Picture Yourself Learning Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3

by Koers, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781435456747
• ISBN10: 1435456742
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-27
• Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR

Summary

Harness the power of PaintShop Photo Pro X3 and discover all the fun and practical techniques that can be used to perfect photographs and create dynamic graphic elements. Picture Yourself Learning Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3 introduces the tools needed to correct and enhance photographs, beginning with the basics of working with toolbars, palettes, and rulers, and setting up your PaintShop Photo Pro X3 preferences.

Once acquainted with the basic tools, readers will learn how to use layers to make brightness, hue, and color contrast adjustments; how resolution applies to their monitor, images, and prints; and how to use the various file and output functions. In addition to numerous retouching and repairing techniques, they'll discover how to use special effects to turn their photographs into works of art and create digital scrapbook pages and 3D images.

This is a very complete guide to the Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3. It is well illustrated and easily read. Picture Yourself Learning Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 has a great Glossary and an equally great Index. Features like these that make a book an often superior learning tool to a program's help menu, and the book supplements the program's Learning Center.

In addition to the step-by-step instructions, tips, and notes, readers will find appendixes featuring PaintShop Photo Pro keyboard shortcuts and useful additional resources. This new edition is completely updated to cover all the new features of PaintShop Photo Pro X3.

Author Biography

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 areas of computing, as well as providing training and support for Peachtree Accounting Software. Diane's authoring experience includes more than 40 books on topics such as PC security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, PaintShop Pro, Lotus SmartSuite, Quicken, Microsoft Money, and Peachtree Accounting, many of which have been translated into other languages such as Dutch, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, and Greek. She has also developed and written numerous training manuals for her clients.

Table of Contents

Getting Acquainted

Working with Paint Shop Pro Photo Files

Discovering Drawing Tools

Making Selections

Understanding Color

Developing Layers

Becoming More Organized

Making Quick Fixes

Manually Editing Images

Adding Effects, Filters, and Deformations

Constructing Vector Objects

Editing Vector Objects

Working with Text

Printing and Distributing Images

Creating Panoramas and 3-D Photos

Making Digital Scrapbooks

Keyboard Shortcuts

Exploring Useful Web Sites

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