image settings Shows how to use the video modes, priority settings, manual settings, and focus modes to capture the best images Provides suggestions and inspiration with more than 300 full-color photos Covers image editing and output options Features tips, techniques, and projects to help you get the most from your camera's capabilities Canon EOS 5D Mark III For Dummies is the perfect partner for your new dSLR.

Are you passionate about the photographs you take and want to give them a professional look? Do you have boxes of old family pictures that you want to restore? Or are you an avid scrapbooker looking to enhance your projects? "Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel? Paint Shop Pro? Photo" shows everyone how to use Paint Shop Pro Photo's top-notch editing tools to restore, enhance, and retouch their photographs. It doesn't matter whether you are a serious photographer, an artist, a casual photo hobbyist, an arts and crafts enthusiast, genealogist, or small business owner-you'll benefit from the techniques and practices shown in this book. After a brief introduction to Paint Shop Pro Photo and other helpful topics such as scanning and organizing, you'll dive into more than 70 detailed photo studies which showcase digital, scanned, color, and black-and-white photos. Discover how to restore and retouch your pictures and make them worthy of display in your home or office, in albums or in scrapbooks, as you follow along with the studies, which use "real life" photos from the author's collection. Each study teaches you how to tackle specific problems, shows you the pros and cons of different techniques, and concludes with the fully restored or retouched photo. The studies address problems that range from small to large, including scratches, blemishes, red eyes, fading, tears, missing pieces, color, lighting, contrast, and more. You'll also learn how to retouch photos, including people and adding and removing objects. Photo Restoration Using Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo will show you how to enhance your already good photographs, teach you how to analyze your pictures like a professional for the best possible finished product, offer ways to tackle "impossible" photos, and conclude with artistic retouching.

PaintShop Pro, the popular graphics software that lets you create and edit beautiful images for home, work, or the Web, also offers powerful capabilities for enhancing and restoring photographs. This completely new edition of PHOTO RESTORATION AND RETOUCHING USING COREL PAINSHOP PRO X5 is a comprehensive, friendly guide to using the latest version of PaintShop Pro to improve your photographs. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to working with digital images, you'll appreciate the book's step-by-step, visual approach, covering topics such as improving brightness and contrast, solving color problems, removing specks and dust, repairing scratches, tears, creases, and holes, retouching people, and much more! Included are more than 50 detailed photo studies that teach you how to tackle specific problems--like red eyes, blemishes, and poor lighting. With photo editing expert Robert Correll as your guide, you'll learn pro-level retouching techniques that will help you create great photos you'll be proud to share with friends, family, and the world.

The bestseller returns—completely updated to include the newest hardware, software, and techniques for building your own arcade Interest in classical arcade games remains on the rise, and with a little money, older computer hardware, and a little effort, you can relive your arcade experiences by building your own arcade machine. The hands-on guide begins with a description of the various types of projects that you can undertake. It then progresses to a review of the audio and video options that are available and looks at the selection of game software and cabinet artwork. Ultimately, you’ll learn essential troubleshooting tips and discover how to build arcade controllers and machines that you can enjoy at home with your PC. Serves as a soup-to-nuts guide for building your own arcade machine, from the sheets of wood to the finished product Addresses the variety of arcade controls, including joysticks, buttons, spinners, trackballs, flight yokes, and guns Explains how to interface arcade controls to a computer Shares troubleshooting tips as well as online resources for help and inspiration Project Arcade, Second Edition helps you recapture the enjoyment of your youth that was spent playing arcade games by walking you through the exciting endeavor of building your own full arcade machine.