This step-by-step guide shows users how to get the most out of this highly affordable professional image editing software. Corel Paint Shop Pro 10: The Official Guide covers the entire product, including the suite of art media features, professional photo editing tools, and precision graphic design capabilities. Readers will learn to restore and revive images through editing, color correction, and other techniques designed to help achieve professional results. Step-by-step projects help readers practice the skills necessary to master Paint Shop Pro.

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

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This step-by-step guide shows users how to get the most out of this highly affordable professional image editing software. Corel Paint Shop Pro 10: The Official Guide covers the entire product, including the suite of art media features, professional photo editing tools, and precision graphic design capabilities. Readers will learn to restore and revive images through editing, color correction, and other techniques designed to help achieve professional results. Step-by-step projects help readers practice the skills necessary to master Paint Shop Pro.

Award-winning graphic artist T. Michael Clark has written a visual, two-color, step-by-step guide to the practical use of Paint Shop Pro that will give intermediate-level creative professionals an edge on design. Topics include: image retouching, color correction, creating contact sheets, preparing Web images and creating special effects.

The Corel-Authorized Guide to CorelDRAW®—Updated for CorelDRAW X8 This thoroughly revised guide offers complete coverage of CorelDraw X8, including the revamped interface and brand-new features. CorelDRAW X8: The Official Guide shows anyone—from a beginner to an experienced illustrator—how to create top-drawer commercial graphics and exquisite artwork. You will learn to draw photorealistic illustrations, use shortcuts to create complex art, lay out text like a pro, add special effects, and transform 2D objects into 3D graphics. The book features tips for printing high-quality work that matches what you’ve designed on your monitor. • Work in the customizable interface redesigned to reflect Windows® Metro style • Explore and understand the software’s menus, palettes, and dockers • Lay out brochures, flyers, and other multi-page documents • Add paragraph, artistic, and custom-shaped text to your designs • Search the Content Exchange for fonts, vector patterns, background designs, and the Get More docker • Use the Perspective, Extrude, Smear, Twirl, Attract, Repel, and Distortion tools • Incorporate lens effects, transparency, shadows, glows, and bevels • Put all the elements together in a professional, visually compelling way with layout and design tips from the author

This book contains 370 tips, tricks and tutorials for the PaintShop Pro program. It can be used with all versions of the software for tools that have remained the same since version 7. New features are also taken into account, such as the geolocation of photos.Beginners will find their happiness there by discovering tips from the author's long practice. More experienced users will be interested in the techniques described in the tutorials. The PSP Cook Book is to be consulted when you need to perform a manipulation that you do not do regularly and whose steps you must remember. This book is a reminder but also allows you to discover the possibilities of PaintShop Pro when you start with the software.The tutorials often expose several methods to achieve the desired result. The user will be able to use it as a guide to adapt one or the other step and customize the final rendering of his/her images.This manual can be consulted as a reference book thanks to the table of contents and the index. Whenever possible, the tutorials have been grouped by theme: black and white, scripts, printing, layers, vector, text, special effects (Ansel Adams, Orton, Dragan), natural elements (rain, snow, frost, rainbow, sunset), etc.More than 500 photos, drawings and screenshots accompany the text and make it easier to understand. The book website (www.pspcookbook.com) allows the user to download the images to practice.

Step inside the studios of some of today's top artists, illustrators, designers, and photographers working with digital art tools. "Secrets of Corel Painter Experts: Tips,Techniques, and Insights for Users of All Abilities" allows you one-on-one access to the creative and technical process of professional artists who use Painter in their work. Organized into chapters according to the artist's area of expertise, each chapter details the professional background of an individual expert and includes techniques, insights, and resources followed by an image gallery highlighting some of their work, both personal and professional.Written as a conversation with the artist about an individual creative process, you'll find detailed, step-by-step techniques demonstrated that cover genres including illustration, fine art photography, concept art, comic book illustration,manga illustration, concept design, and fine art.This incredible resource provides inspiration and practical advice for artists and aspiring artists alike.