Customer Reviews

Corel Paint Shop Pro X Revealed

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PSP X Revealed is a poorly written book with black and white images of screen shots. Trying to associate a black and white screen shot with a color image on the computer screen is daunting at best and eye straining at worst. The section on learning layers is written as though someone already has the knowledge of all the tools and their uses and is now going to go thru a refresher course. The author seems to try to communicate her knowledge without explaining what the various functions do along the way assuming that the reader is well versed in PSP functions and knowledge. For someone who has just installed PSP X and is wondering how to put it to use...save your money, this will just frustrate you more than you already are.

I have to disagree with the other reader about it not being well written. The instructions were easy to understand and was a tremendous help for this newbie! I have never used any kind of graphics program before at all. This book was perfect for me to get my feet wet.

However, I do agree with him about the black and white issue. Computers and computers graphics are all about color and a black and white book for a piece of software like this is just down right silly! I would love to see another book with the writers style (and sense of humor) but IN COLOR, now that my feet are wet in a manner of speaking. When might we be seeing one?

Tammy Pelphry

I was hoping for something that would show me more about dealing with photo enhancements rather than making graphic images. I did learn some things that helped me; but I will keep looking for a better PSPX book. The "how to" instructions were quite good for the examples; but I was hoping for more.

This is really a great book. The exercises are very detailed and set out in a true "learning order." Based on these exercies the "doing order" is then quite obvious.

What would have made this book even better would have been full color. When Paint Shop Pro has a new version I sure hope Sonja does a new book. It will be one book I will surely purchase.

Regards
Mike Gorman

Very good book for a beginner to paint shop pro. Not something I would recommend for someone that has been using paint shop pro. I found it very basic and I had only been using PSP for a few months.

I'm not all the way through the book, but about 1/2 way. I was a total beginner to this and it was very step by step with very clear directions. It's been extremely helpful teaching me the basics.

This is a great book for anyone who is new to Paint Shop Pro X. She did not wased our money by having color pictures to explain what to do. They are not needed. It is to the point and very helpful. I would recomend this book to anyone who is starting out in computer dark room. I love it and will look for other books by Sonja. A+++++++++++++++++

I highly recommend this book as it is very user friendly and makes it easy to navigate around the program. Better than the book provided by Corel

Great book, it gave me so much information, just what I was looking for!!