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How to Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8

By: David Huss

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Paperback | 27 May 2003

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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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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Desktop Publishing Operating Systems Illustration & Drawing Software

Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Get Acquainted with Paint Shop Pro 8
Meet Paint Shop Pro 8 for the First Time	p. 3
New Features of Paint Shop Pro 8	p. 4
Play it Again, Sam	p. 4
Printing Like a Pro	p. 4
Selecting the Right File Format	p. 5
Converting and Renaming Multiple Files	p. 5
Exporting Custom Picture Frames	p. 5
Automating Your Preferences	p. 5
Learning as You Go	p. 6
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 6
Windows and Dialog Boxes	p. 6
Touring the Paint Shop Pro 8 Workspace	p. 7
Toolbars	p. 7
Palettes	p. 11
Menus	p. 19
Shortcut Keys	p. 20
Set Up Shop	p. 29
Installing Paint Shop Pro 8	p. 30
Installing Paint Shop Pro 8 from a CD	p. 30
Installing Paint Shop Pro 8 from an ESD File	p. 32
Customizing Paint Shop Pro	p. 32
Customizing the Toolbars	p. 33
Customizing the Menus	p. 35
Additional Toolbar and Menu Options	p. 38
Assigning Your Own Shortcut Keys	p. 40
Creating Your Own Workspace	p. 41
Saving Your Workspace	p. 41
Loading a Custom Workspace	p. 42
Preferences	p. 43
General Program Preferences	p. 43
CMYK Conversion Preferences	p. 45
File Format Preferences	p. 46
File Format Associations	p. 46
File Locations	p. 47
Color Management	p. 48
Monitor Gamma	p. 48
Autosave Settings	p. 49
Resetting Application Preferences	p. 49
Capture and Manage Your Photos	p. 51
Putting Photos into Your Computer	p. 52
Where Digital Pictures Come From	p. 52
Importing Digital Photos into Your Computer	p. 56
Scanning Photos with Your Scanner	p. 59
Previewing the Image	p. 60
Selecting the Correct Input Mode	p. 63
Scanning the Image	p. 65
Reviewing the Scanned Image	p. 65
Saving Your Digital Images	p. 66
Types of Graphic Files	p. 66
Using the File Browser	p. 69
Picture Management Solutions	p. 71
Using Paint Shop Pro Album	p. 72
Understanding Albums and Images	p. 72
Getting the Pictures Out of the Album	p. 74
A Lot of Information	p. 78
See Things Your Way	p. 79
Resizing the Image Window to Fit Your Workspace	p. 80
Fitting Your Image to the Window	p. 80
Fitting Your Window to the Image	p. 81
Fitting the Image to Your Workspace	p. 82
Changing Your Point of View	p. 82
Zooming with the Scroll Wheel	p. 83
Zoom In Steps	p. 83
Moving Around in the Image	p. 83
Previewing Your Work	p. 83
Seeing the Big Picture	p. 84
Image Display Basics	p. 85
Distortions Created by Zoom Levels	p. 87
Advantages of the Overview Palette	p. 87
Magnifying the Detail	p. 87
Capturing Screens	p. 88
Setting Up Screen Capture	p. 88
Capturing a Screen Shot	p. 90
Visual References	p. 91
Rulers	p. 91
Guides	p. 92
Grids	p. 93
Changing Grid, Guide, and Snap Properties	p. 94
Controlling Your Actions	p. 94
Undo and Redo One Action at a Time	p. 94
Using the Command History	p. 95
Basic Image Editing
Simple Image Editing and Printing	p. 99
Why You Need to Correct and Enhance Photos	p. 100
Understanding Photo Correction and Enhancement	p. 100
Preparing Your Photos for Printing	p. 101
Rotating Your Photos in Paint Shop Pro	p. 101
The Effects of Rotating a Bitmap Image	p. 103
The Importance of Photo Composition	p. 104
Why You Should Crop Before Anything Else	p. 105
Cropping a Photo	p. 106
Digital Pictures Have Their Limits	p. 110
Other Cropping Suggestions	p. 111
Applying One Step Photo Fix	p. 111
Straightening Out Photos	p. 112
Putting Corrections and Enhancements Together	p. 114
Printing Photos	p. 117
Sorting Out Today's Color Printers	p. 118
Using the Media That Produces the Best Results for You	p. 121
Set Paint Shop Pro Print Settings	p. 122
Correcting Photographic Problems	p. 125
Fine-Tuning Your Color	p. 126
Color Casts and Their Causes	p. 126
More than Just the Blues	p. 126
Before You Begin Any Correction	p. 128
Using Adjustment Dialog Boxes	p. 129
Dialog Box with a View	p. 130
Changing How Your Preview Operates	p. 131
The Proof Is in the Preview	p. 132
Saving Your Settings	p. 133
The Automatic Adjustment Tools	p. 133
Removing Color Casts with Automatic Color Balance	p. 133
How Color Temperature Works	p. 135
Helping Automatic Tools Do a Better Job	p. 136
Bringing a Little Light into a Darkened Image	p. 136
