Customer Reviews

Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics

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Dispite a couple bad rewiews, I purchased the book anyway. My mistake! This book is for people wanting to make cute little home pages with pics of their kitty, just like the author. It shows how to crop and paint a little but not much more than that. I learned as much just tinkering with the PSP prog as I did from the book. He promotes his website like it is some type of dynamic creation. It in fact is a lousy little site with pics of his kitty. The author uses it merely to try to sell more books. Unbelievable! Don't be another sucker and buy this pittiful excuse for a manual. (The PSP manual is almost as good.) Purchase something with some guts to it!

When I first started, I had little knowledge of how to make my own graphics. Other books I tried to read were too advanced and were confusing to someone just starting out. I wanted to create my own graphics instead of using clip art which most graphics books don't cover. This book has familiarized me with PSP and I now feel very comfortable using the program. It is easy to read and understand, and it is well-written. It also teaches you some very cool techniques! The author is very nice and will respond if you need help with anything and that in itself is invaluable!

Paint Shop is great, this book just nudges you along in learning some of the capabilities. I liked the quality-printing of the book, nice paper and great illustrations. If you're a beginner and want to make web graphics, this is an excellent book for just that. It's much more fun to read than the manual, and easier to stay with than some of the other paint shop books available.

This book is really great. I used it in my ZDU class and it had all the answers that I could even think of asking. Paint Shop Pro software is cool too. You have to have a color book to learn the software well and it has much more than the manual.

It's very helpful that the book is in color but I expected more from it. Doesn't go much beyond the basics. A little overpriced for the material covered.

Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, Andy Shafran's Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics is the definitive "how to" manual for using Paint Shop Pro 5 to produce and editing outstanding website graphics including banners, backgrounds, icons, and photographs. Hundreds of pages of full color examples illustrate the various aspects of Paint Shop Pro. Following clear, concise instructions the reader will rapidly be able to create vivid buttons, headlines, and icons using interactive techniques. How to use PSP Picture Tubes, deformation, and special effects in developing graphics is covered in detail, as is the use of the latest in scanner and digital camera technology to edit and customize photos. Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics is a totally "user friendly" manual that belongs on the personal or professional Paint Shop Pro 5 reference shelf.

Buy this book only if you have never done web graphics before. While I thought it would be a comprehensive look at web graphic techniques using PSP, it is really just a basics how-to kind of book. PSP has so much to offer yet this book falls short.

This will always be of value to me. A basic understanding of Paint Shop Pro is helpful tho. Prev Paint Shop Pro books are suggested. Simplicity is The word. Take one Step at a time here. If you don't understand right away do not give up. READ And RE READ. You will get it!

This book is pretty good for its small size. It discusses layers, filters, transparent gif's, and much more. Don't expect this book to make you a graphics whiz but it deffinately will teach you some new tricks! My only one complaint about this book is its constant endorsment of Paint Shop Pro as opposed to those oh so expensive over done complicated (CaOdUoGbHe) programs that fall short to PSP "superiorority" LOL =) Good Book Though...

It took me a little over 24 hours to get through the book. Chap. 1-5 were a breeze, 6-8 not to bad, 9-14 I needed to re-read somethings. I love the way the book explains the topic before diving into the actual practices. The author(s) refer back to previous chapters to save space and to build the readers knowledge. I really appreciate the numerous resources in the appendicies. Although the book is basic in most of its areas it does rebuild the foundations needed for improvement. For those of you who feel you wasted your money, give it to a newbie, you'll feel a lot better.