How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 [Paperback]

David Huss (Author), Dave Huss (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072191074 | ISBN-13: 978-0072191073 | Publication Date: May 27, 2003 | Edition: 1

Add dazzling effects to your digital camera photos with help from this friendly, solutions-oriented guide to the latest release of Paint Shop Pro. Covering all of photo-editing fundamentals this easy-to-use resource will show you how to repair damaged photos, scan images, add text to images, create Web graphics, build simple yet eye-catching animations, and more. For adding new life to any photo or including animated graphics on your Web site, this is the ideal book for you.

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From the Back Cover

Crop, color, print, edit, and repair images with this easy-to-follow guide to Paint Shop Pro. Restore and revive images through editing, color correction, and other techniques designed to help you achieve professional results. Author Dave Huss delivers useful information in cookbook fashion, leading you step-by-step through projects such as improving a dull digital camera photo, creating an image for displaying on eBay or another Web site, repairing a damaged photograph, animating your Web site, and more. No matter your experience or knowledge level, How to Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 will give you easy-to-understand information to help you improve virtually any graphic image in no time.

• Customize your Paint Shop Pro workspace
• Choose the best graphics format to save your images
• Transfer and store pictures from digital cameras
• Repair tears and creases in photos
• Turn bad photos into great ones
• Organize your photos with Paint Shop Pro Album
• Make your Web site move with animation
• Add dazzling effects to your photos

About the Author

Dave Huss (Austin, TX) is a graphics and desktop publishing consultant for several Fortune 100 companies and a regular speaker at Corel Seminars both in the U.S. and Europe. He's the author of 9 books about computer graphics--mostly about Corel PHOTO-PAINT. Dave contributes original images regularly to Corel's World Design Contest, and in 1997 was a Grand Prize Winner. He writes a regular column for i/us.com, which is rapidly becoming the premiere resource for graphics content, community and software where branded products from Corel, Macromedia, and Ulead sell alongside unique downloads from small companies with innovative products unavailable anywhere else.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (May 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072191074
• ISBN-13: 978-0072191073
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #459,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Good For Digital Photography, June 19, 2003

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"judy6122" (Fort Collins, Colorado United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 (Paperback)

I was immediately very disappointed in this book because I was looking for a book that would have more to do with graphics techniques and creation. However, I do have a digital camera and do some work with photos, including scanning and restoring some old photos.

For the purpose of learning what Paint Shop Pro 8 can do with digital photos, this book is superb. For graphics work, other than to do with photos, the book is extremely weak. If that is what you want to learn, do not buy this book.

I gave the the book 3 stars because it is mistitled. The title should be "How to Do Everything With Digital Photographs in Paint Shop Pro 8."

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to do IMAGES with Paint Shop Pro 8, June 18, 2003

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"jasco01" (Eugene, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 (Paperback)

Firstly, the author takes great pain to bring across his techniques in easy to understand processes. This book is very user friendly.

The title of the book, however, suggests that you will learn the in's and out's of Paint Shop Pro 8. I had assumed this would mean getting a good grasp of the various new tools and how to use them. This is not the case.

A more appropriate title for the book would have been something like, "How to Do Everything with Images with Paint Shop Pro 8"

Even the author indicates this "image" approach in the Introduction chapter.

If you're looking for a book that will tell you how to fix photo's or get creative with photos and images, this is your book, no doubt about it. However, if you're looking for a book that helps with the practical application of the many drawing related tools in Paint Shop Pro 8- keep looking.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best for PSP 8 and digital photography, June 15, 2004

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"georgem2001" (Vernon Falls) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 (Paperback)

Although this book needs another title (it certainly does not cover 'everything' in PSP 8 especially things like brushes, filters, it is still an excellent reference for using PSP 8 with your digital photography images and teaching some digital photography techniques.

I bought:
Paint Shop Pro 8: The Guide to Creating Professional Images by Robin Nichols

How To Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8 by Dave Huss

Paint Shop Pro 8 Zero to Hero by Sally Beachman and Ron Lacey

Paint Shop Pro 8 Power by Lori Davis.

Dave's book is by far the best for digital photography and Paint Shop Pro 8, he knows his photography unlike the others who really seem to struggle to explain anything but the most basic, surface information. Zero to Hero by Beacham and Lacey is a complete was of money in my experience unless you are a person who doesn't have a clue when you are being fed garbage information by macjob type people who have no formal training in graphics design (it shows in their book). Robin Nichols book is much better than Dave's for covering brushes, filters, and giving examples of real creative design. Robin seems to have the best knowledge of graphic design principles and concepts and has the creative touch to bring it all together for the reader nicely. Lori Davis' book is much like Beacham and Lacey's when it comes to lacking any hint of unique, creativity, but at least Lori knows Paint Shop Pro well, unlike Beacham and Lacey who seem to be very limited in the topics they can discuss in detail. Lori's book is a good extension of the Paint Shop Pro 8 manual where she covers what has been done but uses more examples.

Out of these books if you have the cash purchase Dave's book for his digital photography and photo editing tips and tricks and advice. Buy Robin's book for creative ideas in designing from scratch graphics and learning creative ways to use the brushes and filters. Buy Lori's book to get if you want a more technical look at aspects of Paint Shop Pro 8's general features, but don't need creative insights. With these 3 books you should have more than you will ever need, but if you can only afford two than get Dave's and Robin's.