Customer Reviews

Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers' Guide

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As an owner of Paint Shop Pro since v7 I admit to being too lax in my efforts to learn and apply the magic available in this extremely robust program. When I purchased a better digital camera (PSPv8) I applied only the most basic enhancements to my pictures- trying, and often succeeding, to improve where my camera (and I) fell short. When I purchased a more advanced `prosumer' camera (PSPv9) my skill sets were no match for what Paint Shop Pro 9 or my new camera could provide. That is until Diane Koers' new book, Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers' Guide, became available.
In less than a week I have been exposed to the tips, tricks and skills that had always eluded me with other books. Her presentation style, knowledge and teaching ability are exactly what I need to take my hobby, and enjoyment of it, to the next level. And, I expect, several levels beyond that as well. Unless a person is taking and improving their photographs (either digital or scanned from film to digital) I could never understand why the average person would purchase Paint Shop Pro. Unless they are just crazy about painting with pixels which PSP9 also does a very good job of by the way. With this new book the promise of what personal photography offers can actually be realized.
Thanks to Diane Koers and her excellent book I can now use my humble, yet enthusiastic, photography skills toward getting the pictures I had always planned and hoped for. And you, like me, can do the same!
A big "Thank You" to Diane Koers.

I a very impressed with the way the explanations are handled and the before and after pictures are excellent.
I own 9 Paint Shop pro books and this is the best one by far, an ideal book for the beginner and pro for that matter.
Jim Gordon

Koers book is outstanding -- but as a novice digital photographer and fledgling digital image editor, I needed something else to supplement Koers' book. The winning combination for me was to first read David Kay's "Paint Shop Pro 9 for Dummies" and THEN leap into Koers' book. Between the two books, I am doing things in my "digital darkroom" that I never thought I would be capable of.

I really do not understand all the 5 star rating for this book. It is not bad, but it is much more of an overview then a detailed explanation of improving photos with PSP. I guess the title (and the reviews) had me expecting more from this book, but every topic is just generaly covered with not near enough real world improve your photos informaton. It is basically a glorified user-manual and the photograpger's guide in the title is very misleading, im my opinion. I would not recommend this book unless you do not already understand the basics of PSP and how to use the interface. Don't expect many tips if you are a real working photographer.

I have been looking for a good book on PSP and stumbled on Diane Koers book at the Stanford bookstore during a 50th class reunion, I was amazed at how good it was. When I upgraded to PSP 9 I immediately ordered the version 9 edition from Amazon.

I have been looking for a book that would tell me exactly what each tool would do for PSP 9, and this is the ONLY one I could find. Thank goodness it is good! It covers photographs, which is what I deal with creating graphics. And it appears to apply to the new version of Paint Shop Pro that Corel just published. Good investment!

Being slighty familar with an older version of Paint Shop I still order Dummies and Paint Shop Pro 9 Photographers Guide.
I was not disappointed. Dummies gets you started but the real meat of Paint Shop Pro is in the Photographers Guide. It is one thing to be able to figure out how to do something, but there a so many things in Paint Shop Pro 9 that most people don't even know that they are there. This book will show you them and how to use them. A lot of nice ideas also. If you fully want to use PSP buy this book

I got this and Ken McMahon's (and Robin Nichols) book at the same time. I initially thought I was going to like the other book more, but this one became ever-so-slightly the preferred of the two. It's not perfect and I still struggle with layers/masks sometimes, but there are a lot of good tips and tools in this book. I certainly felt like I learned some things, and I considered myself well above average, not quite a power-user, but close before reading it.

It is very basic. I think many people may figure out what to do with their paint pro with included manual. Author should have instructed more on layering and masking with more complicated pictures. I would advice anyone who bought this book also buy Ken McMahon book on a subject. Oh, how much money we as a customer spend on those self-help books. And the thing is we find only one or two brilliant ideas in them. So, buy all books on subject.