Making Images More Vivid with Automatic Saturation	p. 138
Fixing Red-Eye	p. 140
Other Touch-ups You Can Do	p. 143
Removing Defects from Photos	p. 144
Why You Need Sharpening	p. 144
Lens Distortion and Correction	p. 146
Correcting Barrel Distortion	p. 146
Correcting Other Distortion in Photos	p. 148
Pincushion Distortion	p. 150
Add Text to Your Images	p. 153
Text, Plain and Simple	p. 154
Text Tool Options	p. 154
Using the Text Tool	p. 159
Editing Text	p. 163
Saving Your Text Styles	p. 164
Text That Follows a Shape	p. 166
How Text on a Path Works	p. 167
Creating Special Text Effects	p. 171
Transparent Text	p. 171
Adding Picture Tubes and Text	p. 173
Advanced Image Editing
Repairing and Restoring Photographs	p. 177
Preparing Your Image or Document	p. 178
Lying Image Flat on the Glass	p. 178
Preparing to Restore Photos	p. 180
Scanning for Restoration	p. 180
Enlarging the Original	p. 180
Using the Highest Quality Scan Setting	p. 181
Scanning All of the Original, Warts and All	p. 181
Saving Photos Using a Lossless File Format	p. 182
Repairing Tears and Creases	p. 182
Restoring a Paper Frame	p. 187
Cleaning Up Dirty Backgrounds	p. 189
Another Way to Remove Stains	p. 194
Automating Paint Shop Pro 8	p. 199
Using the Batch Command	p. 200
Saving Multiple Image Files to a Different Format	p. 200
Files That Won't Work Using Batch Process	p. 204
Renaming Multiple Files	p. 204
Using Scripting	p. 207
Displaying the Script Toolbar	p. 207
Selecting and Running an Existing Script	p. 209
Running a Script not Listed in the Scripts Toolbar	p. 210
Recording a Script	p. 211
Watching Scripts in Action	p. 212
Source Code Programming	p. 212
Create Original Images Using Paint Shop Pro 8
Create a Photo Montage	p. 215
The Power of Selections	p. 217
Understanding Selections	p. 217
Rounding Up the Selection Tools	p. 217
Expanding a Photograph Using Selection	p. 218
Feathering the Selections	p. 224
Rounding Up the Selection Tools	p. 226
The Freehand Selection Tool	p. 226
Magic Wand Tool Magic	p. 229
Making Selections with Stylus or Mouse?	p. 229
Getting the Best Selections (in the Least Amount of Time)	p. 230
Making a First Rough Cut Selection	p. 230
Zoom and Move	p. 231
Adding Some and Taking Some	p. 231
Fine-Tuning Your Selections	p. 231
Keeping Your Final Objective in Mind	p. 232
Finding the Edge in the Dark	p. 233
Let's Select Somebody	p. 234
Saving and Loading Selections	p. 237
Saving a Selection to the Alpha Channel	p. 238
Using Other Sources of Selections	p. 239
Creating Photo Montages	p. 240
Making New Objects Appear Like They Belong	p. 240
Recipes for Surrealism	p. 242
Photo Montages without Selections: Masks	p. 248
Using a Mask to Make a Photo Montage	p. 248
Using Masks Like Selections	p. 250
Rearranging a Photo with the Clone Brush	p. 253
Switching Faces	p. 256
Add Dazzling Effects to Your Photos	p. 259
Photo Frames	p. 260
Putting Your Photo into a Picture Frame	p. 262
Adding Depth to Your Photo Frame with Shadows	p. 264
More Effects with Photo Frames	p. 270
Creative Fun with Picture Tubes	p. 273
Making Borders with Picture Tubes	p. 274
Making a Christmas Card with Picture Tubes	p. 278
Creating Your Own Picture Tubes	p. 279
Using the Power of Effect Filters	p. 280
Plug-in Filters	p. 282
Getting Crazy with the Warp Brush	p. 285
Create Web Graphics
Create Images for the Web	p. 295
Creating Buttons	p. 296
Simple Buttons	p. 296
3D Textured Buttons	p. 299
Rollover Buttons	p. 301
Creating Navigation Bars	p. 306
Creating a Metallic Navigation Bar	p. 306
Defining an Image Map	p. 310
Slicing an Image	p. 312
Slicing a Navigation Bar	p. 314
Testing and Previewing Web Elements	p. 318
Create Animations with Animation Shop	p. 321
Creating the Image Frames	p. 322
Generating Image Frames	p. 322
Using the Animation Wizard	p. 324
Building an Animation with the Animation Wizard	p. 325
Adding Transition Effects	p. 328
Adding Special Effects to an Image Frame	p. 329
Applying an Effect	p. 330
Inserting an Effect	p. 330
Digital Image Fundamentals	p. 333
Digital Imaging Terminology	p. 334
Raster and Vector Images	p. 334
Pixels	p. 338
Pixel Size and Resolution	p. 338
Color Depth	p. 339
Resolution: A Term with too Many Definitions	p. 350
Resolution and the Size of the Image	p. 350
So What Is Resolution?	p. 350
Screen Resolution	p. 351
Resolution and Printers	p. 355
Basic Color Theory	p. 356
Color Models	p. 356
Describing Colors	p. 357
Color Matching	p. 358
RGB Versus CMYK	p. 358
Hue, Saturation, and Brightness	p. 359
Color Gamut	p. 359
Congratulations	p. 359
Index	p. 361
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