Paint Shop Pro 7 for Dummies (Paperback)

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Product Description

Paint Shop Pro 7 For Dummies is well-suited to business and technical professionals and their office staff who prefer to do the image work themselves, rather than invoke the delay, cost, and uncertainty of turning it over to a specialist. This book addresses common needs such as: image sizing, cropping, enhancement, correction of defects, special effects, and certain special applications such as Web sites. Paint Shop Pro 7 For Dummies shows you how to use the new, powerful design and editing features including vector-based editable text tool options, multiple color/transparency gradients, Animation Shop 2, JPEG and GIF optimizer tools, and the enhanced visual browser file management. Many users learn the basics themselves, but often stumble when using the tool. Paint Shop Pro 7 For Dummies will guide you to choose the right tool for your project, explain how to use it effectively, and help you understand what aspect of the image needs to be altered.

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Enhance any image — from digital photos to Web animations Packed with pointers on creating animated Web graphics

Your fun and easy guide to stunning images and dazzling special effects Want to create professional-quality graphics for just about any project? This friendly guide is your key to getting the most out of Paint Shop Pro™, from resizing images to correcting photo defects and animating graphics for Web applications.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (November 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764506935
• ISBN-13: 978-0764506932
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #299,999 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best PSP 7 book I have seen, November 12, 2001

By	Kat (North Ga., United States) - See all my reviews

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I looked at many of the psp 7 books and all the reviews said they were not for what I wanted the book for, mainly to fix digital camera and other photo's and maybe do some effects on them. Besides that, just to learn what psp 7 can do and how to do it. I needed some kind of book, saw a good review for this one so bought it.
I am soo Happy that I did! It is great. very easy, well as much as any 'how to' book can be, to understand and with enough info that once I get better at things it still has stuff for me to learn. (many books are useless once you learn the basic's).
I would recommend this for anyone that is new to dig. photo's and psp7, as well as those who have used psp for basic things but want to learn more advanced things for it. If you are looking for a book to help you learn and show you what psp7 can do, get this one!

53 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are beginner, February 23, 2001

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This book is excellent. Especialy for beginner. It describes many aspects of raster graphic from the begnning guiding the reader toward the real mastering of graphics. There are lots of details about tools and technics within Paint Shop Pro, plenty good info about file formats (gif, jpg, where to use gif or jpg, etc.) and optimisation (very important for web design). Paint Shop Pro in version 7 can (in lots of details) be compared with Adobe PhotoShop. If you are beginner or even intermidiat, this book will be very helpfull fos you.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very helpfull, April 2, 2002

By	"fullb" (Andover, IL United States) - See all my reviews

being new to paint shop pro I needed a book to get me started.This book has been a great help.Its easy to understand ,has the basics plus some things to use once you are advanced in the paint shop pro.