Product Description

• 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #506253 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764579356
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes:
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From the Back Cover
Retouch, reshape, and re-create your graphics for amazing images

Create great graphics and Web-friendly images, or fix photos that need help

Want your photos and graphics to be picture-perfect? This book is your buddy. It will help you capture and scan images, create a virtual painting, repair damaged, dark, or blurry photos, add Aunt Louise to the picture and get the red out of Uncle Joe's eyes, and produce great prints or post your masterpieces online.

Discover how to:

• Capture pictures from paper, camera, or screen
• Size and crop photos
• Boost photo color, retouch, and fix lighting flaws
• Add shapes and text to your graphics
• Turn photographs into fine art

About the Author
David Kay is a writer, an engineer, an artist, and a naturalist who has written or cowritten more than a dozen computer books. William "The Ferrett" Steinmetz is a freelance Webmaster and editor.

Customer Reviews

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.

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

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 your graphics needs are not complex, and Paint Shop is cheaper, perhaps that's the way you should go.

And of course, as befits this series of books, the narrative is very informal, to put you at ease.