Synopses & Reviews
Designed for anyone interested in graphics, photography, or photographic creations, this book demonstrates how you can put the incredible power of Corel PaintShop Pro X6 into play. It cuts to the chase of the PaintShop Pro X6 tools that are best used when working with photographs and creating your own graphic elements. You'll learn how to correct and enhance photographs so that things like red-eye, scratches, blemishes, and unwanted objects no longer detract from your favorite pictures, whether they're ones you just captured or ones you're trying to restore to former glory. You'll read about color and how it works and use layers to adjust brightness, hue, and contrast. You'll also learn about resolution and how it applies to your monitor, your images, and your prints. In addition, you'll explore the PaintShop Pro RAW lab, where you can process your camera's RAW images, getting just the look you want. Discover fun things you can do with your photographs, such as creating digital scrapbook pages and 3-dimensional images. You'll learn how you can make composite images and create works of art with the special effects provided with PaintShop Pro X6. Throughout these pages, you'll find step-by-step instructions, full-color photographs, notes, and Tips. You'll also find an appendix covering keyboard shortcuts, as well as a glossary you can refer to for new terms. Harness the power of PaintShop Pro X6 to perfect your photographs and create graphic elements that are dynamic, unique, and fun. What's on the companion website: fun sample graphics, fonts, frames, and brushes and demo add-on filters programs for use with PaintShop Pro X6.
Synopsis
PICTURE YOURSELF LEARNING COREL PAINTSHOP PRO X6 is the completely updated edition of Diane Koers' fun, visual guide to editing images with this popular graphics software. Whether you're new to digital image editing, new to PaintShop Pro, or switching to PaintShop Pro from another image editor, this entertaining and easy-to-use book will guide you every step of the way. You will quickly develop your photo- and image-editing chops using this powerful but inexpensive software, whether you're just out for fun--retouching family photos and displaying your creativity online--or looking to create business graphics and increase your value in the workplace. The popular PICTURE YOURSELF step-by-step visual format is the fun way to learn a new skill. With detailed pictures showing you just what to do at every stage, learning to edit digital images has never been simpler. With your images, your imagination, and a copy of PICTURE YOURSELF LEARNING COREL PAINTSHOP PRO X6 in hand, you'll be creating beautiful work in no time.
About the Author
Diane Koers owns and operates All Business Service, a software training and consulting business formed in 1988 that services the central Indiana area. Her area of expertise has long been in the word-processing, spreadsheet and graphics area of computing as well as providing training and support for Peachtree Accounting Software. Diane's authoring experience includes over forty books on topics such as PC Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Lotus SmartSuite, Quicken, Microsoft Money and Peachtree Accounting, many of which have been translated into other languages such as Dutch, French, Bulgarian, Spanish and Greek. She has also developed and written numerous training manuals for her clients.
Table of Contents
1. Getting Acquainted. 2. Working with Paintshop Pro Files. 3. Becoming More Organized. 4. Making Selections. 5. Making Quick Fixes. 6. Manually Editing Images. 7. Understanding Color. 8. Developing Layers. 9. Adding Effects, Filters, and Deformations. 10. Discovering Drawing Tools. 11. Constructing Vector Objects. 12. Editing Vector Objects. 13. Working with Text. 14. Printing and Sharing Images. 15. Panoramas and 3D Photos. 16. Making Digital Scrapbooks.