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Ken McMahon and Robin Nichols have created a complete and easy-to-follow introduction to Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 9, allowing you to take full advantage of this popular photo-editor and graphics program in ways you would never have imagined. If you are an amateur digital photographer, web or graphic designer this book will provide you with everything you need to get the very best out of your images and achieve professional-looking results with this affordable but powerful consumer software. Paint Shop Pro 9 for Photographers offers an extensive variety of real life examples with clear, step-by-step tutorials, eye-catching visuals and numerous tips and tricks to take your image making skills to new heights!

Published in conjunction with the new release of Paint Shop Pro, this book walks readers through image-editing fundamentals as well as more advanced graphics and animation tools Shows photography and animation hobbyists how to create quality, professional-looking graphics Discusses painting, spraying, retouching photos, adding artistic effects, layering, masking layers, adjusting color, moving, reshaping, copying, and printing images Also examines how to create Web images and animated graphics with Jasc's Animation Shop Author has written more than a dozen technology books

Paint Shop Pro is a low-end Photoshop-style package and is the most popular image editor available for Windows. Paint Shop Pro 5 is the latest version and this guide explores the application's improved support for layers, new animation wizards, support for over 40 file formats, multiple levels of undo, and much more.

This complete and easy-to-follow introduction to Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 shows you how to take this popular graphics and photo-editor program to new heights. Achieve professional-looking results quickly, using the author's comprehensive guidance and extensive photographic knowledge. The book includes a wide variety of real-life examples demonstrating how to broaden your image-making skills. Each chapter is filled with clear, step-by-step projects, eye-catching color visuals and numerous professional tips and tricks. This is the ideal guide for anyone wanting to take their imaging skills to a higher level. It shows you how to optimize scans and digital photos, fix up old or damaged pictures and create a website from the ground up. There are also sections on how to add text to your pictures, create vector graphics and prepare images for print. The associated website (www.guide2psp.com) gives you all the tools you need to fine-tune these essential skills. Pictures featured in the book are provided online so you can download them at your leisure and try the techniques as you progress through the book. This comprehensive guide to Paint Shop Pro 8 ensures you have all the skills needed for producing professional standard work in a number of real-world applications.

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.

This title is designed to teach the new computer user how to easily work with a variety of digital media. It doesn't assume the reader wants to learn how to use just one product, but covers multiple products and technologies together in a logical fashion.