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Author:Nat Gertler Publisher:Alpha Studio:Alpha Manufacturer:Alpha Label:Alpha Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 384 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.1
Product Description The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paint Shop Pro X provides easy-to-follow, down-to-earth advice, tinged with humor that makes sense of both technology and solutions for beginning users. You can count on finding the information you need without being weighed down by unnecessary details or information that is over your head. New additions to the book cover Paint Shop Pro's new features, including: Enhanced interface features including a visual browser with adjustable thumbnail views, custom program preferences, multiple zoom levels (32:1 to 1:24), and a Recent Colors dialog window. Picture Tubes enable you to "paint" with high-quality full color graphics in patterns as both fills and lines of objects. Improved support for layers and masks, with numerous tools for the creation, editing, and management of vector, raster and adjustment layers. Intelligent photo enhancement tools such as red-eye corrector and scratch removal make photo manipulation faster and more efficient.
Not bad November 10, 2002 2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pretty good book. Masks needed more in more depth coverage. Also there could have been more on editing photos.
Not Much Help October 28, 2002 12 out of 12 found this review helpful
PSP is one of the least intuitive software programs I've used. Since using PSP is such a challenge, I thought getting a book on it would help and bought this one based on the online recommendations. I haven't found this book much help.
Simple things that are easy to do in other drawing programs, can take hours to figure out in PSP and often I give up in frustration. This is compounded by the way I use PSP, occasionally and infrequently. In between times, I forget anything I laboriously managed to learn.
This book hasn't been much help for the way I use PSP.
MAYBE if I read it all the way through, I could get more out of it. However, the way I want to use the book is to look up something in my own vocabulary like "apply a transparent color" and find all the steps needed to accomplish the task. That doesn't work. The book assumes I already know the PSP vocabulary or know/remember some tool/procedure explained in other chapters.
The humor is not a plus because after the double dose of frustration (frustration with using PSP and frustration at getting help from the book), I am not especially receptive to the humor.
Good Book but only covers the basics September 5, 2001 34 out of 37 found this review helpful
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paint Shop Pro 7 by Nat Gertler is a really good book to buy if you are buying Paint Shop Pro 7 for the very first time and have never used any of the previous versions of Paint Shop Pro. This book is well written and it easily explains all of the applications it outlines. However, I have been using Paint Shop Pro version 5 for about three years now and there was nothing in this book that I didn't already know. The best way to find new tips and tricks that Paint Shop Pro 7 has is to read online tutorials and find sites set up for such instructions. As my review title says, it's a "Good Book but only covers the basics"!
Poor book or wrong reader? August 21, 2001 29 out of 35 found this review helpful
I used to be quite suspicious of "Complete Idiot's Guide" series (and "For Dummies" as well) and would never buy a book without prior browsing it. But in this case I was fully convinced by the excellent recommendations of the reviewers and the relatively high (i.e. actually low) sales rank. So, when the book arrived, I eagerly started to look it through for selective topics and ... at once got disappointed because of the lack or even absence of the important material. For instance, just several short lines are dedicated to the Sharpen Menu, and the Unsharp Mask parameters are not explained at all. As for Histogram Functions, considered to be one of the most important tools, they are not even mentioned. Incredible! What's up? Am I a wrong reader? Not a "complete idiot"? May be. I don't know. I'm just returning the book and discouraging everybody from buying it.
Just what you wanted to know July 17, 2001 14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Gertler's book takes you into what to do to get professional results using this feature-heavy software. Unlike tutorials found on the web and Jasc's own "Getting Started Guide," the book can be read away from your computer, allowing you to absorb principles that will make you a more savvy user. The reader comes away with a much better understanding than with approaches that just tell you to enter values like 70 for density, 10 for blur, 30 percent opacity. There are some annoying errors that an editor should have caught: misuse of "whom," confusion between "affect" and "effect," and mistakenly calling a bighorn sheep a mountain goat, but the author is right on with all the important stuff.
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