Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers' Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

This comprehensive guide cuts right to the chase of the Paint Shop Pro tools that are best used when working with photographs, enabling you to make the most of its many features. Learn how you can correct and enhance your photos, making them even better than they appeared out of your camera. Cover the essentials of color, layers, and photo retouching. Discover the secrets behind resolution and learn how it applies to your monitor, your images, and your prints. Have some fun with your photographs as you learn how to put digital picture frames around them, create digital scrapbook pages, and create works of art with the special effects of Paint Shop Pro. Whether you are a digital or traditional film photographer, "Paint Shop Pro 9: Photographers' Guide" is filled with instructions, tips, and tricks designed to fit your needs.

About the Author

Diane Koers owns and operates All Business Service, a software training and consulting business formed in 1988 that services the central Indiana area. Her area of expertise has long been in the word-processing, spreadsheet and graphics area of computing as well as providing training and support for Peachtree Accounting Software. Diane's authoring experience includes over forty books on topics such as PC Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Lotus SmartSuite, Quicken, Microsoft Money and Peachtree Accounting, many of which have been translated into other languages such as Dutch, French, Bulgarian, Spanish and Greek. She has also developed and written numerous training manuals for her clients.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (December 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592006612
• ISBN-13: 978-1592006618
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #251,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for photographers with Paint Shop Pro 9, December 16, 2004

By	Gary V. French (Louisville, Ky area) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best book I have found for PSP9 & Photography, January 3, 2005

By	James B. Gordon (Campbell River B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Need additional book for rank beginner..., July 14, 2005

By	J. B. Quattlebaum (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.