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.
Title: Paint Shop Pro 8: The Guide to Creating Professional Images
Author: Nichols, Robin
ISBN: 9780240516981
Binding:
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication Date: 2003-11-19
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.7985 kg
""""""""""""Clear and simple explanations of digital-imaging terms and Paint Shop Pro's features and tools are complemented with step-by-step projects."""""""" - Digital Photographer
The book's layout is clean and illustrated with both images and PSP screenshots. A glossary and a list of keyboard shortcuts are particularly valuable for newcomers to PSP."""""""" - Digital Photographer
""""""""When you pick up any book from Focal Press, you know two things. One: it is extremely useful for photographers, and Two: it is qualitative, thorough information for those wanting in depth knowledge.""""""""
Photocrack e-zine.
""""""""There are more books about PSP, so why bother? In short: """"""""Paint Shop Pro 8, the guide to creating professional images"""""""" is by far the clearest guide for PSP. It's a serious book for people wanting to know more. Of course every function of the program is discussed in detail. But it is the examples that make this manual the best. It is strongly visual, with lots of examples and graphics.""""""""
Photocrack e-zine.""""