Product Description

• 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267370 in Books
• Brand: Books
• Published on: 2003-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764524400
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes:
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From the Back Cover
Enhance colors, erase mistakes, and improve your image

Create professional-looking graphics for print or the Web, easily and economically

Okay, you’ve got some great pictures – and maybe some not-so-great ones. With this handy guide and Paint Shop Pro 8, you can make them magnificent, inexpensively! Find out how to capture those images and repair, retouch, create cool effects, add text, animate images, make prints – well, you get the picture.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
David Kay is a writer, engineer, artist, and the author of five For Dummies books.

William "The Ferrett" Steinmetz is a freelance Webmaster and editor who helms StarCityGames.com.

Customer Reviews

A Great Book to Take the Next Step with PSP8
This book has a thorough overview of PSP 8. Plus, it takes you step-by-step and in plain English through some advanced features. I have bought two other books on PSP 8 and have used PSP 7 for two years. This book is better than the other two and a keeper!

Excellent tutorial
I clung to version 5 of Paint Shop Pro for years, and when I upgraded the new version had a lot more "stuff" available. This book walked me through it, taught me tricks I'd never learned before, and generally made my life much easier. Entertaining and informative.

Decent but could use some work
Ok here is what I consider the skinny. If you have not used Paint Shop Pro before, then this book can help you get started. It is not a tutorial type of book. It tries to explain how the tools are used and what does some of the settings do.

If you have used Paint Shop Pro before, then you may want it for a reference. I do not like the way that the authors dove away from some of the tools.

Unlike their opinion, I found some of the tools VERY useful in correcting photos and should be explained. For example, they do not explain the dodge/burn tools. I knew what these tools do but the authors attitude was you won't need them. That may be true for someone just wanting to use the program for quick corrections but it is used alot in retouching.

Overall, the authors did explain why some of the tools behavior which helps understand why something did not work as you had expected. I feel that this is a good beginners book if like I stated before, you are not looking for a tutorial type of book.